Planning a Hydrogen-Powered Phone
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Clean, efficient hydrogen has long been eyed as a convenient and long lasting fuel. Now, chemists at UCLA and the University of Michigan are reporting an advance toward the goal of phones and other mobile devices that run on hydrogen rather than conventional batteries. While the U.S. Department of Energy estimates that practical ...
Rostelecom Sells 90% Stake in RTK-Sibir
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Russia's fixed-line incumbent, Rostelecom, has sold its 90% stake in RTK-Sibir, which operates in the Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia, to TeleMir, which now own 100% of the company. Significance: With its monopoly of the fixed-line, long-distance market soon to be eroded following the liberalisation of the sector in 2005, Rostelecom has...
Vodaf RIM in Voice 'Push'
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Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM - message board; Toronto: RIM) says it has bought Ascendent Systems , a move the handheld device vendor says will give it the capability to "push" voice calls from users' corporate desk phones to their wireless -- or other wireline -- devices. The acquisition comes as RIM introduces new...
France Telecom Joins Million-Man VoIP Club
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France Telecom claims to have zoomed passed the million-customer mark in residential voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), making it one of what still is only a handful of companies in the world that can claim such a customer base. The carrier now says it's signing new VoIP customers in five countries at the rate of 5,000 per day. France...
Poll: Merger Won't Spur Competition
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Nearly three fourths of Light Readers polled this week say that the combination of AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T - message board) and BellSouth Corp. (NYSE: BLS - message board) will not improve competition in the communications industry. (See Ma Bell Is Back!.) Shortly after the mother of all mega-mergers was announced on Sunday, Light...
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