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BT Heading For Monopoly In Broadband
News We are in danger of creating a situation in which the incumbent telco is the only one offering DSL services and extending the monopoly from voice to data," says head of regulatory affairs at ECTA John Dickie.
[January 29, 2001, 15:23]
Next Generation Of Telcoms Or Monopoly Telcoms
Talkback But will not this lead us to the US fist model with Bell monopoly? As with every option in life, this comes with advantages for multinational companies in one side and disadvantages for some local operators, which some management, finance or...
[April 8, 2008, 12:46]
ICANN Hands VeriSign New Monopoly On .com
News In a rare show of internal discord, the group that sets domain name regulation has approved a controversial proposal extending VeriSign's lucrative .com monopoly and allowing for price increases for those domains.
[March 2, 2006, 8:45]
JBoss Denies Running A Trademark Monopoly
News JBoss has been accused of using its trademark to create a monopoly, but the company insists it is merely protecting its brand. The use of trademarks, which in the case of 'JBoss' covers both the product and any related services, to stifle...
[October 11, 2005, 12:20]
Its About Abusing A Monopoly Position
Talkback If other companies in a Monopoly position acted as Microsoft does they too would be treated similarly. This is about interpreting competition law in abusing a Monopoly position not about singling out any specific company.
[September 20, 2007, 10:34]
Government Adviser Denies Broadband Monopoly Claims
News Radley is chairman of an advisory body set up by government to look at future broadband policy and is reported by the FT as saying that the provision of wholesale broadband in the UK will remain in the hands of a monopoly such as BT.
[July 2, 2001, 17:18]
BT's Net Monopoly Ends Wednesday
News Oftel's decision to end BT's monopoly of Internet services is being hailed as a victory for consumers but experts predict trouble ahead. The telecoms watchdog has ordered BT to give rival operators access to its network following a complaint from...
[May 31, 2000, 14:06]
The Power Of Being A Monopoly!
Talkback Microsoft on the other hand enjoy a near monopoly in desktop computing, thus they have the luxury to impose deadlines! This is what happens when there's no strong competition in the market. In what other scenario could one company (Microsoft) tell...
[April 28, 2008, 18:17]
SPA Europe Boss Defends Anti-monopoly Document
News Gerard Gabella, managing director of SPA Europe, said that Microsoft was clearly the company in the most likely position to be judged on issues of monopoly, but defended the document nonetheless. The Software Publishers Association (SPA) has...
[February 4, 1998, 16:04]
Microsoft Denies Media-player Monopoly
News Microsoft on Friday denied that it illegally used its desktop computer operating system monopoly to hurt digital media rivals, responding to civil antitrust charges brought by archrival RealNetworks. In a 31-page legal filing, the software giant...
[February 23, 2004, 9:20]
Office 2003 Will 'protect Microsoft's Monopoly' - Sun
News In a document never before released outside Sun, but shared with ZDNet Australia this week, Laurie Wong, Sun Microsystems software product manager, argued that while document rights management was a positive step, Microsoft was using its rights...
[September 30, 2003, 9:35]
Microsoft Denies Media-player Monopoly
Talkback The problem with Realplayer is that the company, with the release of realoneplaye,r started bombarding free users with junk messages that they didn't want or ask for. Since realone I have since stopped using services dependand on it and started...
[February 25, 2004, 15:10]
Office 2003 Will 'protect Microsoft's Monopoly' - Sun
Talkback I have been contacted by our computer support co to advise that microsoft are supplying patches for our server, from Microsoft to stop others hacking into the servers, and that they have to put these onto our server.
[September 30, 2003, 12:00]
News Burst: Oftel Challenges BT's Local Loop Monopoly
News In what Oftel has called 'one of the most important decisions in recent years', the telecoms body opened the latest chapter in its 'Access to Bandwidth' proposals -- which seeks to overcome bandwidth problems and accelerate the delivery of high...
[July 6, 1999, 11:34]
BT's Monopoly Days Are Numbered
News The legal framework governing unbundling of the local loop gets teeth Tuesday as the EC moves to ensure all incumbent European telcos fall into step with European timetables. For British Telecommunications (quote: BT), the threat of fines and a...
[December 5, 2000, 10:04]
ICANN Hands VeriSign New Monopoly On .com
Talkback Greed and payoffs will get you everywhere. I think someone needs to look into deal and maybe poke around some bank accounts
[June 10, 2006, 0:26]
ICANN Hands VeriSign New Monopoly On .com
Talkback This is what happens when something that was created for everyone is controlled by a small group! well to the world of capitalism my communist friends.
[March 6, 2006, 16:33]
Microsoft 'a Monopoly' Rules Judge Jackson
News White House chief of staff John Podesta told NBC's Tim Russert on "Meet The Press" on Sunday that the administration is generally pleased with Friday's finding that the software giant is a monopoly and has used that position to stifle its...
[November 8, 1999, 8:26]
JBoss Denies Running A Trademark Monopoly
Talkback The observant reader should note that on the one hand Labourey talks about creating a strong brand, and on the other says that I was not the co-founder of JBoss. He is correct in the sense that I did not co-found "JBoss Inc.but rather "JBoss the...
[October 11, 2005, 16:17]
Office 2003 Will 'protect Microsoft's Monopoly' - Sun
Talkback I recently bought Outllok 2003 and I am disappointed, I bought it separatly because I was encouraged after reading some articles, however Outlook 2003 without word 2003 is nothing. You cannot use another email editor that word 2003, Even word 2002...
[November 23, 2003, 14:41]
