T-Mobile Orange Merger Threatened by Broadband Policy

The proposed merger between two of Britain's largest mobile phone operators - T-Mobile and Orange - has been thrown into doubt after a last minute intervention by the 5 mobile broadband networks and the Government....

Only Nine Countries Meet Future Broadband Demand

A recent study investigating the broadband quality across 66 countries worldwide has found that only 9 countries are ready for future demand, with two-thirds barely meeting the criteria for today's requirements only. Conducted by MBA students at Oxford's Said Business School...

UK Broadband Tax? Get Out Of My Face!!

UK broadband users will be paying a "broadband tax" before the next election - which is due in the first half of 2010. At a speech before the British Computer Society, Stephen Timms - the Minister for Digital...

Probably even cheaper internet, UK

British Telecom is a large company - and for years it has had its hands tied to stop it sweeping away new telecommunication companies - now that has been removed."Until now BT has been constrained from offering “triple-play” packages of fixed-line calls, digital...

Of Tolls and Rivers Chains –The New Robber Barons

For a number of centuries, roughly 800 AD to 1800 AD, feudal lords with land along the Rhine River in Germany, collected tolls from passing cargo ships. In an effective effort to back this control, large iron chains were laid across the river and raised high enough to block...

Glenn Beck in or Out 2010

Later in the show he presented this In or Out 2010 list which should be adopted as a Tea Party platform as we ALL start throwing the bums out on both sides of the aisle in this most corrupt ever seen 111th congress...

Satellite to offer 10Mbit broadband to entire UK

The firm is currently pitching its broadband packages at rural consumers, amid negotiations between government and mobile operators to deliver universal 2Mbit/s broadband. Not cheap, but better than nothing!!!!!! " A French firm plans to launch a satellite next year that it...

Leibowitz chats up broadband, net neutrality, privacy...

"When it comes to consumer issues like broadband and network neutrality, the FTC in recent years has spent most of its time nodding dumbly at carriers, allowing them to "self-regulate." The idea that corporations can effectively monitor themselves for bad behavior has been...

£20 broadband charge to fight online music and film piracy

There goes poor old Britain, imposing more 'levies' on business at the beginning of the worst economic downturn in over a hundred years. This looks like a legal fraud scheme to me. "Philip Webster and Dan Sabbagh div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p...

Payment holiday for struggling British broadband customers

A British broadband and phone company has taken an unusual step of giving its customers a lifeline during the credit crunch by waiving its broadband fees for six months. TalkTalk's CEO announced the package...

21 Mbit mobile broadband trials on track

VODAFONE has said that its trials of 16Mbit HSPA+ broadband on its Spanish network have been a great success. Now it says it plans to test 21Mbit HSPA+ in the first quarter, which should provide punters with download speeds of up to 13Mbit in good conditions and a following...

If God had Broadband?

OK, so it’s hard to imagine the supreme being huddled behind a computer checking emails from his flock. But let's suspend disbelief, just for a moment.... Let’s imagine for a second that every time a prayer is uttered a message is sent to God (OK, so it’s a pretty...

IPTV services - BSNL and Smart Digivision Pvt Ltd

State owned BSNL launched interactive personalised television and video services, (IPTV) in Haryana on Wednesday. The service will be initially available in Gurgaon, Ambala and Faridabad in association with Smart Digivision Pvt Ltd. Speaking on the occassion BSNL chairman and...

Santa’s ‘sleigh delay’ could save you hundreds, says TalkTalk

If you’ve ever felt remotely subversive by watching the Alternative Christmas Speech then you might well choke on your turkey to learn that millions of Britons are considering holding an entire Alternative...

Internet Launched In Pacific Ocean

We have some exciting news from the team at KVH Industries. Here's a clip from their press release: "Taking a major step toward expanding availability of the mini-VSAT Broadband service, KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI) today announced that it has signed a 5-year...

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