Sydney Morning Herald | Katharine Murphy | December 21, 2010
Does it really take one Prime Minister and three cabinet ministers to change a policy light globe? It does when the light globe is the $36 billion national broadband network. The long-awaited business plan for...
TeleGeography | Thailand | Monday December 20, 2010
A review committee appointed by Thailand’s Information and Communications Technology Minister Juti Krairiksh has highlighted various ‘illegal’ amendments to the Build-Transfer-Operate (BTO) concessions issued to mobile operators AIS, DTAC and True Move by state-owned telcos TOT and...
Sydney | Dec 20, 2010 | Reuters | by Adrian Bathgate
A $10.8 billion deal between the Australian government and telecoms firm Telstra Corp over Telstra's role in the $35 billion National Broadband Network will not be completed this year, the Australian Financial Review said...
Sydney | Dec 20, 2010 | Reuters | by Adrian Bathgate
A $10.8 billion deal between the Australian government and telecoms firm Telstra Corp over Telstra's role in the $35 billion National Broadband Network will not be completed this year, the Australian Financial Review said...
Monday, December 20, 2010| By Juan Pedro Tomás |  Business News Americas
Peru's private investment promotion agency,ProInversion, expects to award 25 MHz of spectrum in the 1,900 MHz band on December 23 - the same date that technical and economic offers are to be opened, ProInversion...
China's gray market cell-phone shipments will total about 255 million devices next year, up 11.8% from 2010, but nothing compared to the huge 43.6% surge between 2009 and 2010, proof that a government crackdown against the illegal handset sales is working, according to research...
Bloomberg | By Jose Orozco | Dec 14, 2010 3:22 PM CT
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called on Telefonica SA’s Venezuelan mobile-phone operator, Movistar Venezuela, and Digitel GSM to cooperate with government efforts to assist 130,000 people displaced by heavy rains or face expropriation.
“The enabling law will obligate them,...
RapidTV News | Iñaki Ferreras | 12-16-2010
The Colombian government has introduced new measures to  impose a tax on pay-TV operators which will be operational from 1 January 2011.
From that date, cable TV, DTH and the rest of Colombian pay-TV operators will have to pay 7%...
By Phisanu Phromchanya, Dow Jones Newswires
Execs support law to set up new regulator to supervise telecoms, broadcasting sectors.
Thailand's two leading mobile operators Wednesday called for the government to push for the quick establishment of a new industry regulator and the speedy...
Sure, Silicon Valley has a remarkable pedigree and history of producing world-beating technology companies, as well as an established technology presence, networking scene and excellent weather, but you know what us Brits have? Words.
The Korean government has decided to suspend the use of smartphones amongst its officials, other users have also been warned to download security software to protect themselves.
While Britian may be ringing in the changes after its general election last week, what won’t be ringing in Parliament are mobile phones – now banned from cabinet meetings.
