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Aug 2010 |
About 225,000 terabytes of data is pulsing across mobile networks globally each month, according to new figures from Ericsson.
The networking vendor said mobile data was growing exponentially despite mobile broadband accounting "for only 10 percent of total mobile subscriptions".
"Global mobile data has nearly tripled in the last year, growing more than 10 times faster than voice," Ericsson said.
It came as Ericsson said it had deployed its two-millionth base station globally.
A spokesman declin... |
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9
Aug 2010 |
Google and Verizon held a press conference today to address concerns that it is conspiring to undermine net neutrality. Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg said the companies are committed to an open Internet for wireline broadband and for wireless broadband to have similar openness with a few caveats.
The companies issued a joint proposal about how the government should approach any regulations for the Internet regarding net neutrality. It made it very clear that this wasnt a busines... |
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6
Aug 2010 |
Regulators have put net neutrality discussions on ice after reports surfaced that two key participants had potentially reached a deal on the side.
The closed-door negotiations on how to rule the web going forward involved phone, cable and internet companies, but it is believed that Verizon and Google may have come to a separate agreement.
"We have called off this round of stakeholder discussions," said Edward Lazarus, chief of staff for Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski.
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6
Aug 2010 |
A report from the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) has revealed that 43.9 million Nigerians have access to the internet.
According to the Vanguard, Mr. Abasiama Idaresit Managing Director Wild Fusion, an internet marketing firm based in Ikoyi said:
This is the latest stats from the International Telecommunication Union, ITU and this makes Nigeria the largest internet population by country in Africa dwarfing South Africa, Morrocco, Kenya and Egypt combinedӔ.
Idaresit also stated that ab... |
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5
Aug 2010 |
Joe Hockey, shadow treasurer, has told Australian radio that the Liberal Party will oppose the Australian government's planned compulsory net filter.
Communications minister Stephen Conroy has staked his reputation on blocking content from the internet which would be censored if it were a film for cinema release. The government announced a review of the contentious plan last month.
Hockey said his party would not support the policy. "We believe the internet filter will not work and we believe its a fl... |
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5
Aug 2010 |
Young men and women working as telephone receptionists in Tanzanias booming mobile phone industry could be risking permanent hearing disability as evidence continues to emerge that taking on the job was highly associated with loss of hearing.
Revelation on the sorry state of affairs comes at a time when victims of the situation have resorted to take court action, demanding billions of shillings in compensation as the result of severe hearing loss.
To corroborate the claim of some staffs in the call ce... |
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Aug 2010 |
Google and Verizon have negotiated an agreement on how to handle Web traffic, according to a report by Bloomberg on Wednesday.
The deal was arrived at separate of the ongoing negotiations between the Federal Communications Commission and other Web and telecommunications giants, according to Bloomberg's anonymous sources.
As part of the deal, Verizon would agree not to selectively throttle Internet traffic through its pipes. That would not, however, apply to data traveling over its wireless network fo... |
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July 2010 |
The government has endorsed the plan to pass organisation of the digital dividend mega auction back to Ofcom, with universal service guarantees, and promises a new-for-old deal for the Programme Makers and Special Events (PMSE) crowd.
Minister for Communications Ed Vaizey drafted a statutory instrument covering the plan, which emerged from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) in March. He added a promise that wireless microphones that need to shift frequencies will be replaced on a ne... |
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28
July 2010 |
Virgin Media continues to look at non-traditional ways of expanding its network to rural areas, after announcing a trial that will provide superfast broadband via a fibre cable run across power poles.
Residents of the Welsh village of Crumlin, Caerphilly, will be the first in the UK to test out broadband delivered over existing electricity poles. This is because Virgin Media has signed an agreement with Surf Telecoms, a Western Power distribution company.
Crumlin was previously connected to BT's coppe... |
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28
July 2010 |
Akamai's latest State of the Internet was a shot in the arm for supporters of the National Broadband Network, reporting that Australia was in the bottom half of nations in the Asia-Pacific for broadband speeds and slower than neighbour New Zealand.
The content-distribution service Akamai rated Australia, with an average connection speed of 2.6Mbps at 50th fastest broadband nation in the world; New Zealand with an average speed of 2.9Mbps was 42nd.
Russia was only slightly slower than Australia, record... |
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28
July 2010 |
ISP TPG has shrugged off an aggressive price revamp of Telstra's ADSL plans as Internode rallied users to stand by the ISP and not move their services to Telstra.
Telstra revealed the major revamp of its high-end ADSL plans yesterday.
TPG's general manager of marketing and sales, Craig Levy, said Telstra's price changes wouldn't really affect TPG's business.
He pointed to TPG's AUD60-a-month plan that included 500 GB of data a month and line rental, making it cheaper than Telstra's AUD89.95 200 GB ... |
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28
July 2010 |
Though Comcast showed improvement in both sales and subscribers, costs related to its pending buyout of NBC Universal took a bite out of earnings for the second quarter.
On Wednesday, the cable company reported a net profit of USD884 million for the quarter ended June 30, an 8.6 percent drop from the USD967 million earned in the year-ago quarter.
Comcast attributed the decline to the USD22 million in operating expenses and the USD37 million in financing costs it incurred over the NBC Universal deal, r... |
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26
July 2010 |
Demon Internet has introduced a fair use policy for its small business broadband packages, putting a cap on the previously unlimited data it offered on certain products.
Announced on Thursday, the new policies involve a 200GB cap on Demon's Business 2+ and 2+ Pro packages and a 100GB cap on the Business 2000, 4000 and 8000 packages. The caps only apply between 8am and midnight, leaving unlimited usage available in the early morning.
"We've recently seen quite an increase in the amount of heavy users o... |
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26
July 2010 |
Britons are not getting the broadband services they are being sold, research by the regulator Ofcom suggests.
Its analysis of broadband speeds in the UK shows that, for some services, 97 percent of consumers do not get the advertised speed.
It also shows a growing gap between the claims ISPs make for broadband and the speed being delivered.
To fix the problem, Ofcom is revamping the code of conduct for ISPs and asking for changes to how broadband is sold.
The regulator's survey shows that the av... |
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21
July 2010 |
Telstra plans to cut about 30 executives and 300 senior and middle managers from its ranks "in the near future", according to reports.
The cuts, reported by CommsDay, equate to about 10 percent of the respective managerial workforces at Telstra.
The cuts were confirmed by a Telstra spokesman, although she did not discuss numbers.
"These changes are about making our business simpler, removing duplication and increasing the speed of decision-making," the spokesman said in a statement.
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