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Mexico senate passes new telecom regulations
AFP, Published on 06/07/2014
» MEXICO CITY - Mexico's senate adopted an ambitious telecommunications reform package Saturday aimed at blocking monopolies in television, mobile phones and high-speed Internet.
French TV channels seek protection from Google, Netflix
AFP, Published on 17/02/2014
» The heads of France's three largest private television networks have asked the government to protect them from US competitors like Google, Apple and Netflix who are set to enter the market.
Delays hang over Pakistan 3G lifeline
AFP, Published on 07/08/2013
» Pakistan's cash-strapped government has promised to sell 3G mobile telephone licences to raise revenue, match regional rivals and drive prosperity, but the process has been beset by delays.
US presidential debate an online sensation
AFP, Published on 04/10/2012
» From YouTube to Xbox videogame consoles, people tuned into the US presidential debate online and weighed in so intensely that it became Twitter's hottest US political event.
Big cash stockpile puts US tech firms on the spot
AFP, Published on 02/08/2012
» Apple has more than $81 billion parked overseas. Microsoft has $54 billion, Google $43 billion and Cisco $42 billion.
Tiny IT titan Estonia to switch to e-billing
AFP, Published on 10/02/2011
» Estonia, already one of the world's most cyber-focused nations, is to switch to online bill-processing at the state level in a move that will slash costs, its government said Wednesday.
The final nail, not a new era
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 01/12/2010
» As Thailand celebrates one year of ToT's 3G network, others will mourn the passing of the Frequency Allocation Act. Instead of marking the beginning of a new dawn in Thailand's telecommunications saga, the act marks the final nail in the coffin for our short-lived attempts to reform the telecommunications sector from a 90s-style state-run concession to a modern, deregulated licensed one.
Totally crazy
Database, Published on 18/08/2010
» The Magnificent Seven said sorry, but it forgot to announce some extra stipulations it will put into the third generation (3G) phone bidding that may (or may not) take place in the foreseeable future; any firm winning one of the three 3G licences will of course have to pay somewhere around 12 billion baht, according to estimates by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC). But in a whoops-moment, commissioner Suranant Wongwittayakamchorn suddenly remembered that each of them will have to offer free Internet access with 2Mbps lines to 15,000 rural schools for five years; ironically, that is something Samart Corp could do more easily than the Number 1 and Number 1 yuppiephone firms, Advanced Info Service and Dtac, neither of which is an Internet provider.