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16/08/2007 - American Announces Plans For Inflight Broadband Access 16/08/07: American Airlines has signed a memorandum of intent with AirCell, LLC, to be the first U.S. airline to test the capability of providing passengers with AirCell's high-speed broadband connectivity. The test will be conducted in 2008 on American's Boeing 767-200 aircraft that primarily fly transcontinental routes. http://www.aa.com/apps/netSAAver/ViewPromotionsDetail.jhtml?anchorLocation=index.jhtml&fileName=aircell_inflight.xml&repositoryName=PromotionContentRepository&itemDescriptor=PromotionContent&aairmailid=0807_broadband 11/07/2007 - Commission approves public funding of €2 million for high-speed network in France 11/07/07: Under the Community state aid rules the Commission has approved the funding by Sicoval (an association of municipalities on the south-east side of Toulouse) of a very high-speed telecommunications network exclusively serving businesses and public organisations on its territory. http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/07/1070&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en 11/07/2007 - European NRENs Establish 'Bandwidth-on-Demand' The first user-requested, high-speed dynamic circuit was demonstrated between Ireland and Greece by the European National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), which says the "bandwidth-on-demand" system allows users to request network capacity according to their needs. http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/1657943.html 06/07/2007 - Wireless Internet Access Expanding Throughout United States According to an article in Today's Engineer Online, public and private investment in wireless Internet access is accelerating, making it the biggest growth area in wireless communications. http://www.todaysengineer.org/2007/Jun/wireless.asp 29/06/2007 - EU Tube – Sharing the sights and sounds of Europe on YouTube 29/06/07: The European Commission has launched a dedicated channel on YouTube to make its audiovisual material more widely available to the public. http://www.europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/07/974&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en 18/06/2007 - Australia announces vast national broadband plan Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Monday announced a 2.0 billion dollar (1.68 billion US) plan to provide fast and affordable Internet access across the vast country. http://www.smh.com.au/news/Technology/Australia-announces-vast-national-broadband-plan/2007/06/18/1182018999327.html 31/05/2007 - Commission support for digital take-up in Europe The Commission has taken some important further steps to stimulating innovation and competitiveness in Europe by promoting the wider uptake of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by citizens, governments and businesses. http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=3443 22/05/2007 - 4 European regional projects win "European 2007 Broadband Project" awards All across Europe, different projects aim to connect rural and remote areas to broadband and try to promote its use to spur rural and regional development. http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=3426 19/04/2007 - European 'EUR100 one laptop per elderly' project Do you remember the 'USD100 one laptop per child' project ? Well, the idea has been given a European twist in the form of an EU funded project to assist Europe's increasing elderly population. http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.simpledocument&N_RCN=27532 06/04/2007 - The Future of the Web 06/04/07: New forms of media are appearing on a daily basis, and it is next to impossible to track all the new developments in this area. http://cordis.europa.eu/wire/index.cfm?fuseaction=article.Detail&rcn=13161 30/03/2007 - ICT drives 50% of EU growth says Commission's annual report on the digital economy 30/03/07: Public and private investment in information and communication technology (ICT) is bearing fruit, finds the Commission's annual progress report on i2010. http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=3303 21/03/2007 - Belgium unveils "pay by text message" service 21/03/07: Belgium’s three mobile phone operators said that their customers could now make payments from anywhere, even if the check is lost in the mail (via telecomasia.net) http://www.telecomasia.net/article.php?type=article&id_article=4060 19/03/2007 - Government of Canada announces $120 million funding for CANARIE network 19/03/07: This money will allow CANARIE to maintain the CA*net network for the next five years and to develop the next generation CA*net5. http://www.budget.gc.ca/2007/bp/bpc5de.html 16/03/2007 - South Korea allows carriers to bundle services 16/03/07: South Korea’s telecom rates are expected to substantially decrease