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USA to Test ‘White Spaces’ Broadband Devices

on January 21, 2008

Despite protests from broadcasters, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) next week will begin testing devices that will allow Internet service providers to utilize unused spectrum for wireless broadband service.

The commission on January 24 will kick off a four-to-six week lab test of equipment that will allow ISPs to access this spectrum, known as “white spaces.” That will be followed by an additional six-week field test period, the FCC said.

At issue is the transition from analog to digital TV signals. In an effort to free up spectrum for public safety use, Congress has ordered TV broadcasters to shift their signals from analog to digital by February 2009. When this happens, there will be open, unregulated spectrum between the digital channels, or white spaces, that companies…

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Tags: analog, Broadband, Congress, Digital TV, Google, Internet, Internet Service Providers, Microsoft, United States, US Federal Communications Commission, wireless broadband, wireless broadband service.

Dialog continues rapid rollout with USD 100 million investment from IFC

Rohan Samarajiva

on September 25, 2007

LANKA BUSINESS ONLINE - LBO

“We hope to have 100 percent population coverage within the next 12 months, from 90 percent we have now,” Wijayasuriya said.

“About 60 percent of our 450 million dollar investment pipeline for the next two-years will go into mobile, the rest into new areas like WiMax, cable TV, fixed-line telephones and grow our Internet business,” Wijayasuriya said.

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Tags: Cable TV, Internet, USD.

Getting ready for Mobile 2.0

Rohan Samarajiva

on September 3, 2007

Gadget Maker or Service Provider? Firms Start to Overlap - New York Times

“Devices alone are not enough anymore,” Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, chief executive of Nokia, said last week in London as the company announced plans for a digital music store, a game service, social networking links and other mobile Internet initiatives, grouped under a new brand, Ovi. “People want more; they want the complete experience.”

Meanwhile, a Google spokesman declined to comment on reports that a “Google phone,” or “G-phone,” was imminent. Such a device would take the Internet company into a business that has long been dominated by Nokia, but that has been shaken up by the recent introduction of a high-profile newcomer, Apple’s iPhone.

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Tags: Google, Internet, London, mobile Internet initiatives, Nokia, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Overlap - New York Times, social networking links.

Internet out in Jaffna, according to Free Media Movement

Rohan Samarajiva

on January 30, 2007

Free media Movement – Sri Lanka
Press Release

30 January 2007

Internet facilities and 8,000 telephones cut off in Jaffna Peninsula

The Free Media Movement (FMM) is deeply disturbed to learn that basic communications facilities to the Jaffna Peninsula have been blocked from 28th January 2007. Internet facilities and around 8,000 landline telephones of Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) are dysfunctional to date. SLT, jointly owned by the Sri Lankan Government and Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation (NTT) of Japan, is the sole Internet provider in Jaffna Peninsula with a population of around 600,000 according to official statistics.

The FMM was told that there is no official decision by the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority to block communications in this manner in the Peninsula.

However, a number of citizens in Jaffna and journalists confirm…

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Tags: basic communications facilities, basic telephony, Colombo, Free Media Movement, Internet, Internet access, Internet facilities, Jaffna, Jaffna peninsula, Japan, mobile phones, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Telecom, Sri Lankan government, Sunanda Deshapriya, Sunil Jayasekara, Telecommunication Regulatory Authority, United Nations, www.freemediasrilanka.org.

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