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May 2010 |
Half of all Kenyans own mobile phones, the Economic Survey shows and ranks telecommunications as the economyҒs hottest growth sector.
The total number of mobile phone connections are nearly 20 million, and Safaricom, the market leader, has 15 million (about 78 per cent) while Zain Kenya has 14 per cent, Telkom four per cent, and Essar Yu one per cent.
Value added services such as money transfer have been one of the battlefronts in the business.
Money transfer subscribers increased to 7.7 mill... |
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May 2010 |
Mobile phone operators should not delay their entry into the mobile VoIP market, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan.
The analyst firm said that the mobile VoIP market in the US, Europe and Asia generated USD606m in revenues in 2008, and that this figure will leap to USD30bn by 2015.
The adoption of mobile VoIP by consumers has been spurred by the emergence of flat-rate mobile data pricing, growth in smartphone shipments and high-speed mobile broadband, the report said.
Start-ups have b... |
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May 2010 |
London is to get a city-wide blanket of Wi-Fi coverage by 2012 following a pledge from Mayor Boris Johnson.
The major was speaking at the Google Zeigeist event in Hertfordshire, and promised to make London one of the most connected cities in the world. The move comes as the UK capital continues to upgrade its infrastructure in time for the Olympic games in 2012.
Olympic Games
BT for example has already pledged to rollout out its superfast broadband network in time for the Olympic Games, and... |
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May 2010 |
Just one day after blocking access to Facebook, the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority on Thursday ordered that country's Internet Service Providers to also block YouTube. The PTA says it has blocked the Google-owned video upload site for "growing sacrilegious content," according to the BBC.
The move to block YouTube appears to be part of a larger crackdown against online content the Pakistani government finds objectionable. In addition to YouTube, there are reports that Wikipedia and Yahoo-owned Flic... |
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May 2010 |
Half of European households will have broadband speeds of 30Mbps (megabits per second) by 2020, the European Union has pledged.
It also promised universal broadband coverage by 2013 while getting half of Europeans using public services and shopping online by 2015.
It is part of the European Union's five year plan for the digital economy.
The raft of measure were announced by newly-appointed digital affairs commissioner Neelie Kroes.
The EU's digital agenda will see over 30 laws introduced over t... |
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April 2010 |
Finlands communications ministry has said its plan to offer high speed broadband to almost all of the country's residents by 2015 is well on track. In a statement the ministry said that the rollout may even be completed ahead of schedule.
The plan involves rolling out broadband with speeds of at least 100Mbps to as many Finns as possible by, at the latest, the end of 2015. This will enable more people to run small businesses from their homes while at the same time providing fast internet access to those ... |
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March 2010 |
Telecommunication service providers have turned to sharing fibre optic capacity to cut down expenses brought about by vandalism.
Telkom Kenya Ltd and Jamii Telecommunication Ltd have entered into an agreement to share capacity on their networks between Nairobi and Mombasa while Kenya Data Networks is pursuing a similar deal with Telkom Kenya.
This comes on the background of numerous fibre optic cable cuts in the recent past which has seen some of the providers and business organisations lose a lot of ... |
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March 2010 |
Have you been lured by the temptation of Verizon's FIOS service and are just waiting for the day until the company's fiber-optic mishmash of Internet, telephone, and TV connectivity snakes its way to your front door? Keep waiting.
According to the Associated Press, Verizon is indicating that it's ready to stop replacing antiquated phone lines with its fiber-backed network for new locations, preferring instead to improve the connectivity of areas that are already fiber-friendly.
In other words, unless ... |
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March 2010 |
A group of local businessmen unveiled a AUD900 million plan to build a high speed undersea broadband cable. The 13,000 kilometre fibre cable will traverse between Australia, New Zealand and the United States and will boast five times the capacity of the current Southern Cross cable which connects through Hawaii.
One of Pacific Fibre's founders says that the project could stimulate the New Zealand economy and at the same time end the frustration for consumers suffering from constantly slow internet speeds... |
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March 2010 |
In an ambitious plan, Britain's Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is urging Government to force ISPs to provide minimum broadband speeds of 8Mbps, saying that ISPs be "obliged to deliver a minimum and guaranteed connection speed of 8Mbits/sec direct to business premises" as part of the Digital Economy Bill.
One of the main problems, according to the group, is that a great deal of their members are not receiving the broadband speeds they're paying for.
An FSB spokesperson said that Government needs ... |
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Feb 2010 |
Google has fired a warning shot over US telecommunications providers heads after announcing that the search company has plans to enter the broadband market.
Google's plans are ambitious, with product manager James Kelly saying that "Our networks will deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today -- over 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections.
"We'll offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 peop... |
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Feb 2010 |
British Telecom yesterday announced that it will be opening its fibre broadband ducts to rival internet service providers.
The move allows providers to offer their own customised fibre optic broadband packages in much the same way as they currently to using Local Loop Unbundling, or LLU. This saves ISPs the enormous cost of digging up roads and sidewalks, as well as increases competition in the broadband market.
BT CEO Ian Livingston said: "We told Ofcom last year we're willing to provide open access ... |
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Feb 2010 |
According to the UKs largest WiFi provider, The Cloud, networks dealing with mobile internet are on the verge of a "meltdown."
A report released by the company today claims that traffic on mobile networks increase by a factor of 10 every year, rendering the industry a victim of its own success.
The report also forecasts that demand placed on the mobile networks will by 2015 be almost 100 times greater per user than it is currently.
"Smartphones fundamentally change the way we use our mobile phone. ... |
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Jan 2010 |
By the end of 2010 Malaysia will meet its 50 percent broadband penetration target, according to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
Numerous efforts by the Government to bridge the digital divide had delivered positive results, with 31.7 broadband penetration rate as of last year, ahead of the estimated 30 percent.
The Malaysian Government launched the first digital Pekan 1Malaysia programme, which is a key contributor to national economic growth and will help achieve the National Broadband Pla... |
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Jan 2010 |
Punting a Tory government, Shadow chancellor George Osborne said broadband speeds of 100 mbps would be delivered to the "majority" of homes by 2017, with private investors having to pay for rural areas.
Osborne said "In the 19th Century we built the railways. In the 20th Century we built the motorways. In the 21st Century let's build the super-fast broadband network that will create hundreds of thousands of jobs for Britain."
The Tories said money from private investors would pay for better cabling, w... |
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