23.11.2008
Brasil Telecom deal gets regulatory push
It seems like spam comes in everyday from someone urging me to join the land grab in Brazil. Can`t vouch for that market opportunity, but we can tell you that Brazil`s telecom market is starting to get interesting. The Brazilian president just approved a change to the country`s telecom... |
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08.09.2010
Brazil's Anatel adds fuel to its universal telecom service plan
Brazil`s telecom regulator Anatel has debuted PGMU III, a new policy document that is set on enabling the country to meet its universal service access goals. Although the plan will cost participating service providers $1.7 billion to put in place, Anatel said there will be a $968.3 million bonus... |
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03.08.2010
Brazil's Anatel puts kibosh on forced phone/data bundling
Brazil`s service providers will no longer be able to require customers to buy a phone line if they buy a broadband service. Anatel, Brazil`s telecom regulator, said they have taken "precautionary measures" against the country`s dominant service providers Telefonica (NYSE: TEF), Telemar (Sao Paolo:... |
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12.10.2010
Brazil's GVT reaches 1 million broadband subscriber mark
Brazil-based wireline provider Global Village Telecom`s (GVT) bet on broadband appears to be paying off as the service provider`s service now is being used by one million users, with sixty percent of that subscriber base using a 10 Mbps or higher connection. Despite meeting this milestone, GVT... |
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26.10.2009
Broadband providers: Give the cities a helping hand
To expand broadband opportunities, cities and towns are going to need assistance from local service providers, argued Chicago`s CIO Hardik Bhatt during the Friday morning keynote speech at the SUPERCOMM trade show. In order to do that, schools, for example, will need far more than a paltry T1 (1.5... |
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25.02.2010
Broadband, voice growth boosts Cablevision's Q4
Growth in developing countries and the voice data to help increase revenue Cablevision Q4 `s performance as the year was 5.2 percent of the cable to $5.432 billion.
If the suspects, I saw some minor erosion of Cablevision (2800 loss of customer base) in the traditional video business from... |
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23.12.2008
Broken router busts Time Warner Cable digital phone service in Hawaii
Time Warner`s digital phone service for the state of Hawaii is down statewide, clobbered by a broken router on the mainland (Orange County, Calif., to be specific). Oceanic Time Warner Cable doesn`t know how many of its 65,000 digital phone customers are affected and the severity of the... |
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16.09.2008
BT & HP sign $660M partnership extension
BT and HP announced a $660 million, seven and a half-year extension to their existing partnership, the BT HP Alliance. HP will continue to serve more than 100,000 BT customers in the U.K. under the arrangement.The Alliance, "transforms and simplifies customers` networked IT services and provides... |
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23.08.2011
BT beefs up WiFi reach into London pubs via Heineken partnership
WiFi and a pint: What a combination. This is obviously the thinking behind BT`s (NYSE: BT) new partnership with Heineken to deploy WiFi in about 100 pub locations in London by the end of 2012. BT Openzone WiFi will soon be available in London pubs. Customers that use the new WiFi service... |
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12.12.2007
BT evaluating femtocells
U.K. telco giant BT said at the Informa Femtocell Solution Conference in London that, like many other carriers, it is conducting technical evaluations of femtocell technology. However, the carrier is concerned the cost of introducing femtocells as a residential fixed-mobile convergence solution may... |
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