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Mexico billionaires battle over telecoms sector

February 05, 12 by PHYSorg.com: Telecom News
Battles between three Mexican billionaires over control of the lucrative telecoms sector heated up again this week, intensified by international criticism of monopolistic practices.

Apple overturns Motorola’s iPad and iPhone German sales bans

February 05, 12 by David Goldstein

Apple has been granted a temporary suspension of a sales ban imposed on some of its products in Germany. Motorola Mobility had forced Apple to remove several iPad and iPhone models from its online store earlier today after enforcing a patent infringement court ruling delivered in December.

BT profits on broadband growth

February 04, 12 by David Goldstein

BT accounted for over half of the UK’s new broadband subscribers in the last three months of 2011, as it indicated it would review its fibre broadband investment with a focus on getting businesses to pay for installation.

The company won a 56% share of new retail broadband subscri...

Canada’s Rogers promises to end internet throttling

February 04, 12 by David Goldstein

Rogers has promised to stop “throttling” internet traffic on its network by the end of this year, in response to an investigation by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

In a letter to the CRTC Friday, Rogers stated it would stop all traffic shapi...

US anti-SOPA forces have ISP snooping bill in their crosshairs

February 04, 12 by David Goldstein

It took an Internet-wide outcry from millions of voters to prompt Rep. Lamar Smith, author of the Stop Online Piracy Act, to postpone a vote on the controversial Hollywood-backed bill. Now Smith, a conservative Texas Republican, is being targeted a second time: for championing legislation tha...