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UK mobile phone fee cuts will hurt operators
News The fixed-line operators will benefit most, because they pay the termination fees. The largest UK provider, BT, is required to pass its savings on to its customers; other fixed-line operators will probably do the same to remain competitive.
[June 8, 2004, 12:10]
AOL to take on Japan's mobile Internet
News AOL and DoCoMo, a unit of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, also said in a statement they are establishing a committee that will invest in companies that are driving the convergence of fixed-line and mobile technologies.
[September 27, 2000, 7:56]
Nokia and Intel partner on mobile WiMax
News It's thought that Nokia left because it believed WiMax would just be a fixed-line broadband technology. Chips for the fixed-line version of WiMax -- 802.16d -- are already available, and Intel expects to have 802.16e silicon available in 2006.
[June 10, 2005, 16:25]
BT to let broadband users boost their bandwidth
News Rather than being dominated by the fixed speed of their broadband line, they will be able to boost their connection up to 2Mbps," Ingram told ZDNet UK. He did say that BT believes that one in ten instant-messaging conversations lead to a phone call...
[March 11, 2004, 14:05]
Satellite push to close Europe's broadband gaps
News This is partly due to the problem of cost, as a two-way satellite link can be significantly more expensive than fixed-line backhaul. Other partners include satellite broadband providers Aramiska and Eutelsat, reflecting the project's focus on using...
[February 17, 2004, 15:15]
Mobile can fill in UK broadband gaps, says 3
News The company's policy and regulation chief, Emma Gilthorpe, said the fund taxed fixed-line customers, so should only benefit fixed-line providers rolling out fibre. Many rural areas are currently badly served by both fixed and mobile broadband, due...
[July 10, 2009, 16:32]
BT launches "watershed" fixed and mobile handset
News Fusion, previously known as Project Bluephone, is aimed initially at the consumer market and is based around a cordless Motorola handset that acts as a normal cellular phone outside of the home, but inside routes calls through a hub onto a BT...
[June 15, 2005, 12:05]
ONS paints an increasingly wired picture of Britain
News The fixed line phone was used for 337 billion minutes of calls last year. Despite the dominance of the fixed line, mobile phones are now well and truly a staple of the UK citizen. The government has been taking a look back at what the nation's been...
[November 30, 2004, 16:10]
EC to clamp down on mobile roaming charges
News Monti also said he was concerned about the amount it costs to call a mobile phone from a fixed line, or another mobile on a different network, and promised that this would be addressed too. Oftel recommended last year that termination charges...
[February 28, 2002, 11:02]
WiMax cut off by HSDPA in Asia
News PCCW, which has the most extensive fixed-line network in Hong Kong, next year will likely stop leasing last-mile phone lines to its fixed-line competitors, according to Hong Kong newspaper The Standard.
[April 24, 2006, 15:55]
Intel takes broadband to the WiMax
News Intel has three business models for WiMax: fixed access, where it does the job of cable or DSL (digital subscriber line) broadband; portable use within in metro zones, akin to giant hot spots; and a fully mobile system with inter-cell hand-offs.
[September 8, 2004, 10:00]
3GSM Preview: On with the show
News claimed that Fusion cost too much, given that its fixed-line calls are made over a broadband connection. The concept of being able to have one handset that roams seamlessly from a mobile network to a fixed line network depending on whether it's...
[February 10, 2006, 16:30]
Fritz!Box Fon WLAN 7050 review
Reviews It allows you to route calls either using your fixed line or over the Internet -- and, if you opt for the latter, you can use the bundled free minutes from VoIP gateway provider Sipgate. The Internet telephony module lets you decide which calls go...
[September 14, 2006, 13:10]
Why you should care about WiMax
News However, if you already have faster than 10Mbps connectivity through a fixed line, it may not make sense just yet to downgrade to 2Mbps (WiMax's speed, according to real-world tests) to go wireless. It's also great if you want to get home broadband...
[May 24, 2006, 10:55]
Vera Finance (was: VPFinance) Symbian
Downloads Now using full screen All navigation problems fixed Focus a textfield and start typing to set the text 0 in the grid check/uncheck the line Added a calendar to penless devices Settings will be reset. Improved grid appearance (one more line on...
[April 29, 2007, 8:00]
Bulldog fixes broadband problems
Talkback Later I find out that there fault on the line still hasn’t been fixed, and as such, we have been given the new number temporarily, and that it will be changed back as soon as the fault is fixed, but no broadband till then.
[July 1, 2005, 20:55]
ISP code targets broadband speed confusion
News One area being looked into is the question of whether the code should be applied to mobile broadband as well as fixed-line access, as the disparity between advertised and achieved speeds is also an issue in that market.
[June 5, 2008, 11:37]
CA sounds out on-demand revenue with Sonar
News Sonar technology will be used in CA's Unicenter systems management line, as well as in its storage management and eTrust network security products, according to a CA representative. CA has an established base with large corporations that use its...
[July 15, 2003, 10:14]
QED - Doc Editor
Downloads Look in readme for more information.Update Description:V2.91 (Sept/15/2006)- support entering accented chars using Alt key for Treo- fixed repeatedly pressed shift key reset on Treo650V2.90 (June/23/2003)- hires support for OS5 devices- Treo...
[June 6, 2002, 8:00]
More Pleasant Surprises with Ubuntu
Blog As long as Skype is running, it produces an apparently never-ending stream of messages informing me that various of my contacts have come on line, or gone off line - some of whom I know are not doing so, because I am chatting with them on Gizmo or...
[June 3, 2008, 11:01]
