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Surge In Online Banking In Ireland |
| According to the Bank of Ireland,
the number of small businesses using its Business Online service doubled in
the past 12 months. During 2004, Bank of Ireland said that around 5 million
instructions and 35 million transactions were carried out by the bank's 70,000
registered business users. |
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BT Broadband Warning |
| UK - The chief executive
of BT Group has warned that 60% of British homes and businesses will be denied
the benefits of the broadband revolution unless Ofcom, the industry regulator,
changes its approach. |
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Telestra In $1.5 Billion Network Upgrade |
| Australia - Telestra management
will in coming months present to the board a blueprint for a $1.5 billion upgrade
of the company's core residential voice and data network. |
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BNSL Aims To Keep 50% Market Share |
| India - Bharat Sanchar Nigam
Limited (BSNL) has planned to add 80 million lines during the next three years
to its existing base of 45 million direct exchange lines in order to maintain
its nearly 50 per cent market share in telephony, a senior official of the company
said. |
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Australian Broadband Over Power Lines |
| Australia - The Australian
Communications Authority has put up online information on Broadband over Powerline
technology which it is currently testing. The Australian Communications Authority
(ACA) site now houses an information portal giving background information about
the new technology and details of interim trials. |
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Telewest Broadband TV Box Of Tricks |
| UK - Telewest Global, Inc.
announces that its subsidiary Telewest Broadband has entered an agreement with
Scientific-Atlanta for the supply of new personal video recorder (PVR) set-top
boxes, which will be made available to its cable TV customers later this year. |
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72 Million European Users By 2010 |
| Nearly 72 million households in
Europe will have broadband by 2010, according to projections released Wednesday
by Forrester Research. This will amount to 41 percent penetration of the total
population and 67 percent of those expected to be online that year, the market
researcher said. |
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BT Cuts The Cost Of Broadband |
| UK - BT has responded to
the increasingly competitive broadband price war by reducing the cost of its
high-speed internet packages for the first three months. |
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ntl and Telewest Launch Video On Demand |
| UK - NTL and Telewest Broadband
Launch Video-on-Demand Services in United Kingdom with SeaChange; SeaChange
Anchors Commercial VOD Roll-Outs in Europe. Two of Europe's largest broadband
operators, ntl Incorporated and Telewest Broadband, set a digital television
milestone with the launch of video-on-demand services. |
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US Broadband Use Up By 35% |
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US - The number of broadband users in U.S. homes increased
by 35.9% in 2004. The growth of broadband users in the home outpaced the growth
at work by 14.5%. |
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10Mbps Broadband Launched |
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Australia - Internet service provider, BigAir, is offering
10Mbps broadband service to some of its residential customers. The ISP, which
specialises in providing internet access for residents of low-rise apartments
and tower blocks, claimed that the new offering was the fastest available in
Australia. |
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BNSL Offer Varied Plan |
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Kolkata, India - Bharat Sanchar Nigam
Ltd (BSNL), the country’s largest telecom service provider, has decided to offer
separate broadband tariff packages for home and business users. BSNL will launch
its broadband services in 198 cities across the country soon, according to Anand
Khare, joint DDG (commercial). |
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Nigeria Broadband Access Network |
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Nigeria - A project was said to have been conceived by
the state government very recently to facilitate the business of government,
education, commerce, training and health systems in the state. The project is
a satellite-based communication facility for delivery of a broad range of multimedia
services incorporating video, audio and data to user - organizations. |
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Telstra May Escape Fines |
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Australia - THE competition watchdog is considering whether
to lift regulatory sanctions imposed on Telstra last year, in a move that could
allow the telco to escape fines of more than $300 million. |
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Broadband Ready To Take Off |
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India - One of the most misused words in the telecoms
arena still remains ‘broadband’. And why not when most Indians (even companies
to an extent), still define broadband as faster connectivity to net than traditional
dial-up connection. |
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Broadband
Use Up By 50m Worldwide |
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World - The number of broadband lines grew by 50 million
across the world in 2004, according to figures from telecoms analyst Point-Topic.
Worldwide growth slowed slightly from 63 per cent in 2003 to 50 per cent in
2004, but some individual countries far outstripped the global average. Thai
broadband lines, for example, grew by 90 per cent over the year. |
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Broadband Changes Consumer Electronics Industry |
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UK - The consumer electronics industry is experiencing
a "profound change" as fast internet connectivity increasingly allows previously
packaged content to be delivered on a subscription or service basis. |
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Broadband For Villages |
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Hyderabad - The Andhra Pradesh government will soon take
services and digital instruments to people’s homes. The state cabinet has approved
a joint venture to set up a broadband network that will provide high-speed connectivity
even to villagers. |
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Pakistan Rapid Broadband Implementation |
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Islamabad - The Minister for Information Technology pledged
the process of implementation of the broadband policy would be rapidly completed. |
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AOL Opening Gates Of The Walled Garden |
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The walls surrounding America Online Inc.’s well-manicured gardens
are crumbling. In a move both risky and essential, AOL is abandoning its strategy
of exclusivity and will free much of its music, sports and other programming
to non-subscribers in hopes of boosting ad sales. |
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