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April 2009 |
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 Carolina and New York survived in public for two weeks, and not even TWC's decision to dramatically boost the caps a week into ... |
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April 2009 |
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 insurance rates.
Patrols by Western navies have done little to deter the attacks.
Kenyan Information and Communications Minis... |
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April 2009 |
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 period.
According to figures from the same source however, the ratio narrowed in favour of laptops in 2008 with 211,499 desktops... |
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April 2009 |
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 plug, in part, its huge pension deficit.
The current management, including chairman Sir Mike Rake and chief executive Ian L... |
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April 2009 |
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 Cruz and San Benito, where a number of IT companies are located, were affected.
AT&T, Verizon and Sprint Nextel land-line, c... |
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April 2009 |
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 applications from taking advantage of traditional cellular network connections has struck a nerve with the EU. A report publi... |
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April 2009 |
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 9:30 p.m., the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office demobilized crews stationed in key intersections in the South County area... |
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April 2009 |
As the U.S. government considers significant changes to federal cybersecurity regulations, one line item in proposed Senate legislation shows why companies and citizens should pay attention.
The bill would give the president explicit power to turn off computer networks in the interest of national security.
Reed Harrison joined Novell when it acquired e-Security, part of what he says is Novell "exchanging its identity" McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt Talks About Security Trends and Threats Facing Organizations ... |
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April 2009 |
A recent survey has found that Pakistani broadband users enjoy very inexpensive broadband internet compared to other parts of the world as the countrys Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are providing excellent service. Though there are subscribers in Pakistan, who are not happy with their ISP or customer support at times, which happens all over the world, wherever the computer networks are involved, problems may occur there.
Workforce Management: At the Heart of the Contact Center Learn more, download f... |
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April 2009 |
Wireless carrier Virgin Mobile will drop the price of its unlimited calling plan from $80 to $50 a month, a result of intense price-cutting among second-tier wireless competitors.
The Warren, N.J.-based company said the drastic price cut is "definitely a response to the marketplace," caused by MetroPCS and Leap Wireless providing unlimited prepaid service for $35 to $50 a month in limited areas.
In January, Sprint introduced a $50 unlimited plan under its own prepaid brand, Boost Mobile, to counter t... |
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April 2009 |
In April 2008, Ghana's telecoms regulator, the National Communications Authority announced plans to offer number portability on both landline and mobile networks.
The new Communications Minister, Harruna Iddrisu, MP, has also expressed a desire to allow Ghana's 12 million mobile phone users the freedom to change their mobile network provider without having to change their existing number.
Yet, investigations undertaken by The Statesman indicate that the initiative is receiving intense resistance from ... |
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April 2009 |
Last week, the French Parliament passed a new law requiring Internet service providers to cut off Internet access for persistent copyright offenders. Since the parliament voted in favor of the law, everyone - including the most fanatical critics - believed that it would easily pass through Senate and the National Assembly today - but it didn’t.
In order to reduce piracy, the French Parliament approved the new ‘HADOPI’ (Creation and Internet) law. Under the new legislation ISPs have to send warnings to al... |
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April 2009 |
A cell phone used by a Wyoming 13-year-old to run up a nearly $5,000 phone bill will text no more thanks to her angry father and his hammer. Dena Christoffersen of Cheyenne sent or received about 20,000 text messages over about a month, and her parents' phone plan didn't cover texting.
Gregg Christoffersen told KUSA-TV of Denver this week that he thought texting had been disabled on her daughter's phone, which he smashed hours after getting a phone bill for more than $4,750.
The family said Verizon ha... |
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April 2009 |
Want to find out why you suddenly don't have Internet access or cell phone service? You might want to check out the social-networking site Twitter.
It seems that Twitter was one of the main ways that phone company AT&T has been communicating with customers and updating the public about the fiber cut that caused thousands of people in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area to go without broadband, phone, and wireless service for most of Thursday.
Janine Popick, CEO of VerticalResponse, whose com... |
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April 2009 |
Rep. Eric Massa (D-New York) today announced his opposition to Time Warner’s broadband Internet cap, calling it monopolistic and outrageous.
Massa said he will be taking a lead in Congress to oppose Time Warner’s move to impose limits on customers at a time when access to information is driving our economic recovery. He accused the company of “stagnating 21st century technology needed to rebuild America.”
“Internet access is as essential to our economy as water is to our survival,” said Congressman E... |
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