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Looks like rural WiMax provider DigitalBridge Communications has found some new friends in the rural telco business, judging by a couple of announcements today from both Digital Bridge and the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC), which represents some 1,400 rural electric and telephone utilities across 48 states. The twin announcements — an unspecified amount of [...]
At a recent conference on the 2008 financial results of Altitude Telecom, CEO Jean Paul Rivière expressed confidence about Altitude’s WiMAX business im France. Most of Altitude’s revenues come from large enterprises. The company sells VPN IP MPSL, which means migration to an all-IP network for voice and high speed data access using end-to-end high [...]
While attending a Senior Expo and Conference in Paris in April 2009, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, French Minister for New Technologies announced the imminent launch of Proxima Mobile, a portal for accessing a large set of geo-localized information and public services through a mobile phone. The first set of services will be available in the summer of [...]
AdMob has just released statistics for March 2009 which show that the iPhone and iPod Touch continue to dominate the number of requests generated on the AdMob network of 6000 publishers and 1000 applications around the world. In March 2009, the iPhone generated 8 times more requests than Android (in the US). Worldwide, the iPhone [...]
Starting 1 July 2009, the roaming rates charged by mobile phone operators for sending data and SMS between EU member states will drop significantly. For example, a text message sent from the Netherlands to Spain will cost no more than EUR 0.11 instead of EUR 0.28. The new rates come just in time for the [...]
A class action lawsuit filed in Washington state alleges Clearwire misrepresented to customers that its Internet service was fast, reliable and comparable to cable Internet and DSL. The plaintiffs, who come from Washington, Hawaii, Minnesota and North Carolina, retained a Washington DC law firm, to bring the lawsuit against Clearwire for false advertising, unfair business [...]
AT&T reports that the number of Wi-Fi connections in the first quarter of 2009 is three times that in the first quarter of 2008 (10.5 million versus 3.4 million). The popularity of the iPhone (which is exclusive to AT&T), as well as Wi-Fi enabled Blackberrys, netbooks and laptops, are driving Wi-Fi use. AT&T is also [...]
The city of Brussels is slowly rolling out free citywide Wi-Fi service (in a testing phase) with the help of outdoor advertising firms, JC Decaux and Clearchannel. The city is installing Wi-Fi access points on electronic billboards. The service is free of charge but will be limited in bandwidth as the city has no plan [...]
Reading through the very positive story in Telephony about how AT&T is “doubling” its network capacity, and wondering where reporter Kevin Fitchard — usually pretty solid in things telecom — gets the numbers to back up his assertation that AT&T “has reams of cellular and PCS spectrum” that it could throw at digital data should [...]
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