Sandvine Study Underscores Fluidity of North American and European VoIP Markets
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Sandvine, the provider of broadband network management solutions, has revealed the results of a recent survey of its broadband service provider customers. The survey, carried out in November and December 2005, analysed VoIP traffic trends of over 700,000 broadband households serviced by a group of service providers with over 6 million...
Turkish Regulator to Disconnect Unregistered Mobiles, to curb Grey Market
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In the wake of new regulations issued last year, Turkey's mobile operators have said that they will block unregistered mobile handsets in a bid to curb the grey market for smuggled or cloned handsets. According to the regulator, some 19 million people registered their handsets within the allotted time and the outstanding 500,000 will be...
Location Services Lost on Users
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Location based services (LBS) -- which deliver localized information directly to your mobile phone in real time -- have generated plenty of buzz in the wireless industry over the last couple of years, but it turns out these new cellular applications are largely lost on enterprise users. Verizon Wireless this week announced its first...
Business Professionals Expect Increased Wi-Fi Hotspot Use
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Business professionals' use of Wi-Fi hotspot access and services is on the rise, both in the number of users and the frequency that they use these services, reports In-Stat. According to an online survey of 579 business professionals conducted by the high-tech market research firm, nearly half of all respondents...
Next DTV Step: Bush's Signature
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President George W. Bush has signaled his willingness to sign major budget-reconciliation legislation just passed by the U.S. House of Representatives that includes a digital-television (DTV) cutover measure (plus a transition deadline three years from now). In a White House-issued statement also anticipating an Administration budget...
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