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Fitch: Reforms Threaten Financial Profiles
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Credit profiles of some wireless operators could be negatively affected by reforms to the Universal Service Fund (USF) - due to expire in June - according to Fitch Ratings. Fitch says the reforms could pose "a material event risk to some U.S. wireless operators and place negative pressures on future cash flows." Companies without enough...Turning a Campus into a Wireless Testbed
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Ubiquitous communications -- the ability to reach people anytime anywhere -- is getting a trial on the Newark, N.J., campus of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). In fact, the campus is about to be turned into a virtual laboratory for investigating innovative ways students can connect with each other using cell phones and...Survey: Wireline Erosion Will Accelerate; 20% of Households Plan to Cancel or Not Use Wireline Services
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- According to the In-Stat US Consumer Telecom Survey, nearly 20% of respondents that use wireless voice service plan to drop landline phone service, reports In-Stat. Furthermore, as an indication of future wireline erosion, wireless usage continues to increase in proportion to wireline usage, particularly among...German T-Mobile Makes Data Faster, Cheaper
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Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Mobile, in a major mobile-data- services push in Germany, has unveiled a flat-rate wireless-data pricing scheme and a new High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) service with bandwidth as much as 1.8 Mb/s. The carrier says a handful of its business customers, including Deutsche Bahn AG, has been testing...Google, Skype Back WiFi Startup
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Google and eBay Inc. division Skype have invested in the Spanish start-up company FON , whose software turns home wireless routers into WiFi hotspots for broadband sharing among a worldwide community of "foneros." Google and Skype joined VCs Index Ventures and Sequoia...Copyright (C) 2005 PricewaterhouseCoopers.