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Obama Pushes Wireless Broadband Access in State of the Union Address

January 26th, 2011 | No Comments

News Analysis: The proposal by President Barack Obama to bring wireless broadband to 80 percent of the United States is a fine idea thats already mired in the Federal Communication Commissions net neutrality mess. – When President Barack Obama said in the State
of the Union address that he wanted to see broadband wireless available
to 80 percent of the U.S. population within the next couple of years,
he was really taking a line from the National Broadband Plan that the
Federal Communication Commission has b…

Mobile Broadband Subscriptions to Hit $1B Mark in 2011: Ericsson

January 11th, 2011 | No Comments

Mobile phone maker Ericsson reported mobile broadband subscriptions would hit one billion before the end of 2011. – Last year, mobile broadband subscriptions surpassed the half-billion mark globally, and mobile phone maker Ericsson is now estimating that this number will double before 2011 ends.

The greatest number of subscriptions, around 400 million, is expected to be concentrated in the Asia-Pacific, foll…

New Tablet PCs, 3D TVs, Broadband Phones Headline 2011 CES

January 4th, 2011 | No Comments

Although the focus is on consumer brands, a number of companies that straddle the enterprise/consumer product fence will show products that can be used for home and/or the office. – Which electronics show is really the largest in the world: the annual CeBIT conference in Hannover, Germany in March, or the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas each January?

Both are certifiably huge. But CeBIT, which takes over up to 28
hangar-like exhibit halls in Hannover –…

Broadband Internet Satellite Launches Successfully

December 27th, 2010 | No Comments

The European satellite is designed to provide consumers with access to faster broadband Internet. – The KA-SAT satellite of Eutelsat
Communications has been successfully lofted into orbit by a Proton Breeze M
rocket supplied by International Launch Services. Built for Eutelsat by Astrium
using the Eurostar E3000 platform, the KA-SAT
is a new generation of multi-spotbeam satellite. Its concept …

FCC Proposes Using TV Broadcast Spectrum for Mobile Broadband

December 1st, 2010 | No Comments

The FCC says it wasnt easy to clear spectrum for digital TV, and it wont be easy to clear it to meet growing mobile broadband needs. But it needs to happen, and pronto. – The Federal Communications Commission is proposing that some broadcast television airwaves be used to meet the nations growing demand for mobile broadband services, which is being driven by widespread smartphone adoption and the increasing use of mobile devices such as laptops and tablets.
The O…

FCC to Investigate Comcast, Level 3 Spat Over Broadband Traffic Fees

December 1st, 2010 | No Comments

Level 3′s spat with Comcast over fees for bandwidth traffic will be looked into by the Federal Communications Commission. – Level 3 Communications has accused U.S. cable provider Comcast Communications of imposing an unfair fee on bandwidth traffic. As a provider of fiber-based communications services, Level 3 helps stream Netflixs television shows and movies to consumers. Now U.S. regulators are getting involved.
Â“On N…

Sinotel Technologies signs deal with China Telecom to promote fixed line, fibre-optic broadband …

November 11th, 2010 | No Comments

Mainboard-listed Sinotel Technologies, the provider of wireless telecommunications infrastructure and solutions in China, says the group has signed a deal with China Telecom to promote its fixed line, fibre-optic broadband and IPTV services on an income-sharing basis.

Under the agreement, the group will develop high speed fibre-optic infrastructure for four residential districts in Shanxi, namely Wen Ting Ban Li, Hu Pan Xiao Chu, Ji Zhen Cun and Tai Hua, connecting homes directly to China Telecom’s core network. The connection will make available to home users fixed-line telephone, broadband internet and IPTV services. The installation of fibre optics would provide seamless transfer speeds and endure less data loss due to its immunity to electromagnetic interference whilst in transit.

The sharing of net income derived from the three services is as below:

	China Telecom	Sinotel
Fixed-line telephone	60%	40%
Broadband Internet	60%	40%
IPTV	30%	70%

The contract between Sinotel and China Telecom is valid for five years and during this period, the joint partners have exclusive rights to provide the above services to these residential districts.

The group anticipates this business segment to be one of the growth drivers for Sinotel in the next year and intends to replicate this model in other provinces and communities.

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Broadband Adoption Rising, but Gap Persists: Report

November 9th, 2010 | No Comments

An NTIA report finds despite a rise in broadband Internet adoption in the U.S., socioeconomic hurdles remain. – A new study has found that socioeconomic factors such as income and
education levels although strongly associated with broadband Internet use are
not the sole determinants of use. Even after accounting for socioeconomic
differences, significant gaps persist along racial, ethnic and geographic lin…

Starhub cut to Sell by Goldman Sachs; Ups target

November 8th, 2010 | No Comments

Goldman Sachs downgrades Starhub (CC3.SG) to Sell vs Neutral due to rich valuation of 14.6x FY11 P/E, risk to earnings growth, saying: “Momentum is against the company across pay TV, broadband and mobile (businesses).”

