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Dec 2009 |
Competitors like Vodafone have now been granted access to the Deutsche Telekom network, thanks to the German network regulator. The telecommunications company now has to open its street cabinets up and allow competitors access to the network, the network regulator said.
Vodafone and others want to run their own fibre optic cables and switching equipment, and need to use the existing network to avoid major public works.
The regulator said the decision represented "an important step for more competition... |
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Dec 2009 |
Telkoms Orange has announced a 70 per cent drop in international call charges made from its network.
The offer has been divided into six global geographical zones with each zone having different call rate charges.
In the new tariff structure, subscribers calling to the USA, UK (Fixed), India and China which is in zone one will make their calls at Sh10 (99c), representing a more than 70 percent discount.
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Callers to zone 2 covering Australia, Uganda and Tanzania will enjoy th... |
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Dec 2009 |
Rural areas in Ireland that have been previously underserved with broadband because they were considered economically unviable will benefit from the rollout of 150 Etherflow nodes by BT. Etherflow technology can provide broadband speeds of up to 1Gbps to local businesses and home owners.
In just 18 months, BT has deployed 150 Etherflow nodes to create a next-generation Ethernet platform that will allow it to increase bandwidth speeds, and the idea is to create a national Ethernet wide area network (WAN).... |
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Dec 2009 |
India has blocked millions of cellphones with no valid IMEI unique identification codes for security reasons as the absence of this code makes it impossible to trace either the caller or the phone or to access call details. Indian intelligence agencies say phones without the code have been used in attacks by militant groups.
Mobile phones missing the IMEI code were blocked at midnight as operators were requested to block calls to them "in the wake of increased threat perception from militants".
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Nov 2009 |
A british pub owner has been forced to fork out GBP 8,000 after an unknown person utilised its open wifi hotspot to download illegal material off the Internet.
A legal expert said that if the Digital Economy bill - proposed las week by the government - goes through in its current form, the problem for hotspot providers could worsen as under its rules the owner of the copyrighted material would just target the IP address of the hotspot and look no further, which in this case would be the pub.
This case... |
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Nov 2009 |
Virgin Media, one of the UK's leading providers of television, broadband, mobile and phone services, has announced plans to use deep packet inspection technology to track illegal file-sharing activity among around 40 percent of its UK users. Users whose activities are being monitored will not be informed of this fact.
The company announced on Thursday that it would perform a trial of deep packet inspection technology from Detica to gauge the levels of unlawful file-sharing on its network, on behalf of mu... |
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Nov 2009 |
Speed tests conducted by Broadband Genie have revealed that the average speed is a paltry 0.87 megabits per second. This is but a fraction of the speeds claimed to be achievable by the mobile broadband networks. Vodafone claims speeds of up to 7.2Mbps, while some areas offer up to 4Mbps, while most other networks claim speeds of up to 3.6Mbps.
Sixty five percent of the tests were slower than 1Mbps, while 39 percent were below 500Kbps. A tiny 0.5 percent of tests attained speeds over 3Mbps.
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Nov 2009 |
SEACOM, the privately funded and over three quarter African owned submarine fibre optic cable system, was named Best Pan African InitiativeӔ at the AfricaCom Awards 2009 ceremony held in Cape Town, South Africa, on Wednesday 11 November 2009. The award recognises an initiative taken by an organisation or a group of organisations to improve telecommunications services at a regional or continental level.
The awards ceremony form part of the AfricaCom Congress, a yearly two day pan-African communicati... |
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Nov 2009 |
Businesses in Glasgow are getting a free taste of what British Telecom's superfast fibre broadband has to offer as part of a trial.
BT last year announced it planned to spend GBP 1.5 billion by 2012 to roll out fibre optic broadband to around 10 million homes.
Business customers in the Glasgow Halfway exchange area who currently use BT services can take part in the free trial of fibre the the cabinet broadband, offering download speeds of up to 40Mbps and upload speeds of up to 2Mbps. The trial users ... |
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Nov 2009 |
On the 1tth to 12th November, the British government will simulate the "total collapse" of the national telephone network. The move was announced at the House of Lords EU Sub-Committee on Home Affairs yesterday.
Codenamed White Noise, the exercise has been designed to simulate a countrywide telecommunications failure, which is something that can take place if the UK suffered a cyber or physical attack, or a natural disaster.
Geoff Smith, the head of communications security in the Department for Busine... |
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Nov 2009 |
TalkTalk's chief executive Charles Dunstone has lashed out at the UK government, saying that the "unjust and regressive" plan that will see every phone bill add an extra 50p per month will backfire on the Government whilst delaying the rollout of next-gen broadband services in rural areas.
He continued by saying "This is an unjust and regressive tax on all phone customers which will subsidise mostly richer rural households that can afford high-priced super-fast broadband services. As well as being unfair... |
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Oct 2009 |
A UK campaign calling for lower mobile phone charges between networks will hand telecoms regulator Ofcom a petition with 114,259 signatures on Wednesday.
The campaing, called Terminate the Rate, wants mobile termination rates (MTRs) - which are what mobile network operators charge to handle other networks' traffic - reduced to reflect actual costs.
Signatories include 258 members of parliament and 60 businesses, and are calling for the rates to be cut from 5p to less than 1p.
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Oct 2009 |
Australian telco Optus has reduced excess 3G usage charges for a new range of wireless broadband plans by more than half. The charges have been slashed from 15c (R1) to 6 cents (41c) per MB.
The packages now also have larger data allowances as well as lower modem prices, although the increased data allowances are only available to those who sign a 12 month contract. Once the contract reaches its end, the data allowance is halved.
The 7GB option is AUD55 (R378) per month for the first 12 months, and dr... |
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Oct 2009 |
A study by Top 10 Broadband has found that homeowners are considering the quality of broadband available in their area of interest when looking to buy a house.
According to the study, forty percent of people would avoid moving to an area where the broadband connections weren't up to par. Around 60 percent said they would be envious if their neighbour's broadband was faster than their own.
Top 10 Broadband has recently launched its one-of-a-kind StreetStats platform, allowing current and potential broa... |
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Oct 2009 |
According to a Cisco Systems survey of more than 20 service providers, over 60 percent of the entire world's internet traffic is generated by only around 10 percent of the world's broadband users, while the average usage per broadband connection is 11.4 Gigabytes of data per month.
Cisco also found that more than 20 percent of all traffic is generated by only 1 percent of the heaviest broadband users.
Cisco's Visual Networking Index (VNI) Usage report represents activity during Q3 2009 and is aggregat... |
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