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Wireless Industry Teams With Gates Foundation To Bank The Unbanked
Besides myriad new products and services, last week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona heralded a new program, sponsored by the GSM Association and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, aimed at expanding the availability of financial services to millions of people in the developing world through... [read more]
Business Browser Users Chase After The (Fire)Fox
Enterprise users are abandoning Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) browser at what’s apparently a far faster rate than the Internet community as a whole, defecting primarily to the open-source Firefox, according to a TelecomWeb Web-based survey. Many overall market estimates have put the erosion of IE’s market share, until now in the high 90th percentile, at about 20 percent. That... [read more]
Guest Blog: Kerry Shih -- Framing The User Bill Of Rights
The User Bill of Rights is something that’s needed by everyone involved in combining data and voice (and with increasing frequency video and presence) on IP networks to deliver the benefits of unified communications, including the end customer who is...
Posted on Wednesday, November 7, 2007
COURTSFull Story ICO Wins Big At The FCC And In The Courts The Federal Communications Commission has given the go-ahead to a new plan forwarded by a subsidiary of ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited to use an ancillary terrestrial component (ATC) in...
REGULATION/LegislationFull Story Around The States >>Utah The Utah Public Service Commission (PSC) is urging Utahans to begin dialing their local calls using the full 10-digit telephone numbers in preparation for March 1, when such dialing will...
RESEARCH and ReportsFull Story FTTH Inches Up Internationally There are now 20 countries in the world where fiber to the home (FTTH), or at least to the building (FTTB), reaches at least 1 percent of the population – almost double the number 18 months ago –...
STATESFull Story Around The States >>Florida Tomorrow, the state public utility commission will vote on Docket No. 080692-TP, regarding a joint application for approval of indirect transfer of control of telecommunications...