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Nov 2006 |
BT has no plans to introduce fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) in the UK, insisting that its 21CN project will provide enough bandwidth for UK consumers' requirements.... |
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16
Nov 2006 |
About 1 percent of Web sites indexed by Google and Microsoft are sexually explicit, according to a U.S. government-commissioned study.... |
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16
Nov 2006 |
GENEVA, Switzerland, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- The United Nations' latest report on trade and development claims that among business' bare necessities is a broadband internet connection.
The U.N. Conference on Trade and Development's "Information Economy Report 2006," released Thursday, outlines the importance of broadband for business survival in developing nations.
According to the report, which was launched in Geneva, Switzerland, "broadband is becoming such an important tool in the business world that it... |
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16
Nov 2006 |
The Department of Health appears to have been wrong-footed by an MP who called for an investigation into whether Wi-Fi networks pose a danger to health.... |
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Nov 2006 |
Microsoft is jumping into the municipal wireless space with a deal to provide local content and ads for MetroFi's free wireless Internet service in Portland, Ore., by the end of this year, the companies are expected to announce on Wednesday.... |
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15
Nov 2006 |
AUSTRALIA'S internet infrastructure is a "disgrace" which the Federal Government must fix, News Corporation chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch said yesterday.... |
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14
Nov 2006 |
BT IS to impose a new penalty charge on rival broadband operators whose customers defect to another provider.... |
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14
Nov 2006 |
Skype has been signing up almost 100,000 new users a day in China over the past three months, according to the VoIP firm's local partner, Tom Online.... |
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11
Nov 2006 |
A mobile phone mast has caused 27 deaths and illnesses to people living close by, terrified residents said yesterday.
They believe the 82ft antenna emits potentially lethal microwaves and is responsible for a cluster of cancer cases over the last 13 years, some of which had proved fatal.... |
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Nov 2006 |
BT GROUP rang up second- quarter profits at the top end of City expectations yesterday as its drive into "new wave" products such as broadband and IT services continued to take off.
Chief executive Ben Verwaayen said such services now accounted for 34 per cent of the group's revenues compared with 13 per cent four years ago.
The old core calls and lines business is now less than one-third of the business, compared with 46 per cent in 2002.... |
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9
Nov 2006 |
The shifting political landscape in the United States might well be great news for national telecom policy. For the last six years, there really hasn’t been one, but with the Democrats set to take control of Congress, real telecom reform might now occur. The political switch will happen right in the middle of a Congressional debate about US federal telecom law reform.... |
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9
Nov 2006 |
The entry of Vitel Consortium in the Kenya telecommunications industry lays the stage for a triangular battle for the mobile telephone sector and a duel in the fixed line telephone service sector... |
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9
Nov 2006 |
The “torturous” progress in relation to automating local loop unbundling (LLU) in the Irish market could adversely affect the €500m network investment plan announced today by BT Ireland, the company’s chief executive told siliconrepublic.com. ... |
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9
Nov 2006 |
Fixed and mobile network operators will invest more than $450m in capital infrastructure over the next five years to provide fixed-mobile convergence, market watchers predicted today.... |
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8
Nov 2006 |
British Telecom has been celebrating a somewhat unusual milestone - handing over control of one million of its telephone lines to its competitors.... |
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