Archive for July, 2008

Bandwidth and Torrent Speed

Is your internet connection bandwidth just not enough? Are you tired of this frustration? Life is difficult with slow speeds.
Have you used torrents in the past? Don’t you hate it when you’re downloading something while playing a video game and then you get killed by the lag? We’ve all been victims of low bandwidth in [...]

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Global broadband growth slowing

Worldwide broadband subscriber growth is slowing down, but North America is bucking the trend, new research reveals.Analyst firm Point Topic reported today that there were 328.8 million broadband subscribers at the end of the third quarter of 2007.
This equates to an increase of 4.72 per cent over the quarter, down from 5.16 per cent in [...]

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Rush for 4G drives mobile telco spending

The race for 4G is pushing up global capital expenditure on mobile communications, according to new research.However, the US economy’s uncertain outlook in 2008 is prompting ABI Research to predict that North America’s mobile capital expenditure will remain flat this year.
Other regions will increase their capital expenditure commitments for new 2G/3G deployments or expansions, all-IP [...]

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Bharti aims to replicate India network model in Sri Lanka

Bharti Airtel is all set to launch its operations in the island nation of Sri Lanka as the operator aims to replicate the model followed in India i.e. of rolling out 2G as well as 3G network. The company’’s network partner for rollout is Huawei.
The company plans to launch services initially in Colombo and [...]

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CDMA operators criticize DoT move to charge GSM players beyond 6.2 MHz

TT Correspondent
Leading CDMA operators in the country cry foul over DoT’’s speculated decision to charge GSM operators in the country for excess spectrum beyond 6.2MHz. CDMA operators argue that GSM operators are entitled to receive only 4.4MHz start-up spectrum and any spectrum beyond this should be considered excess spectrum.
To bring more emphasis to their argument, [...]

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India to be one of the largest market for WiMAX in Asia Pacific

TT Correspondent

WiMAX is al set to emerge as a significant business avenue for operators reveals a research from Springboard which points out that revenues from WiMAX services will rise from $58 million in 2007 to $5.46 billion by 2012 in the Asia Pacific region at a CAGR of 148 percent.
India along with Japan is [...]

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BSNL to unveil new infrastructure sharing policy within a month

TT Bureau
State-owned telephone operator, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is reportedly planning to come out with new infrastructure sharing policy within a month with emphasis on boosting tower business to compensate for the falling revenues.
The policy, reportedly in the final stages, will include number of guidelines related to number of towers to be shared, [...]

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India gets first fixed WiMAX

Sloka will be the first Indian fixed company to replace DSL and copper wires with WiMAX.
WiMAX, the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is a telecommunications technology aimed at providing wireless data over long distances in a variety of ways.
“Wireless connection will connect those who want to be connected to internet but cannot because [...]

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TRAI looks at future of Internet telephony – Plans to remove restrictions

The Telephone Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued a consultation paper on the “Issues Related to Internet Telephony”. The paper outlines the relaxation of existing regulatory restrictions on Internet telephony licensing.
The consultation paper considers various issues related to provision of Internet telephony in India, together with topics such as authorization for internet service providers [...]

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Intel demos Bluetooth replacement – Computex 2008 Pan pipes up at Computex

Intel and Ozmo are to demonstrate wireless short-range technology that enables Centrino-based laptops to connect to any peripherals in range. The companies are showing off the Wi-Fi Personal Area Network (PAN) technology at the Computex trade show in Taipei.
According to Intel, the PAN technology will go on sale next year and it will be seen [...]

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