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BT has made available to consumers the iPlate, a device that it claims will boost internet speeds for ADSL lines.
According to the telecoms giant, electrical equipment such as microwave ovens, faulty television power supplies and even Christmas lights interfere with broadband connections and affect its reliability. However, BT claims the iPlate, which was first announced in March this year, can be attached to the master telephone socket to remove interference and can improve broadband speeds by an averag... |
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July 2008 |
Virgin Media has again been shot down by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over an ad campaign.
A national press ad with the headline 'Hate to wait?' showed a table with download times for different files depending on the customer's broadband package.
Small print at the bottom stated 'Download speed comparisons are a guide only and assume song is 5Mb and TV show 30 minutes/341Mb. Both cable and ADSL broadband are affected by user volume. Acceptable usage policy applies.'
BT claimed that... |
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July 2008 |
Mobile services revenue in India is projected to grow around 18 percent a year, hitting US$37 billion by 2012, Gartner said Wednesday.
The growth will come from a rapidly proliferating rural market, low handset costs and lower tariffs, Gartner said.
India's mobile subscriber base is also set to exceed 737 million connections by 2012, growing around 21 percent annually. India will continue to be the second largest wireless market after China in terms of mobile connections, Gartner said.
Gartner's up... |
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July 2008 |
A new study suggests that attitude rather than availability may be the key reason why more Americans don't have high-speed Internet access.
The findings from the Pew Internet and American Life Project challenge the argument that broadband providers need to more aggressively roll out supply to meet demand.
Only 14 percent of dial-up users say they're stuck with the older, slower connection technology because they can't get broadband in their neighborhoods, Pew reported Wednesday.
Thirty-five percent... |
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July 2008 |
The iPhone 3G is slated to be available for purchase on July 11, and now details about AT&T's service plans that will accompany this smartphone have been released.
Of note, the previous reports that users will not be able to purchase this device without a contract seems to have been false, as the new information confirms that it can be purchased from AT&T without one.
New AT&T Wireless Customers
Those who will be new to AT&T Wireless, or essentially looking for a new contract if they are not on one... |
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July 2008 |
We all have a phone company horror story. Broken promises, uncaring and unhelpful customer service reps and baffling charges are the a recurring theme of these long-running dramas.
My best phone company story didn’t even happen to me. It struck down a close friend, but I was there to witness it all unfold over a few hot days in July a few years back. It involved, yep, Telecom Italia.
Michael, my neighbour in the hills of Amandola, a quiet rural community in central Italy, needed a phone line in his ne... |
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July 2008 |
Australia's government has launched an ambitious effort to build a new fiber-to-the-node national network that will provide at least 12Mbps connections to 98 percent of Australia's population. The two percent who won't have access will be covered under a program called the "Australian Broadband Guarantee" that provides funds to ISPs working in underserved areas. (Note to US regulators: this is what's known as a "national broadband strategy.")
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July 2008 |
Comcast, as part of its broader wireless strategy, has made a seed-round investment in a Boston-area startup developing WiMax equipment to provide mobile broadband data, video and voice services.
Cartiza Networks raised $12.6 million in venture-capital funding in 2007, the Boston Business Journal has reported. Investors include Comcast Interactive Capital, Prism VentureWorks and the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), according to Prism’s Web site.
Founded in late 2006, Cartiza is based in Litt... |
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July 2008 |
iiNet is celebrating the popularity of its Naked DSL broadband services by boosting the quotas on a range of Naked DSL and ADSL2+ broadband plans at no extra cost to customers.
"Basically we've jacked all the quotas up," said iiNet COO Mark White.
"For our Naked plans we've increased quotas by 30 to 50 percent across the board, and with ADSL2+ we've just about doubled the quotas across the board."
iiNet's most popular Naked DSL plan "Naked 2" jumps from 9GB to 16GB, "Naked 3" will jump from 30GB to... |
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July 2008 |
Sweden may be better known for cars and couches than computers, but when it comes to access to broadband and cellular networks, it's tops. The Scandinavian country leads the world in "technological readiness," according to the World Economic Forum.
To rank high on the list — one of 12 included in the WEF's annual Global Competitiveness Report — countries need to have tech-friendly government policies as well as high tech usage.
In the ranking, the WEF focuses on information and communication technolog... |
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June 2008 |
UPC, parent company of cable operators Chorus ntl, has announced that it is introducing radically higher broadband speeds of 20Mb for Irish customers. This service will propel Ireland from 25th to 10th place on the OECD broadband speed league.
UPC will roll out the new 20Mb broadband service from July 1 to over 422,000 broadband-enabled homes in areas such as Dublin, Galway, Waterford, Limerick, Cork and all other major cabled towns.
Commenting on the new package, Mark Coan, marketing and sales direc... |
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June 2008 |
The Scottish government has signed a deal to get satellite broadband in the places that ADSL cannot reach.
Avanti Communications Group has been awarded a £3.3m contract to make broadband available to the remote areas of the country that are out of the reach of terrestrial alternatives.
This follows an exercise in which the Scottish government asked anyone wanting to obtain broadband where it is not available to add their names to a register. The list includes more than 3,500 homes and businesses.
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June 2008 |
Research carried out by moneysupermarket.com has crowned O2 as the fastest 8Mbps broadband package in UK with speeds 50 percent faster than second place Sky.
The mobile phone company purchased ADSL2+ pioneer, Be There, a few years ago and gradually expanded its customer base while maintaining existing customers happy with above average speeds.
The company came first in a contest which saw Moneysupermarket wade through a list 16 service providers and 20000 speed tests.
At 5.39Mbps, O2 is almost twic... |
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June 2008 |
Canadians angry over prices that Apple Inc.'s exclusive iPhone partner will charge for service have created an online petition calling on Rogers Communications Inc. to change what it will charge users.
Apple will launch the iPhone 3G in Canada on July 11, the same day it debuts in the U.S., the U.K. and 19 other countries.
Rogers, the only Canadian carrier authorized by Apple to sign up iPhone subscribers, announced monthly plans costing $60, $75, $100 and $115 (Canadian). But some people who were co... |
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June 2008 |
Just a little over a year after going to 15 cents per message, T-Mobile's at it again, bumping the rate to 20 cents for those who go over their monthly allotment. For anyone with an unlimited messaging plan, it's obviously not an issue -- but many folks aren't, so this could end up stinging the pocketbook just a bit when it goes in effect come August 29. For what it's worth, T-Mob just seems to be responding to the 20 cent trend that's going on in the industry right now -- but it still hurts something fierc... |
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