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Sept 2008 |
There is new evidence that broadband adoption in South Korea has reached saturation and may even be shrinking.
While it continues to rank the highest in terms of high speed broadband (> 5 Mbps) and broadband (>2 Mbps) users, South Korea registered a shrinking number of unique IP addresses access the Internet over those speeds, according to the latest State of the Internet report from Akamai.The quarterly report analyses unique IP addresses accessing its network of servers across the global, identifying u... |
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Sept 2008 |
Police in Somerset County are trying to figure out how a radio tower went missing in Windber. Police say a group of people had a very thorough plan to get all 120 feet of steel and copper down from the old Windber radio tower.
Police believe the thieves threw cables over the guidelines of the tower and yanked it down with a truck. Police also found cut bolts and torch marks on nearby grass. Police say the tower had to be cut into small pieces in order to get it out of the wooded area, but they can't figu... |
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Sept 2008 |
Satellite company O3b Networks has linked up with Google and other investors to bring cheaper, high-speed wireless Internet access to areas unlikely to see investments in fiber infrastructure.
O3b stands for "other 3 billion," a reference to the world's population that still can't access the Internet. O3b, which is based in the U.K.'s Channel Islands, said construction is under way on 16 satellites that will drop the cost for ISPs and operators to provide Internet access over 3G (third-generation) and Wi... |
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Sept 2008 |
Installing the latest high-speed broadband internet in every home in Britain could cost almost £30billion, an industry report warned today.
Fibre-based technology would allow speeds of up to 100 megabits per second (Mbps) – more than 30 times faster than the current UK average.
The next generation would also run up top four times quicker than the latest available broadband.
The national deployment of fibre to street-level boxes, the cheapest technology option, would cost £5.1billion, according to g... |
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Sept 2008 |
A Portland family racked up nearly $20,000 on their AT&T bill, local station KPTV reported.
The Terry family said they wished they would have received some kind of warning before receiving their 200-page bill in the mail for $19,370.
In July, their son headed north to Vancouver, Canada, and used a laptop with an AirCard to send photos and e-mails back home. The bill showed he used the service 21 times, but because he was out of the country, the activity added up to thousands of dollars in charges.
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Sept 2008 |
Two major UK ISPs have been ordered by the High Court to hand over the identities of several thousand alleged file-sharers. BT has confirmed it is involved while Virgin Media was less direct in admitting that lawyers Davenport Lyons, working with Topwear Inc., are about to start threatening thousands more people.
US game developer Topware Interactive, the people behind the now infamous ‘Dream Pinball‘ affair, are about to turn up the heat. Operating through London lawyers Davenport Lyons, they have manag... |
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Sept 2008 |
Although the IEEE 802.11n specification is still a year or more away from release, a small group of engineers is already moving ahead to the next generation of wireless networking. The goal? Gigabit Wi-Fi, to match the wired gigabit Ethernet links of today's PCs.
A working group is preparing to propose what may eventually be known as IEEE 802.11 VHT (Very High Throughput), in what some call the successor to 802.11n. Two working groups each are suggesting proposals to push throughput in excess of one giga... |
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Sept 2008 |
More than 27.5 million Indians will be WiMAX users by 2012, according to the Worldwide Subscriber & User Forecast by the WiMAX Forum, an organization formed to certify and promote the compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless products based on the IEEE 802.16/ETSI HiperMAN standard. The forecast also shows that about 70% of the WiMAX subscribers in India by 2012 will utilize mobile and portable WiMAX devices to access broadband Internet services.
"WiMAX devices and networks are available n... |
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4
Sept 2008 |
You could think of this as the Tarzan protocol for Wi-Fi. The goal is to improve interactive Wi-Fi connections dramatically for moving vehicles.
Dubbed "Vi-Fi," the protocol lets Wi-Fi clients keep in touch with several access points at once. In a sense, Vi-Fi lets overlapping access points coordinate with the moving client, minimizing the disruptions that can zap interactive applications. The tests, published in a recent technical paper, showed that Vi-Fi doubles the number of successful short TCP trans... |
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Sept 2008 |
You could think of this as the Tarzan protocol for Wi-Fi. The goal is to improve interactive Wi-Fi connections dramatically for moving vehicles.
Dubbed "Vi-Fi," the protocol lets Wi-Fi clients keep in touch with several access points at once. In a sense, Vi-Fi lets overlapping access points coordinate with the moving client, minimizing the disruptions that can zap interactive applications. The tests, published in a recent technical paper, showed that Vi-Fi doubles the number of successful short TCP trans... |
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Sept 2008 |
Verizon Communications and AT&T have thrown the first blows in an impending broadband pricing war.
Last week, Verizon Communications said it will offer six months of free DSL service to new customers who sign up for a one-year contract and also use the company's traditional landline voice service. The promotion is available until the end of October.
Verizon's DSL service typically costs between $19.99 per month for 768Kbps downloads and $42.99 a month for 7.1Mbps downloads. Add traditional telepho... |
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3
Sept 2008 |
First, a look at some data. Reliable ISP data can be hard to come by; just ask researchers like the University of Minnesota's Dr. Andrew Odlyzko. Odlyzko collects ISP data, some confidentially, for use with the MINTS Internet traffic project, but he also provided some pointers last week to new external data from two sources: a British ISP called PlusNet and a set of Japanese researchers.
PlusNet's Dave Tomlinson offers a bevy of traffic statistics from the ISP's previous year, including the fact that str... |
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3
Sept 2008 |
Communities bypassed by broadband should be the first to get even faster services, says an Ofcom advisory group.
The regulator's Consumer Panel said excluded areas of the UK should 'leapfrog' to next generation access.
Consumer Panel chair Anna Bradley admitted that the areas concerned are likely to be the least cost-effective places for such services.
But, she said, the step was vital to prevent Britain's digital divide deepening.
Public services
"If we are imaginative and use a mix o... |
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3
Sept 2008 |
Despite media reports that an “exaflood” of traffic on the Internet is coming close to choking network capacity, a new report from TeleGeography shows that, while international Internet traffic is growing, capacity is keeping pace.
For the second consecutive year, the report said, total international Internet capacity grew faster than total Internet traffic, leading to lower utilization levels on many Internet backbones. Between mid-2007 and mid-2008, average traffic utilization levels decreased from 31 ... |
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Sept 2008 |
Cellular phone subscribers in the country can finally switch mobile service providers of their choice without having to change their numbers.
Industry regulator, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), last week said mobile number portability (MNP) will be made available to consumers in the Klang Valley on a limited basis.
MNP allows mobile subscribers to retain their mobile numbers when they switch to another service provider, and has been tipped to boost market competition.
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