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Regional RSS FeedsFCC launches broadband consumer tools - (Telecompaper) The Federal Communications Commission launched the 'Consumer broadband test' and the 'Broadband dead zone report' digital tools. The former enables consumers to test their broadband service and the latter enables users to report areas where broadband is not available. The 'Consumer broadband test' measures broadband quality indicators such as speed and latency, and reports that information to consumers and the FCC. The mobile versi...Feed Source: feedproxy.google.com Dutch mobile market grows 0.9% to EUR 6.5 bln in 2009 - (Telecompaper) The Dutch mobile industry generated EUR 6.5 billion in service revenue for the full year 2009, up 0.9 percent from a year earlier. The growth rate slowed from an increase of 2.4 percent in 2008. According to Telecompaper's quarterly mobile market monitor, growth in 2009 was mainly due to non-voice services, which compensated for the continuous drop in voice service revenues. Voice still accounts for more than 73 percent of total se... Telefonica launches bravo! three-year strategic programme - (Telecompaper) Telefonica has launched a new strategic programme for the next three years. Dubbed bravo!, the programme sets out Telefonica's strategic priorities and key initiatives to align operations in the three regions in which Telefonica is present. The bravo! programme focuses on four main aspects: the customer, the operator's offering, platforms and culture. According to Telefonica's chairman Cesar Alierta, Telefonica targets over 320 mil... GyPSii launches Tweetsii app, raises USD 11 mln in funding - (Telecompaper) Geo-location and social networking applications GyPSii has launched an application named Tweetsii. The application connects people with places and networks by bridging the Twitter experiences with mobile social media, the social graph, location and contextual mobile-based search in real time. It builds an aggregated real world index of places, with updates from Twitter users and location-based services, including GyPSii, Gowalla an... Google unlikely to withdraw from China altogether - report - (Telecompaper) Google is unlikely to withdraw from China entirely but could stop censoring its web search results, The Wall Street Journal reports citing people familiar with the matter. Google is currently negotiating with the Chinese government over its future in the country. Google CEO Eric Schmidt said at a media conference in Abu Dhabi that "something will happen soon". In January this year, Google announced it would stop censoring search re... Axiata to offer 20% of XL Axiata shares - (Telecompaper) Asian mobile operator group Axiata plans to offer up to 20 percent in its Indonesian subsidiary XL Axiata to institutional investors. Axiata owns 86.5 percent of XL Axiata. The exercise will be carried out via an international private placement of secondary shares. Final offer price and size will be determined after the completion of the bookbuilding process. Axiata is currently evaluating various options with respect to the use of... ST Telemedia takes 10% stake in VNPT Global - (Telecompaper) Singapore-based telecommunications investment company ST Telemedia has taken a 10 percent share in VNPT Global, a subsidiary of Vietnamese communications firm VNPT. ST Telemedia did not disclose financial details. VNPT Global's main business activities include setting up VNPT Group's international connectivity networks, providing value added telecom services and contact center services to VNPT Group customers worldwide. Outside Vie... Pacific Fibre plans cable between NZ, Australia, US - (Telecompaper) A New Zealand investor group, Pacific Fibre, plans to build a 5.12 Tbps cable to connect Australia, New Zealand and the USA. Founders of the new venture include Stephen Tindall, Sam Morgan and Rod Drury, Mark Rushworth (former Vodafone chief marketing officer), John Humphrey, and Lance Wiggs. The group is looking to secure funding and build the cable to be ready in 2013. The current proposed cable configuration would be 13,000 km l... Telia upgrades LTE to 100Mbps - (Telecompaper) Swedish mobile operator Telia is upgrading its mobile broadband base stations in central Stockholm to deliver speeds of 100 Mbps. The rest of its LTE base stations will undergo the upgrade process beginning this spring. After the upgrade, customers will be able to access the web with practical speeds of up to 80 Mbps. At present, Telia's LTE network covers the central parts of Stockholm, as well as Stockholm's districts Alvsjo, Kis... Virgin Media trials using telephone poles for broadband - (Telecompaper) Virgin Media will soon begin a trial to deliver 50 Mbps broadband to the Berkshire village of Woolhampton using telegraph poles. The trial is expected to effectively increase broadband speeds by more than ten-fold by connecting homes directly to Virgin Media's network. The rural community previously relied on BT's copper network. Villagers will also be offered Virgin Media's TV service. The trial will start this month and is schedu... Día de la Samaritana: Lenten Tradition in Oaxaca -
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