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The U.S. - 15th Place in the Internet Speed Global Chart

A survey performed by Speedmatters shows that Americans are not global leaders when it comes to Internet speed, as expected. The company determines the average Internet speed in different countries through tests that show how fast people can download files from its website.Moreover, the U.S. is only the 15th in the t...

14 August 2008
08:54 GMT

Young, Rich and Cultivated Men Conduct More Online Searches

According to a Pew Internet & American Life Project survey, year after year, more and more people tend to use a search engine when they need information on something. The total number of Internet users conducting searches everyday got from almost 30%, as it was reported in 2002, to 49%, six years later. The survey al...

7 August 2008
09:37 GMT

Residential VoIP Isn't a Favorite Down Under

VoIP is a global application that became popular as a business tool and that, afterwards, was easily adopted by domestic users. While the American and European market for the program are expanding rapidly, the evolution of the Australian one is a bit delayed.The reasons for this vary from the lack of broadband in som...

9 July 2008
05:32 GMT

Fibre-optic Broadband to Surpass Cable Globally

UK-based Point Topic has recently conducted a study regarding the expanding rate of fibre-optic broadband connections. According to its study, globally, fibre-based broadband access is expanding for the first time faster than cable. But the downside of this trend is that the relative expense of setting up fibre-based...

3 July 2008
09:37 GMT

UK - a Nation of Speed-Hungry Broadband Users

People like broadband connections for the simple reason that they're faster than other types of connections and very often, they're quite cheap. However, a broadband connection allows users to do lots of web activities which would be impossible without a high-speed connection, including here playing games o...

24 April 2008
16:31 GMT

Eircom to Fix Ireland's Broadband Shortcomings

A few days after Ireland's largest telecommunications provider revealed its plans for a 100 million Euro data center in Europe, the company comes with another juicy offering: real broadband speed for its subscribers.While the low broadband speed in USA apparently has no cure, Eircom seems to have found the key t...

1 February 2008
11:23 GMT

Rim Semiconductor to Promise 40Mbps Over Distances

The Internet-over-cable business is losing popularity on a daily basis with the advent of the new optical fiber options. More and more cable providers are trying to find a viable solution to improve network speeds without simply replacing the cable infrastructure with optical fiber backbones. The upcoming DOCSIS 3.0 ...

30 January 2008
12:00 GMT

Oh, the Broadband Problems…

The age of Internet life is nigh (if it's not here already)! The percentage of time people spend on the web is growing every day, as the services offered through what I consider to be the greatest invention of the XXth century grow in number and usability. If you want groceries, you first check Google Maps to se...

25 January 2008
20:31 GMT

New Usage Web Prices from Time Warner

The second largest cable provider in the United States has decided that the taxation employed to this day was actually not the best possible, so it announced through the voice of Alex Dudley, its spokesperson, that a new one will be implemented. The new taxation method will first be tested in Beaumont, Texas, and it...

18 January 2008
08:53 GMT

O2 Fishing Customers from Rival Carriers

Right since Apple has released it on the market, the iPhone has been a gadget desired by lots and lots of people. This immense desire to buy it has made it the best thought-out move made by Apple this entire year.Now, to prove once again that it still has that "je ne sais quoi" that made it the famous customer bait i...

28 December 2007
02:44 GMT

PAYG Mobile Broadband from 3

By now, there are not too many people unaware what Group 3 means. If there is someone, then find out that 3 is a brand used for nine mobile telecommunications networks in Europe, Asia and Australia.The one holding the interests in these networks is Hutchison Whampoa. The networks offer "mobile multimedia" and also pr...

21 December 2007
06:22 GMT

AT&T to Cross the Country at 40Gbps Speed

AT&T announced the availability of their coast-to-coast IP/MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) network, able to deliver speeds of up to 40Gbps. The infrastructure is powered by Cisco Systems core routers that allow the provider to quadruple the network capacity. The backbone network provides 40 Gbps speed without us...

11 December 2007
04:32 GMT

First Commercial Mobile WiMAX Network in Germany

The regional telecommunications service provider VSE NET has launched Germany's first commercial WiMAX network at an inauguration ceremony held in Schloss (Castle) Dagstuhl in northern Saarland. For the first time, a broadband live video connection has been established from the lecture hall in the castle, via th...

4 December 2007
10:14 GMT

Only 22 Percent Of The Romanians Connected To Internet

OK, let's start this article with Romania. According to Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, only 22 percent of the Romanians have had an Internet connection in 2007, compared with the last year when 14 percent of the population had web access. From this total number of households connec...

4 December 2007
03:52 GMT

Broadband… Need Faster Broadband…

The broadband speed is currently on every Internet user's top five problems list from all domains, right next to "war", "world hunger" and "finding Osama" but I couldn't really be completely honest and tell you where it ranks for me. I guess I'm not the humanitarian soul I thought I was, I'll tell...

27 November 2007
10:25 GMT

How Internet Wacks The Radio! Revo Blik Knows...

Wi-Fi Internet radio might be the next best thing; however, the makers decided to take a step on the mass market by introducing a radio with an integrated FM and alarm clock. Regarding the portable device there are a lot of things that should be mentioned. Judging by its design line, the radio could actually hide mor...

21 November 2007
03:18 GMT

Ronaldinho's Friends Hope To Download Large Movies Soon

The Internet tends to become one of the vital aspects for our lives as we use it for all sort of information. That's why the authorities from all over the world struggle to expand the Internet coverage in their nation, offering the residents web access for their home computers. Brazil is one of the countries whi...

15 November 2007
06:21 GMT

Auctioning for The 700MHz Band

Federal Communications Commission( FCC for short) released a draft of the rules that will govern the upcoming 700MHz band auction and for those voting for an open-access medium we have some good news. The draft rules say 22MHz from the band will be reserved for open-access (and controlled by open-access regulations)....

11 July 2007
10:00 GMT

Nokia Siemens Provides Broadband Solutions

Nokia Siemens Networks have presented their solutions for improving broadband technology for carriers and service providers. This took place at the Broadband World Forum Asia 2007, where several other mobile phone companies took part.Efficient broadband connections have turned into more frequent requirements coming f...

6 June 2007
09:15 GMT




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