in the latter part of this year as the government plans to allow big operators to provide discounted package services (via Telecomasia.net) http://www.telecomasia.net/article.php?type=article&id_article=4012 07/03/2007 - Italia firm eyes free Internet TV 07/03/07: The founder of Fastweb, Italy's No. 2 telecommunications company, is now seeking to bring Internet television to as many of the world's 300 million broadband users with an Internet TV network called Babelgum (via America's Network) http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=409504#Top3 07/03/2007 - Global Internet population increases 10% 07/03/07: The number of Internet users worldwide increased 10% over the past year amid a surge in India , China and Russia (via America's Network) http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=409503#Top2 05/03/2007 - Start-up to launch free wireless network in S.F. 05/03/07: A Mountain View, Calif.-based start-up is planning to build a free wireless Internet network in central San Francisco, and all residents have to do put a small wireless router supplied by the company in their window or rooftop. http://news.com.com/2061-10812_3-6164554.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news 02/03/2007 - Free fiber to the home in France 02/03/07: Iliad in France has signed a deal with Paris Municipal government to do a city wide roll out of FTTH (via www.canarie.ca). http://www.iliad.fr/finances/2006/FREE_09-2006.pdf 27/02/2007 - Regulators hit Germany with broadband monopoly lawsuit 27/02/07: The European Commission launched a lawsuit against Germany over a law allowing Deutsche Telekom to keep rivals off its high-speed Internet networks, an Associated Press report said. http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=407589#Top2 27/02/2007 - Reform of the EU's Regulatory Framework for electronic communications 27/02/07: Joint Statement by Viviane Reding, EU Telecom and Media Commissioner and Roberto Viola, Chairman of the European Regulators Group (ERG) after their meeting on 27 February 2007 on the forthcoming reform of the EU's Regulatory Framework for electronic communications http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/07/87&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en 22/02/2007 - Commission endorses proposed public funding for North Yorkshire broadband network NYNET 22/02/07: The European Commission has approved under EC Treaty state aid rules a UK initiative to create an advanced broadband network in North Yorkshire. http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/07/225&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en 12/02/2007 - IGI Report on "Fiber Cabling to Surpass Copper Cabling in the Structured Cabling Systems Market By 2008" 12/02/07: The need for higher speeds will primarily include Gigabit Ethernet speeds in excess of 1 Gbps. IGI projects a major shift in the market by 2008, when, for the first time, fiber cabling shipments exceed copper UTP cabling shipments. http://www.igigroup.com/st/pages/certified/cert5.html 07/02/2007 - Delivering Wireless near the Arctic Circle 07/02/07 : The Montreal-based company, Omniglobe Networks, has recently found surprising business potential installing a system for the Naskapi Nation, an indigenous group that lives just south of the Arctic Circle in northern Quebec. Tune into this exclusive podcast report. (via IEEE in Communications) www.spectrum.ieee.org/radio?date=01.01.07&segStart=3 18/12/2006 - TERENA Unveils New Visual Identity 18/12/06: TERENA today unveiled its new logo, slogan and URL that will now represent the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association. The new visual identity aims to consolidate TERENA's image and make it more modern and easily recognisable. www.terena.org 20/11/2006 - Launch of the European Network of Living Labs at an EU conference 20/11/06: The Living Labs network concentrates on the development of new information society services, businesses, technologies and markets and places people at the very centre of product development and innovation. http://www.ist-bread.org/pdf/LivingLabs.pdf 10/10/2006 - Should Municipalities Provide Wireless Internet Service? 10/10/06 : Improving consumer access to broadband Internet service is an important goal for federal, state, and local governments. The possibility of competitive risks arising from municipal participation in wireless Internet service, however, calls for a careful analysis by policymakers considering if, and to what extent, a municipality should involve itself in such service, according to a report prepared by Federal Trade Commission staff. http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2006/10/muniwireless.htm 10/10/2006 - 'Me-Science' the New e-Science 10/10/06: "It's not 'e-science,' it's 'me-science.'" This was the conclusion of Carole Goble from the University of Manchester, having given one of the most popular and well-attended keynote speeches of the EGEE'06 conference. (link supllied via www.canarie.ca) http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/963514.html 05/10/2006 - IEEE.tv: New Broadcaster Hits Town 05/10/06: After more than 100 years of publishing magazines, the IEEE might think broadcasting is outside its scope. Studios, lights, cameras, microphones—the complexity of it all seemed too daunting to consider seriously. But IEEE felt it had a role to play and released its Internet broadcasting network in August. http://www.theinstitute.ieee.org/portal/site/tionline/menuitem.130a3558587d56e8fb2275875bac26c8/index.jsp?