| Acer Launches Mobile Broadband-Enabled Netbook in India
13/08/2010
Research In Motion, maker of the popular BlackBerry device, has released a statement saying that it cannot allow the Indian government to monitor the communications of its enterprise customers.India is one of several countries that has demanded greater access to highly-encrypted BlackBerry traffic, citing national security and counter-terrorism concerns.RIM has made some concessions with regard... |
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| Acision Expects Text Messaging Growth to Continue, Despite Economic Downturn
05/02/2009
American wireless carriers will continue adding subscribers at a healthy rate despite the global economic slowdown, according to a Strategy Analytics report.Researchers expect overall wireless revenue to grow at a rate of 3.9% in 2009, down from 7.5% in 2008. The hit to revenue will be caused by lower ARPU (average revenue per user), as carriers compete to serve the needs of low-income and... |
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| Alberta Implements New ‘587′ Area Code, Telus Confirms
29/12/2008
The Canadian province of Alberta has implemented a new area code, so as to keep up with rising demand for telephone numbers.The ‘587′ area code will create millions of new numbers for residential, business, and wireless users alike. It has been granted to a limited number of customers (mostly new cell phone subscribers) over the past month.“The demand (for new numbers) is always... |
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| Alberta Phone Companies to Implement 10-Digit Dialing System
15/06/2007
Just one week after announcing 10-digit local dialing in British Columbia, the CRTC has authorized telecom providers to implement a similar system in the province of Alberta.As population swells in the western provinces, and an increasing number of residents carry cellular phones, 7-digit numbers in Alberta’s 403 and 780 area codes are on the verge of running out. The CRTC has decided that... |
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| Alltel Completes Spin-off of Landline Telephone Division
18/07/2006
Arkansas-based telecommunications provider, Alltel, has completed a $4.9 billion deal to merge its landline telephone division with Valor Communications Group, to create a new company called Windstream Corporation.Windstream will is set to start trading as an independent company later today on the New York Stock Exchange. It will serve a total of 3 million households in 16 states.The CEO of... |
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| Analysts Skeptical of BCE-Telus Merger Prospects
29/11/2008
Renewed uncertainty this week about the future of Canada’s leading telecom operator (BCE Inc.) has fueled speculation that Burnaby B.C.-based telecom giant, Telus, might revisit a proposal to acquire its eastern counterpart. Most analysts remain skeptical about the rumours, however, citing major regulatory hurdles that would need to be overcome.Telus officially dropped out of the running to... |
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| Apple Adds U.S. Television Content to Canadian iTunes Store
30/05/2009
North America’s flat-screen television market has expanded over the past year, despite the troubled economy, according to a recent report by iSuppli Corp.A total of 7.8 million flat-panel TVs were sold in Canada and the U.S. in the first three months of 2009, up 17% from the same period a year earlier, according to the report. This data should come as a pleasant surprise to the industry,... |
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| Apple Excludes Google Voice from iTunes App Store
25/07/2009
Wi-Fi-enabled televisions will be widely available by the end of this year, and should be selling briskly by 2011, according to a new report by ABI Research.“North America, Western Europe, and select Asian countries are seen as the next growth markets, and the 2009 holiday season and 2010 will be the watershed periods when vendors will see whether networked TV should trickle down to... |
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| Apple iPhone Accounts for 40% of Mobile Internet Traffic, AdMob Reports
01/06/2009
T-Mobile UK received the highest overall customer satisfaction ratings in a recent survey of 2,083 British wireless broadband users.The independent YouGov study found that T-Mobile was ahead of the competition in terms of network coverage (reflecting the company’s substantial investment in this area), as well as ease-of-use, installation, and billing. The company tied for first place in the... |
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| Apple iPhone Helps Boost Mobile Wi-Fi Usage
05/03/2009
UK telecommunications regulator, Ofcom, has approved BT’s plan to spend £1.5 billion on a new super-fast broadband network.In order to make the project economically viable, regulators will allow BT to set its own wholesale prices for access to the network. “Our message is clear: there are no regulatory barriers in the way of investment in super-fast broadband,” commented Ofcom... |
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