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March 11, 2010

HK cellcos bring 3.5G back home

At an LTE event last year, eMobile president and COO Eric Gan raised a few eyebrows by insisting that LTE would challenge fixed-broadband to the point of cannibalizing FTTH.

Cellcos in Hong Kong aren’t quite taking the argument that far but are definitely betting on 3.5G as a DSL substitute, even as the leading fixed-broadband players start moving  to fiber.

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Red faces at KDDI

It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. Instead KDDI’s ham-fisted efforts to acquire Japan’s largest cable company have left market-watchers slack-jawed.

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Cable firm plots EU’s biggest IPO in two years

German cable company Kabel Deutschland has initiated plans for an IPO – expected to be Europe’s largest in more than two years.

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FASTTAKES: FCC, PCCW, FarEasTone, KT, Ericsson

US regulator FCC is considering assigning a portion of the nation’s airwaves for the provision of free wireless internet services.
 

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March 10, 2010

Cisco’s new router: 12 times faster than rivals

Cisco has unveiled a router that allows every movie ever made to be streamed in four minutes
 
The much-promised 322 terabit per-second CRS-3 router delivers 12 times more traffic capacity than products from Juniper and other rivals, Cisco said.

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Web access a basic right, says global survey

Internet access brings people freedom and so should be a basic human right, according to a survey for the BBC World Service.
 
Some 81% of the 27,000 adults polled by GlobeScan for the broadcaster said they considered Web access to be a fundamental right

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FASTTAKES: BSNL, Google, NTT DoCoMo, S Tel, Digi, Pacnet

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March 9, 2010

FASTTAKES: Apple, Telenor, ZTE, Fujitsu

China Unicom CEO Chang Xiaobing told the Wall Street Journal  that the firm is working with Apple to add Wi-Fi functionality to its iPhones in China. He also said current iPhone owners – whose device

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March 8, 2010

FASTTAKES: MIIT, Google, China Mobile, China Telecom, Qualcomm, Huawei

MIIT deputy chief Miao Wei says the ministry has had no contact with Google over its plans to exit the market or regarding the heavy cyber-attacks the company said it had sustained, sina.com reported
 
Chinese premier Wen Jiabao

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March 5, 2010

THE WRAP: Apple fires at Google, hits HTC

This week Apple took aim at HTC, Microsoft fired at Google and Google took another shot at China.
 
In a move widely seen as a warning to rivals such as Google and Microsoft, Apple accused Taiwan OEM HTC of stealing its touchscreen, graphical interface and other tech

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