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Telecom Policy Makers Urged to Focus on Rural Connectivity

The Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah has urged the 850 delegates attending the World Telecom Policy Forum in Lisbon, Portugal to make affordable access to information and communication technologies (icts) by the rural communities the central focus of their policy-making. Dr. Spio-Garbrah was among a number of heads of international organisations and ministers of telecommunications and icts who addressed the plenary session of the three-day forum. more

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NSA Spies On Americans Outside The Law

..r. "These revelations are as alarming as they are predictable," said Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU National Security Project. "The FAA set virtually no limits on the government's eavesdropping authority, but it appears that more

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Russia's MTS Launches a CDMA Network in India

..nch marks the entry of MTS services across all major towns in the 31 districts of Tamil Nadu including Chennai. Further, MTS will quickly expand presence to over 580 cities in the next two months, penetrating about 50 to 60% of the population. more

Czech Republic Tries to Stop Media Talking about Phone Tapping

..d above all ensure that the laws it drafts increase individual freedom rather than restricting the areas of investigation. The press freedom organisation added : "If amendments have to be made to legislation affecting the media, they must resp more

Innovative Business Model is the Key to Telecommunication Survival

The economic crisis is inevitably affecting the telecommunications sector. Continuous strain in the credit market has a big effect on investments. The reduction in consumption is changing the adoption and acceptance of new services. During these difficult times the key to staying afloat is to implement an open and shared innovation model focusing on enhancing the effectiveness of processes and innovative business. more

GSMA Urges Latin American Regulators to Relax radio Spectrum Limits

.. for the GSMA, the global trade group for the mobile industry. The study found that rigid restrictions on the amount of spectrum available to mobile operators are undermining their ability to provide mobile broadband services that would enable more

Computing in a Molecule

..in size since Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore famously predicted in 1965 that the number that can be placed on a processor would double roughly every two years. But there will inevitably come a time when the laws of quantum physics prevent any more

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ITU advocates infrastructure sharing to counter investment drought

The International Telecomunications Union (ITU) has published a report detailing a set of regulatory strategies designed to lower the costs of telecoms network rollout. The report notes that 2008 has been marked by unparalleled numbers of voice and Internet consumers in both the developing and developed world, the result of network growth and expansion. more

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OECD Countries Use Tax Breaks to Drive Corporate R&D Spending

..the more restrictive criteria applied by patent offices and the end of the wave of patenting that followed the decoding of the human genome. In 2005, Korea reported the highest surplus in the ICT goods trade balance, followed by Finland, Hung more

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ITU Cancels European Trade Show

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) says that it is cancelling its forthcoming ITU TELECOM EUROPE 2007 in Sofia, Bulgaria, which was scheduled for December. The ITU says that the decision has been taken in order to focus capacity and resources on upcoming ITU TELECOM events as well as a number of new initiatives. more

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