&pName=institute_level1_article&TheCat=2201&article=tionline/legacy/inst2006/oct06/ieeetv.xml& 31/08/2006 - Dutch VoIP subscribers pass 1 million in Q2 31/08/06: Digital telephony in the Netherlands is on track to replace the traditional PSTN or ISDN connection. In the second quarter, the number of residential VoIP subscriptions sold passed the 1 million mark, to reach 1.1 million at the end of June. http://www.telecompaper.com/reports/reportdetails.aspx?id=R223 31/07/2006 - IPTV, Music, Movies set to explode 31/07/06: Streaming video and music across the Internet directly to a mobile handset is quickly becoming a mainstream delivery vehicle that will generate more than $27 billion in US markets by 2011, according to a recent survey by Insight Research (America's Network) http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=330561 28/07/2006 - Making Europe's online content market more competitive: Commission opens public consultation 28/07/06: A public consultation on ways to stimulate the growth of a true EU single market for online digital content, such as films, music and games, has been launched by the European Commission. http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/06/1071&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en 20/07/2006 - Telemedicine offers better picture for patient care 20/07/06: A new telemedicine platform promises to greatly improve the quality of care patients receive by giving highly qualified specialists the ability to collaborate efficiently when interpreting data from advanced medical imaging techniques (through IST-Results). http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm/section/news/tpl/article/BrowsingType/Features/ID/82808 25/06/2006 - Changing The Economics Of Wi-Fi 25/06/06: FON, a Spanish start-up on an ambitious crusade to turn home Wi-Fi connections into wireless "hotspots" for nearby users, is set to unveil Monday a plan to hand out 1 million wireless routers for just $5 apiece (via CANARIE) http://internetweek.cmp.com/189601305?cid=rssfeed_pl_inw 22/06/2006 - ETSI Board approved the creation of the new ETSI Technical Committee GRID 22/06/06: The 1st GRID#1 meeting (*) is provisionnaly planned on 18 September 2006 in Brussels (to be confirmed) http://portal.etsi.org/radio 19/06/2006 - Global broadband subscribers to surpass 400 million 19/06/06: A new report from In-Stat Research predicts that the number of broadband subscribers worldwide will double during the next five years, reaching 411 million by the end of 2010 (America' Network) http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=330559 14/06/2006 - Ireland’s National Education and Research Network 14/06/06: HEAnet will be the first European NREN with the capability to implement a network provisioning system based on User Controlled Lightpath (UCLP) technology (via CANARIE) http://www.i2cat.net/i2cat/servlet/I2CAT.MainServlet?seccio=16_25_6 07/06/2006 - Helping to promote adoption of an open iTV standard 07/06/07: A recent study found that Europeans spend on average 3.5 hours a day passively watching television. Interactive digital television, or iTV, allows viewers to do much more with their TVs. However, for it to become widely deployed, there needs to be an open standard allowing full interoperability http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm/section/news/tpl/article/BrowsingType/Features/ID/82137 02/06/2006 - TNO Newsletter (The Netherlands) 02/06/06: The 2nd issue of the TNO Newsletter is available highligthing some recent developments in The Netherlands http://www.tno.nl/informatie-_en_communicatietechnologie/actueel/tno_nieuws/2006/nieuwsbrief_tno_informati/index.xml 01/06/2006 - New life for broadband over power lines? 