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Google pledges 'wi-fi on steroids'
News It also possesses the bandwidth to support vastly faster data rates than today's standard internet service offerings - "Wi-fi on steroids" or "wi-fi 2.0", as Richard Whitt, Google's telecommunications counsel, put it in... [25 Mar 2008]
Sony BMG does mobile downloads deal in China
News Kelvin Wadsworth, executive vice president for Sony BMG Music Entertainment in Asia, said in a statement: "We have been impressed with Global Music International's established relationships with major... [05 Apr 2007]
Protect the net from UN menace, says US senator
News Suggestions that have been made include new mandates for "consumer protection", the power to levy taxes on domain names to pay for "universal access", and folding Icann into the International Telecommunications Union,... [19 Oct 2005]
Indian telecoms explosion tempts Cisco
News In its simplest form, the Indian telecommunications market is a unique opportunity in that the number of telephone users, wireline and wireless, are likely to grow at rates that are... [15 Apr 2004]
'High risk' virus floods internet and attack SCO
News One large telecommunications company has already shut down its email gateway to stop the virus. A mass-mailing virus quickly spread through the internet on Monday, compromising computers so that they... [27 Jan 2004]
Linux gets big Japanese boost
News A division of Japanese telecommunications giant NTT has joined a Linux advocacy organisation and said that it will further invest in the open source operating system. But Linux has not... [29 Sep 2003]
Aussie government to see Microsoft source code
News The officials said the initiative would, in a post-September 11 and post-Bali bombing world, enhance dialogue between the government and Microsoft over the role of the vendor's products in areas of critical... [14 Aug 2003]
IP services set for a fall
News Market growth for services run over internet protocols will not grow at the rates predicted by the telecommunications industry over the next two years. Yet research from venture capitalist firm Dresdner Kleinwort... [02 Aug 2002]
How many unbundled lines are there in Europe?
News Britain has "about 150" unbundled lines, according to BT, with 400 in France and just 10 in Spain, according to the report from the European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA). The slow process of... [11 Feb 2002]
Straw's comments on mobile phone thefts shot down by BT
News Steve Thorpe, head of membership services at the Telecommunications Users Association, argued that the key problem lies with pay as you go services where people don't have contracts so can't be as easily identified. [10 Jan 2001]
Trades Unions call for urgent Snooping Bill clarification
News According to Michael Ryan, head of the telecommunications practice at law firm Arnold & Porter, it's a definition that has not been seriously addressed by the government. The concept that the actions... [06 Jul 2000]
TMA 32 delegates call for further telecoms deregulation
News He cited under-resourced regulation, government over-taxation; through practices such as wireless spectrum auctions, and age-old arguments over interconnect costs and universal access, as barriers to cost-effective... [30 Nov 1999]
Vodafone and Motorola team up for UMTS trials
News From June, Motorola will supply prototype terminal devices based on the NTT DoCoMo W-CDMA specification of the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) standard. It is a technology that will... [23 Feb 1999]
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