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April 2008 |
Bell Canada says it is downgrading the Internet services of bandwidth hogs in the public interest, and is asking the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to toss out a landmark complaint by competitors alleging the telecom giant is regulating the web in its own interests.
The Canadian Association of Internet Providers has asked the federal regulator to issue an immediate cease-and-desist order to stop Bell from "throttling" the web traffic of its wholesale customers.
Bell, in i... |
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April 2008 |
Internet traffic growth has been declining in recent years, say experts monitoring the flow of data around the world.
In fact, if the 45% drop in traffic growth between 2004 and 2005 shown on this traffic-tracking firm's chart happens again we could reach "peak net" in a few years. That's the scenario I just invented in which internet traffic has stopped growing, and is poised to decline. However, people have labelled the web as a fad before, and I'm not about to join them.
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April 2008 |
THE new BT chief executive, Ian Livingston, is challenging the telecoms regulator Ofcom to make sweeping changes to his company’s universal service obligation (USO) before he will commit to investing billions of pounds in a new fibre-optic network.
He wants firmer assurances from Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards that BT will not be left with soaring running costs and thinner profits if it installs fibre optics designed to carry a growing volume of television programmes and data to homes.
“We will n... |
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April 2008 |
Nigerian satellite builder Nigecomsat expects its satellite to run out of capacity in August, with all the capacity dedicated to Nigeria`s national usage.
Speaking at Satcom 2008 in Sandton this week, Nigecomsat CEO Achmed Rufai said Nigerian initiatives had expressed interest in booking all of Nigecomsat`s capacity, as the country`s demand for satellite capacity was huge.
Rufai said NigecomSat-1 began commercial services in July last year. The capacity was made available to all African stakeholders,... |
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April 2008 |
Google is offering security professionals a look into its security systems..
Scott Petry, director of Google's Enterprise and founder of security firm Postini, explained to attendees at the RSA conference how the company handles constant pressure and scrutiny from attackers.
"Google is a very very high-value target," Petry noted.
"If you have bad intentions and want to get a reputation, hacking Google is the best way to get credibility on the streets."
In order to keep its products safe, Google ha... |
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April 2008 |
South Africa's communications watchdog plans to report British-based Free2View to the United Nations for broadcasting illegally in the country, the telecoms regulator said on Wednesday.
"We will report Free2View to the International Telecommunication Union for broadcasting illegally in South Africa," ICASA chairman Paris Mashile said on Wednesday.
The ITU is the United Nations agency for information and communication technologies.
Free2View, a UK-based free-to-air digital satellite operator, broadc... |
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April 2008 |
IBM Corp. began shipping high-end computers Tuesday built around the fastest chip on Earth, a microprocessor that can carry out up to 5 billion instructions per second, surpassing the speediest competing processors built by rivals like Intel or Sun Microsystems.
The new IBM processor, called the Power6, was designed to run big-ticket, water-cooled machines that drive corporations or tackle scientific problems, but slower versions of this same family of chips are already being used in inexpensive, consume... |
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April 2008 |
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 Nakande, made this known in Lagos on Thursday while speaking at IT/Telecom event, Titans of Tech, organised by ICT Africa.
He r... |
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April 2008 |
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 (Mbps) via a DSL line. Many people are very happy with that, until they realise what is going on elsewhere in the world.
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April 2008 |
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 at the CTIA Wireless trade show in Las Vegas Tuesday evening. Even in the Chicago and Washington, D.C., areas, where Sprint's Wi... |
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April 2008 |
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 Kelso officer Bebe McFall that there are only fiber-optic lines in the Owl Creek area in the 3200 block of Old Pacific Highwa... |
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April 2008 |
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 platform on the mobile phone. And as this industry grows, providers need to compete with each other to offer the best calling features ... |
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April 2008 |
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 services.
WiMax promises to blanket cities with mobile Web links that are five times faster than today's speeds. Like the fir... |
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March 2008 |
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 Communications) technology. Worldwide, GSM is the most widely-used cellular technology; it is used by AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile in th... |
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March 2008 |
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 and fiscal optimism, promised to try to make Internet coverage available to all by making it citywide, wireless and low-cost... |
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