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ONE of Africa’s leading mobile communications provider MTN is set to exhibit at this year’s Zimbabwe International Trade Fair raising high hopes that the South African company is preparing to operate in the country. Although no position could be readily availed from the company, ZITF Company General manager Mr Daniel Chigaru told Sunday Business that the company has confirmed its |
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India's Reliance Communications has set itself a target of breaking the 100 million subscriber mark before the end of this year - requiring an additional 25 million new customers to sign up to its network. The firm reported a surge in subscriptions following the launch of its GSM network, which overlays its existing CDMA service. "We have a goal," he told the Financial Times. "We |
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US lawmakers are set to limit the way ISPs use deep packet inspection (DPI), even though no American service providers are using the technology. Representative Rick Boucher, a Virginia Democrat, and three privacy experts, speaking at a hearing before the House Energy Commerce sub-committee urged lawmakers to pass comprehensive online privacy legislation in the coming months. Whil |
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Estonia's government and telecom companies operating there announced on Friday a 283 million euro (374 million dollar) project to provide access to broadband Internet for all by 2015, a report said. "If the railway was developed in the 19th century and the electrical grid in the 20th century, then the 21st century is the era of developing communication networks," Estonia's Ministe |
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3 is ‘opening up’ Skype to allow any customer with an unlocked 3G phone to use the service on its network. Consumers can bring an unlocked phone to 3 and buy a £1.99 Sim card to be used for free Skype-to-Skype services from this summer. Meanwhile, from 1 May, there will be no data charges or top-up fees for all customers that use Skype on 3’s UK network. Therefore consumers will |
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Euro MPs have voted overwhelmingly to cut the cost of texting and using the internet on mobiles abroad. The cap for a "roaming" text will fall to 11 euro cents (10p; 14 US cents), from about 29 cents on average today. The EU-wide caps, excluding VAT, will take effect in July. They cover text messages and data roaming services, such as checking e-mails while abroad. The current p |
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Tanzania's government has joined the growing trend for countries to require all PrePay SIM cards to be registered with the network operators, citing the usual reasons of crime and terrorism. The Minister for Communication, Science and Technology, Prof. Peter Msolla, said the government would soon table a bill in the National Assembly for the establishment of a Central Equipment Ide |
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The Cox Cable offering in Lafayette, Louisiana seems to be the worst deal. It is the slowest and only five dollars a month less than the Verizon network. The municipal network in the same city is faster and cheaper. The Cox network reaches more neighborhoods than the municipal network, and they are forced to compete with temporary sale prices. Stockholm is at the other extreme. Th |
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Time Warner Cable said repeatedly that it wanted to hear from the public as it expanded its Internet data caps, and the public has roared back its response: metered billing should exist in some non-obscene ratio to cost and to competitors' pricing. In response, TWC will shelve the trials "while the customer education process continues." The plan to expand the test into North Car |
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Foreign navies have agreed to protect a vessel installing an undersea high-speed Internet cable from pirates off the coast of Somalia, a Kenyan minister said on Thursday. Sea gangs from lawless Somalia have been increasingly striking the Indian Ocean shipping lanes and strategic Gulf of Aden, capturing dozens of vessels and hundreds of hostages in attacks that have driven up insur |
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Mobile telephony penetration and the convergence of technologies are driving up sales of laptop computers in Nigeria’s formal sector desktops, according to International Data Corporation (IDC) sources.
IDC statistics accessed by BusinessDay at the weekend showed that 154,042 desktops were sold in the country’s formal market in 2007, while 77,966 laptops were sold in the same perio |
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The redundancies, which come on top of the 10,000 announced last year, are expected to be the first in a fresh wave of UK job cuts, with Lloyds Banking Group and glass maker Pilkington tipped to reduce their workforces over the coming weeks. BT’s results are likely to be among the worst in the company’s history with a poor financial performance compounded by the cost of trying to |
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AT&T has pledged a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of vandals who cut underground fiber-optic telephone and Internet cable lines April 9. The felony vandalism disrupted service to tens of thousands of people in five Northern California counties. Portions of the city and county of San Francisco and the counties of San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa |
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The European Union (EU) is preparing binding guidelines for wireless carriers to allow VoIP services such as Skype to run over their cellular network. EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding stated that there “action” should be taken against carriers that use their market power to block “innovative services.” The decision of wireless carriers across Europe to prevent Voice-over-IP |
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AT&T crews partially restored phone connections serving the South Bay at around 9:30 p.m. Thursday, but some of the more than 50,000 households affected by the early morning fiber optic cable sabotage remain without service. Thursday night, AT&T says the majority of people affected -- mainly those in San Martin, Gilroy and Morgan Hill -- have their phone and 911 service back. By |
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