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Jan 2009 |
AT&T unveiled its fourth quarter and full year 2008 results this morning and, while highlighting significant progress in both fixed and mobile services uptake, especially in terms of iPhone subscriptions and U-verse uptake, the carrier delivered something of a bombshell to the telecom systems market with its 2009 outlook.
The carrier, upon which so many vendors rely for regular and, in many cases, significant revenues, says that, while it expects full year 2009 revenues to increase "in the low single-dig... |
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Jan 2009 |
Sprint Nextel Corp. is the latest U.S. telecom company to succumb to the economic downturn as it announced today plans to cut 8,000 jobs in the first quarter of this year.
Sprint said the job cuts would reduce its annual internal and external labor costs by about $1.2 billion.
The operator didn't specify which positions or locations would be most affected, but said in a press statement issued Monday morning that the cuts would hit "all levels of the company" and that the geographic locations would var... |
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Jan 2009 |
Last month, Ohio-based HarborLink Network announced plans to deploy a free, ad-based Wi-Fi service at BP gas stations throughout the United States and Canada, using equipment from Ruckus Wireless. The free Wi-Fi is part of BP’s larger campaign to build “a little better gas station,” looking for new ways to persuade drivers to choose BP over its competitors.
The offering is now available on an opt-in basis to BP’s more than 9,000 franchisees (which the company calls “jobbers”) throughout North America. “T... |
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Jan 2009 |
The House committee on Energy and Commerce , which has oversight on broadband and energy matters, approved its portion of the Economic Recovery Legislation this week.
The broadband components of the legislation which is over 200 pages give the National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) authorization to allocate $2.85 billion for wireless and wireline broadband through a program of grants.
[ Last year, InfoWorld pondered if the U.S. needs a new broadband policy | Barack Obama had bee... |
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Jan 2009 |
WHEN Justin Cavanagh decided to play online games with his mates over the Christmas break he didn't realise his actions would cost him thousands of dollars.
Mr Cavanagh, 29, connected three computers at his North Gosford home so his friends could go head-to-head on the popular online World War II strategy game Battleground Europe.
But he exceeded his Telstra Bigpond 60GB ADSL2+ plan by more than 38GB.
Telstra's policy is to charge excess data at a rate of 15c per megabyte but, the company says, Big... |
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Jan 2009 |
The rollout of services under the National Broadband Scheme (NBS) will see 100 per cent coverage in Ireland by September 2010, the Government announced today.
The �223 million investment in the scheme will deliver broadband to areas where the market has failed to provide services, approximately 33 per cent of the country, and see the creation of 170 jobs, according to a Government statement.
It will allow around 223,000 more homes and businesses to connect to the always-on, high speed internet conne... |
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Jan 2009 |
TELE2 HAS BEEN FINED €60,000 for throttling its P2P users without telling them.
After a year of investigating, Italy's AntiTrust watchdog found that users were signing up for ADSL with Tele2 because they were attracted by low prices.
However they found that if they tried to use P2P software their connection would drop to zero or end up extremely slow.
When it spoke to the press Tele2 denied that it was blocking P2P customers but was slowing down the network speed limit to make P2P impractical durin... |
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Jan 2009 |
Bournemouth’s first 30 homes will be connected using fibre-optic broadband connections routed through sewers by the end of March.
The campaign to set up residents and businesses in Bournemouth to the 100Mbps superfast network has been underway since last September.
The scheme has achieved a 40 per cent take up rate in its first phase roll out area, which the Bournemouth Echo counted as 5,600 residents and businesses.
H2O Networks said that the Bournemouth “Fibrecity” was on-track to be finished by ... |
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Jan 2009 |
MTN Swaziland Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Tebogo Mogapi has opposed an application to release records of calls made by a wife to a man who suspects that he is a target of an assassination plot.
His wife, the man alleged in his papers, hatches the plot. Bhekukuphila Dlamini had filed an application at the High Court where he wanted MTN to release records of calls made by his lifetime partner, as he feared that his wife, Busisiwe Dlamini, had hired people to kill him.
In an opposing affidavit filed by... |
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Jan 2009 |
Vodafone is preparing trials of high-speed mobile broadband technology that could eventually provide download speeds of up to 21Mbit/s.
The firm claimed that it has already achieved peak data download rates of up to 16Mbit/s in trials of HSPA+, and now plans to trial technology capable of delivering peak rates of up to 21Mbit/s using Mimo (multiple antennas in both transmitter and receiver) and 64QAM technology early in 2009.
QAM refers to quadrature amplitude modulation, a method of using phase and... |
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Jan 2009 |
The broadband market has been hit by the recession with only around 200,000 new broadband lines added in the last quarter, according to new research.
Figures from analysts Point Topic showed that the number of new broadband lines added was less than half what was forecast before the recession and than 100,00 less than Point Topic’s October forecast when the effects of the downturn were already being felt.
The researchers speculated that “the total number of homes and businesses with internet access ma... |
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Jan 2009 |
SWEDISH OPERATOR TeliaSonera is heading up the race to become the first to launch a 4G service becoming the first in the world to launch next generation mobile broadband.
TeliaSonera has chosen Ericsson for the initial rollout of a 4G city network in Stockholm and Huawei for the one set for Oslo. These networks are set for commercial launch in 2010.
The new 4G service will offer customers a whole new broadband experience, with mobile, media and interactive services running at a much faster pace.
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Jan 2009 |
These Icomera folks, the WiFi-in-public-transport chaps, are doing rather well.
Fresh from sticking WiFi on buses all over the place, they’ve now done a deal with The Green Bus company.
The Green Bus company are, as the press release states, ‘the emerging market leader in school transport thinking in the UK’.
Clearly. If they’re putting WiFi — for free — in their buses. That’s going to certainly make a LOT of friends from the students they’re transporting.
I never took the bus to school. Not onc... |
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Jan 2009 |
Verizon opened 2009 with several aggressive pricing announcements, designed to lure video customers with free HD digital video recorders and to woo Internet and DirecTV customers with bundled, discounted pricing.
Verizon said customers who subscribe between now and Feb. 21 to its FiOS TV video service will get six months of free use of either a high-definition digital-video recorder or an HD home media DVR. The company notes that the offer will save a consumer between $95 and $119, depending on the set-t... |
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Jan 2009 |
China Mobile says that it plans to spend around US$8.6 billion during 2009 alone on rolling out its 3G network - based on the home-grown TD-SCDMA technology. The company aims to deploy some 60,000 base stations in 238 cities this year.
The move will be welcome news for the network infrastructure vendors who are facing a likely reduction in tenders due to the general economic malaise in their main markets.
In a recent announcement, it was confirmed that the Hong Kong listed, China Mobile Ltd agreed to... |
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