Talking to an industry gathering in Brussels this week, Ed Richards, the UK Telecoms Regulator, claimed that mobile phone networks were “holding back innovation and hampering growth” with continuing threats of litigation, which is preventing the auction for 4G from going ahead. The original auction date for 4G bandwidth rights was delayed in 2009 by [...]
10 days ago, Sukh Ram, the former Telecoms Minister for India, was convicted of accepting a bribe to award a telecoms deal to a private firm in 1996. However, according to the BBC website, the Delhi High Court have now suspended his 5 year jail sentence and granted Ram bail. The allegations accuse Sukh Ram [...]
Universities here in Britain often carry out some remarkable research as, after all, they employ some of the brightest academics in the land, and so it is no surprise that scientists at Oxford University have been hard at work recently trying to find ways to optimise fibre-optics. The Oxford University scientists are hoping to license [...]
Last week we brought you news that Pakistan telecoms authorities were set to enforce a ban on apparently “obscene” words being sent in text messages. The latest on this issue is that the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has delayed the implementation of the ban. As reported on the BBC website a PTA spokesman has told [...]
Indian officials have searched Vodafone’s offices in Delhi and Mumbai as part of an investigation into alleged irregularities in the allocation of the country’s airwaves. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has announced that it has registered a case against Vodafone, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone’s main competitor in India, and two former telecoms ministry officials amongst [...]
It has been announced that the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has informed mobile phone companies to block text messages that contain certain “obscene” words. Mobile phone companies, Telenor Pakistan and Ufone, have confirmed that the PTA has sent them a “dictionary” of banned words. The PTA has also informed operators to begin screening text messages [...]
The London based telecommunications firm, British Telecom, have announced that they will be increasing their charges on daytime and anytime calls services. The increases will be implemented at the beginning of next month – just in time for Christmas, a time when millions of people would be hopeful of making cheap calls abroad in order [...]