Goldman expects SingTel (Z74.SG) to grab pay-TV market share, capture more broadband customers using Singapore’s national broadband network.

Research house says investors will wait for signs of Starhub’s operational stability before being convinced that consensus 15% EPS growth forecast for FY11 can be attained. Still, lifts target price to $2.30 vs $2.15 after rolling over valuation period to FY11. Shares down 1.5% at $2.72.

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SingTel Optus misled Australians with ads, judge says: Update 2

October 29th, 2010 | No Comments

SingTel Optus misled Australians in print, television and online advertisements for its broadband service that promised data plans customers weren’t likely to receive, a federal court judge ruled.

SingTel Optus, a unit of Southeast Asia’s biggest phone operator Singapore Telecommunications, advertised broadband plans that offered up to 170 gigabytes of data per month for a set price, while noting in fine print if customers exceeded a set limit during peak hours, the whole service would be slowed to 64 kilobytes per second, a fraction of the broadband speed that can be as high as 100,000 kilobytes per second.

SingTel Optus misled Australians with ads, judge says: Update

October 29th, 2010 | No Comments

SingTel Optus misled Australians in print, television and online advertisements for its broadband service that promised data plans customers weren’t likely to receive, a federal court judge ruled.

Broadband in America: Come sooner, future

October 28th, 2010 | No Comments

Verizon has paid dearly to build a fast network. Now it needs customers

VERIZON can get shirty about the word “fibre”. America’s second-biggest telecoms operator successfully complained to the Better Business Bureau that competitors had touted “fibre-optic fast” to consumers, even though their broadband networks did not run fibre all the way to the home, as Verizon does. This is not just a techies’ argument. By an order of magnitude, an all-fibre network is the fastest way to move information from one place to another on the internet and Verizon has the largest such network in America. The difficult bit is making money from it.

The company is betting that highbandwidth web services will create a huge demand for fast networks—and profits. But that is in the future. In Japan and South Korea, two other countries with fast networks, the government has subsidised the laying of new fibre. In America, which has relied on private investment, Verizon is having to shoulder more of the risk. …

Mindspeed, ProSyst Offer FTTH Broadband Router Platform

October 26th, 2010 | No Comments

Mindspeed’s Dual-Core Comcerto 1000 System-on-Chip (SoC) packet processor links with ProSyst’s mBS Smart Home platform. – Mindspeed Technologies, a supplier of semiconductor solutions for network
infrastructure applications, and ProSyst, an OSGi provider, announced a
collaboration to co-market OSGi SoC solutions to service providers and product
manufacturers.
ProSyst now commercially supports Mindspeed’s Comcerto …

Google Tests 1G-bps Broadband Network at Stanford University

October 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

Google will launch a 1G-bps broadband network for faculty homes on Stanford University’s campus in 2011. Think of it as a flight test for its planned community deployment. – Google struck a deal with Stanford
University to build a broadband
network fueling Internet speeds of up to 1G bps for 850 homes owned by faculty
and staff on the campus.

The experiment, slated to start in early 2011, is the latest in Google’s effort
to test how ultra high-speed broadband acc…

FCC Wants $100M to $300M for Mobile Broadband Fund

October 15th, 2010 | No Comments

The Federal Communications Commission wants to move $100 million to $300 million from the Universal Service Fund to forge a Mobility Fund. – Following on the heels of its bid to combat bill shock, the Federal Communications
Commission Oct. 14 proposed to move $100 million to $300 million from the
Universal Service Fund to forge a Mobility Fund.
The Mobility Fund would facilitate the growth of broadband in the United
States, where de…

KT and Intel Strengthen Collaboration in Wireless Broadband; Expanded Network Coverage, Embedded Chipsets, US$20m Investment

September 30th, 2010 | No Comments

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

KT’s WIBRO service will be available in another five major cities and expressways in Korea by Oct. 1.
First Intel Core and Intel Atom processor-based laptops and netbooks with Intel embedded WiMAX and Wi-Fi capabilities are available in Korea.
WIBRO network is now on 10MHz WiMAX channel bandwidth with improved radio planning, increasing quality of service by up to two times.
Intel Capital is investing US$20 million in WIBRO Infra Co., Ltd.

SEOUL, Sept. 30, 2010 – Intel Corporation and KT today announced that they are expanding their collaboration to accelerate the adoption of WIBRO-branded services based on WiMAX technology in South Korea. Intel Capital, Intel’s global investment organization, also announced an investment of US$20 million in WIBRO Infra Co., Ltd. (WIC), a joint venture with KT, Samsung and KBIC. The Intel Capital investment will help WIC accelerate KT’s leading wireless broadband infrastructure build out.

Expanding WIBRO Coverage, Improved Customer Benefits
In addition to availability in the metropolitan areas of Seoul, Inchon and Suwon, KT will expand the WIBRO service to five new cities — Busan, Daegu, Gwangju, Daejeon and Ulsan — and the expressways of Gyeongbu, Jungbu, Honam and Yeongdong. When the new service begins on Oct. 1, subscribers will be able to enjoy KT’s “Mobile Wonderland” supported by its “3W” network consisting of 3G mobile communication (WCDMA), wireless LAN (WiFi) and high-speed wireless Internet (WIBRO).

