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Broadband user’s details revealed by UKOM

noahrinkle — Thu, 20 May 2010 10:49:16 +0000

There has been a significant increase in the users of social networking sites and this was released by UK Online Measurement. According to the report these days’ customers use broadband for various purposes and for the past three years the trend has changed completely. According to the data, sixty five percent spent more time online when compared to the April 2007.

Decrease in rates, increased affordability, wider range and better access has helped to soar up the internet business. While coming to online activities social networking and blogging ranks first, second comes the email, the usage of email has lowered to due to social networking, but still seven perecent of them use internet regularly.

For the past three years social networking accounted for just nine percent, but it has reached an enormous growth of three hundred and forty percent. Three percent of online users use it regularly for reading the news.

Telecom broadband to be headed by Chorus

noahrinkle — Wed, 12 May 2010 03:19:05 +0000

Chorus has planned to provide Ultra fast broadband to all New Zealanders. Chorus will be lead by its new Chief executive Mark Ratcliffe and he has planned to work full time and to ensure Chorus participation in providing the high speed internet facility.

Brian Hall will now be the new financial officer of Chorus in an acting capacity. Telecom Chief executive Paul Reynolds said that, “A number of our people from across the Telecom group have been seconded in recent months to work through all aspects of the ultra fast broadband project, and the size and scope of this team requires the very senior leadership and acumen that Mark Ratcliffe can bring to it.”

Chorus has planned to press ahead to provide broadband through fiber optics throughout the nation.

Global fixed Broadband customers growth by 13%

noahrinkle — Mon, 10 May 2010 07:28:00 +0000

According to a recent research by ABI there is a soaring increase in the broadband customers in the recent years. In the year 2009 the broadband users touched to 430.7 million which is thirtenn percentage higher than that of 2008. Vice president of forecasting said that, “Fixed broadband is an attractive platform for the delivery of IPTV, gaming services with low latency, rapid access to Web content and secure access to nonbuilding access points (e.g. vehicular traffic monitoring units).

He also quoted that, “Technologies such as fiber to the home, VDSL and GPON are helping to keep fixed broadband relevant to end users both in the home and office.” He also quoted that, “The DSL platform still dominates the market with 65 percent market share; cable and fiber represented 24 percent and 11 percent market share respectively in 2009. South Korea and Japan are the countries with highest fiber broadband penetration. In Japan, approximately 55 percent of broadband subscribers are using fiber broadband. In Korea, fiber broadband customers represent 49 percent of overall broadband users. ABI Research forecasts that fiber broadband subscribers will total almost 134 million by 2015, due to the growing customer demand for speed.North America has the highest broadband penetration of any region. According to analyst Khin Sandi Lynn, “We expect broadband penetration in North America to be accelerated by federal government initiatives which aim to roll out broadband access in rural areas of the U.S.”

Based upon the study by ABI the fixed broadband customers would raise three percent every year and would reach 548 million in 2015.

Telstra to launch Ipad with Prepaid Broadband

noahrinkle — Mon, 10 May 2010 06:46:08 +0000

Telstra has planned to provide ipad along with broadband to all its customers. Most of the customers will benefit from these plans as they have to pay half the amount for their wireless broadband services. Telstra will sell out the Apple ipad 3 G along with prepaid mobile plans. For 1GB data per charge it starts at $20 which is half the $40 the regular broadband service provided by company.

Ross, executive director, Telstra Mobility products said that, “Telstra’s pricing for iPad 3G gives customers control and flexibility to access the Internet on-the-go while connected to the Telstra Next GTM network.” He also quoted that, “Telstra is providing Australians the ability to enjoy 3G on iPad in more places than on any other network.”
Telstra’s plan expire after 30 days, Pricing are as follows

All of Telstra’s prepaid iPad plans expire after 30 days, with pricing as below.
•   $20 1GB
•   $30 3GB
•   $60 6GB
•   $80 9GB
•   $100 12GB
Telstra’s Prepaid Mobile Broadband plans however are considerably more expensive for the same data allowance:
•   $20 225MB
•   $30 400MB
•   $40 1GB
•   $50 2GB
•   $60 3GB
•   $80 4GB
•   $100 6GB

Remote Education a great benefit for Remote Education: IT expert

noahrinkle — Mon, 10 May 2010 05:06:01 +0000

The National Broad band Network of Australia has proposed to expand its broadband network with $43 billion to provide remote education. The Northern territory would experience vast benefits with the upgrade of the broadband services said Gould, Director of Information Technology, Charles Darwin University.

Mr.Gould also said that, “To be kind to the current system, we’ve essentially been operating with technology worthy of the Dark Ages,” He also added that, “An upgrade of current limited bandwidth in the Territory has been long overdue, and will essentially bring us on to a level playing field with other states and universities.”The Governments $25 million for implementation broadband services will create a turning point around the country.

