NTL Launches First Quadruple-Play Service in U.K.
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Cable operator NTL has, as expected, announced the launch of the United Kingdom's first 'quadruple-play' package. The service will offer digital TV, mobile services, internet access and fixed-line telephony, for a monthly charge of 40 pounds (US$75.7). The move is the latest realisation of the potential of the combined ...
Softbank Promises Easy, Free Yahoo! Internet Content on New Mobile Phones
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TOKYO -- Japanese Internet services company Softbank, which bought British carrier Vodafone's mobile business in Japan earlier this year, said Thursday that its new mobile phones will offer an easy link to Yahoo! Internet content. Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son said the carrier will expand the lineup of handsets by ...
EU Court Rules Illegal Dutch Government Golden Shares in KPN, Dutch Post
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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- An EU court on Thursday ruled illegal the Dutch government's controlling minority stake in telecom company Royal KPN NV and the Dutch Post Office TNT Postgroep NV. The European Court of Justice, the EU's highest court, said the government's 'golden shares' -- which gave it ...
Verizon Touts FiOS Momentum; Spending To Top $18B
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Verizon this morning delivered what could be called a 'state of the union' briefing on its FiOS fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) project, saying it now expects to spend $18 billion on the program by 2010, at which time it will have passed 18 million premises with its network. In an extensive and mainly upbeat briefing for ...
Colubris Gets Secure
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WiFi vendor Colubris Networks Inc. has released a new access point aimed at the ever-more-crowded enterprise wireless intrusion detection and prevention marketplace. The Waltham, Mass.-based company claims that its MAP-330 Integrated Sensor/AP is different from the rest because it can operate as a normal access point and a security ...
Cable VOIP Gains at Telco Expense
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With the larger cable operators all rolling out VOIP to their markets, a new study predicts that North American MSOs will sign up nearly 28 million residential phone customers by the end of 2009, increasingly at the expense of the telcos. In the study, Convergence Consulting Group predicts that U.S. cable operators will have 24.5 ...
User-Generated Web Content Will Grow Rapidly Through 2010
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- User-Generated Content (UGC), such as that found on YouTube and MySpace, will continue to grow significantly in popularity and generate increasing revenue over the next several years, reports In-Stat. By 2010, the volume of downloads/views on these sites will surpass 65 billion, and revenues tied to UGC video ...
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