Broadband penetration soars as prices plunge

Broadband penetration soars as prices plunge around the world Royal Gazette Uptake continues to accelerate worldwide, spurred by a steady fall in the price of telephone and broadband Internet services. The average drop is over 50 percent worldwide in two years, when comparing 2008 to 2010 tariffs. On average, fixed-broadband ...

Essential LTE in Focus as Smartphone Patent Wars Heat Up International Business Times His analysis focused on LTE (ie, 4G) as it will become a key requirement. Most attempts to value patents focus either on counting the total number of patents a company has, but the important number is the number of essential patents, counting the ...

Xirrus Targets Wi-Fi, Mobility Partners In Dramatic Channel Program Expansion CRN According to its channel chiefs, Xirrus' goal is to have 100 percent of sales of its Wi-Fi Arrays go through the channel, and it's promising big returns for solution providers that bet with Xirrus in the hugely competitive Wi-Fi market. ...

Flash Networks the First to Accelerate 4G Networks Sacramento Bee "By applying our unique optimization solutions, our customers can offer users better download speeds than their competitors, on all networks, including 4G LTE." Flash Networks is a global provider of intelligent mobile Internet solutions that enable ...

Landline prices to rise under NBN, but government claims wires crossed Sydney Morning Herald Australians wanting a landline-only service on the national broadband network (NBN) will pay more than they do now, an NBN reseller and consumer advocacy group has claimed - a claim the federal government rejects. Beginning next month NBN Co, ...

Auditors raise probity queries at broadband overseer Cadtle Hills News THE federal agency helping to oversee the $36 billion broadband rollout has had serious questions raised about its ability to ensure the probity of its spending programs. In 96 per cent of purchases tested in 2009, auditors inside the Department of ...

Will Super Wi-Fi Live Up To Its Name? MIT Technology Review The next generation of Wi-Fi was supposed to offer a big boost in capacity and range. By Scott Woolley White Spaces, Blacked Out: Empty airwaves called white spaces could enable long-range "Super Wi-Fi," but FCC rules strictly limit their use in ...

With Wi-Fi demand up, can you capitalize? Hotel News Now Cellular providers may be willing to pay hotels to direct users from the cellular network to the WiFi network. REPORT FROM THE US—With most of the major cellular-service providers in the United States doing away with unlimited data plans and instead ...

Zhone Technologies to Highlight Industry-Leading Multi-Service Access ... MarketWatch (press release) 28-30, 2011 and 2011 Broadband World Forum in Paris, France, Sept. 27-29, 2011. As key industry players convene at each event, Zhone will demonstrate its latest product and solution offerings and showcase its industry-leading fiber network access ...

Nokia Siemens launches new way to deliver broadband NDTV.com Global telecom infrastructure firm Nokia Siemens Networks on Tuesday launched a new way to deliver broadband -- the "liquid net". "The new method allows a network operator to set up a self-adapting network that can serve variable capacity and coverage ...

WhizNets Unveils Wi-Fi Mesh Network Solution PR Web (press release) Visit WhizNets Inc. for more information on wireless solutions, Wi-Fi Starter Kits, WiMAX Starter Kits or contact us with your choice of OS and platform for availability. WhizNets is engaged in providing M2M embedded wireless solutions, ...

Verizon to introduce 4G service in Evansville market next month Evansville Courier & Press By Susan Orr Verizon Wireless plans to launch its 4G network in the Evansville area Oct. 20, the company reported Tuesday. The main advantage of 4G service, said Verizon spokeswoman Michelle Gilbert, is that it is up to 10 times faster than the ...

Eastern Europe schooling US, western Europe on fast broadband Ars Technica This confirms a trend that Pando noted in its analysis of the latest broadband statistics—Eastern Europe is becoming a global high-speed broadband zone, second only to various nations around the so-called Far East. In Pando's ranking of nations in ...

Verizon continues nationwide LTE expansion tour, edges closer to ... By Brad Molen Verizon Wireless Launches 4G LTE In 26 New Markets And Makes Major Expansions In 3 Cities On September 15. With the Introduction of the new DROID BIONIC™ by Motorola, Verizon Wireless Offers 11 Cutting-edge 4G LTE Devices ... Engadget

Apple to begin selling iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G model in China on ... By Chris Rawson Apple received approval to sell the iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G model in China two weeks ago, and according to The Mac Observer sales will begin on Wednesday. TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Canon adds AirPrint wireless capability to PIXMA WiFi printers ... Canon adds AirPrint wireless capability to PIXMA WiFi printers: Canon has announced that three of its recently released wireless all-in-one PIXMA printers can now support 'AirPrint' wireless printing from Apple iOS devices. The PIXMA ... News: Digital Photography Review...