University main markets were overseas and interstate and this upgrading will result in great benefits to online education said Mr.Gould. He also quoted that, “The possibilities surrounding online education and the delivery of remote education to communities in the NT will be multiplied tenfold, it’s an upgrade we desperately need and one that should have the support of every IT enthusiast in the country.”

Nokia-Siemens High Speed Broadband Network

noahrinkle — Mon, 10 May 2010 04:16:04 +0000

Nokia Siemens network has planned to provide faster broadband experience to all its users. They are one of the leaders in offering global telecommunications. Currently these companies have planned to transform the mobile users experience in the Middle East Africa (MEA) to provide faster data with rich applications and multimedia.
Mohamed Abdelrehim, Head of Network systems for Middle East and Africa said that, “The timing of our road show could not be more opportune, With Nigeria’s growing demand for mobile broadband, the growth for the country’s operators will now come from advanced mobile data service offerings and not basic connectivity” LTE in reality, is a 3G mobile standard bases on full flat IP architecture and LTE’s data speed range up to 160 Mb/s. In this field Nokia Siemens network are the forerunners.

Mohamed also added that, “Today, we are reinforcing our vision of five billion people connected by 2015, via a showcase of the latest next generation mobile broadband technology to mobile operators in the region. What’s more the Nokia Siemens Networks LTE proposition is based on software upgrades to current 3G networks that are currently deployed by a majority of regional mobile operators”

Nokia Siemens is a global leader in telecommunication services and has focus on innovation and sustainability. It also provides converged network technology and professional services.

4 G Wireless Service by Time Warner, Comcast Corp

noahrinkle — Sat, 08 May 2010 10:25:27 +0000

4G wireless broadband service will be provided by Comcast Corp and Time Warner Cable. Sprint Nextel is vague about the offers and plans provided by them. The cable firms will roll out the fourth generation wireless technology along with their other products.

Spokesman for the Time Warner Matt said, “The service will be available through the receivers that would attach to computers’ USB ports.” The company will provide 4G wireless along with its cable television, digital phone services and road runner internet acess.

Same as sprint, Time Warner and Comcast are the major investors in Clearwire Corp which will be rolling out 4G to the country. 4G technology or WiMax will be ten times faster than the current 3G networks. Sprint, Time Warner and Comcast will sell out the devices 3G and 4G to customers where Wimax signal doesn’t reach

Tel Italia to Boost Broadband Service

noahrinkle — Thu, 06 May 2010 11:11:15 +0000

The three leaders in Broadband Vodafone, mobile Operator Wind and Fastweb the broadband service provider have planned to reach millions of home within the next 5 years. In the meantime former fixed lime monopoly of Italy Telecom Italia has come up with new plans to provide faster broadband services to fifteen cities in Italy. They have fixed a €2.5bn plan to boost up the service in these cities. Franco the former chief of Telecom Italia said that, “We are ready to face that competition and to respond aggressively”

Naguib Sawiris Egyptian entrepreneur and the owner of the wind said that, charges by Telecom Italia are too high and he also questioned on the quality of the network’s infrastructure. Vodafone’s Chief executive Vittorio told that, regulators to consider and intervene in the European union countries where former fixed line monopoly Telecom Italia failed to offer high speed broadband networks.

High Speed Broadband in Bailiwick

noahrinkle — Tue, 04 May 2010 03:54:33 +0000

Faster and higher bandwidth broadband will be available to the residents and businesses of Bailiwick of Guernsey after the boost in speed of the broadband services.

The speed was doubled from 2Mb to 4Mb by Cable and Wireless Guernsey from the month of May. The firm is planning to increase the speed more during this year. The broadband speed has been increased by engineers in exchanges of Alderney, Sark and Guernsey.

Tony Abbott says NBN can be made Faster as well as Cheaper

noahrinkle — Tue, 04 May 2010 03:24:39 +0000

If Tony Abbott wins in the next federal election, Tasmania could be the only state that will receive a high speed broadband connectivity. Mr. Abbott quoted that “I won’t specify yet what might be targeted but if you want to cut spending, look at the NBN.” He also added that, “Not proceeding with it could save billions of dollars.”

In order to curb Kevin’s “reckless” spending, Mr. Abbot has decided to take in hands the $43 billion project as his prime election target.
The Government said that connecting fibre cables to ten million homes takes more time and money; also it claimed that it needs more patience to finish the project. But at the same time opposition says that there is a cheaper and faster way to implement the project.

Tony Smith the spokesman for Opposition communication said that, “Coalition would favour a plan that revived parts of the Howard government’s cancelled Opel project for a $1.9bn rural and for a regional broadband network using wireless and wired technology.”

NBN Chief Michael said that, “It wouldn’t be a problem rolling back the NBN because you would just stop construction.” Tasmanian National Broadband Network is a project with the joint venture of Aurora Energy, NBNCo and the Tasmanian government. After the completion of the project within the next four year 200,000 Tasmanian homes and businesses will receive a higher broadband speed of 100mbps. The first commercial service will be available in July and more than five thousand business groups in Midway Point, Scottsdale and Smithton will be privileged to use this service.