First International Telecom Granted WiMAX License

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Taiwan’s telecommunications regulator said Wednesday it granted a WiMAX service license to First International Telecom Inc., which will launch the service in northern Taiwan in six months.
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Cisco Unveils CRS-3; AT&T Uses New System in 100G Ethernet Testing On Commercial Fiber Route

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Keith Cambron, president and CEO of AT&T Labs, joined several Cisco executives, including CEO John Chambers, in a Webcast announcement of the new system. The large network operator made CRS-3 part of its trials of 100G Ethernet, which Cambron said concluded successfully.
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Southeast Asia Telcos Shine, Tap Mobile Data for Growth

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From the saturated markets of Singapore and Malaysia to fast-developing Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines, telecoms operators are seeing increases in data revenue, a trend analysts see continuing for five years in some markets.
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Telekom Malaysia Set To Launch High-Speed Broadband Service

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Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM) is set to launch its next-generation High Speed Broadband (HSBB) retail service on March 24 at the Dataran Merdeka here. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak will be the guest of honour at the main event in Dataran Merdeka, where he is also expected to launch the new National Broadband Initiative (NBI), of which HSBB is the flagship project.
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A Guide to Net Neutrality Cherry-Picking, Telecom Style

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Over the last couple of weeks, a fierce little debate has started to rage about how the United States should treat high-speed Internet access. As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, the whole ecosystem surrounding the big telecom carriers got together to warn the Federal Communications Commission about really and truly regulating this crucial service.
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Bharti Regains Losses as Investors Revisit Zain Deal

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Within two days of the announcement that Bharti Airtel and Zain will enter into exclusive talks for Zain’s African assets, Bharti lost $3.6 billion in market capitalisation. However, an improvement in the investor’s sentiments has been noticed since then, primarily after Bharti’s conference call with analysts in end-February on the Zain acquisition.
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VMAX to Spend TWD1.5 Billion to Promote WiMAX in 2010

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Taiwanese WiMAX specialist VMAX Telecom has announced that it plans to invest around TWD1.5 billion (USD47.17 million) in the expansion and promotion of its wireless broadband services in Taipei throughout 2010, reports DigiTimes.
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LTE Set To Transform Wireless Industry, But Not Just Yet

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Others in the industry warn, though, that the clue is in the name: they say the shift will be a more gradual evolution, given the huge expense of setting up LTE networks, and the solution to boosting speed and easing network congestion may also have to include other technologies, such as the WiMax wireless broadband standard.
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Ministers Savage ‘Just Say No’ Abbott

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The Federal Government has attacked Tony Abbott for heading “the most obstructionist Opposition in 30 years”, accusing him of economic sabotage and threatening payments to families.
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New Mobile WiMAX Service in Perth

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Vivid Wireless has lauched a WiMAX network in Perth, Australia, using Huawei gear, reports Dailywireless reader Grant Bartlett. Currently coverage is limited to Perth, but is likely to expand to other cities, reports Bartlett.
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Leap Shuts Some Stores, Reduces Headcount

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Leap Wireless recently indicated that it has permanently closed 27 — about 10% — of its 269 Cricket Wireless stores. It has also laid off 180 people, trimming its staff level down to 4,200 employees around the country.
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Government Accused of Sitting On Broadband Feasibility Report

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The Federal Opposition says the public has the right to see a study that examines the viability of the Government’s $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN). The Government received the final report from the $25 million implementation study late last week.
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Judge May Harpoon Verizon-Frontier Deal

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Administrative law judge Lisa M Tapia has advised state regulators to not approve a deal which will see Verizon divest operations in 14 states to Frontier Communications in a deal worth USD8.6 billion. As reported by CommsUpdate, the deal, which will see fixed line service for a total of 4.8 million customers change hands, was agreed between the two parties in May 2009 but has been awaiting regulatory approval for the best part of a year.
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3G Buildouts Push Up Mobile Network Inve$tment

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Mobile networks may not be getting upgraded as fast as some subscribers would like, but carrier spending on infrastructure is expected to rebound slightly this year after falling in 2009.
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Rudd’s Telstra Split Hits a Wall

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KEVIN Rudd’s bill to force the break-up of Telstra looks doomed to fail, with the Coalition and a key cross-bench senator resolving yesterday to vote against it. Opposition communications spokesman Tony Smith said the Coalition was “utterly opposed” to the move to force Telstra to separate its wholesale and retail arms by denying it access to the spectrum it needed for its future business.
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Cellphone, Cable, Satellite TV Tops in U.S. Customer Complaints

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Cell phone, the cable & satellite TV industry and banks led the way as disgruntled customers filed 9.7% more complaints to the Better Business Bureau last year than they did in 2008. Amidst the tough economic and financial times, the public also turned to the BBB more than 65 million times for help researching companies, the non-profit announced.
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FCC Considering Spectrum For Free Wireless Broadband

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The FCC may release spectrum for “free or very low-cost” wireless broadband service to boost wider broadband adoption. The proposal is one small part of the commission’s national broadband plan, which it will formally present to Congress March 17.
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New Optus Prepaid Plans Announced

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Yesterday, VHA announced a swag of new post-paid caps, Virgin was quick to remind us that it also offers free in-network calls and text, and now Optus joins the fray with new additions to its prepaid caps, offering “virtually unlimited” calls to any Australian phone number.
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FCC Plans On Using USF For Subsiding Free Broadband

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The FCC says it wants to transform the Universal Service Fund over the next ten years to pay for high-speed Internet access instead of the voice services it currently finances. Creating a new program — the Connect America fund — within the Universal Service Fund to subsidize broadband is their main goal.
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KeyOn: No Broadband Stimulus Money in First Round

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KeyOn announced that it was notified by the Rural Utilities Service that its applications under the Broadband Initiatives Program of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 were not awarded. Despite the fact that all 11 of KeyOn’s applications had advanced to the due diligence phase in Round One, the RUS did not advance any of the company’s applications to an award.
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