UNTIL recently, you had to lay category 6 ethernet cable to achieve lightning gigabit speeds across a home network. The new 802.11ac standard for home WiFi aims to offer gigabit speeds across your home network wirelessly without cabling. ...
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The U.S. has better broadband service than some critics give it credit for, with speeds, availability and prices that are competitive with many other developed nations, according to a new study from a tech-focused think tank. While the ...
Research in Motion today will launch its new BlackBerry 10 smartphone in what is its last chance to regain lost market share. RIM's share of the smartphone market was a healthy 19.5 per cent in late 2008 (Apples iPhone then had 10.7 per ...
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IINET has staked a claim on connecting emergency and police services to the National Broadband Network after the internet provider notched up a first in Australia by linking Tasmania's police departments to the fibre network. As part of a ...
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Just one in seven homes passed by the government's National Broadband Network have connected to the superfast fibre-based service. The NBN Co revealed late yesterday that while construction of the $37.4 billion project had passed 72,400 ...
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ST George Bank is about to unveil a service that displays customers' bank and credit balances instantly on Android smartphones without the need to log on. The bank is putting the finishing touches to the widget, which it plans to launch ...
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Telecommunications companies should take a page from the playbook of airlines and distinguish between premium-paying customers and cattle-class travellers, according to new research. A study of 260 small businesses with fewer than 20 ...
Work on the Welsh government's Superfast Cymru programme is under way, the Welsh business minister Edwina Hart has announced. The project looks to deliver high-speed and "world class" broadband access to 96 per cent of Welsh homes and ...
In an effort to counteract the problems of an underdeveloped fixed communication infrastructure, Etisalat Group’s Atlantique Telecom Cote d’Ivoire on Monday announced that it has chosen Ericsson to upgrade Ivory Coast’s 2G ...
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BT is wrong to claim that the UK does not have the demand to justify rolling out a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) product nationally, according to the director general of the non-profit organisation FTTH Council Europe, Hartwig Tauber. The ...
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Amped Wireless,a leading manufacturer of high power,long range wireless communication products for the home and office,today unveiled its family of next generation 802.11ac Wi-Fi products.The upcoming 802.11ac wireless standard is the ...
A US congressional committee has reported that Chinese telecommunications equipment providers Huawei and ZTE pose a security threat to the US, following a year-long investigation. A draft of the report from the House Intelligence ...
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Innovation through 4G LTE 4G LTE increases mobile productivity Cutting costs with 4G LTE network communications Other findings from EE's 4G LTE survey A global survey of the business benefits of 4G LTE has revealed improvements to ...
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Broadband speeds in the UK have more than doubled over the past four years as a result of the roll-out of superfast networks. A report published by Ofcom today (15 August 2012) claimed the average download speed reached 9Mbps in May 2012, ...
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Broadband is no toy for early adopters.More citizens in the UK have access to the internet than ever before and those in the industry have had to move at a rate of knots to keep up with demand for better coverage,faster speeds and necessary ...
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