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Aug 2008 |
Houseboat owners can now enjoy superfast broadband speeds by connecting to Amsterdam’s CityNet, a citywide fibre optic communications network. A new type of robust optical connector has been developed, inspired by military technology, which allows houseboats to physically connect to the network upon mooring and disconnect whenever a trip is necessary.
In 2006 Amsterdam began the construction of a citywide, fibre optic network. Phase one of the CityNet project, which covers 40,000 households, will be comp... |
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Aug 2008 |
Seven years after launch, cellular services had transformed Nigeria's society and economy, bringing unprecedented changes in just a short time, according to officials.
Earlier this year, Nigeria outstripped South Africa as the continent's biggest market for mobile telephony.
Nigerian Communications Commission head Ernest Ndukwe said that as of March, there were 60.9 million subscribers - 70 times more than before cellular services were launched in 2001.
The opening up of the industry came with the ... |
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Aug 2008 |
ISPs and carriers have spectacularly failed with IPv6, to the point where they need to resurrect network address translation (NATs) to persist with IPv4, a leading expert has warned.
In what at times resembled a doomsday prophecy, Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) chief scientist, Geoff Huston, told a packed AusNOG conference that ‘it’s way too late’ for IPv6 and that the industry will need ‘religion’ to get it working before the impending exhaustion of IPv4 addresses.
It is anticipated ... |
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Aug 2008 |
The FCC yesterday issued its Order officially directing Comcast to stop using its current P2P-focused delaying technology to relieve network congestion. The company has until the end of the year to switch to a new throttling system that doesn't discriminate based on protocol, and Comcast is now offering more details about how it will do this. Heavy Comcast Internet users: prepare to be deprioritized.
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Aug 2008 |
The road to advanced video, Internet and phone services is bumpy — and the bumps can be almost as big as refrigerators.
As cable and phone companies race to upgrade services or offer video for the first time, they're doing it by installing equipment in boxes on lawns, easements and curbs all over American neighborhoods. Telecommunications rollouts have always been messy, but several towns and residents are fighting back with cries of "Not in my front yard!"
AT&T Inc.'s nearly fridge-sized units, which... |
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Aug 2008 |
Thousands of people suspected of sharing music, films and computer games over the Internet will be face legal action, it was revealed today.
Up to 25,000 people from across the UK will each have to pay £300 damages after a legal move by five of the world's top games developers.
It follows a surge in illegal downloads.
Atari, Topware Interactive, Reality Pump, Techland and Codemaster, who make games including The Lord of the Rings, the Colin McRae Rally series and Operation Flashpoint, have appointe... |
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Aug 2008 |
Betting big on WiMax in India, chip giant Intel is in talks with telecom operators to enable the growth of WiMax ecosystem through its products for boosting the penetration of wireless broadband in the world’s fastest-growing telecom market.
The US-based company is working with ODMs (original device manufacturers) to evolve new products like WiMax USB dongle, mobile internet devices (MIDs) besides WiMax notebooks with an aim to have wireless broadband networks running by the first quarter of 2009 in Indi... |
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Aug 2008 |
The telecommunications regulator, Ofcom, has been mixing things up when it comes to the proposed replacement of copper wire by BT.
BT recently announced that they were spending £1.5 billion on upgrading miles of copper cable to fibre optics, in order to be able to offer high speed broadband, that could reach an estimated speed of 40 Mbps, to most but not all parts of the UK.
However, Ofcom claims that if the situation was ideal, there is no reason stopping internet users getting speeds of up to 50 Mbp... |
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Aug 2008 |
Michael Phelps, swim your heart out. When it comes to text messaging, no one can beat My Svensson - at least in her native Sweden.
The 17-year-old student needed only 61 seconds to write a 141-character SMS message rich in crisp words and snappy punctuation to claim the Swedish text messaging championship, sponsored by a Swedish telecoms operator.
"I was very tense in the finals when I realised how much money I could win," said My, who plans to use her $3 900 prize for a holiday in France, the Dagens ... |
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Aug 2008 |
After telecom regulator TRAI and the finance ministry, the department of telecom (DoT) is set to face further opposition to its WiMAX auction policy. The Internet Service Providers Association of India, the body representing all standalone ISPs, has decided to ask the DoT to review the WiMAX policy, failing which it plans to haul the communications ministry to the telecom tribunal. “We will approach the DoT over this issue next week,” ISPAI president Rajesh Charia told ET.
First, standalone ISPs do not w... |
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Aug 2008 |
Britons are spending more time using communication services while paying less for them, a report by Ofcom has found.
The market regulator found that in 2007, UK consumers spent an average of seven hours and nine minutes a day using communication media such as the internet, television, phones and radio.
While it was a six minute increase from 2006, the average household cost of £93.63 a month was £1.53 less.
In contrast, food prices went up by almost seven per cent and the retail price index rose to... |
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Aug 2008 |
Telecommunication giants, France Telecom, which owns majority stakes in Telkom Kenya, a virtual fixed line telephony monopoly, has signed the start of a major pricing war in the country's fast expanding telecommunication industry.
Telkom Kenya's Managing Director Dominique Saint-Jean said on Thursday the firm was launching a new corporate image for Telkom Kenya, the original telecommunication operator in the country, as part of efforts to start a new dawn in the technology industry.
France Telecom, ad... |
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Aug 2008 |
The Managing Director of Nigeria Communications Satellite, Dr Ahmed Rufai, has reiterated that the nation’s communications satellite was launched into orbit a year ago as a critical IT infrastructure to bridge the digital divide.
Ahmed at a mini workshop held to shed more light on the activities of the satellite body emphasised that it was also conceived as an avenue to create digital opportunities for Nigerians in particular and Africans as a whole.
On NigComSat’s percentage of the market after one y... |
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Aug 2008 |
AT&T is “carefully considering” monitoring the Web-surfing activities of customers who use its Internet service, the company said in a letter in response to an inquiry from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
While the company said it hadn’t tested such a system for monitoring display advertising viewing habits or committed to a particular technology, it expressed much more interest in the approach than the other big Internet providers who also responded to the committee’s letter.
AT&T did how... |
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Aug 2008 |
U.S. broadband speeds are the focus of a recently conducted study by Communications Workers of America (CWA) union and the results are not especially flattering for broadband service providers on these shores. The U.S. comes in 15th on a worldwide scale, far behind the leaders Japan, South Korea and Finland.
The CWA published the results of its first Speed Matters report in an attempt to get Congress to come up with an improved telecommunications policy. CWA claims that it represents more than 700,000 pe... |
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