France, Germany Lead Opposition to EU's New Telecoms Reform Plans
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France and Germany are leading opposition to the European Union (EU)'s new telecoms reform proposal. In a statement yesterday, Bernd Pfaffenbach, a senior German government official, said there was neither economic nor political justification for creating more bureaucracy and increasing the regulatory powers at the centre of the...
Tele2 Eyes Further Regional Licences in Russia
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Tele2 has revealed that it is competing for 15 regional mobile licences in Russia, and is prepared to expand its regional portfolio with acquisitions in the future, reports Dow Jones, citing Chief Executive Lars-Johan Jarnheimer. The operator is confident of winning seven new licences, and is particularly keen to establish itself...
International Spotlight -- The UK
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At the end of Q2, the U.K. placed fifth worldwide for the total number of broadband subscribers - behind the U.S., China, Japan and Germany. DSL overtook cable modems as the dominant technology in mid-2003, and it has since remained the main medium for delivering broadband. About 99.9 percent of the U.K. can receive broadband...
A Rogues Gallery of Data Protection Miscreants
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Protecting data has become a top priority for most IT personnel, including storage managers. And the job is overwhelming. From supporting laptop information to guarding archives to managing security keys, data protection is a multifaceted task with lots of moving parts. So it's no surprise that things go wrong. Indeed, the...
Will SOA Be The Next Collaboration Enabler?
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Many enterprises reportedly are experimenting with Web 2.0 tools and service-oriented technologies to expand the collaborative reach of the organization, according to results of a pulse survey of more than 100 participants attending an Oracle conference this week. According to Capgemini U.S. LLC, a global provider of consulting,...
Verizon Lights 40G Network
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As promised earlier this year, Verizon Business has gone live with a 40 Gb/s network, using Juniper Networks' T-series core routers to carry Internet traffic at that speed between Washington, D.C. and Chicago, and on its multi-protocol label switched network between Washington and New York City. The move to take 40G...
Nortel Preps New PBT Switch
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The question for Nortel is not "What's new?" but "What's MetroNext?" Nortel is taking its carrier Ethernet campaign to the next level with the development of a new switch, codenamed MetroNext, that will be optimized for Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) and include support for multicast services such as...
Oracle Leads OSS News Charge
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Oracle Corp. has drawn on its vast software portfolio to develop a number of new software systems aimed squarely at carriers, including a new inventory management system that can interact with an operator's business processing and customer management systems. The database giant's OSS business, Oracle Communication, is...
Broadband May Become More Popular Than TV for Many in US
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Within the next three years, more than 16 million US TV households may be using their broadband service more than they use their TV sets today, reports In-Stat. This is one of the key findings of an In-Stat survey of US consumers about TV viewing, media, and online habits, the high-tech market research firm says....
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