Telecom reform boosts vid franchising May 02, 2006 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A rewrite in the Senate of the Telecommunications Act is under way, pushed by Monday's introduction of draft bill S. 26868, known as the Communications, Consumer's Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006, from Senate ... | |
 Space scientist says texting is four times more expensive than receiving scientific data from space May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 73 vote(s)
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A University of Leicester space scientist has worked out that sending texts via mobile phones works out to be far more expensive than downloading data from the Hubble Space Telescope. | |
Wireless Problems Played Part in Chaos at Virginia Tech April 18, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
According to carriers serving the Virginia Tech campus, the massive increase in wireless call volume during the April 16 shooting tragedy left many students unable to place a voice call or send text messages. | |
ChaCha service raises fears of cheating via cell phone September 11, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
A new cell-phone service that promises to give free answers to virtually any question within minutes has some academics worried that it will be yet another device to help students cheat. | |
 Hook Your Car Up to the Internet March 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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If the thought of a long road trip without full Internet access makes you jittery, a new in-car Internet connection could fulfill your high-speed needs. | |
Wireless networks that build themselves March 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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From traffic lights to mobile phones, small computers are all around us. Enabling these ‘embedded systems’ to create wireless communications networks automatically will have profound effects in areas from emergency management ... | |
Fraud plagues prepaid calling card market October 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Rosalba Posada can tick off a list of problems she has encountered trying to use prepaid calling cards to stay in touch with family back in Colombia. | |
Comcast's new bandwidth limit irks some users September 05, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Comcast's plan to place a cap on consumer Internet use worries some customers who have come to take unfettered Web surfing for granted, even though most users aren't affected by the move. | |
 Swiss researchers test high-speed WLAN network March 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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According to the communication theory, only a limited amount of data can be transmitted within a given bandwidth for wireless communication. Ever since these limits were revealed 60 years ago, we have been ... | |
 Internet at warp speed, captain! November 07, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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The ultra-high data speeds possible on optical fibre networks will only come into their own when the fibres reach the last mile into everyone’s home. But that will require miniaturisation and integration of ... | |
 Beyond 3G, communications services of the future July 11, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Europe's telecommunications industry became the world leader in the 1990s. Now European researchers are working to maintain that lead by developing an innovative services platform for 'Beyond ... | |
 Low cost Internet phone revolution beckons for India August 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Battle lines are being drawn after India's telecoms regulator called for full-blown telephone services via the Internet, paving the way for another fall in the nation's already cheap call rates. | |
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