01/06/06: Broadband over power line (BPL) has long been considered a potentially beneficial technology, but it's use has been limited to a few prototype projects in the United States and Europe (via America's Network) http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=330558 12/05/2006 - A Broadband Utopia 12/05/06: A municipally owned network in Utah is poised to offer broadband speeds of 100 megabits per second, and that's just to start (IEEE Spectrum) http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/may06/3434 24/03/2006 - Reding warns against reduction in ICT research during budget negotiations 24/03/06: Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding has told the European Parliament and Council that it is 'essential' that the share of the EU research budget devoted to information and communication technologies (ICT) is not reduced during their negotiations on the Financial Perspectives. http://ica.cordis.lu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.simpledocument&N_RCN=25397 23/03/2006 - Commission urges action to overcome the 'broadband gap' 23/03/2006: The EU and its Member States must make full use of instruments including State aid rules and structural and rural development funds in order to overcome the 'broadband gap' that exists in Europe's less-developed and remote areas, according to a new Commission communication. http://ica.cordis.lu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.simpledocument&N_RCN=25388 10/03/2006 - Carriers bet billions on fiber 10/03/06: After years of planning and billions of dollars in investment, telecom carriers around the world have made a massive bet that the digital revolution has finally arrived (via Telecom Asia) http://www.telecomasia.net/telecomasia/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=311953 07/03/2006 - AT&T Sets Up Internet Tollbooths 07/03/06: As it grows in size and scope, AT&T Inc. says it will also be among those carriers building tollbooths for its last-mile broadband networks. (via Lightreading) http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=90256&WT.svl=news1_2 06/03/2006 - The 22@ Barcelona Project 06/03/06: Barcelona has set itself a new landmark venture: to become a fully integrated player in the new technological revolution, to meet the challenge of the knowledge-based economy head on. http://www.bcn.es/22@bcn/engl/presentacion/index.html 01/03/2006 - The secret to municipal broadband success 01/03/06: Across America, too many communities are unable to access the benefits of high-speed broadband access (via Americas Network) http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=313993 22/02/2006 - CoR believes i2010 will improve citizens' lives provided certain conditions are met 22/02/06 The Committee of the Regions (CoR) has adopted a position on the Commission's i2010 strategy for the Information Society, saying that the initiative can promote social inclusion and improve citizens' quality of life as long as certain guarantees are provided http://ica.cordis.lu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.simpledocument&N_RCN=25247 20/02/2006 - Presentations on Future Internet Network Design 20/02/06: Papers & Presentations from the December 2005-meeting under the new proposed FIND program (link supplied via www.canarie.ca). http://find.isi.edu/agenda.htm 03/02/2006 - AOL Goes P2P for Video 03/02/06 (from Light Reading) Time Warner Inc. division AOL will use a peer-to-peer approach borrowed from the file-sharing world of Kazaa and BitTorrent when it begins delivering high-definition Internet video to consumers next month. http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=88118&WT.svl=news1_4 27/01/2006 - Vienna plans FttH to 960,000 households 27/01/06: Vienna (pop. 1,6 million) would like to offer a glass fiber connection to each household and each enterprise, without falling back to subsidies from the tax collector's office. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/68889 26/01/2006 - Municipal Broadband: Resistance is Futile 26/01/06: Broadband networks offered or facilitated by municipalities are going to become the norm, not the exception, according to analyst Pam Duffey with visiongain. http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/news/article.php/3580231 16/01/2006 - Northern Ireland boasts blanket broadband coverage 16/01/06: Every home and business in Northern Ireland can now access a broadband service after millions of pounds were invested improving internet access. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/16/broadband_ni/ 05/01/2006 - Paris City Hall launches into the very high speeds 05/01/06: The mayor of Paris would like to favor the development of the services of free access to internet by launching the construction of a city wide telecommunications network. http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/multimedia/20060105.OBS0983.html 04/01/2006 - European FTTH: time for a last-minute equalizer? 04/01/06 : Hartwig Tauber, president of the FTTH Council Europe, explains why the development of fibre-based access networks is fundamental to the widespread deployment of such services. http://fibers.org/articles/news/8/1/2/1 19/12/2005 - One Billion Internet Users 19/12/05: The Internet is growing at an annualized rate of 18% and now has one billion users. A second billion users will follow in the next ten years, bringing a dramatic change in worldwide usability needs. