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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

Related Tags: commonwealth-telecommunications-organisation, ict, rural, itu, edge, , tim, ovi, compete, play, connect


Russian Government May Be Preparing to Take Stake in Indian Operator

.. 22 Indian circles, covering 28 administrative states and 7 union territories with a population of approximately 1.1 billion people.  more

Related Tags: mts, sistema, sistema-shyam, India


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, rural, mobile-broadband, ict, itu, compete, backhaul, submarine, connect


Unions Call on Telstra to Accept Employee Vote on New Job Practices

Australian labour unions have urged Telstra's management to respect the rights of its workers to be represented by unions after the company's offer of a non-union job contract was rejected by employees.  more

Related Tags: telstra, unions, court, Australia


EU Warns Member States Over Independence of Telecoms Regulator

The European union has started infringement proceedings against Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden for breaching its rules on the independence of their national telecoms regulators.  more

Related Tags: viviane-reding, eu, european-union, interconnection, Latvia


Asia-Pacific leads high-speed Internet connectivity, but wide divide prevails

The International Telecoms union (ITU) has reported that while some Asia-Pacific economies are world leaders in information and communication technologies (ICT) where broadband access is ultra-high speed, affordable and close to ubiquitous, in most of the region's poorer countries Internet access remains limited and predominantly low-speed. A new report finds evidence that ICTs and broadband uptake foster growth and development, but the question remains as to the optimal speed that should be targeted in view of limited resources.  more

Related Tags: wi-fi, sms, mobile-data, wcdma, text-messaging, rcom, mobile-broadband, itu, wimax, text-messages, hotspots, fibre-optic, catalyst, wi-fi-hotspots


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