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Jan 2010 |
UK Broadband site BroadbandChoices has revealed that 75 percent of broadband users on unlimited packages download and upload only 20GB of content per month, and 50 percent downloaded less than 10GB per month.
Even with an extremely competitive broadband market, the average uncapped broadband user could save over GBP100 per year if they opt for a cheaper service.
British Telecom offers a 10GB ADSL service for GB15.99, and an unlimited ADSL service for just GBP9 more at GBP24.99. Switching to the 10G se... |
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Jan 2010 |
A few of Nigerias telecommunication companies are planning to go to court to force the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to suspend the registering of of all SIM cards by the end of March this year.
The telecom firms have taken the legal route as a last ditch effort to stop the exercise if the current lobby fail to persuade the regulatory authorities to prolong the registration by at least another 18 months.
The SIM registration move is an effort to have up to date records of Nigerian mobile su... |
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22
Jan 2010 |
British Telecom has begun rolling out its fibre-optic-based internet access service, BT Infinity, which will offer download speeds of up to 40Mbps and upload speeds of up to 10MBps, starting at GBP19.99 (+-R245) per month.
The new services are delivered over BT's new Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) network which is expected to cover 4 million homes and business by the end of this year.
The company said on Thursday that it will offer two pricing plans for the service, with upload speeds of up to 2Mbps incl... |
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21
Jan 2010 |
In a statement today Verizon Wireless said it is waiving cellphone call charges for customers calling to or from earthquake-struck Haiti until the end of January.
The waiver is retroactive to 11:59PM EST January 12 and stretches to 31 January, which means any calls placed to Haiti since the earthquake hit earlier this month are free of charge.
Calls made to Haiti from Verizon residential landlines are also being waived.
Verizon says that the intent is to help customers track down friends and family... |
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21
Jan 2010 |
According to a new study released by the Phoenix Center, job hunters who have internet access are more inclined to keep looking for jobs and less likely to find themselves without jobs than people who don't have internet access..
The correlation between employment and internet access is even stronger among broadband users, using census data from 2007 the study discovered that broadband users are at least 50 percent less likely to throw in the job search towel because of discouragement.
Dialup users ar... |
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Jan 2010 |
According to figures released by Informa Telecoms & Media, worldwide fixed broadband subscriptions should reach half a billion in 2010, mainly on the back of emerging markets.
Fixed broadband markets in mature countries are almost saturated, but the world's developing regions, such as China and India, have tens of millions of homes in need of connectivity. It is these markets that will drive a new wave of broadband growth.
In 2009 the number of new fixed broadband subscriptions swelled to over 480 mil... |
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20
Jan 2010 |
According to a report, he United States Federal Bureau of Investigation collected more than 2,000 records on US phone calls by invoking fabricated terrorism emergencies or by persuading phone companies to provide them.
After collecting the phone records between 2002 and 2006, FBI officials issued approvals afterward to justify their actions in.
FBI spokesman Michael Kortan told Reuters "This practice ceased in 2006 and never involved obtaining the content of telephone conversations. Additionally, step... |
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20
Jan 2010 |
The Chinese government continues to tighten its grip on its citizens, with Chinese mobile providers now monitoring text messages in the country for "illegal or unhealthy content". Service will be suspended when a customer inadvertently causes a red flag.
Potentially offending messages will be turned over to the authorities to be reviewed, and if the customer is cleared of wrongdoing, his or her service will be restored.
What defines an offence is currently not clearly defined by either the mobile prov... |
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19
Jan 2010 |
Delivery network Akamai, using data from the third quarter of 2009, has announced that the average US broadband speed declined by 2.4 percent compared to the same period in 2008. Delaware currently has the highest broadband speed at 7.2 Mbps.
The US in general remains far behind countries like South Korea, where the average broadband speed is almost 15Mbps. The US is currently in 18th place out of 203 nations tested - far behind most of Europe and Asia, with an average broadband speed of only 3.9 Mbps.
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Jan 2010 |
According to reports, fibre optic broadband provider Virgin Media is trialing new technology that could help in the battle against illegal filesharing.
Virgin - which specialises in bundles including broadband, digital TV and home phone offerings - will use Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to identify the type of traffic (email, web surfing, gaming etc) a broadband connection is being used for.
Any file-sharing activity will be then be checked against a database of music and films.
This technology can ... |
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18
Jan 2010 |
According to a report by the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC), China has reached 346 million broadband users.
These users now accounts for 90.1 percent of the country's total internet users, which at the end of 2009 stood at 384 million, or around a third of the 1.3 billion population.
The statistics say that 30.7 million (around 8 percent) surfed the net using mobile phones equipped with 3G, while 92 percent used fixed lines.
The report also says that from January to November alon... |
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17
Jan 2010 |
Fast food giant McDonalds has started offering unlimited, free WiFi at 11,500 of its 14,000 US restaurants in an attempt to reinvent itself as a get-together place for tech people, burger lovers and coffee afficianados.
The world's biggest restaurant chain has offered WiFi since early 2004 and has now made it free at 11,500 of their brancheses.
McDonalds had previously charged for this wireless service at USD2.95 (+-R22) for two hours, and are now collaborating with AT&T, who are providing the backbon... |
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13
Jan 2010 |
MTN, Africa's largest cellular operator, could lose subscribers in Nigeria - its largest market - as another subscriber identity module (SIM) card registration scheme takes effect.
Nigeria accounts for around 26 percent (28.8 million) of MTN's 108.5 million subscribers, and at the end of September 2009 the country comprised 58 percent of the region's subscribers. West and Central Africa accounted for 46 per cent of MTN's total subscriber base.
South Africa has already implemented a similar SIM card re... |
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13
Jan 2010 |
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), the Australian communications watchdog, has indicated that the uptake of wireless broadband soared by 162 percent over the previous, with users downloading nigh on 100,000 Terabits - 80 percent more than in 2008.
Over 1 million new broadband users signed up last year, leaving the total at 6.7 million and climbing, with around 1.6 million being wireless broadband users.
The surge in broadband usage helped push a four percent increase in the numb... |
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Jan 2010 |
According to Broadband.co.uk the average UK broadband connection saw an average speed increase of 22 percent last year, from 3.67Mbps in December 2008 to 4.478Mbps in December 2009.
Virgin Media's average connection speed was 7.426Mbps, beating all rivals to take the title of the UK's fastest broadband provider by a significant margin.
Be Broadband and O2 shared second place at 5.143Mbps, and Virgin also matched the year-on-year 22 percent increase but was outshone by Plusnet which managed 28 percent,... |
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