Telephone and Telecommunication News Blog July Archive

Text Messaging More Popular that Expected

By News Minder at 07/31/08 09:55

When I bought a cell phone for my daughter, I never thought that she would never actually talk on it. I quickly became aware after the first bill that I needed to upgrade to some sort of unlimited text messaging plan.

That was all fine and good but then she wanted to use the internet capabilities that her phone had as well. I looked online to see how popular this text messaging acutally is and found this site, SMS dominates UK mobile data usage - vnunet.com. The site says that texting is growing in popularity by about 30 percent more messages per year. I never realized it could be so popular.

India Having Issues with IPTV

IPTV is similar to any VoIP or broadband internet connection except it allows you to watch television. All you need is a TV, a special box and a telephone company.

In India, this new type of television was introduced. Although it has many perks such as ability to watch multiple programs and record, pause and rewind capabilities, it has not been popular. There are only about 3000 people in Delhi that are subscribers to the service. Some say the problem may be the copper wires used as they cannot transmit a signal over a couple of Kilometers. To read about this visit,IPTV : The digital television Protocol.