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/internet_growth.html 14/12/2005 - ITU Internet Reports 2005: The Internet of Things 14/12/05: Written by a team of analysts from the Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU) of the ITU, the report takes a look at the next step in "always on" communications http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/publications/internetofthings/ 23/11/2005 - Digital Cities & Regional Networks Conference 23/11/05: A drive to encourage cities and regions to create their own high-speed open access broadband networks will see the inaugural Digital Cities & Regional Networks conference held in Wellington, New Zealand http://www.digitalcities.co.nz 17/11/2005 - Joining forces to merge mobile with optical communication Tackling the dominant position of the US and Japan in broadband microwave photonic techniques, NEFERTITI, a pan-European network has enhanced European collaboration in merging mobile and optical communications. http://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm/section/news/tpl/article/BrowsingType/Features/ID/79328 17/11/2005 - Worldwide Broadband Subscribers Will Top 215M in 2005 17/11/05: The worldwide number of Internet broadband subscribers will surpass 215 million in 2005, up from less than 5 million subscribers in 1999 and 67 million in 2002, according to the Computer Industry Almanac. http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=197927 15/11/2005 - Amsterdam plans fiber-to-the-home roll-out The municipality of Amsterdam in the Netherlands has announced plans to deploy approximately 40,000 FTTH connections, covering about 10% of the city. http://fibers.org/articles/news/7/11/11/1 04/11/2005 - Commission to invest 151 million euro in mobile and wireless systems research Details of the retained project proposals following the 4th IST call of FP6 http://ica.cordis.lu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.simpledocument&N_RCN=24712 31/10/2005 - ERA-NET and Article 169 initiatives to be extended in FP7 31/10/05: A new Commission brochure entitled 'Networking the European Research Area' gives an update on the implementation of two instruments intended to coordinate national programmes - ERA-NETs and Article 169 - and suggests that they are likely to be reinforced in the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). http://ica.cordis.lu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.simpledocument&N_RCN=24665 28/09/2005 - 28/09/05 : Dutch, Swedes Rule Muni BB The U.S. is abuzz with talk of municipal networks, but Sweden and the Netherlands have emerged as the biggest muni breeding grounds, and both are far ahead of the rest of the world in numbers of working deployments. http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=81543 06/09/2005 - 06/09/05: Call for Tender: Broadband Internet Access Costs Broadband Internet Access Costs Study (Deadline: 30/09/2005) The study is intended to provide price data on broadband Internet access costs. http://www.ist-bread.org/regional_projects.asp?page=132 03/08/2005 - 03/08/05: Boeing, Intel team up on hotspots in the sky Boeing and Intel announced an agreement to enhance and promote high-speed, in-flight wireless Internet service http://www.telecomasia.net/telecomasia/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=173272 15/07/2005 - 15/07/05: Commission acts to promote broadband Internet access More people will be logging on to the Internet using wireless broadband connections, thanks to a decision by the Commission on 14 July to dedicate a substantial amount of radio spectrum throughout the EU to radio local area networks, otherwise known as Wi-Fi. http://ica.cordis.lu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.simpledocument&N_RCN=24152 15/07/2005 - ICT and media heads pledge their help to unlock Europe's digital economy Representatives from ten of Europe's leading telecom, Internet, television and music companies met with the Commission and the UK presidency in London on 8 and 9 July to discuss ways to foster Europe's emerging digital economy. http://ica.cordis.lu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.simpledocument&N_RCN=24146 12/07/2005 - 26/06/05: Broadband numbers in Q1 2005 World - 164 mln, USA - 36.5 mln, China - 28.3 mln http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=8160 10/06/2005 - 10/06/05: Europe overtakes US in broadband penetration (DMEurope via NewsEdge) Europe for the first time has more broadband Internet connections than the US, according to new figures from Dutch market research group Telecom Paper. http://www.telecomasia.net/telecomasia/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=165396 09/06/2005 - 09/06/05: Commission sets out digital strategy for the future i2010, which