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Vodafone makes investment in gigabit broadband network in Europe

Telecom network operator Vodafone today announced that the company is making substantial investment in the 1 gigabit broadband network across Europe. Vodafone is following a...
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Google’s Internet initiative Project Loon faces critical challenges

Alphabet (Google) will face a number of challenges in the initial execution stages of Project Loon, a global program for unleashing the potential of...
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Cable broadband grows faster than telecoms in US

US cable operators in the US – led by Comcast and Time Warner Cable -- added 804,000 broadband subscribers in the third quarter of...
China Internet user

What are the worst Internet habits of 100 Indians surveyed?

33 percent of Indians hate excessive selfie takers, against the regional average of 21 percent in some of the countries in Asia, according to...
Carrier Wi-Fi

Indian-origin engineers power devices with Wi-Fi signals

An Indian-origin team of engineers from the University of Washington has developed a novel technology that uses a Wi-Fi router to power devices at...
ARRIS Touchstone Liberty Global

ARRIS Touchstone TG2492 Gateway to power Liberty broadband

Cable company Liberty Global has selected ARRIS Group’s Touchstone TG2492 Gateway to deliver high-speed broadband and streaming video services to customers in all its...
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Intel starts program for digital villages in rural India

Intel has launched a center in a Telangana village aimed at working with state governments to create a blueprint for digitisation of rural India. Digital...
Orange

ACE submarine cable starts phase II expansion

Orange today announced the start of the next phase of the ACE submarine cable system to expand broadband connectivity and digital services in Africa. ACE...
Airtel Africa

Airtel Africa joins hands with Facebook to launch Free Basics in 17 countries

Telecom network operator Bharti Airtel announced its partnership with social media firm Facebook to launch Free Basics in 17 countries across Africa. Free Basics allows...
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ITU approves spectrum for automotive radar

UN-supported telecom association ITU today said World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-15) has approved spectrum in the 79 GHz frequency band for automotive radar. The main benefit...
Mike Fries, CEO of Liberty Global

Liberty to buy Cable & Wireless for $5.3 billion

Liberty Global today announced its offer to buy Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) in a deal valued at approximately £3.5 billion or $5.3 billion. The...
Uninor Internet strategy

Microsoft starts fund to support affordable Internet initiative

Software major Microsoft announced the launch of a new fund to support technology companies with solutions that bring affordable Internet access to underserved markets. Microsoft...
Free Wi-Fi

China Eastern Airlines to offer 3G Wi-Fi on long-haul flights

China Eastern Airlines is set to provide a 3G Wi-Fi service on selected long-haul flights, the media reported on Sunday. The offer, set to launch...
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British PM promises 10Mbps broadband speed by 2020

British Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged that the entire nation will have access to a faster broadband connection with at least 10Mbps by...
Sprint broadband

Court stops Sprint from shutting down broadband in select areas

A Massachusetts state court has stopped US-based wireless operator Sprint, a part of SoftBank, from shutting down broadband to 300,000 Americans. The granting of preliminary...
mobile Internet subscribers

Liberty starts WiFi gateway deployment

Liberty Global has started deploying WiFi and telephony gateway targeting better in-home WiFi internet experience across its European operations. The broadband provider said the gateway...

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