European Industry Body Calls for Greater Power to National Regulators
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The European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA), the industry body representing Europe's alternative telcos, has released a report, calling on European countries to give greater powers to their national regulators in order to make the region more globally competitive by 2010. In the study, conducted with Brussels law ...
Consolidation in Cable Market as UPC Belgium and Telenet Merge
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The Belgian cable market is set for a major consolidation as the two leading players-Telenet and UPC Belgium-confirmed plans to merge. Telenet, which has 2.6 million customers, is buying UPC Belgium from Liberty Global for 187 million euro (US$246 million) in cash. UPC Belgium has 125,000 customers. Significance: The merger deal is ...
Ofcom Unveils Proposal for Wireless Broadband Spectrum Auction
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The United Kingdom's telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has unveiled proposals for the auction of its 2.6 GHz radio spectrum, in what has been dubbed Ofcom's largest sell-off of wireless spectrum. The 2.6 GHz spectrum band can be used for mobile services, mobile TV and WiMAX. Ofcom said that depending on the length of the consultation ...
HP, Cingular Unveil Global Mobile Broadband Laptop
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Hewlett-Packard and Cingular Wireless have teamed to integrate Cingular's 3G UMTS/HSDPA network capabilities into the new HP Compaq nc6400 Notebook PC. The laptop, according to the companies, is the first to feature built-in support for global high-speed connections. The HP Compaq nc6400 features a tri-band UMTS modem, which ...
Survey Sez: Despite Risks, Securities Firms Love IM
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A new poll confirms that instant messaging (IMing) is an increasingly common communication tool within securities firms, despite the fact risk management remains the top barrier to institutional adoption of IM in many companies and that the days are likely numbered for unsanctioned consumer IM applications on securities-industry ...
New Memory Device Could Trash Flash
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Leap-frogging Moore's Law, scientists from IBM Corp. will announce on Wednesday a prototype of a new type of memory device that has the potential to replace flash memory in mobile devices such as music players, cell phones, and digital cameras. Called 'phase-change memory', the new technology runs more than 500 ...
Mobile Carriers Tackle Backhaul Bottleneck
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Three leading European mobile operators will take to the podium at a one-day conference in London this week to tackle one of the biggest issues currently facing wireless carriers: the backhaul bottleneck. Emin Gurdenli, technical director at T-Mobile (UK) , will provide the keynote address at Light Reading's 'Backhaul ...
Mirapoint to Bundle SAN/Email Solution
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The worlds of storage and email are becoming entwined as users attempt to tackle the double-whammy of email growth and compliance pressures. Today, for instance, messaging specialist Mirapoint announced a partnership with NetApp to sell the storage vendor's SAN technology with its own Message Server device. ...
Complexity Will Hasten Managed Services Adoption Among US Firms
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Most US firms-especially leading IT-using firms-choose to perform business network functions in-house, reports In-Stat. But even these do-it-yourselfers (DIYers) admit that future complexity could spur managed service adoption within two years, the high-tech market research firm says. To best capitalize on this ...
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