is the first new Commission initiative to be adopted under the EU's renewed Lisbon strategy, will be financed by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) and the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP), which will provide 1.8 billion euro and 802 million respectively to boost innovation from ICT use. http://dbs.cordis.lu/cgi-bin/srchidadb?CALLER=NHP_EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=EN_RCN_ID:23913 23/05/2005 - 23/05/05: Cable Operators Get Serious About Broadband Gaming Hoping to maintain their dwindling broadband edge over the Baby Bells, several leading MSOs are boosting data speeds again and rolling out premium gaming and other specialty content services for cable modem subscribers. http://www.ist-bread.org/regional_projects.asp?page=130 09/05/2005 - 09/05/05: FTTH moves into mainstream Over the last year FTTH has been marketed in Japan with the heavy advertising and street sales activity that characterized ADSL when Softbank first launched Yahoo BB http://www.telecomasia.net/telecomasia/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=155263 09/05/2005 - 09/05/05: In-flight broadband: price, not speed In-flight Internet access is finally here, but the big question is whether it will go the way of in-flight phone calls - straight into the ground - by pricing itself out of the market. http://www.telecomasia.net/telecomasia/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=155249 08/02/2005 - FCC to Decide on IP Telephony Fees By March 22 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will face another crucial Voice over IP decision next month when it will decide if IP-based carriers must pay the same access fees as long distance companies to interconnect with the public switched telephone network http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=145735 20/01/2005 - 20/01/05: Mobile & Wireless Communications Technology Platform Deadline to send expressions of interest to join the Mobile and Wireless Communications Technology Platform by Friday 28 January 2005. You should reply directly to mailto:magnus.madfors@ericsson.com The platform website has been updated and now includes the November 2004 version of the proposed Strategic Research Agenda. http://www.emobility.eu.org/ 15/01/2005 - 15/01/05: Virtual VoIP Expo 2005 Virtual VoIP Expo kicks off a year of innovative and educational online events beginning February 17, 2005. Free registration. http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/static/staticHtml.jsp?id=123515 27/12/2004 - China launches new generation Internet 27/10/04: Eight departments of the Chinese Government announced on Saturday in Beijing that CERNET2 was going into formal operation http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/27/content_403527.htm 12/11/2004 - Iowa communities team to install own high-speed lines 12/11/04 More than 80 communities across Iowa have banded to create Opportunity Iowa. The goal: to wire the state for advanced voice, data and video services. http://www.ist-bread.org/regional_projects.asp?page=109 27/10/2004 - Roadmap for Network Technologies and Services 27/10/04 Tekes technology review is published as part of "Networks of the Future" national research programme in Finland. http://akseli.tekes.fi/dman/Document.phx/~sig-nets/Julkinen/Roadmap_for_network_technologies_and_services.pdf 27/10/2004 - Status of wireless BB licensing in the Rep. of Korea 27-10-04 Long-distance telephony operator Dacom Corp. announced its withdrawal from the licensing competition for the government-backed portable Internet project. http://www.ist-bread.org/regional_projects.asp?page=102 20/10/2004 - FCC to Seek Internet - Based Phone Oversight BOSTON (AP) -- FCC Chairman Michael Powell said Tuesday that he would seek broad regulatory authority for the federal government over Internet-based telephone services to avoid stifling the emerging market. Powell told a receptive audience at an industry conference that letting states regulate Voice over Internet Protocol,or VoIP, services would lead to a patchwork of conflicting rules like those which have ensnarled the traditional phone business for decades. To do so, Powell said, ``is to dumb down the Internet back to the limited vision of government officials. That would be a tragedy.'' After his speech, Powell told reporters he expected to introduce a proposal to the full Federal Communications Commission in less than a month, and definitely before a new Congress begins its session in January. ``We cannot avoid this question any longer,'' he said. ``It is very likely that treatment of VOIP will have some of the farthest reaching consequences of anything this commission has done or will do.'' Powell, whose office has been petitioned by Republican members of Congress to take action on the jurisdiction question, spoke two weeks before a presidential