Broadband WiFi News Headlines
David Cameron calls for broadband in all homes by 2018 (Daily Telegraph)David Cameron wants every home in the UK to have ultrafast broadband within a decade as part of a push to improve greentechnolgies.
More money sought for broadband mapping (BizJournals)Colorado’s Office of Information Technology will seek revisions to a telecommunications bill passed in 2008 allowing it to seek more state tax money to map the statewide availability of high-speed Internet.
High definition broadband hits the US (Calcutta News)In the US, Netflix has teamed with LG Electronics to sell high-definition TV sets that stream Netflix videos directly from the Internet.
BSNL to put Rs 1,600 cr in broadband infrastructure (Business Standard India)State-owned telecom operator, Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) is planning to invest Rs 1,600 crore in infrastructure facilities that will support eight million broadband connections for the government.
Broadband Content Bits: Hulu In 2009; CBSi's 'Heckle-U'; Pirated Sports Streams; Blinkx' Un-roll (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance) —Hulu's 2009 resolutions : Hulu's plans for 2009 don't include fundraising or downloads, CEO Jason Kilar told Mediapost. Instead, the NBCU-News Corp JV will focus on developing better video search and ad targeting technology, personalization features like recommendation apps, and global expansion.
Ericsson To Build Residential Fiber-Optic Network For 21st Century Technologies In Nigeria (FiberOpticsOnline)Ericsson has signed a contract with Nigerian telecom company 21st Century Technologies to supply, build and systems integrate a nationwide residential fiber-optic broadband network
Occam Networks' GPON OLT And ONT Solution Receive USDA Rural Development Acceptance (FiberOpticsOnline)Occam Networks, a leading broadband access supplier offering multiservice access platform (MSAP) solutions based on pure packet technologies, announced recently that it has received Rural Development Telecommunications Program acceptance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) for its BLC 6000 series 6322 GPON Optical Line Terminal (OLT) and its ON 2400 series ...
ADC Enters Partnership With West Plains Telecommunications For Fiber-To-The-Home Network (FiberOpticsOnline)Leading global connectivity solutions provider ADC is working with Muleshoe, Texas-based West Plains Telecommunications to expand its fiber broadband capabilities and eventually offer broadband video
Motorola predicts more broadband growth in 2009 (ITP.net)Company already has 25 global contracts in hand for commercial WiMAX systems
The Chicken Or The Egg? (SkyNews via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)A rare moment of parity between the Government and Official Opposition. Yesterday Gordon Brown told the Observer that he wanted to invest in digital infrastructure in particular high-speed broadband. Green industries, he said, would not be shelved in a recession - and he was paying careful attention to a number of projects looking at alternative energy sources. Today David Cameron will make ...