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Police, local councils and other U.K. public authorities made more than half-a-million requests to see citizens' communications data in 2008, according to a watchdog report. The requests averaged out at about 1,500 a day, according to the report by interception of communications commissioner Sir Paul Kennedy. On Monday, Liberal Democrat shadow home secretary Chris Huhne criticize |
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Aug 2009 |
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Environmentalists rejoice, T-Mobile is going to start charging customers for having their bills printed out and mailed to them. According to TmoNews, beginning on Sept. 12th, T-Mobile will be charging customers $1.50 per account for paper billing. In case that isn’t bad enough on its own, this is on tope of the $1.49 the company already charges for detailed paper billing, so if yo |
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Aug 2009 |
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British Telecom is encountering problems in London with the rollout of its new fibre broadband network, which has cabling using street cabinets for its deployment, and residents in a Muswell Hill aren't happy. The project is to allow broadband to run at speeds of up to 40Mbps, yet a few residents have complained to the council - the London Borough of Haringey - that the 1.8 metre |
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Aug 2009 |
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Majority of Kenya’s Internet service providers have no capacity to supply downstream consumers with fibre optic bandwidth, leaving room for a few players, who may use the advantage to keep prices high. It has emerged that only six ISPs – mainly the big telecoms firms – have the right of use with the TEAMs cable or have bought capacity at Seacom. They are Telkom Kenya, Kenya Data |
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Aug 2009 |
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According the the British telecommunications regulator, Ofcom, broadband has now reached 68 percent of British households, of which mobile broadband accounts for a significant portion. This is compared to the same period last year, where the percentages was 58. Also noted was the fact that the average time spent per user per day on the internet has leaped from 9 minutes to 25 minut |
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Aug 2009 |
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Kenya’s third fibre optic operator, the East Africa Submarine System (EASSy), on Thursday upped the ante in the ongoing internet pricing debate by accusing its rivals of deliberately denying consumers the benefits of broadband connection through exorbitant pricing. The company, whose fibre optic cable is expected to land at the Kenyan coast in June next year, termed Kenya’s intern |
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Aug 2009 |
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Virgin Media has pledged to cut through the miscommunication around broadband speeds, launching its new range of non-fibre packages with the promise that it will not mislead anyone over the true speed of their internet connection. Ofcom's survey into the true speed of broadband connections in the UK was something of a coup for Virgin – which topped the tests by offering an avera |
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Aug 2009 |
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The European Union has re-established its lead over the United States in the use of high-speed computer connections, making the Continent “the world leader in broadband Internet,” the European Commission said on Tuesday. Viviane Reding, the commissioner who oversees the Internet, said that the spread of the technology could help power the European economic recovery and that contin |
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Aug 2009 |
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WOOLWORTHS is set to become Australia's newest mobile phone company with the launch of a no-frills prepaid service.
But unlike Telstra, Woolworths will not have to build its own infrastructure; the supermarket giant will piggyback on Optus's mobile infrastructure as a so-called mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). The duo were expected to enter the highly competitive mobile mar |
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Aug 2009 |
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LAST week Monday,Nigeria’s SAT3 submarine cable system, had a default on one of its landing cables linking the Benin Republic and up till now, about 70 percent of Nigeria’s internet capacity is said to be still hanging on the balance . The cut caused on outage on the landing cable that connects the terrestrial fibre optic networks to the submarine fibre optic cable along the Repub |
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July 2009 |
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Large parts of West Africa are struggling to get back online following damage to an undersea cable. The fault has caused severe problems in Benin, Togo, Niger and Nigeria. The blackout is thought to have been caused by damage to the SAT-3 cable which runs from Portugal and Spain to South Africa, via West Africa. Around 70% of Nigeria's bandwidth was cut, causing severe problems |
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July 2009 |
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A PRICE war looms in the African broadband market as the Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy) races towards its June 2010 launch deadline. Already two fibre optic cable systems, Seacom and TEAMs came online in July. EASSy is a new 10,000km submarine cable system currently being constructed along the east coast of Africa. It is owned and operated by a group of African op |
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July 2009 |
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Ofcom, the UK's telecommunications regulator, released the results of their study comparing provider-advertised broadband speeds to real-world broadband speeds, and as suspected the results aren't all that rosy. Ofcom compared 8Mbps ADSL offerings from the 8 largest providers and found that the average speed during the day was 4.1Mbps. Even worse, this goes down further after hour |
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July 2009 |
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Zimbabwe’s TelOne, has been hit by a wave of cable thefts that has crippled its operations. A spokesperson of the company said it was impacting badly on measures to resuscitate the country’s sole fixed landline operator. Collins Wilbesi, TelOne spokesperson told media, “Theft of telecommunication cables and equipment in the country has reached unprecedented levels. The cost of rep |
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July 2009 |
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Cost-cutting at Verizon Communications Inc.'s land-line business failed to keep pace with falling revenue, prompting the country's largest wireless carrier to announce further job cuts. The company will cut more than 8,000 employee and contractor jobs before the end of the year in the land-line business, speeding up its efforts to keep costs in line, Chief Financial Officer John K |
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