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Nov 2010 |
Ed Richards, the head of UK telecoms watchdog Ofcom, told a conference audience that the countrys LTE spectrum auction will take place in the first quarter of 2012, with the intention of having LTE networks up-and-running at the beginning of 2013 - putting the country some way behind other countries globally.
The intention is to publish a consultation document in February 2011, eWeek Europe reports, with a statement of its intentions and guidelines for the auction issued in the third quarter of the year.... |
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Nov 2010 |
Tele2 and Telenor announced the commercial launch of their joint LTE network in Sweden this morning, providing the first competition to TeliaSoneras pioneering LTE network in the country.
The launch is made via Net4Mobility, a network sharing joint-venture between Tele2 Sweden and Telenor Sweden - the country's second- and third-largest operators, respectively - using 2.6GHz spectrum acquired by the firms two years ago.
The network will launch initially in the Swedish cities of Stockholm, Gothenburg, ... |
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Nov 2010 |
Kabel Deutschland, a German cable TV and Internet provider, said it has successfully tested an Internet connection exceeding a download speed of 1000 Mbps or 1 Gbps.
According to the company, the connection peaked at 1170 mbps, which is, according to our knowledge, the first time a public cable Internet connection has broken the gigabit barrier. The test was supported by Cisco's cable modem termination systems (CMTSs) and run via DOCSIS 3.0 standard. To hit the download speed, Kabel Deutschland upgraded ... |
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Nov 2010 |
The Coalition might have another weapon in its battle to push alternative technologies against the Government's R296 billion, predominantly FTTH, National Broadband Network: a UK company claims to have technology that can deliver up to 400Mbps over existing copper, at less than 10 percent of the cost of FTTH.
The technology, from Genesis Technical Systems, exploits the topology of the local copper access network to overcome the distance limitation of VDSL2. According to Wikipedia "VDSL2 deteriorates quic... |
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Nov 2010 |
Mobile broadband penetration now reaches one-quarter (25 percent) of all U.S. households; primarily with cell phones, Smartphones and other hand-held wireless devices according to a recent survey by research firm TNS.
Rather than replacing fixed line broadband (DSL and cable), the survey of 120,000 American households finds a significant overlap in the penetrations of fixed and mobile broadband technologies.
TNS says that in the 67 percent of households that already have fixed broadband, 29 percent al... |
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Nov 2010 |
Several Canadian telecom giants fought the idea of mandatory broadband Internet coverage in rural areas on Monday.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has been hearing arguments since Tuesday on whether faster-than-dial-up Internet access should be declared a basic service for Canadians regardless of where they live.
Cable companies Rogers Communications, Shaw Communications and Quebecors Videotron all said no to a new regulatory regime. Market forces continue to ensure tha... |
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Nov 2010 |
Romania has entered the FTTH rankings (Fiber to the Home) occupying the 13th position from 17 eligible European countries, according to a release of the FTTH Council Europe.
The FTTH ranking includes European countries where more than 1 percent of the broadband connections are achieved through fiber-optic. With a penetration rate of 1.58 percent, Romania has reached 120,000 subscribers to fiber-optic services, most of them using the FTTB technology.
Small providers of Internet have installed most of t... |
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Nov 2010 |
Internet activists and minor parties in New Zealand have slammed a decision by the two major parties to include a clause within a new law that - if effected - would see internet subscribers disconnected when found to have downloaded copyright-protected material.
The New Zealand Parliamentary Commerce Select Committee has made substantial changes to the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing Amendment) Bill, New Zealand's Commerce Minister Simon Power announced today.
Primarily the law extends the jurisdic... |
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Nov 2010 |
Two telecom firms, TalkTalk and Tiscali, have been threatened with fines for billing customers for services that had been cancelled.
The regulator Ofcom has received more than 1,000 complaints this year and says more customers may be affected.
The customers had typically complained about aggressive demands for the payment of bills they did not owe.
TalkTalk blamed a new billing system introduced after it bought Tiscali in June last year.
This is gradually bringing together a million former Tisca... |
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Nov 2010 |
Mobile operators have apparently started using "4G" to describe a variety of different services, prompting Norwegian authorities to ask NetCom to clarify its use of the term.
According to a report from PCWorld, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) decided to define LTE -Advanced (Long-Term Evolution) - rather than the existing version of the technology - as 4G.
This action prompted the letter to NetCom, according to Petter Ravne Bugten, senior legal advisor at the Norwegian Consumer Ombud... |
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Nov 2010 |
A Virgin Media Business chief has urged firms to consider their network capacity before committing to a move into cloud computing.
Commercial director at the business broadband provider Andrew McGrath predicted that interest in cloud-based technologies is likely to remain high for the foreseeable future.
However, he noted the service can take up a "huge" amount of bandwidth as a result of the amount of data that needs to be constantly downloaded and uploaded.
Consequently, Mr McGrath stressed the ... |
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Nov 2010 |
The number of homes in Europe able to connect to superfast broadband is on the increase, the latest figures have shown.
The Fibre to the Home Council Europe has published the rankings of fibre penetration in Europe.
Europe now has 3.2 million connections comprised of both Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) or Fibre-to-the-Building (FTTB).
Eastern European nations take the lion's share of these connections, with Lithuania leading with just over a fifth of broadband subs constituted by either FTTB or FTTH.
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28
Oct 2010 |
Virgin Media has confirmed the launch of its 100 Mbps high-speed broadband service. Registrations will commence today for the DOCSIS-powered service that goes live in early December in Enfield, Chelmsford, Farnborough and Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, meaning that 200,000 homes will be enabled before the end of the year, bringing the cableco in line with its European peers.
Announcing its third quarter results Virgin increased revenues by 6.4 percent to 978 million, another 14,100 net new cable TV custom... |
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28
Oct 2010 |
The Internet contributed 100 billion pounds (155 billion US dollars, 115 billion euros) to the British economy last year, about 7.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), a report showed Thursday.
The sector is bigger than the construction, transport or utilities industries in Britain, according to the study by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), which was commissioned by the British arm of Internet giant Google.
The research also predicted that by 2015, the British 'Internet economy' is likely to gr... |
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28
Oct 2010 |
BT has questioned why Virgin Medias 100Mbps upcoming broadband service has been priced so highly, given the current economic climate.
BT said all superfast broadband is positive for the UK, but the communications giant was bemused as to why Virgin is planning to charge such ғpremium prices.
Virgin MediaԒs 100Mbps broadband service will cost 45 per month as a stand-alone service or ã35 when bundled with a phone line.
Take up is as important as availability Ӆ and so we would qu... |
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