Telephone and Telecommunication News Blog June Archive

Europe is Enjoying Internet Phone Calls

By News Minder at 06/30/08 14:49

According to a recent EU-wide survey of 27,000 homes, people in Europe are enjoying internet phone much more. A whopping 22 percent of people are making calls from the computer. For more stats visit, eGov monitor - A Policy Dialogue Platform | Promoting Better Governance.

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Sprint Will Release WiMax Soon!

Tech geeks rejoice! Sprint is due to offer WiMax services in September. The most important thing about this is that Sprint will be ahead of Verizon and AT&T in the WiMax race. Sprint also threw out competition for AT&T and Apple's new iphone with the new Intuition.

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VoIP Can Have Legal Implications

For the common person, VoIP services can be a quite nice alternative to regular traditional phone service. For larger corporations though, it could mean a gold mine of stored information. With a savvy legal team, much information could be extracted. For details visit, VoIP as Evidence - FierceVoIP.

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Qwest vs. Arizona

Qwest Communications International Inc. is involved in a battle with Arizona. How you ask can a telecommunications company be at war with a state? Well simple, give the company too much control and they will walk on you. Because of the 1996 telecommunications act, Qwest ended up running all other telecom companies out of Arizona.

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Problems in Canada

Recently, the public in some Canadian cities have been left to clean up the mess that telecoms made when doing upgrades on equipment. Roads and yards were dug up for underground upgrades for a total of $646 millon in damages.

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Why the New iphone is better

Some are wondering why the new iphone is going to debut at such a low cost compared to the old version. At 199 dollars, the new phone seems like a steal. I don't think that it is any less efficient than the old phone. It seems that Apple wants to put this phone in the hands of more customers and at the low price, they probably will.

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