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Articles tagged with: Union and Connect
O2 Starts Talks with UK Unions Over Job Cuts
UK based Telefonica O2 has started consulting trade unions over plans for a 5% cut in its UK workforce. The Prospect-Connect union says that it has received a presentation from various parts of the business about their thoughts on the redundancies and the union raised a number of initial challenges to the approach being adopted. more
African churches use mobile phone to ring up growth in members
A mobile phone suspended on a belt round the waist, or from the neck, is a common sight among members of church congregations in Africa. Now, church leaders are heaping praise on mobile phones, sometimes called cell phones, because they say the instruments help congregations grow. more
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Caribbean PrePay Top-Ups via US Western Union Offices
Pan-Caribbean operator LIME (formerly Cable & Wireless) has launched an overseas top-up service for its PrePay subscribers. People resident in the USA can visit a Western union Agent and transfer fund to LIME accounts via a platform being provided by MoreMagic Solutions. more
Related Tags: lime, cable-&-wireless, western-union, moremagic-solutions, top-up, usa
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
Related Tags: commonwealth-telecommunications-organisation, ict, rural, itu, rsa, edge, , tim, ovi, compete, play
GSMA Urges Latin American Regulators to Relax radio Spectrum Limits
Tight spectrum caps in some Latin American countries are artificially curbing uptake and usage of broadband in the region, according to a study by consultancy Arthur D Little (ADL) 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 millions of people to access the Internet, email and other online services via computers and handsets at high speeds in areas lacking DSL or cable broadband connections. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, t-mobile-usa, ict, itu, driving, lte, verizon-wireless, hspa, verizon, mobile-broadband, eu, digital-dividend, analog, gsma, aws, 700mhz, latin-america, 2.6ghz, antel
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
Related Tags: sms, rsa, rural, mobile-broadband, ict, itu, compete, backhaul, submarine
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