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Finland decrees Net access legal right
News Country becomes world's first to pass law making broadband access, at speeds of at least 1Mbps, a legal right for all its citizens by July 2010.
Tags: Regulations, Web sites, Finland, Telecommunications Company, cell phone, International Telecommunications Union, mobile phone network, Web sites, France, Internet Access
MMS, video calls still going steady in S'pore
News Use of multimedia messaging service and video calls remain stable in Singapore, and expected to continue growing, say local telcos.
Tags: Network infrastructure, Mobile platforms/communications, Telecommunications Company, tariff, multimedia, network, mobile, Video Call, video, Mobile platforms/communications
Huawei: Don't skip 3G for 4G
News Operators intending to leapfrog their 2G networks straight to LTE (long term evolution) may end up with higher cost and risk, warns Huawei exec.
Tags: CommunicAsia 2009, 3G (Third Generation), Next-generation technology/networks, Operator, Telecommunications Company, QoS, UMTS, 3G (Third Generation), LTE, Next-generation technology/networks
UK Internet data-retention law comes into force
News From this week, Internet service providers will be obliged to retain details of Internet communications, including e-mail, for 12 months.
Tags: Privacy, Data, Mobile, data retention, e-mail, telephony, U.K., Internet Service Provider, Internet, monitor
Tapping Twitter to monitor broadband outages
News Australian Internet access provider Telstra is using the microblogging service to monitor service interruptions and contact customers about support plans. Will its rivals follow suit?
Tags: Web 2.0, Twitter, Broadband, Optus, Outage, Telstra Corp., Internet Service Provider, managing director, Internet, monitor
Google dribbles out PowerMeter smart-grid service
News Google partners with smart-meter manufacturer and eight utilities to offer its Web-based application for monitoring home energy use.
Tags: Green IT, Consumer Technology, Telecommunications, Google Inc., monitoring, billing, Web Site, telecommunications company, Web, Green IT
Mobile operators need to be greener
News Operators can reap up to 40 percent energy savings "without doing too much" and not cutting energy requirements is almost "a criminal act", says analyst.
Tags: Green IT, Network infrastructure, LANs and WANs, Mobile/Wireless, Telecommunications Company, Energy Requirement, RFP, Optimization, renewable energy, alternative energy
Pushing the limits of harassment
Blogs In Talking Cock the Movie, a parody portrayed a young man who had joined his father's loan-shark business and hatched th...
NTC: A highly politicized agency
Blogs Without anyone almost noticing it, the powerful National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has been transferred back u...
ISPs a vanishing breed
Blogs I'm not sure if the situation is similar in other countries, but the technology companies we've come to know as ISPs (In...
Shift in Philippine telco space
Blogs Last week was quite eventful for the Philippine telecom sector when two of the country's biggest telephone operators rev...
Interesting battle for dominance
Blogs It's surprising to see how Meralco, the biggest electric distributor in the Philippines, has become an unlikely setting ...
Broadband over power lines? Don't count on it, yet
Blogs Dominant carrier PLDT, as well as its high-profile chief executive Manny V. Pangilinan, have been in the news lately bec...
Mobile number portability arrives in Malaysia
Blogs Mobile number portability (MNP), which allows mobile phone subscribers to switch carriers while retaining their numbers ...
Microsoft's Muglia talks Windows Azure
Insight newsmaker Microsoft server and tools boss Bob Muglia, who was recently promoted, shares the "ton" of things to do to ready hosted versions of its server products.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Leadership, Software engineering/development, Business development/management, Web services, Microsoft Corp., password management, Environment, Server, server software
