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Internet law professor Michael Geist looks at the way that cable firms are starting to shackle the net access they offer.
Ethernet cable, Eyewire
Some cable firms are treating net access like they do TV scheduling
When cable companies began promoting high-speed internet services nearly a decade ago, many branded them “the internet on cable”.
Years later, those services [...]

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BEIJING: A pledge by China’s regulators to let fixed-line phone operators enter the faster-growing mobile market could lead to much greater competition in the telecom industry, analysts said Monday.
Vice Minister of Information Industry Xi Guohua used a forum in Beijing over the weekend to announce plans by the government to grant licences to fixed-line telecom [...]

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KOLKATA: Unable to provide low-priced CDMA handsets to operators, leading mobile phone manufacturer Nokia will instead focus on the replacement market.
D Shivakumar, vice-president & managing director (mobile phones) of Nokia India Private Limited, told reporters here that the CDMA industry was price-led. “Nokia will not be able to provide CDMA handsets priced around USD 20 [...]

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The communications ministry is of the view that telecom tariffs in India can fall further to almost half their current levels — with local intra-circle calls for 25 paise and nationwide long distance calls for 50 paise — provided new operators are allowed to start services.
The ministry has apprised the Prime Ministers’ Office of this.
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Announcements of an accelerated Fusion launch and new virtualization software—and no signs of the tech slump—pleased analysts
Near the close of his keynote speech at Oracle’s biggest conference of the year, the ever-colorful CEO Larry Ellison reminisced about the software company’s “stressful” early days. Ellison said he’d work until 1 a.m., “come home, open up a [...]

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The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has decided to go in for open auction of spectrum for 3G services — mobile services that provide high-speed data internet to users.
Communications Minister A Raja also said three operators are initially expected to be given spectrum of up to 10 MHz each and both 2G operators (operators of current [...]

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Over the past fortnight, WiDAR has recorded two announced backhaul contracts. Harris Stratex Networks has secured a contract with French service provider TDF, whilst Dragonwave has a deal with Orascom’s Pakistani operation, Mobilink. Both contracts are for the provision of equipment for wireless backhaul to WiMAX networks. These announcements add to similar deals logged by [...]

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Vardhman Jain, managing director, Perot Systems, sports a new phone or music player every nine months, but frequently finds it difficult to transfer data from his laptop. Jain thinks long and hard before buying anything, and claims that he has never bought a gadget that could be considered a waste of money.
Name one wacky gadget [...]

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NEW YORK (AP) — The head of British Airways said he expects to see further consolidation within the airline industry, and suggested the U.K. carrier could play a dominant role in that transformation. Chief Executive Willie Walsh believes mergers will benefit the industry, which has struggled in recent years because of increasing terror threats and [...]

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 Chances are you’ve got old cell phones, digital cameras, video-game consoles and other devices lying around the house. So why not get some money for them instead of letting them gather dust. And you don’t even have to pay for shipping.
With SecondRotation.com you can sell your gadgets without having to list them on eBay.  1. [...]

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