election that could jeopardize his position as FCC chairman. The Republican was appointed to the commission by President Clinton in 1997 and became chairman when President Bush took office in 2001. Powell cited a study by a research firm, The Yankee Group, that projects 1 million VoIP subscribers nationwide by year's end, compared with just 131,000 last year. The technology ``has ignited a fire under a stalled and depressed industry,'' Powell said, referring to traditional landline phone carriers. Powell, who reiterated his belief in minimal regulation of VoIP services, said questions of its taxation and connectivity to 911 emergency assistance are best left to the federal government because the technology erodes geographic barriers. Such barriers have led to a complex framework of regulations governing local and long-distance service for traditional landline phones. While some issues involving voice quality and consumer accessibility remain to be worked out, VoIP service threatens to eventually overtake landline services by piggybacking on the existing, low-cost technology platform used for the Internet. ``There is no need to organize a regulatory regime around permits and prices and costs as we have done for nearly a century with common carriers,'' Powell added. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Powell-Voice-over-Net.html?ex=1099284228&ei=1&en=9f8cb218766b87a9 17/10/2004 - 17/10/04 - F.C.C. Clears Internet Access by Power Lines Clearing the way for homes and businesses to receive high-speed Internet services through their electrical outlets. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/technology/15power.html?oref=login 09/10/2004 - Astronomers Demonstrate a Global Internet Telescope European and US radio astronomers have demonstrated a new way of observing the Universe through the Internet [using national research networks! http://www.naic.edu/~astro/aovlbi/press_release/eVLBI_AR.htm 01/10/2004 - Jordan Launches National University Network The objective of the National Broadband Network is to connect approximately 1.5 million learners in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan within the next three years. http://www.moict.gov.jo/MoICT_News.aspx?NewsID=632312019187162944&from=NewsBox&CategoryID=1 22/07/2004 - 22/07/04 - FTTH Forum - Call for Membership At the past FTTH Council Europe "“Why Fibre, Why Now", the formation of the FTTH Forum Europe was announced. Check if you can apply for membership. http://www.ist-bread.org/pdf/FTTH Forum Europe.pdf 22/07/2004 - 22/07/04 - Japan - White Paper on the Ubiquitous Network Society Japan published last week a White Paper on the Ubiquitous Network Society, which includes the vision of Japan having the "cheapest and the fastest broadband connections in the world." This paper is not yet available in English, but previous White Papers are available. http://www.johotsusintokei.soumu.go.jp/whitepaper/eng/WP2003/Contents.pdf 12/07/2004 - Broadband's next move 12/07/04 - Broadband remains hot, hot, hot, having cresting the 100 million mark globally at the end of 2003, according to analyst firm RHK http://www.telecomasia.net/telecomasia/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=103265 27/06/2004 - Wi-fi success across the Strait of Gibraltar 27/06/04 - The "wi-fi across the Strait of Gibraltar" connection worked out successfully during the Fadaiat conference. The distance of the connection was from Tarifa to Tangers, i.e. 32,000 metres. 24/06/2004 - Japan plays catch-up in high-speed PLC 24/06/04 - Nine high-speed Internet trials have recently started in Japan using power lines for transmission at between 2 MHz and 30 MHz. The trials will finish at the end of March 2005. http://www.telecomasia.net/telecomasia/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=97649 05/06/2004 - Fixed-mobile convergence: this time they mean it! The buzz on fixed-mobile convergence has waxed and waned over the years. Now it’s back and unlike before, it’s not chiefly about intelligent cores – it’s as much about broadband access and convergence at the terminal. Warning: feelings of déjà vu may occur http://www.telecomasia.net/telecomasia/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=92624 06/05/2004 - US Broadband Internet Use Up 42% June 9th, 2004: The FCC said that high-speed internet use in the US grew 42 percent last year as some 8.3 million homes and businesses signed up for broadband service. http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=98167 06/05/2004 - Smaller countries, faster internet June 9th 2004 - In most smaller countries in Europe, competition on the telecom market is higher, resulting in larger penetration of high-speed internet access. It is expected that this trend will continue over the next few years. http://www.ist-bread.org/regional_news.asp?page=33 |
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