Network Capacity
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More redundancy needed for global links
News Ongoing and planned network upgrades between Asia and U.S. sufficient for bandwidth demands, but ISPs need redundancy to better manage outages.
Tags: Bandwidth, Ethernet, Pacnet Ltd., BGP, network, Asia, Broadband, Cable, Internet Service Provider, network provider
License auctions stifling mobile development
News news analysis India will finally hold its 3G spectrum auction in December, but market analysts say this form of license distribution can negatively impact industry growth.
Tags: 3G (Third Generation), Local Government, Taxes, License, Operator, India, Money, International Data Corp., Spectrum, Auction
Survival tips for mobile broadband providers
News As these providers grapple with phenomenal network growth, they can better manage escalating costs by not repeating mistakes of fixed services peers, says analyst.
Tags: Business broadband, Personal broadband, Mobile/Wireless, Mobile Broadband, Mobile, P2P, Cost, Broadband, tariff, Frost & Sullivan
Thailand's Triple T seeks to dethrone True in broadband
News Triple T Broadband, the Bangkok broadband Internet arm of TT&T, aims to overtake market leader True Corporation by 2010, with a targeted subscriber base of 1 million.
Tags: Personal broadband, Business broadband, Mobile platforms/communications, Web sites, Thailand, Broadband, CEO, network capacity, financial, network
Google Earth brings virtual tourism to iPhone
News The Internet giant releases an iPhone version of its geographic exploration software.
Tags: Web sites, Smart phones, GPS, Apple Inc., Satellite, Mobile, Google Inc., Google Earth, Computer, 3D
Pacnet increases network capacity by 50 percent
News Telecommunications service provider boosts its subsea cable network with largest capacity upgrade to date, to meet Asia's growing demand for broadband.
Tags: Bandwidth, Optical networking, Business broadband, Pacnet Ltd., network, Asia, cable network, Hong Kong, Singapore, Stock
Ubuntu's new Linux tries getting cloud-friendly
News Canonical's newest versions of Linux are due Thursday. Notable features: synchronization for PCs and a built-in replica of Amazon Web Services for servers.
Tags: Linux, Operating System, software, Amazon.com Inc., Chrome OS, Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, EC2, Ubuntu, Web Service, Amazon Web Services
Mobile broadband: Operators get more data for less lucre
News While its good news to users that mobile broadband operators are giving them more allowances at a time prices are falling, analysts warn telcos not to overreach themselves.
Tags: Personal broadband, DSL, Mobile Broadband, Mobile, Broadband, DSL, Bubley, tariff, 3G, Wi-Fi
Nokia bags US$117m contract in the Philippines
News Finnish Phone giant Nokia has signed a US$117 million network expansion deal with Filipino mobile operator SMART Communications.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications
Nokia clinches US$275m Bharti network
News Nokia has won a deal to provide and manage Bharti's mobile networks in India.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications
Google's digital book future hangs in the balance
News Google Book Search has the potential to unlock the musty archives of the world's libraries but will it overcome antitrust obstacles and other opposition?
Tags: Search, Web services, Author, Google Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Settlement, Class Action, 3D, Amazon.com Inc., Alexandria
The year of the MVNO
Blogs This year, a whole bunch of Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) will launch their services. Among them are Merchant...
BT denies sell-off rumors
News Reports that British Telecommunications may accept a multibillion-dollar bid for its entire fixed-line telephony network are strongly denied by the company.
StarHub transfers capacity to SingTel to clear access problem
News To help ensure that its subscribers continue to have access to the Internet, StarHub Internet has transferred some of its network capacity to Singapore Telecommunications.
Nera signs US$22m contract with Philippines' Globe Telecom
News Nera Telecommunications Ltd, a Singapore-based maker of phone components, has secured a contract worth US$21.7 million from Globe Telecom Inc of the Philippines to help expand its mobile phone network.
