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Oct 2008 |
Taliban insurgents said Tuesday they had told mobile phone operators to shut down their networks during the day in the Ghazni province, southwest of Kabul, saying signals help track insurgent fighters.
The warning comes on top of a Taliban order earlier this year for phone operators to turn off their networks throughout the country at night.
"We have informed mobile companies operating in Ghazni to turn off their signals during the daytime now as it endangers the lives of our fighters," Zabiullah Muja... |
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Oct 2008 |
Ministers will be investigating the possibility of every household in the Britain being connected to a superfast broadband service as they are forced to face concerns that both educational and financial benefits are being missed by many offline families.
This month saw the appointment of former Number 10 aide, Lord Carter as communications officer and he is looking to force phone operators to do more to bring broadband access to every home and is even considering introducing it as a legal right.
Lord ... |
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Oct 2008 |
One of Silicon Valley’s pioneers, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, has blasted Australian home broadband services as too expensive and restrictive.
Speaking in Perth yesterday, he criticised download-limited contracts with prices that far outstripped the unlimited broadband plans on offer in the US.
“It seems like all internet plans of all the companies are kind of limited here. I don’t like that,” he said.
Mr Wozniak said even “high-use” monthly plans, which typically cap downloads at around ... |
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Oct 2008 |
Three of Tanzania’s cities are now enjoying high speed Internet cafes. Vodacom, supported by the GSMA Development Fund and Qualcomm (News - Alert), through its Wireless Reach initiative, has connected Internet cafes in three of the cities to its HSPA mobile broadband network, enabling locals to gain high-speed access to the vast repository of information on the World Wide Web.
The initial three Internet cafes, in Dar es Salaam, Dodoma and Arusha, are all set to be followed by more cafes in other parts of... |
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16
Oct 2008 |
The Finance Ministry plans for a meeting with the department of telecom (DoT) to prevent any delay in the scheduled 3G auction, reports the Business Line.
This comes in the wake of romours that the government is considering delaying the auction due to the global slowdown in economy. The government was concerned about the inability of the telecom players to pay the fee for the spectrum.
However, A Raja, the communications and IT minister denied reports of any delay in the auction. DoT has chosen Rothsc... |
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Oct 2008 |
Telecom has announced it will provide its customers access to a new nationwide 3G mobile network by June 2009. The new network, rumoured to be announced for some time, will replace the existing CDMA EV-DO service over time.
The announcement has been rumoured for some time.
“It’s simple – today we’re announcing New Zealand’s best mobile network,” said Telecom CEO Paul Reynolds. “New Zealanders are demanding fast, ubiquitous and future-ready mobile technology at their fingertips – and with this advancem... |
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15
Oct 2008 |
Vodafone doesn't believe network neutrality will work as capacity demands increase, forcing operators to build out faster networks. Instead, a second network is needed, according to David Leftley, head of technology economics at Vodafone Group R&D.
Network neutrality typically refers the way Internet access or backbone providers deliver packets on a first-come, first-served basis, and do not prioritize packets of one type, source or destination.
That Internet model has so far meant a free lunch for ap... |
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15
Oct 2008 |
Congress has passed -- and the president has signed -- the Broadband Data Improvement Act. It may now be possible to get some useful information about where the United States sits in the world when it comes to the deployment and adoption of broadband Internet services. If this turns out to be the case, it will be the first time we would have any real idea.
For reasons best known to itself, the FCC has for years adamantly refused to collect the data necessary to understand the true state of the deployment... |
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Oct 2008 |
Mobile devices using a new U.S. radio band with free wireless service would not cause significant interference with cell phones using a nearby band, the Federal Communications Commission has concluded from tests conducted last month.
The FCC is considering auctioning off frequencies in a band between 2155 and 2175 MHz to operators that would be required to offer free wireless data services in that band. The agency tested use of this proposed AWS-3 (Advanced Wireless Services 3) band because holders of ne... |
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14
Oct 2008 |
Global GSM operators under their umbrella body, the GSM Association (GSMA), have strongly backed High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) as the best technology platform to deliver speedier and wider mobile broadband services across both urban and rural networks.
They put the technology ahead of other existing platforms such as WiMax and EV-DO currently in use by fixed wireless operators in Nigeria.
The GSMA define mobile broadband technologies as those that deliver typical end-user downlink data rates of 500 ... |
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13
Oct 2008 |
When AT&T switched to Cingular the price of sending a message dropped to 5 cents, but they started charging for incoming texts - also 5 cents. Assuming you send a message for every message you receive, this works out at about the same price as before.
AT&T came back online and phased out the CIngular brand name, and prices were again changed. This time to 15 cents each way.
More changes have taken place that I can't quite remember. At one point text messages were 10 cents either way, and at another po... |
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Oct 2008 |
Andhra Pradesh has become the first state to offer ICT (infocomm technology) education to all its 1.8 million school-going children, starting Monday.
In December 2004, the Indian government launched its ICT in Schools Scheme to provide access to computer education to secondary school students across the country. The initiative was established in partnership with the Indian states and Union Territories.
According to the Planning Commission, the Indian government is committed to provide computers in all... |
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Oct 2008 |
AT the worldwide launch of the ZAIN Group brand last August in Lagos, the company’s chief executive officer, Mr. Bayo Ligali listed power supply as the bane of Nigeria’s poor quality of service in the telecom industry. It has become a central theme, unfortunately, government functionaries who should know have refused to calm public nerves. The issue of irregular public supply runs across in the country and has cost several industries to shut down due principally to the high operational cost.
But telecom... |
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Oct 2008 |
Canada's Bell Canada and Telus Mobility announced plans to overlay their CDMA networks with HSPA technology by 2010 with an eventual move to LTE technology. The announcement builds on the CDMA network-sharing deal the two CDMA operators have had in place since 2001.
The move follows Verizon Wireless' decision to deploy LTE in the 700 MHz spectrum it won earlier this year. However, Verizon is skipping an HSPA deployment, choosing to continue investing in its EV-DO network that will likely complement the n... |
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Oct 2008 |
The outage was probably caused by an attack on Tucows's OpenSRS email service, according to Virgin Media. "Since late Tuesday evening some customers on our Virgin Media DSL service may have been unable to access email or webmail," the company said. "This was due to a suspected spam attack suffered by our email supplier, which also affected a number of other ISPs. No customers on our cable service were affected."
The outage was remedied approximately 48 hours after it occurred, but Virgin Media customers ... |
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