KT is also migrating its WIBRO network onto the standard of 10MHz WiMAX channel width that will allow interoperability and roaming with WiMAX networks worldwide. Coupled with better radio planning, this migration is expected to improve the quality of service by up to two times.

By March 2011, KT is expected to be the first carrier in the world to provide nation-wide WiMAX coverage with its WIBRO service covering 82 cities in Korea, serving 85 percent of the Korean population.

Intel Embedded WiMAX Chipsets for a New WIBRO Experience
KT and Intel also have worked with major PC manufacturers to launch the first Intel® Core™ and Intel® Atom™ processor-based laptops and netbooks in Korea featuring Intel® embedded WiMAX solutions, based on the Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 network adapter.

Starting Oct. 1, Korean customers will be able to purchase a wide selection of Intel-based laptops and netbooks from Samsung, LG and Acer. These WiMAX-ready mobile devices allow high-speed wireless Internet access without the need for plug-in USB modems or wireless pocket routers. The devices will enable users to enjoy wireless Internet connectivity in countries and cities that have also deployed compatible WiMAX networks¹.

Intel Capital’s US$20 million Investment
Intel Capital also today announced that it has invested US$20 million in WIBRO Infra Co., Ltd. The funds will be used to accelerate deployment of leading-edge wireless broadband networks in South Korea.

“Intel is committed to leading the advancement of wireless broadband adoptions throughout the world as more devices compute and connect to the Internet,” said Arvind Sodhani, president of Intel Capital and Intel executive vice president. “Intel Capital’s investment strengthens our WiMAX efforts in Asia Pacific region, arguably the fastest growing wireless broadband area, and specifically helps KT expand their offerings in Korea.”

“We will cooperate with Intel in every way to promote the wireless Internet,” said Suk-chae Lee, CEO, KT. “Just like a seamless transportation network requiring expressways, railroads and aviation, KT will develop a 3W network with WIBRO, Wi-Fi and WCDMA technologies complementing each other to make Korea the world’s best mobile wonderland.”

“As a mobile Internet user myself, I am glad that the WIBRO service is now available in five more major cities and expressways, said Tae-Keun Hyung, a member of a standing committee, Korea Communications Commission. “With WIBRO, I expect Korea to be a leading mobile Internet country in the world.”

1 Subject to carrier roaming agreements and end-user subscription.

About KT
KT (Korea Telecom) Corporation is an IT company located in Korea which provides voice and data, fixed and mobile, communication and broadcasting services. KT is currently on the top in Korea for its total revenue (both fixed and mobile services). However, when it was spun off from the Ministry of Communications (currently Korea Communications Commission) and first established in 1981, there were only 4.5 million lines. KT increased the number to 20 million in just 12 years. Therefore, the people in Korea are now privileged to enjoy the universal and advanced telecommunication services. Moreover, KT launched Korea’s first communication satellite, “Mugunghwa (Koreasat)” contributing to make Korea become one of the advanced countries in information and communications. Recently, KT has opened a new era of smartphones in Korea, and makes every effort to create Korea, the “Mobile Wonderland” and to be a global ICT convergence leader by releasing various smart devices and providing nationwide networks, “3W networks” -Wi-Fi, WiBro and WCMA. ICT: Information, Communication, Transaction

About Intel
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices. Additional information about Intel is available at newsroom.intel.com and blogs.intel.com.

Intel is a trademark of Intel Corporation in the United States and other countries.

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Schools to Get Broadband Internet Under FCC Policy

September 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

As part of the national broadband strategy, the FCC will allow schools and libraries to use public funding to buy cable to build up their broadband Internet networks. – Schools and libraries will soon be able to use E-Rate funds to purchase
quot;dark fiber quot; lines, or unused fiber-optic connections, the Federal Communication Commission said on Sept.
22. As part of the FCCs national broadband strategy, the funding will help
these institutions move from basic…

FCC Broadband Agenda for Small Businesses Advances

September 17th, 2010 | No Comments

The FCC issues a public notice asking for feedback on broadband issues concerning small business owners. – Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski
announced the next step in advancing the agencys small business
broadband agenda, part of a broader FCC plan which includes connecting
communities to broadband through the Universal Service Fund, promoting
mobile connectivity by unlea…

Ericsson Mobile Broadband Modules for PCs, Tablets Unveiled at 2010 IDF

September 15th, 2010 | No Comments

Ericsson introduced a 21M bps mobile broadband module for notebooks and netbooks at the 2010 IDF conference. Ericsson also demonstrated a 7.2M bps module for tablets. – Ericsson has unveiled what the company calls the world’s first mobile broadband module at 21M bps (megabits per second), the HSPA Evolution (HSPA+) F5521gw.
Twice the size of a quarter, the Ericsson F5521gw supports download speeds of up to 21 Mbps and upload speeds of 5.76M bps. Ericsson introduce…