August news

Planet Multimedia reports that bbned, the Dutch wholesale unbundling operator owned by Telecom Italia, has bought InterNLnet, an ISP affiliated to Nijmegen University. InterNLnet's portfolio is geared toward both ADSL and FTTH networks. The latter include networks owned by Portaal (housing corporation) and GNA (Amsterdam Citynet), being teh main reason for acquiring InterNLnet.

31/08/2007

Broadband service in Japan is eight to 30 times as fast as in the United States -- and considerably cheaper. Japan has the world's fastest Internet connections, delivering more data at a lower cost than anywhere else, recent studies show. Accelerating broadband speed in this country -- as well as in South Korea and much of Europe -- is pushing open doors to Internet innovation that are likely to remain closed for years to come in much of the United States.

31/08/2007

The EPB board of directors unanimously approved the initiative to move into the cable TV business as part of a new "Fiber to the Home" initiative. EPB is already in the Internet service and telephone business and will expand those offerings.The "huge construction project" would cost about $200 million to build.

31/08/2007

Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today announced a loan of $15,902,000 in rural development funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for broadband access in Clarion, Eagle Grove, Goldfield, Humboldt and Renwick. Harkin is Chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee.

31/08/2007

Dundas will not get left behind when telecommunications company Jaguar Communications rolls their fiber optic cable through town.

31/08/2007

Are you happy with the speed of your broadband? A comparison of fast broadband in London and Paris, shows it is a far, far better thing to head to the French capital if you want to surf at speed.

31/08/2007

GigaSpeed International, Inc. (GSI), a company specializing in future-proof next generation digital communication technologies officially announces the availability of its comprehensive strategic White Paper, “Building Communications Infrastructures for the 21st Century: A Multi-billion Dollar Opportunity for Investors, Vendors and Partners.”

31/08/2007

While the Internet is changing the world economy, large parts of rural Kenya are losing out on jobs, economic development and civic participation because of inadequate access to the Internet. Broadband should be considered as essential and as commonplace or a "traditional" utility service. In this wake of knowledge economy, development of a nation largely depends upon the proliferation of technologies and utilisation by the people.

30/08/2007

Reversing a previous trend, the US moved up from 25th to 24th in broadband penetration worldwide in the first quarter of 2007 (see Figure 1). At the high end of the broadband spectrum, South Korea retains its lead over Hong Kong, Monaco, and Iceland in household broadband penetration. At current growth rates however, Hong Kong should pass South Korea in the summer of 2007 to become the leading nation in broadband penetration. Meanwhile, broadband penetration among active Internet users grew to 83.43% in US homes in June, up 0.2 percentage points from 83.23% in June 2007.

30/08/2007

Governments justify support of Internet diffusion on two grounds: (1) to overcome a persistent digital divide in broadband availability and (2) to facilitate online activities that are socially or economically desirable. This paper assesses both these claims.

30/08/2007