telecommunications act
Public Wireless LAN for Telecom Operators
White Paper Telecommunications operators need to act now to realize the benefits of providing public wireless ? This paper describes the benefits of providing hotspot services. The Wireless Local Area Network is widely recognized as a ? [03 Jul 2008]
Securing Critical Industrial Networks
White Paper Companies today - particularly those in critical infrastructure industries such as electrical power, telecommunications, water, transportation, and oil and gas - face a daunting and challenging environment. [03 Jul 2008]
Legal Eye: Blogging cowboys ride the Wild Web
Comment He was prosecuted and fined under provisions in the Telecommunications Act for comments made about a police officer's family. Not so, says lawyer Duncan Calow. Blogs, social networks and other user-generated content blur the line between reader and... [05 Jun 2008]
Telecommunications Provider Revolutionises Web Site Management and Reduces IT Costs
White Paper Swisscom, Switzerland's leading telecommunications operator uses a comprehensive Web site to share corporate information with customers and partners. All site updates required intervention from technology professionals and Swisscom suffered... [05 Mar 2008]
Monitoring staff email, internet? Read on...
News Dr Chris Pounder, a privacy specialist, said: "The lawful business practice regulations allow an employer to monitor and intercept business communications, so the court is implying that private use of a telecommunications system, assuming it is... [12 Apr 2007]
No 'rubber-stamp' for US telco mega-merger
News When the telecommunications giants and the government appeared before the judge in July, Sullivan scolded the Justice Department for allegedly failing to present enough facts. A 1974 federal antitrust law called the Tunney Act calls for the courts... [01 Dec 2006]
Qualcomm's Eudora to get open source makeover
News Telecommunications tech company Qualcomm is rebuilding its Eudora email program using open source Thunderbird software from the Mozilla Foundation. It should look like, feel like, act like Eudora," he said. [12 Oct 2006]
Mining for Gold in Your Back Yard: Uncovering Unknown Carrier Costs
White Paper Since the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the FCC and the carrier community have been at odds over tariffs and the rules that govern general carrier billing. It's not the carrier's fault that things may fall through the cracks now and then - it's... [07 Sep 2006]
Net neutrality supporters take fight to senators
News Stevens' relatively hands-off approach to net neutrality regulations continues to receive backing from the powerful cable and telecommunications industries, which have admitted they would prefer to see no new legislation in the area at all. [01 Sep 2006]
Plan for Disaster, Follow Through for Success
White Paper What's more, businesses are learning they are more dependent than ever before on the reliability and availability of IT and telecommunications infrastructure. That dependence is now underscored by regulatory requirements embodied in measures such... [18 Aug 2006]
Tech group appeals ISP wiretapping diktat
News He said Calea does not give federal regulators "unlimited authority to regulate every telecommunications service that might conceivably be used to assist law enforcement". At issue in this spat are legal arcana found in the 1994 Communications... [24 Jul 2006]
US toys with emergency warning system update
News Michigan Republican Fred Upton, chairman of the telecommunications and internet subcommittee, said: "What we must strive for is an emergency system that leaves no one behind. The hearing focused primarily on the Warning, Alert and Response Network... [21 Jul 2006]
US telco mega-mergers under scrutiny
News Sullivan told attorneys for the telecommunications companies and the US Justice Department, which was defending the two deals, that he has "doubts" the mergers will boost competition. Under a 1974 federal antitrust law called the Tunney Act, judges... [13 Jul 2006]
Net neutrality vote splits US Senate
News Then, by a 15-7 vote, senators voted to send the broader telecommunications bill - called the Communications, Consumer's Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act - to the full Senate for a vote. Republican committee members attacked the idea of... [29 Jun 2006]
Expanded CCTV network aids M25 traffic officers
News The extension is part of the National Roads Telecommunications Services project - a £490m scheme to link more than 14,000 traffic message boards, emergency telephones, CCTV cameras and traffic monitoring systems to the Highways Agency's network... [06 Mar 2006]
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