Disputes between T-Mobile and BT and BT and each of Hutchison 3G Ltd, Orange Personal Communications Services Ltd and Vodafone Ltd relating to call termination rates | Ofcom
BT, being the UK encumbant, handles a large ammount of UK termination - especially for foreign operators. They offer what’s known as blended rates, which mean they will offer fixed charges for geographic, non geographic and mobile ranges even if invidual charges differ (i.e. there are differences say between mobile carrier termination charges).
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Draft 2.0 802.11n moves forward - FierceWifi-Wifi news, WiMAX news, muni WiFi & wireless broadband news
The move towards a full 802.11n specification moves forward with Draft 2.0 of the standard.
It still has to get 75% of the vote (of around 600 members of the SIG).
Compatability is a major part of the spec, so it can co-exist with 802.11b/g networks.
Although it’s a step in the right direction, the final
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xda-developers - Announcements in Forum : Palm Treo 750
It seems Microsoft have asked the XDA Developers site to remove all ROM images from their site, even ones posted by carriers or handset manufacturers.
The XDA site had various official and unofficial Windows Mobile ROM sets, and hacks on how to use them on various handsets.
I successfully installed an iMate WM5 ROM onto an O2 Exec - which has improved stability
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Colt lacks plan for its ВЈ1.5m mobile licence - ZDNet UK
Hmm, no attribution though the guy used info off this blog and then phoned me.
Digit Online: “Apple, Cisco settle iPhone dispute”
Apple and Cisco have agreed that they’ll both use the iPhone moniker for their respective products. They settled out of court. No suprise there really.
They’d been in discussion prior to Apple’s announcement, during and since and it’s just taken a while to come to an agreement.
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Adobe’s answer to Apple Apperture, now called Adobe Photoshop Lightroom has started shipping for $199 which will increase to $299 on April 30th. Adobe say it will not be included in future versions of Creative Suite.
Lightroom is a photographic workflow application now supporting over 150 cameras (with native RAW formats) allowing the user to manipulate digital photographs in a manner similar to that of an old lightroom for film.
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Parallels, the software for MacOS X that allows running Windows within the desktop has been upgraded to RC3 build 3170 (which will be 2.5 when released).
This has several new features including coherence that allows running Windows apps from the dock. It also supports Vista.
The download is available from the Parallels website.
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Microsoft have released Soapbox (beta) a video sharing site like YouTube. Anyone can view content, but you need a Microsoft Live ID to upload stuff.
It’s another web services offering banded in with other Live applications, but currently branded with MSN.
Ofcom and the DTI have published a guide on the rolling out of public broadband services by local government.
This should aid councils and other bodies with the regulatory environment ensuring they don’t break state aid regulations and other issues such as distorting the commercial market place.
There are times when state funding can “pay” for broadband roll-out to ensure that their locality is on the right side of
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Band III is makes up what used to be the VHF TV channels and some of the band is now used by Private Mobile Radio.
The Band was covered by the Stockholm ’61 Agreement which designated this band for TV broadcast across the EU.
The band is actually split into 3 sub-bands, the lower two being used for PMR in the UK and the 3rd being made available for use by T-DAB. The PMR use was always designated secondary use, though
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