Tag Archive for ‘bandwidth services’ at LIRNEasia

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Britain’s digital divide remains unbridged: Ofcom Report

on May 2, 2006

by Martyn Warwick - 28/4/2006 11:57:47

http://www.telecomtv.com/news.asp?cd_id=6652&url=news.asp?cd_id=6652

Ofcom, the UK’s uber-regulator of telecoms and the media has just published its Communications Market Report for the Nations and Regions of the UK. It analyses the availability, take-up and usage of telecoms, Internet and broadcasting services and applications across the whole of the British Isles. The watchdog will use the comprehensive new report as the empirical basis for much of its ongoing and future regulation

Ofcom conducted the research late last year, and, although things have moved on a bit since, the new report provides the most up-to-date snapshot of the British telecoms, web and broadcasting landscape that we have, and it shows not only that the UK has a marked digital divide but also that it is proving difficult…

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Tags: ABC, bandwidth services, Blair administration, Britain, British Isles, Broadband, broadband access, broadband infrastructure, broadband Internet access, cellular telephone, Digital TV, Ed Richards, GBP, Internet access, London, Martyn Warwick, mobile and fixed telecoms services, Northern Ireland, Ofcom, phone services, satellite TV, SMS, socio-economic group, United Kingdom, Wales.

VSNL Buys Top VoIP Carrier

Divakar Goswami

on July 28, 2005

VSNL Buys Top VoIP Carrier

India’s incumbent international operator, VSNL, announced today that it had agreed to buy Teleglobe, the largest international voice over IP (VoIP) carrier in the world — and former Canadian monopoly overseas voice carrier. Should the deal meet with shareholder approval and pass regulatory review, the merged company — which also includes the recently integrated Tyco Global Network — would become one of the largest multinational providers of voice, Internet, and bandwidth services.
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Teleglobe became the largest carrier in the 30 billion minute international VoIP market when it acquired ITXC in 2004. Although VoIP represented under 15 percent of the global call market in 2004, it is growing at double to triple the rate of the traditional public switched voice market. Combined…

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Tags: AT&T, backbone Internet connectivity, bandwidth services, incumbent international operator, India, Internet backbone, Internet infrastructure, ITXC, MCI, satellite connectivity, Teleglobe, terrestrial network systems, Top VoIP Carrier, Tyco Global Network, voice-over-IP, VOIP, VSNL, wholesale submarine and terrestrial network.

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