EU telecoms gets regulatory shake-up
News One proposal that has been adopted by the Commission has been to give the new European Telecom Market Authority (ETMA) — which comprises elements of the Commission's telecoms and competition authorities — a power of veto over national regulators...
[November 14, 2007, 13:24]
Multimedia Message Service Solution
White Papers The highest priority for telecom operators is to provide top-level performance and reliability. Building on the success of short message service (SMS), the use of MMS is taking off on Global System for Mobile (GSM) communications, general packet...
[November 24, 2004, 23:00]
The Year Ahead: Skills trends for 2003
News Job losses have continued on a large scale especially in the telecom sector. The telecoms sector has become so out of favour even the annual show 'Networks Telecom' has been rebranded as 'Networks for Business'.
[December 27, 2002, 6:24]
VeriSign: Cybersecurity starts with schools
News I sit on the Telecommunications Advisory Committee, and it's just in the last year that we finally got to talking about next-generation networks and the impact of the threats to cybersecurity versus talking about physical telecom networks.
[January 4, 2005, 13:15]
Skype tries to regain business users' trust
News Initial reports suggested that the withdrawal was simply the result of a commercial dispute between Skype and its supplier of 0207 numbers, GCI Telecom — itself supplied by a company called Gamma Telecom.
[December 12, 2007, 7:41]
Gloom lifts on IT spending
News Telecom represents a large portion of the communications and media (customer segment)," Lu said. Even though telecom was hit the hardest in the downturn, we think the whole telecom industry will pick up in 2005.
[August 7, 2003, 8:35]
Scientologists force closure of ISP's Internet connection
News By now, Cignal had been bought by another US company, called Priority Telecom and the next letter that Wouters received was a notice of termination of service, giving Xtended Internet 30 days to search for a new backbone provider.
[March 22, 2002, 12:50]
Two trade shows cancelled due to Sars
News Postponing the shows to the second half of the year was considered but no suitable alternative window was available as the world calendar for this period is already filled with other events such as BIRTV (Beijing), IBC (Amsterdam), ITU World...
[May 1, 2003, 9:01]
Internet reels after World Trade Centre crashes
News Deutsche Telecom reported that Internet traffic between Europe and Germany rose by a factor of 40 as people tried to find information. We expect traffic demands to site to be enormous, but right now tabulating audience isn't a priority," said MSNBC...
[September 11, 2001, 15:31]
BT set to cut broadband prices
News BT's defence has been that telecom regulations prevent it from selling products at a loss -- but the company now seems prepared to cut prices, and then let the regulator decide. Ben Verwaayen will use his speech to stress that broadband is a top...
[February 4, 2002, 9:44]
Telecom industry has saving graces, insiders say
News Still, Veerappan predicted "anaemic" demand from telecom carriers, a sentiment shared by many in the industry. Johnson believes that selling to established local phone companies must also be a priority because the phone carriers spawned from the...
[July 25, 2001, 14:41]
Yahoo's founder responds to China criticism
News Partners Internet and Telecom Conference in San Francisco. However, the number one priority remains advertising. Jerry Yang said on Wednesday. It is more important for us to participate, not only for economic reasons, but to be able to [help shape...
[March 9, 2006, 15:35]
Rival browsers benefit from MSN gaffe
News Founded by former Norwegian telecom employees Jon S.von Tetzchner and Geir Ivarsoy, Opera has also seen a big spike in paid orders since the Microsoft block. Microsoft executives have made it a priority to expand the company's Internet strategy...
[November 1, 2001, 13:17]
Fibre optic to dominate EU broadband market by 2010
News Any telecom operators found guilty of such monopolistic practices would be fined 10 percent of annual revenue. ADSL is only a transitory technology that will be overtaken by fibre optic solutions within 10 years, according to the European Commission.
[October 11, 2001, 12:40]
AT&T, BT in $10 billion blockbuster
News AT&T had made international expansion a major priority. The jointly-owned operation will combine the assets and operations of each company, including their existing international networks, all of their international traffic, and all of their...
[July 27, 1998, 9:58]
