T-Mobile, EMI test ad-supported video service
Mobile operator teams with European record label for service that lets consumers watch music videos on cell phones.
Mobile operator teams with European record label for service that lets consumers watch music videos on cell phones.
BellSouth's director of Converged Services, Steve Zimba, told attendees at the VON conference in San Jose that many residential customers are still wary of VoIP. CNET News.com reporter Marguerite Reardon asked if VoIP is merely a defensive tool for the telcos.
CNET's Brian Cooley and Joni Blecher, senior editor, CNET Reviews, checks out the Samsung SPH-N270, a replica of the mobile phone used in the new film "The Matrix: Reloaded."
Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo today said price cuts by competitors on third-generation mobile services were irrelevant to his company."There is no company in Australia that has the coverage, quality, capability and services that's even close, so I don't compare our pricing to others' pricing," Trujillo told reporters this morning as he outlined a new relationship with the Australian Rail Track Corporation.
The nation's largest telco Telstra today said it would build a new submarine fibre telecommunications cable between Australia and Hawaii.The cable will provide extra capacity for the increasing amount of international Internet traffic required by Australia's growing number of home and business broadband users, according to a statement issued by Telstra this afternoon.
update Telstra today announced it had signed an AU$85 million deal with the Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) to develop a new communications system for the group's national rail network.ARTC was created in the late 1990s, after federal and state governments agreed on the need for a single entity to control access to the nation's interstate rail network.
Wireless carrier denies that a recent hacker had the run of its system, saying only 400 customers had their information accessed.
Telstra's major rivals have moved a step closer to bringing their rival fibre broadband plan to fruition, enlisting the help of an international banking group to help with the process. The group of telcos known as the G9 -- Optus, Telecom NZ (AAPT/PowerTel), iiNet, Macquarie Telecom, Internode, Primus, Soul and TransACT -- are currently putting together a proposal to build a national fibre to the node (FTTN) broadband network.
The issue of immunity for telecommunications companies who cooperate with warrantless wiretaps is at the center of a looming showdown in Congress. Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved 10-9 a version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that doesn't include immunity, the New York Times reports.
update The national competition regulator has revoked a notice it issued to Telstra last April for a controversial price increase on the telco's wholesale line rental services it provides to competitors, due to new regulatory changes.