T-Mobile touts solar-powered wireless broadband installation
Wireless carrier T-Mobile USA has installed a mobile cellular tower in Chalfont, Pennsylvania, that is powered by a solar array.
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China Telecom to make big FTTH push
China Telecom is going to go full guns with FTTH by installing a network that can handle 18 million lines this year with 100 Mbps capabilities in major cities. Before the end of 2010, China Telecom plans to extend FTTH to 70 percent of users in towns and cities with 12 Mbps speeds.
Google, Apple pile pressure on phone world
HELSINKI/LONDON – At next week’s mobile trade show in Barcelona you can find a program that measures how high you can throw a Nokia smartphone, an apt metaphor for Nokia’s efforts to raise its game.
But gravity might not favor the world’s biggest maker of cellphones, as the focus of the $169 billion industry shifts to software and services, the “mindshare” that is lifting nimble competitors such as iPhone maker Apple and Google.
Alcatel, telcos, chip makers launch green research
Alcatel-Lucent formed a consortium of telecoms operators, chip makers, and university labs aimed at inventing new technologies to reduce the electricity consumption of communication networks by a factor of one thousand. Share/Save
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