Trefor Davies of Timico provides an interesting insight into the challenges facing Service Providers & consumers concerning the rollout of xdsl / broadband services particularly in rural areas. With the demand for emerging services such as voip and IPTV etc becoming hot topics how will the UK telecoms infrastructure cope? vegastream manufacturers a range of [...]
February 15, 2010 For generations, many farmers in emerging markets have been at the bottom of the pyramid in terms of literacy, income and overall wellness. And they’re hardly the minority. These smallholder farmers (defined as those working farms with under 2 hectares, or about 5 acres) represent more than one-third of employment in developing [...]
Current debates over network neutrality seem sometimes to assume that the essential gatekeeper functions in the Internet ecosystem, and therefore some important measure of market power, are held by Internet service providers. That’s an increasingly debatable proposition. View full post on IP PBX – Online Community
MONTERREY, Mexico, Feb. 2, 2010 – Cablevision Monterrey announced that it is now offering cable Internet broadband service with an ultrafast downstream transmission rate of 50 megabits per second. The 50 Mbps connection that Cablevision offers is based on Cisco® technology. Cablevision has been testing this technology successfully since 2006. The new Cablevision … View full [...]
O2, a communications company, reportedly said that in March it will offer home phone to the new and existing home broadband customers. The company sees this launch as a significant development in its strategy of placing itself at the heart of U.K.-based households. Company officials said that this move follows the successful establishment of the [...]
As the Australian government is working to invest as much as $43 billion in a new nationwide fixed-broadband network, the growing role mobile services are acquiring might give some observers pause about the wisdom of such an initiative. View full post on IP PBX – Online Community
SYDNEY, Australia – December 17, 2009 — Cisco announced today that evidence continues to emerge to support the need for large-scale broadband networks such as the National Broadband Network (NBN) as the vehicle by which consumers, businesses and key industry sectors will increase productivity and improve Australian standards of living. Drawing on research from the [...]
After just recently releasing its mobile broadband software in what seemed to be an attempt to conform to the growing amount of mobile broadband traffic, Airvana Inc. announced today that, pending shareholder approval, the company will be acquired. View full post on IP PBX – Online Community