Samsung Epic 4G Touch root method released | Android Community By Nicholas Ahn The Epic 4G Touch was released just last Friday and already the lovely people over at XDA Developers have already developed a root method for the device. Android Community

Android Gingerbread HTC Raider 4G Launched In Korea » Phone ... By James Other specs include the usual WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0, GPS, 1GB RAM, 16GB internal storage, LTEupload speeds of 50Mbps and download of up to 100Mbps, 3G at 5.76Mbps uploads and up to 20Mbps downloads, and all running nicely on the ... Phones Review:

Michelle Malkin » LightSquared: Obama's Dangerous Broadband ... By Michelle Malkin LightSquared: Obama's Dangerous Broadband Boondoggle. ... The company is building “a state-of-the-art open wireless broadband network.” Competition in the industry is a good thing, of course. But military, government and civilian aviation ... Michelle Malkin For PC & Tablets, faster is better & bigger in Europe GigaOm The US has only recently started to see a ramp in wireless broadband speeds, thanks to the rollout of faster 3G services from T-Mobile USA and 4G-type services (LTE, WiMAX) from Sprint, Clearwire and Verizon. As the faster wireless broadband ... HTC Raider 4G hits South Korea, AT&T tipped next SlashGear HTC has outed the Raider 4G, the company's latest 4G LTE smartphone, running Android Gingerbread on a 1.5GHz dual-core processor. Fronted by a 4.5-inch qHD resolution display, the HTC Raider 4G is capable of up to 100Mbps downloads and 50Mbps uploads ... Why is AT&T LTE Fast In Houston, Slow In Chicago? PC Magazine So is this what 5MHz LTE channels look like? Fortunately, we have another example of a 5MHz LTErollout in the US: MetroPCS. MetroPCS is actually running 4G LTE on even narrower channels in some cities, down to 1.4MHz. But in Dallas, for instance, ... Blighty's slow-crawling broadband streets revealed Register By Kelly Fiveash • Get more from this author Dial-up speeds of 56Kbit/s may be a thing of the past for many UK residents, but some people throughout the land remain saddled with painfully slow internet connections, courtesy of their local broadband ... Broadband Forum Delivers Fiber Solution Set Sacramento Bee By Broadband Forum SHANGHAI, Sept. 21, 2011 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The BroadbandForum has brought widespread deployment of superfast broadband a step closer with the launch today of its comprehensive fiber resource – BroadbandSuite™ 5.0 at the ... Verizon Wireless Launching 4G LTE Service in Buffalo/Niagara Area on October 20 Sacramento Bee "We're excited to lead the Buffalo/Niagara area into the 4G LTE wireless broadband world, helping residents, businesses, and local government connect faster and more fully with each other and with those outside the area," said Russ Preite, president of ... Comcast Brings Cheap Broadband To Poor Families RedOrbit Comcast On Tuesday fulfilled its commitment to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) by providing low-priced broadband internet service to poor families in exchange for its merger with NBC Universal. The program, called Internet Essentials,... ACMA pushes 4G spectrum defrag The Australian All the top-three mobile operators have announced plans to deploy LTE but it's understood they will need the bands better aligned to hit the 20MHz sweet spot as demand for mobile broadband grows. Motorola Atrix 4G Review Mobile Magazine Rounding out the specs are your usual wireless radios — WiFi, 3G, Bluetooth, GPS — as well as dual cameras, 16GB internal storage, microSD expansion, and the MOTOBLUR user interface with live widgets. The first thing that struck me about this phone ... Sentech, Broadband Infraco merger back on the table? TeleGeography In addition to providing broadcast signal distribution services, Sentech is keen to roll out a WiMAXnetwork in rural areas, using frequency allocations in the 2.6GHz and 3.5GHz spectrum bands that were previously utilised by its ill-fated 'MyWireless' ... LightSquared Selects Evolving Systems for 4G-LTE Service Activation MarketWatch (press release) As a wholesale-only operator, LightSquared will deploy an open 4G wireless broadband network to be used by existing and new service providers to sell their own devices, applications and services -- at a competitive cost and without retail competition ... Turnbull takes Coalition's anti-NBN message global at Broadband World Forum iTWire By Stuart Corner Shadow Communications minister Malcolm Turnbull will put the Coalition's views on Australia's broadband future to an audience of senior broadband industry executives from around the world next week, at the Broadband World Forum ... Broadband Courses from CommScope's Infrastructure Academy Qualify as SCTE ... MarketWatch (press release) HICKORY, NC, Sep 21, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Broadband courses from CommScope's Infrastructure Academy now satisfy requirements for the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) recertification units. SCTE members may now utilize the ... US Operators Turn to Mobile Broadband for Growth Opportunities, Pyramid Finds Sacramento Bee "Pyramid expects that 'taxing' the heaviest users as well as the availability of additional spectrum to operators over the next five years and LTE rollouts will increase the affordability of broadband data for low and medium users, increasing the data ... Texas' Single Largest Broadband Stimulus Winner Selects ADTRAN for FTTP Build Out MarketWatch (press release) HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Sep 21, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- ADTRAN(R), Inc., /quotes/zigman/57266 ADTN -0.59% , a leading provider of next-generation networking solutions, today announced that Valley Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (VTCI), a LEC and CLEC serving ...