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March 11, 2010

Smarten up those pipes

When cellcos effectively entered the broadband access business by way of all-you-can-eat flat rates, most did so with the underlying fear that they would be transforming thems

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March 9, 2010

Govt shareholding could scupper Taiwan cable deal

A merger to create Taiwan’s biggest cable company could founder because of a government shareholding in one of the major investors.
 
Cable operator kbro announced last September that it would merge with Taiwan Mobile in a $1 billion share swap driven by its

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Smart meters, not-so-smart security

Filed under: Blogs, Network management, Public, Smart meters, smart grids, smart security — fmmonteverde @ 4:46 am

With all the recent talk of smart grids of smart meters as a key M2M app for operators that can also

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March 2, 2010

Thai ICT ministry to review Thaksin assets: report

Thailand’s Information and Communications Technology Ministry will review former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s telecom assets after a court ruling that he was guilty of license tampering.
 
ICT Minister Ranongrak Suwanchawee told the

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February 25, 2010

American Tower buys Essar’s tower arm for $430m

An affiliate of American Tower has agreed to purchase Indian tower firm Essar Telecom Infrastructure Private (ETIPL) for $430 million in cash.
 
American Tower said that its wholly-owned Indian subsidiary Transcend had entered

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February 24, 2010

Intel also hit by sophisticated attack

Filed under: Daily News, Google, Intel, Network management, Operator Services, Public, security breach — fmmonteverde @ 6:11 am

Chip giant Intel says it was also hit by a high-level attack on its servers at the same time as Google.
 
Intel reported the attacks in its latest 10-K filing to the US SEC, saying it had been the target of a “sophisticated incident [that] occurred i

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February 23, 2010

Hot on the Chinese hacker trail

The press leaks from those on the trail of the China Google hackers are coming thick and fast.
 
That doesn’t mean they make sense as a whole.
 
The Wall Street Journal today says inv

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February 22, 2010

Cyber attacks shift to the cloud, too

Cyber warfare against enterprises grows more brutal by the year, but now carriers are getting caught in the crossfire as more organizations move sensitive data into operators’ clouds, according to a survey sponsored by telecom network security vendor Arbor Networks.

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Cisco dumps HP as reseller

Cisco has dropped HP as a reseller of its gear in a sign that the two have become competitors.
 
Cisco last year moved into the data center business, while HP has acquired 3Com to boost its competitiveness in enterprise networking.

February 11, 2010

Google to roll out 1Gbps fiber network

Google will build an experimental fiber network in the US to test out new broadband technologies.
 
It will roll out an access network offering customers 1Gbps at commercial prices to up to 500,000 people, Google announced on the company blog Wednesday.
 
The company says it has

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