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Oct 2008 |
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 EMI has announced that it is taking part in the service.
That means that all of the major labels are on board, and Noki... |
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Oct 2008 |
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 home workers by using Orange’s Livebox modem. Up to six wireless users and two fixed port connections can be connected thro... |
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Oct 2008 |
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 cap on its $79.95 plan has been raised to 40GB from 15GB, and on its $109.95 plan doubled to 60GB.
The traffic caps on its... |
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Oct 2008 |
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 will add value to MTN and support our strategy to ensure that the group is well-positioned to benefit from a rapidly converge... |
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Sept 2008 |
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, reports the BBC.
Between 2003 and 2007, broadband use in its member nations tripled to 36 percent of households, with a 2... |
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Sept 2008 |
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 catch up with Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp, which has a share of over 70% in the market for fiber-optic broadband services... |
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Sept 2008 |
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 subscribers and commitment to national development.
Ms Dumor told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that as a member of the MTN Grou... |
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Sept 2008 |
Figures released by the Fibre to the Home council show that the US is now second globally in connections of fibre to the home (FTTH). The US is a few years ahead of the UK in fibre roll outs so the numbers should give some indication of services and take up that could be achieved here in the UK.
Of US citizens, 61% currently have a broadband connection, 22% no Internet, and 17% still use dial-up. Fibre to the Home is available to 12% of US homes, and only 3.5% of those are connected (equating to approxim... |
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Sept 2008 |
Communications giant Virgin Media has slated rival Internet Service Provider BSkyB over its claims in relation to unlimited broadband.
One of the nation’s leading broadband providers and communications giant Virgin Media has slated its rival provider BSkyB after the rival firm claimed that it was not the only Internet Service Provider in the UK to offer truly unlimited broadband to its consumers. These claims have been made by officials from BSkyB after it dropped its fair usage policy recently, thus rem... |
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Sept 2008 |
Mobile phone networks have inched ahead of WiFi hotspots as the most popular way of accessing the internet on the move for UK users, a new report reveals today.
Conducted for Point Topic by YouGov and Ipsos MORI, the survey of over 6000 web users found that mobile phone companies have managed to grow their market share to 47 per cent of users accessing the internet on the move. This compares to 42 per cent who prefer WiFi hotspots. A year earlier the ratio was 4:3 in favour of WiFi.
The research shows... |
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Sept 2008 |
Underserved areas in Zambia are being empowered through Internet access, as seen in the rural Macha community.
LinkNet Zambia, a multipurpose cooperative society, has provided Internet access in Macha through mesh technology, a system that allows all nodes to communicate with one another, offering redundancy in case any unit fails.
"If one point goes down, then all the points that are related to each other talk to each other," said Gertjan van Stam, LinkNet Zambia's technical director. "When one unit ... |
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Sept 2008 |
CELLPHONE company MTN, which in July walked away from a potential $70bn merger with India’s Reliance Communications, could extend its reach to the Democratic Republic of Congo, that country’s regulator said on Friday.
“We are sure MTN is interested in the Congolese market,’’ said Christian Katende, vice-president of the Post and Telecommunications Regulation Authority of Congo.
MTN declined to comment.
Katende said MTN may begin operations in Congo by acquiring Supercell , a closely held company wi... |
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Sept 2008 |
Sending a text message home to boast about a beach vacation should cost less than half of what it does now, EU regulators said Tuesday.
The European Commission wants to set a price cap for text messages of 11 euro cents (16 U.S. cents), far below the current EU average of 29 euro cents (43 cents).
The EU's top telecom official, Viviane Reding, said she was putting the new rules forward because telecommunications companies had not responded to her call for them to lower the roaming charges for sending ... |
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Sept 2008 |
The European Commission said Thursday it aimed to prevent dominant telecommunications companies from recreating monopolies in next generation fiber-optic networks.
Operators are ploughing billions of euros into building fiber optic networks to replace copper lines in order to offer new broadband Internet services like online gaming, high-definition television and interactive applications.
The European Union's executive arm wants national regulators to "mandate access to the ducts of the dominant opera... |
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Sept 2008 |
Popular UK ISP Be Broadband (O2) has invited members to join a 30 day trial of its new line-bonding service, which will combined two telephone lines via one ADSL2+ router. Naturally a single Be Broadband connection delivers download speeds of 'up to' 24Mbps, while the new bonding method could push this up to a maximum of 40Mbps!
The increased speed will obviously vary, depending on what you currently receive. For example, if you get 10Mbps now then during the trial you could get an average speed of 20Mbp... |
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