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India regulator proposes massive broadband boost
Friday, 10 Dec, 2010 – 12:47 | No Comment

Dec 8 (Reuters) – India’s telecoms regulator called for massive expansion of broadband in the country and wanted the government to set up a nationwide broadband network that would cost about 600 billion rupees ($13 …

NCA Directed To Stop Vodafone From Killing ISPs
Wednesday, 1 Dec, 2010 – 9:01 | One Comment

The Minister of Communications, Haruna Iddrisu says Vodafone Ghana is engage in practices that are killing internet service providers (ISPs) and the National Communications Authority must bite harder at Vodafone and stop them.
Speaking on Metro …

Hacking smartphones with ease
Wednesday, 24 Nov, 2010 – 10:47 | No Comment

Many of us carry almost every detail of our lives on our phones – so how secure are we from those who might want to know what we’re saying and doing on the …

High rent affecting UDS Students
Wednesday, 17 Nov, 2010 – 10:52 | No Comment

Naa Seidu Braimah, representative of the Upper West Region on the Council of State, has appealed to private developers in the Wa Municipality to stop charging high rent from students of the University for Development …

UK internet economy ‘worth billions’
Thursday, 28 Oct, 2010 – 11:13 | No Comment

The internet is worth £100bn a year to the UK economy, a study has concluded.

The research, which was commissioned by Google, found that the internet accounts for 7.2% of the UK’s gross domestic product (GDP).
The …

Fibre optic capacity ‘auto-tuned’ by novel device
Thursday, 9 Sep, 2010 – 12:06 | No Comment

Scientists have shown off a system they say could “substantially” improve the data capacity of
fibre optic networks.
The team says the growth in bandwidth-hungry applications such as YouTube and iPlayer will eventually stretch …

New undersea cables bring hope of cheaper, more reliable Internet access for West Africa
Tuesday, 31 Aug, 2010 – 10:44 | No Comment

For a decade, West Africa’s main connection to the Internet has been a single fiber-optic cable in the Atlantic, a tenuous and
expensive link for one of the poorest areas of the planet.
But this summer, a …

Gov’t Finds New Revenue Stream In Telecom
Wednesday, 18 Aug, 2010 – 10:41 | No Comment

Government has resolved to use profits from the monitoring of calls that are coming into the country to finance projects that will allow communities to access telecommunication services, the Minister of Communications, Haruna Iddrisu, has …

Fifth African Regional Conference on rural communications opens
Wednesday, 18 Aug, 2010 – 9:55 | No Comment

Accra, Aug. 17, GNA – Africa must embrace Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure deployment as part of a comprehensive economic growth strategy to address developmental issues, President John Evans Atta Mills said on Tuesday.

Farming communities get E-zwich
Monday, 16 Aug, 2010 – 12:46 | No Comment

Archie Hesse – General Manager, GhIPPS
There is an aggressive penetration of e-zwich in farming communities with the Western region being the next destination.
The country’s commercial banks and some savings and loans companies, together with Ghana …