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Korea Telecom (KT) has signed a US$40million deal with the Rwanda government to implement a national backbone project expected to connect the entire country on a fiber optic network. When complete, a national backbone will enable Rwandans to use e-applications and for the government to execute e-services and business and information exchange that need high speed broadband Internet |
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Marking the second anniversary of the opening of its Next G (HSDPA) network, Australia's Telstra has announced that its planned deployment of Enhanced HSPA (eHSPA) to the Next G network is progressing on schedule, as connectivity testing between network infrastructure equipment and cellular device technology was successfully achieved. Telstra expects that it will be the first in |
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Leading telecommunications operator in Nigeria, MTN at the weekend launched its mobile TV service dubbed DSTV Mobile From MTN in Port Harcourt with prominent figures in Rivers State in attendance. The company’s Chief Marketing Officer, Mr Bola Akingbade said the product, brought to Port Harcourt by MTN in partnership with DMTV, would boost the access of the people of the state to |
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MTN usage has increased by 70% over the past two months, Erik van Veen, the chief commercial officer, has said. Van Veen said the rise was due to the MTN Zone tariff system launched over two months back. “MTN Zone subscribers have now hit over two million, which represents 60% of the MTN customer base. “There has also been a 70% increase in call usage since its introduction.” He |
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Europe's leading telecommunications company, Deutsche Telekom, admitted Saturday that it has lost confidential data belonging to 17 million T-mobile clients. The theft, in 2006, which is now subject to a judicial inquiry, involved telephone numbers, dates of birth, addresses and email addresses, subsidiary T-Mobile said in a statement. Spokesman Frank Domagala said that bank detail |
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Sweden and the Netherlands are the best EU performers when it comes to broadband internet, while Bulgaria and Cyprus come last, according to a report by the European Commission. "Both countries [Sweden and the Netherlands] have a favourable socio-economic context, with a high propensity to use advanced services and a competitive environment that has ensured affordable prices and |
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While FairPoint Communications promised to offer 100 percent broadband coverage to half of its exchanges in Vermont by the end of 2010, only one municipality in Windham County is on that list -- Jamaica. The decision to choose Jamaica will make a lot of town residents happy, said Jamaica Selectboard Chairman Oliver Olsen. "FairPoint has been very good to work with," he said. |
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A group of computer security researchers and human-rights activists based in Canada at the University of Toronto recently found a gigantic surveillance system in China that is being utilized to monitor and archive Internet text conversations that contain politically charged wording. The system is capable of tracking text messages that are sent by TOM-Skype customers. TOM-Skype is |
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Nokia has announced details of its Comes with Music service, which will allow 12 months of unlimited music downloads on pay-as-you-go phones. From 16 October, the bundle will be sold for £129.95 exclusively from the Carphone Warehouse. The service boasts more than two million tracks, available first on Nokia's 5310 XpressMusic handset and on more models later. Major music label |
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High-speed broadband is available free for small businesses through Orange’s new “Broadband for Business” offer. Such customers will get free broadband for the length of their mobile contract, the operator said. The new plan also offers unlimited downloading and free customer service calls, when coming from an Orange phone. Broadband connections can be made for the office and for |
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Oct 2008 |
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It is the first major overhaul of its broadband plans since it slashed the price of business broadband by about 90 per cent in February 2006. Telecom has also removed the 128 kilobit per second cap on uploading data that applies to some of its consumer plans. The monthly traffic cap on Telecom's $59.95 a month business broadband plan has been upped from 3 gigabytes to 15GB, the |
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Oct 2008 |
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The MTN Group has boosted its assets and subscriber base in Africa with the acquisitions of Ivory Coast's second fixed-line operator, Arobase Telecom, and Afnet, an ISP (Internet service provider). "The 100 percent acquisition of Arobase and Afnet reflects the progress MTN is making toward consolidating its business," said Phuthuma Nhleko, MTN president and CEO. "Afnet and Arobase |
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The European Commission (EC) may establish that broadband internet access is "a universal right" during a review of its Universal Service Obligations (USO) for the region's telecoms companies. Fixed line standards for "functional internet access" are now set at dial-up speed (28.8 kilobits per second), but may be re-written to force telecom firms to make broadband available to all |
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KDDI Corp will launch a fiber-optic communications service with upload and download speeds each of up to one gigabit per second on Oct 1. The new service will target people living in single-family homes and low-rise apartment buildings. The traffic speeds will be the fastest in eastern Japan, up drastically from the current 100 megabits per second. With the service, KDDI aims to |
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Ms Mawuena Adjo Dumor, Corporate Services Executive of Mobile Telecommunications Network (MTN) Ghana, on Tuesday said the company was poised to maintain the market lead despite the entrance of big multi-nationals into the local telecom market. She said MTN was confident that it would maintain its lead in Ghana through quality service, innovation, strategic engagements with its |
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