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Details emerge on Bournemouth fibre scheme

News H2O Networks' sewer-based deployment is the UK's largest fibre scheme and will bring next-gen connectivity to the town, the company says [09 May 2008]

Mobile M2M connections set to rocket

News Berg Insight says the number of mobile network connections used for machine-to-machine comms will grow from 37.5m in 2007 to 186m in 2012 [07 May 2008]

Finding a funder for fibre to the home

Finding a funder for fibre to the home

Q&A The Communications Management Association's David Harrington argues there's a case for using government funds to roll out fibre to the home across the UK [06 May 2008]


BAE to develop secure mobile network for US military

News The company has won a Darpa contract to develop an 'intrinsically secure' mobile network protecting against traditional cyberattacks [02 May 2008]

BCS joins calls for Phorm service to be opt-in

News The British Computer Society has joined the information commissioner in calling for Phorm's targeted-ad service to be opt-in to comply with privacy law [30 Apr 2008]

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Tech leaders team up on home-network standard

News Chip and electronics makers Intel, Infineon, Texas Instruments and Panasonic have formed an alliance to help market and test a standard to create home networks for films, music and pictures using domestic wiring [30 Apr 2008]

Gartner: Unified comms is not about saving money

News Bringing voice, email and instant messaging onto a single IP platform is expensive and the business case should be based on productivity and collaboration drivers, the analyst firm claims [23 Apr 2008]

Police force's Facebook app raises privacy concerns

News Greater Manchester Police has become the first UK police force to establish a presence on Facebook, but critics have warned of the privacy implications [21 Apr 2008]

Intel invests $500m in Taiwan WiMax network

News The company announced its five-year spending plan as Acer revealed its intention to launch WiMax-enabled laptops by mid 2008 [21 Apr 2008]

EU sees surge in broadband usage

News High-speed broadband is now used by 77 percent of EU businesses, compared to 62 percent in 2005, according to the European Commission [21 Apr 2008]

AT&T: Internet to hit full capacity by 2010

News The company has warned of the need for urgent investment in the internet's infrastructure, deliberately avoiding the term 'net neutrality' [18 Apr 2008]

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Multi-Tech Faxfinder 820

Multi-Tech Faxfinder 820

Review Multi-Tech FaxFinder is a simple-to-install and flexible fax server. The system provides good configuration and logging options and integration to an existing PBX is seamless. If you're after a flexible and reliable solution to process your incoming faxes, then FaxFinder does the job well. [18 Apr 2008]


FCC to scrutinise US network management

News The agency will look at whether broadband internet providers are open with customers about how they manage their networks and deliver promised speeds [18 Apr 2008]

Ofcom seeks to speed up UK fibre rollout

News The telecoms regulator has launched a review into ways of replacing existing copper networks, possibly by laying fibre through existing sewer ducts [17 Apr 2008]

Cubans line up for first mobile-phone services

News Since coming to power, President Raul Castro has eased restrictions on mobile-phone services, allowing Cubans to buy phones for the first time or register those they had held illegally [15 Apr 2008]

Nokia, Ericsson and others ink LTE deal

News A number of the world's largest technology companies will commit to a licensing framework for their patents for the emerging mobile-network technology known as long-term evolution [15 Apr 2008]

FCC to review firms' use of customer data

News The US enforcement bureau is expected to recommend rejecting a complaint made by cable operators over Verizon's techniques in retaining customers [14 Apr 2008]

Australia seeks funds for high-speed broadband

News The government is seeking bids from companies to help fund a £4.4bn high-speed broadband network that will help the country catch up in competitiveness with its peers [14 Apr 2008]

EU votes against disconnecting file-sharers

News Two reports from the European Parliament argue that if filesharers of copyrighted material are not trying to make money from their actions, they should not be criminalised or thrown off the internet [11 Apr 2008]

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Conflicting strategies aired at unified comms show Camera icon

Conflicting strategies aired at unified comms show

Photo This week's Unified Communications Expo saw telephony vendors talking up interoperability, although how desirable this would be for industry behemoths Cisco and Microsoft is open to debate [11 Apr 2008]


WiMax's head start over LTE may decide 4G race

News Sprint Nextel believes WiMax may become more widely adopted than the long-term evolution of 3G because the tech has arrived first [11 Apr 2008]

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BT says no to traffic shaping

News Telco will refrain from degrading other providers' services, claims one of the key executives behind BT's next-generation network more

Automating your network-monitoring process

Feature Manually checking network components can be tedious and time-consuming, but there are plenty of ways to automate the task more

Firms told: Optimise WANs before Longhorn

News Buying external WAN optimisation now will have paid for itself by the time Longhorn server comes around, according to one analyst more

ISPs stand firm after P2P ruling

News Internet service providers maintain they should not be liable for illegal P2P file sharing over their networks more

Outgoing BT chief hints at fibre rollout

News Sir Christopher Bland claims BT might roll fibre out as far as the kerb to boost broadband speeds, but doubts remain over who will pay for it more

Wireless deployment at enterprise level

Feature Find out how wireless scalability takes on a different meaning at enterprise level and learn strategies for deployment throughout a large network more

On The Road Blog

Video Chat on the Move!

I've just had a fascinating and pleasing experience. I had a 15-minute video chat on ooVoo while riding on a bus through the Swiss countryside! First the summary - the quality was... More

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Microsoft and the rough Diamond

Today's launch of the HTC Touch Diamond was utterly fascinating. It was also a bit of an anticlimax - some of us hacks had been tantalised by mysterious invitations to a highly exclusive... More

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Wholesale Carrier Services: A Great Fi...

The wholesale carrier services of VoIP is the means of providing IP telephony services to the users on a wholesale basis. This opens the opportunity for local service providers to offer... More

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