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Nigeria has raked in over N1.404 trillion ($12 billion) as Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) since 2000 when the current telecommunications revolution kicked off. This is exclusive of over N304.2billion that has come into the coffer of the Federal Government as licensing fees and tax-generated revenues. The Minister of State for Information and Communications, Alhaji Dasuki |
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We all know that America is the technology hub of the universe. It is home to Intel, Microsoft, Apple, Sun, Google, YouTube, Yahoo, MIT - the list is endless. So why, when it comes to the basics, like delivering the internet to its citizens, has it fallen way behind many other nations? In Manhattan people pay about $30 (£15) a month for a download speed of three megabits per second |
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Sprint Nextel won't make the April launch it had planned for its Xohm WiMax service, largely because of problems setting up Internet links behind the WiMax part of the network, the head of the project said. The carrier will miss the target of commercial availability in April, though not by much, said Barry West, CTO of Sprint and head of the Xohm business unit, in an interview |
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Vandals cut a fiber-optic phone cable south of Kelso at around midnight Sunday, but apparently once they discovered the cable contained glass and not copper, they left. However, the single cut that produced no profit for thieves caused a $25,000 loss for Qwest, which had to replace and repair 6,400 feet of line, a company supervisor told Kelso police. Supervisor Tom Mahedy told |
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VoIP calling is on the rise. It used to be that Skype was the only service that people were using to place low-cost or no-cost international calls through their computers but these days there are dozens of providers that can connect you to others using phones that are routed through the Internet. As mobile broadband gets increasingly popular VoIP is starting to find a new platforms |
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Nokia's N810 mobile Internet tablet will be one of the first devices designed for a new high-speed wireless network that Sprint Nextel Corp will launch commercially in April. Nokia on Tuesday unveiled a version of the handheld device, which has a 4.13-inch touch screen, for WiMax -- the emerging wireless technology that Sprint is betting on for its next generation of high-speed |
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The number of mobile broadband subscribers using 3G HSPA has increased by 850% worldwide in the past year, according to the GSM Association. But carriers are also running the risk of becoming a victim of their own success, according to some analysts. HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) is an advanced form of 3G deployed by cellular operators that use GSM (Global System for Mobile |
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The big problem in providing Internet service to rural America is often called “the last mile” — the difficulty in reaching the smallest communities and farthest-flung houses and farms. In cities, that problem might be called “the last block” — the difficulty in reaching every neighborhood, no matter how poor. For a while, many American cities, caught up in a tide of technological |
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Almost half of broadband users are unhappy with the service they receive from their internet service provider according to uSwitch, which last week named PlusNet as the UK's best overall provider and Orange as the worst. Following a survey of nearly 11,000 broadband customers, the price comparison company says that around 4 million broadband users remain unhappy with their provider |
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Rogers Communications Inc. is gearing up to make Internet use more expensive for consumers who have a penchant for chewing up bandwidth by downloading movies or playing video games online. The telecommunications giant already regulates the flow of traffic on its networks by giving priority to certain content; however, the changes are part of a blueprint to introduce tiered Internet |
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Retailers and publishers have fought hard to work their way up in the ranking of Google’s search results and refine the search features of their own Web sites to help users once they arrive. Now, Google is taking a greater role in helping users search within particular sites. And some of the same retailers and publishers are not happy about it. Alan Rimm-Kaufman, an Internet |
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The dominant position of incumbent operators may be affecting the European Union's (EU's) efforts to increase broadband penetration. Eight of the EU's 19 member states are ahead of the US in the race to increase broadband availability, but the rest of the continent risks falling behind, according to the latest report from the European Commission. Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands |
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Australia’s first WiMAX operator, Hervey Bay’s Buzz Broadband, has closed its network, with the CEO labeling the technology as a “disaster” that “failed miserably.” In an astonishing tirade to an international WiMAX conference audience in Bangkok yesterday afternoon, CEO Garth Freeman slammed the technology, saying its non-line of sight performance was “non-existent” beyond just |
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British mobile phone users could enjoy the sort of "all-you-can-eat" call packages that are available in the US after the Competition Commission was asked yesterday to consider scrapping one of the most complicated aspects of call charging. The Competition Appeal Tribunal posed a series of questions yesterday to the commission as part of a long-running spat between the regulator |
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A Moroccan computer engineer jailed last month for setting up a Facebook account in the name of King Mohammed's brother has been freed after a royal pardon, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Fouad Mortada, 26, was jailed for three years and given a 10,000 dirham ($1,370) fine on February 23 for falsifying data and imitating Prince Moulay Rachid without his consent. The ruling sparked |
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