Broadband tax 'to be made law' Sep 24, 2009
But the Tory MP John Whittingdale said the tax, which could raise up to 175m a year to fund high speed networks, would be opposed by the Conservatives ... "We want to make high speed networks nationally available. The next-generation fund will help that and we will legislate for it this side of a general election," he said. (BBC News -- Technology)
Strategy Analytics: InP Dominates Fiber Optic Optoelectronics Market Growth Sep 18, 2009
Increased adoption of tunable lasers supporting high speed networks will also drive component makers toward profitability, with further photonic integration for all-optical networks holding promise for the future. High-bandwidth video services, like HDTV and VOD, as well as enterprise storage networks and backhaul from emerging 3G/4G wireless standards, will require increased network capacity. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Hawaii must bolster broadband network Aug 29, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009. Posted on: Friday, August 28, 2009. (Honolulu Advertiser)
China Mobile Posts First Profit Decline in Nine Years as User Growth Slows Aug 20, 2009
1 billion yuan in 2007, as the company expanded in rural areas and invested in high speed networks, it said previously. said it started its 3G service in March and planned to expand the high-speed network to 300 Chinese cities by last month. (Bloomberg -- Asia)
The Mobile Broadband Opportunity in MEA is Expected to Reach USD 6 Billion With 40 Million Subscribers by the end of 2011 Jul 14, 2009
Secondly, mobile operators aggressively developing their 3G networks to go beyond their core voice offerings will result in enhanced availability of high speed networks. Broadband is increasingly seen as the growth driver for mobile operators and the mechanism towards creating the stickiness factor particularly for retaining high value customers. (PR Newswire)
Long live TV Jun 25, 2009
Instead of investing in innovation and taking advantage of the capabilities that high speed networks offer, finding ways to deliver entertainment and news and education to people wherever they are, with interactivity and options for engagement built in, the old style content providers want to tax network services so they can continue to provide old style content. They want to keep us all in a world where vast numbers of people spend most of their precious leisure time watching a flat-screen... (BBC News -- Technology)
Beware of scareware Jun 2, 2009
ISA Technologies is a specialist IT company with core competencies in the areas of high-performance computing and visualisation, advanced high speed networks, e-business systems, software engineering and operations management, as well as security. Lim also warned that not all scareware has to be proactively downloaded from the Internet. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Technology)
