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May 2008 |
Vodafone’s marketing officer Mark Rushworth will announce the company’s response to local loop unbundling next Wednesday, with a planned $50 million investment it calls the “red network”.
Vodafone, like other ISPs, plans to install equipment into Telecom exchanges to deliver faster broadband other fixed line services.
Next week's announcement will include numbers, timings and maps of the rollout.
In March Vodafone said it had already begun rolling out its own equipment in the Telecom exchanges that... |
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May 2008 |
The NDP has followed through with its promise to introduce legislation to the House of Commons that seeks to keep the internet open and free from control by service providers.
"This bill is about fairness to consumers," said Charlie Angus, the NDP's digital spokesman, in the House of Commons on Wednesday. "The internet is a critical piece of infrastructure not just for Canada but for the world ... this bill protects the innovation agenda of Canada."
The private member's bill, C-552, is in reaction to ... |
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May 2008 |
Swedish telecommunications company TeliaSonera AB today added its name to the list of mobile carriers set to sell Apple Inc.'s iPhone this year.
In a brief statement issued today, TeliaSonera said it had inked a deal with Apple to sell the iPhone in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia "later this year." Financial terms were not disclosed.
Apple confirmed the arrangement.
TeliaSonera, Sweden's largest telecommunications firm, boasts more than 100 million mobile subscribe... |
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May 2008 |
While the entity will apparently take Clearwire's name (thankfully shedding Sprint's awful "Xohm" moniker), it will make use of Sprint and Clearwire's large holdings of 2.5 GHz spectrum to deliver fast broadband to a wide market
The Wall Street Journal is confidently predicting that a consortium of tech companies including Google, Comcast and Intel will contribute $3.2 billion in seed money to back a WiMax consortium that will combine the WiMax assets of Sprint and Clearwire. This long-rumored investment... |
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May 2008 |
ARUN SARIN, the chief executive of Vodafone, will tell shareholders this week he will not be drawn into bidding for MTN after the African mobile-phone operator abandoned plans to merge with Bharti Airtel of India this weekend.
Sources say Bharti’s domestic rival, Reliance Communications, controlled by the Ambani brothers, is the favourite to land MTN. Vodafone had considered a £20 billion bid for the company, which has 68m customers in 21 African and Middle Eastern markets, before publicly declaring two ... |
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May 2008 |
Indonesian state telecommunication operator PT Indosat Tbk (JSX:ISAT) has introduced access to the HSPA (High Speed Packet Access), namely Phase 2 HSDPA and HSUPA for a downlink speed of up to 14.4 Mbps, and an uplink speed of up to 1.4 Mbps.
"Indosat introduced the 3.5G Broadband service, a higher data access speed for downlink and uplink data, saving a great deal of time in data communications and Internet browsing," Indosat marketing director Guntur S. Siboro said in Jakarta on Thursday.
The 3.5G B... |
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May 2008 |
SIR RICHARD BRANSON has done just about everything to promote his products - ballooning, jumping off buildings, dressing up as a woman - but he’s never been shot before. Until now.
It was 9pm on a muggy night on waste ground near Mumbai airport and Branson had just been killed by a jealous lover called Rocky. Or, at least, it looked that way in the movie that was being filmed.
Then, slowly, Branson stirred. He sat up and struggled to his feet, before pulling a mobile phone from the pocket of his black... |
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May 2008 |
Hundreds of thousands of BT broadband customers are at risk of massive breaches of their computer security because of a flaw in the Home Hub wireless network systems installed by the telecoms giant.
BT has 4.4m broadband customers and it is believed most of those supplied with wi-fi boxes are vulnerable to hacking. Only the latest versions of the BT system are safe from attack.
And though BT has been aware of the problem for months, it has not written to customers to warn them of the risk and the simp... |
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May 2008 |
We’re nearing the mark for when the 3G iPhone could become a reality. The device, which is now widely expected to be announced at Apple’s WWDC event on June 9th and launched shortly thereafter, already apparently has people waiting in line in New York — perhaps a month before it’s released. Excitement is high and rumors continue to flow.
While the first iPhone had a huge impact on the mobile market, the 3G version could be even bigger. Many indications are that the device will launch in a significant por... |
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May 2008 |
People in the rural areas of the UK have surpassed their urban counterparts in the use of broadband, with 59% of households in rural areas now having connections compared to 57% in urban areas, Ofcom's third Communications Market Report: Nations and Regions has revealed.
In England, 60% of rural households have broadband, compared to 58% in urban areas. In Northern Ireland, it is 54% compared to 52%. In Scotland, 59% of rural households are connected to broadband compared to 52% urban households. The big... |
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May 2008 |
Ofcom’s latest quarterly results for Q4 2007 of the telecoms market shows that UK broadband connections have now passed 15.6 million (20-05-08).
Of this figure, the regulator said that the UK’s biggest broadband provider BT (www.BT.com) had a market share of 26.5 per cent, though this doesn’t include the company’s corporate broadband figures.
Ofcom’s estimates, for the three months ending 31 December 2007, also showed that local loop unbundled (LLU) lines were continuing to increase, posing an additio... |
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May 2008 |
Ofcom is to deregulation wholesale broadband access across much of the UK in a move it claims reflects its success in promoting effective competition between suppliers of high-speed internet access.
While areas with fewer than four broadband suppliers will continue to be supervised, around 70 percent of the UK is deemed to have sufficient competition between suppliers that Ofcom no longer needs to monitor the market.
"This is a major step forward in the UK broadband market reflecting the success we ha... |
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May 2008 |
HTC Corp., a fast-growing Taiwanese handset manufacturer, said this week it will start selling its latest smartphone in June -- a move that is widely expected to pose a threat to Apple Inc.’s iPhone.
HTC's new mobile device, dubbed “Touch Diamond,” will include a touch-screen display and applications for viewing content from Web sites such as YouTube and Google Maps, Peter Chou, president and CEO of HTC, said in a statement. The company also promises "game-changing" Internet connectivity and a captivatin... |
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May 2008 |
Following an official complaint made by mobile broadband operator 3 with the Advertising Standards Authority, Vodafone has revealed that it will no longer claim in its adverts that its dongles offer download speeds of 7.2 Mbps.
The 7.2 will no longer be used ‘as a headline rate’ in its marketing campaign following 3’s complaint that the actual download speed experienced by customers was only 6.69Mbps.
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However, Alec Howard, head of PC connectivity at Vodafone UK, confirmed that the rea... |
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May 2008 |
The Namibian government will provide a N$240m guarantee to Telecom Namibia, the incumbent fixed-line operator, to connect the country to the Africa West Coast Cable, an SA-led project to build a high-speed submarine cable that will connect SA with London.
According to a report in The Nambian newspaper, the country’s cabinet approved its participation in the project, whose investors include Broadband Infraco and up to a dozen private-sector telecom operators and service providers.
When the Sat-3 cable ... |
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