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July 2006 |
Verizon has boosted the top Internet connection speeds of its FiOS service for consumers and small businesses in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, to up to 50 Mbps downstream and 10 Mbps upstream. In New York, customers can get this speed for $89.95 a month with a one-year agreement, or $109.95 month-to-month. In New Jersey and Connecticut, customers can get this speed at $139.95 a month with a one-year agreement, or $159.95 month-to-month.
The new speeds complement the Verizon FiOS Internet speed i... |
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July 2006 |
Sky has announced moves to take on the broadband market - offering free broadband to Sky TV subscribers.
The company plans to offer customers free up to 2Mbps broadband with any TV package, provided they are in part of the country it has already unbundled.
To date, Sky has unbundled exchanges covering 28 per cent of households in the UK, but says it will have unbundled 50 per cent by Christmas 2006 and 70 per cent by 2007.
The free package, Base, will offer up to 2Mbps broadband, a 2GB usage all... |
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July 2006 |
The advertising watchdog is expected to rule against Carphone Warehouse's ads that promise "free broadband forever" through its TalkTalk service, according to a source familiar with the situation.
In the ruling, due on Wednesday, the ASA will rule that because the high-speed Internet service requires a connection charge, line rental and other fees, it could not be described as "free," the source said. The ASA declined to comment.
The case may have implications for Orange and BSkyB, which launched its ... |
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July 2006 |
Businesses experiencing long delays in receiving and sending e-mail messages may have an unexpected culprit to blame: spam.
The main reason spam, or junk e-mail, can take such a heavy toll on bandwidth is that the messages are 'bursty' in nature, Rebecca Herson, senior marketing manager at anti-spam, anti-virus firm Commtouch, told UPI.
In other words, the messages 'are coming in waves, not on a regular basis,' Herson said. 'You might get spam as 30 percent of your e-mail messages over the course of ... |
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July 2006 |
A study of the country's leading broadband suppliers found that BT outpaced rivals across a battery of tests. Virgin came second, with providers including Demon, AOL and Orange close behind.
The survey covered 10 of the biggest providers but did not include cable companies NTL and Telewest, which use different technology.
It also did not take into account price, availability or customer service, focusing purely on performance over the past three months, said Gavin Jones of industry analysts Epitiro. "... |
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July 2006 |
The Advertising Standards Authority (www.asa.org.uk) is due to publish its decision on complaints against Carphone Warehouse's TalkTalk service using the claim of providing "Free broadband ...forever". ISP Review notes that Carphone CEO Charles Dunstone in his blog, gives away indications that the imminent decision is going to back Carphone in its cl... |
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July 2006 |
YouTube, the leader in Internet video search, said on Sunday viewers are now watching more than 100 million videos per day on its site, marking the surge in demand for its "snack-sized" video fare.
Since springing from out of nowhere late last year, YouTube has come to hold the leading position in online video with 29% of the US multimedia entertainment market, according to the latest weekly data from Web measurement site Hitwise.
YouTube videos account for 60% of all videos watched online, the compan... |
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July 2006 |
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has reported a 32 per cent increase in the number of US broadband subscribers during 2005.
Total broadband internet connections across the country increased by 10.4 million lines in 2005, according to the organisation, and VoIP use is expected to more than triple.
The FCC redefined broadband or high-speed lines on 30 June 2005 as services that deliver connection speeds in excess of 200Kbps in at least one direction.
This definition was expanded to includ... |
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July 2006 |
Pipex is preparing to trial fixed WiMax in "a real situation", following successful testing in Airspan's Stratford-on-Avon facilities.
The service provider is currently in talks with three councils for the trials, although no agreement has been made as yet.
"Lots of people want wireless so we've been inundated with requests," the project’s co-ordinator, Graham Currier, told ZDNet UK on Monday.
"The public sector is an interesting starting point, as they would like us to come and provide certain ser... |
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July 2006 |
Interview If you've followed the occasionally surreal, and often hysterical debate around 'Net Neutrality' on US blogs and discussion forums, you may have encountered Richard Bennett. The veteran engineer played a role in the design of the internet we use today, and helped shaped Wi-Fi. He's also been blogging for a decade. And he doesn't suffer fools gladly.
Bennett argues that the measures proposed to 'save' the internet, which in many cases are sincerely held, cou... |
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July 2006 |
Following extensive dialogue and negotiations, the project structure of the Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy) and the roles of the respective stakeholder groups have been agreed to.
Governments, Nepad e-Africa Commission, telecommunications operators and the Development Financial Institutions Represented at the Nairobi meetings by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the European Investment Bank (EIB), the Agence Française de Développement (AfD), Société de Promotion et de Participation pour... |
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