The Nation
Long-standing court case between PTCL, PTA decided
ISLAMABAD - The long-standing court case between PTCL and Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has finally been decided by the Islamabad High Court in favour of PTA. In this decision, Islamabad High Court has dismissed PTCL appeal regarding dispute concerning origination charges on ‘non prepaid calling card service’ and upheld PTA’s decision of 21st August 2006.
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Mashable
Pakistan Blocks Twitter, Citing ‘Blasphemy’ [VIDEO]
Authorities in Pakistan blocked access to Twitter on Sunday, over mention of a contest held in 2010 asking people to draw images of the Prophet Muham…
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TechCrunch
Twitter Back Up In Pakistan After An Order From The Prime Minister
A temporary solution to the drama that unfolded this morning when Twitter was blocked in Pakistan -- some believe over representations of the Prophet Mohammed and Twitter's refusal to block these images; and some believe while it was testing an image filtering service. Whatever it was, the site is now back up --after an order from Prime Minister.
Pakistan's Express Tribune is reporting that Pr...
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The Guardian
Pakistan blocks Twitter amid blasphemy fears
Twitter closed after it refused to remove tweets promoting a page urging people to post images of prophet MuhammadPakistan's rambunctious Twitter users have been briefly silenced after the government closed the site amid fears blasphemous pictures might be circulated.Muhammad Yaseen, chairman of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, said the micro-blogging site had been shut down on Sunday...
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Heise
Bürgerrechtler machen gegen "Internetvertrag" der ITU mobil
Über 30 Organisationen fordern, die Dokumente für die Reform der International Telecommunication Regulations zu veröffentlichen und die Zivilgesellschaft stärker einzubinden.
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China Daily
Huawei exec wins int'l telecom award
Sun Yafang, chairperson of Huawei wins the 2012 World Telecommunication and Information Society Award.
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China Daily
Chinese entrepreneuse wins international telecom award
The International Communication Union on Wednesday presents its 2012 World Telecommunication and Information Society Award to three eminent women, including Sun Yafang, Chairperson of Chinese telecommunications equipment and services company -- Huawei.
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WSJ
Former India Telecom Minister Granted Bail
An Indian court granted bail to former telecommunication minister Andimuthu Raja, who has been in jail for the past 15 months on charges of corruption in one of the country's biggest-ever scandals.
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APA-OTS
Podiumsdiskussion Technologische Entwicklung Data-Mining
Utl.: Fluch für unsere Privatsphäre oder Nutzen für die Gesellschaft? =
Wien (OTS) - KEYEVENT: Der TeleCommunication Cercle 2010 (TCC10)
der Technischen
Universität Wien veranstaltet am 22. Mai 2012 zum Thema
"Technologische Entwicklung Data-Mining: Fluch für unsere
Privatsphäre oder …
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Los Angeles Times
Friday's TV Highlights: 'Magic City' on Starz
Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 6 - 12 in PDF format
TV listings for the week of May 6 - 12 in PDF format are also available here
This week's TV Movies
JESSICA MARIS stars in a new episode of “Magic City,” a sophisticated drama set in a Miami hotel in the 1950s, at 10 p.m. on Starz.
SERIES
The Martha Stewart Sh...
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siliconindia
Foreign Telecom to Bid Farewell
India was once booming in telecommunication industries as more and more foreign investors wanted to set up their business here but now suddenly there is a twist in the story and the companies wish to bid farewell to the country
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circleID
UN Moves on Internet Governance: Latest Dispatch
Some unsettling plans declared themselves at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) this week as countries prepared for the up-coming treaty-making jamboree called the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT). This community will now have to decide what it does about them.
Re-Writing Yesterday
It was significant to the CircleID community that the...
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THE AUSTRALIAN
Telstra chases $3bn bonanza
TELSTRA is targeting up to $3 billion of new telecommunication service deals with the government and corporate sector.
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Les Echos
France Télécom prévoit une augmentation salariale de 2,2% pour 2012
Le groupe français de télécommunication a signé aujourd'hui un accord avec les syndicats CFDT et FO prévoyant une augmentation des salaires en 2012.
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Slashdot
Michigan State Professor Helps Bring Broadband Internet To Rural Africa (Video)
Roblimo writes "Assistant Professor Kurt DeMaagd, of Michigan State's Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, runs a program that brings broadband Internet to villages in Tanzania that have never known connectivity better than what they get with non-smart cell phones. Lots of students are involved, and Kurt (who was one of Slashdot's co-founders many years ago) believes...
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Times of India
Iran's has to pay the price of his behaviour: US
Welcoming the decision of Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) to terminate services for designated Iranian banks, the US today said this shows that Iran has to pay the price for its behaviour.
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Science Daily
A cheap and fully optical solution for ultra-fast internet
Blisteringly fast Internet speeds, more robust connections and a big increase in network capacity at little extra cost, even in rural areas? It's the sort of fantasy that keeps telecommunication company executives and bandwidth-hungry Internet users awake at night... until now. Groundbreaking fibre-optic technology promises all those things and more.
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lesoir
17:15 Des activistes d’« Action pour la paix » occupent un site militaire à Gooik
Une trentaine d’activistes d’ « Action pour la Paix » et d’Indignés occupent ce samedi un site de télécommunication par satellite de l’OTAN s...lire la suitehistoires liées14:25 Syrie : les corps de Marie Colvin et de Rémi Ochlik remis aux ambassades15:07 Mondial 2014 : Le Brésil récuse Jérôme Valcke comme interlocuteur Fifa15:54 Football : Décès à 39 ans de l’ancien attaquant international pol...
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physorg
International radio conference approves bandwidth to track ocean currents for science and disasters
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), charged by the United Nations with coordinating global radio spectrum use, recently came to an agreement that will foster improvements in ocean radar technology, which may eventually allow near real-time detection and tracking of tsunamis and prediction of the likely paths of oil spills, ocean debris and persons lost at sea.
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TheDomains
FCC Commissioner Warns Of Treaty That Would Move Control Over Domains From ICANN To The UN & Worse
In a op-ed piece written by Robert M. McDowell who is a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission for the New York Times Today, Mr. McDowell warns of an international movement afoot to give take control to regulate the domain name system away from ICANN and the US and hand it over to the United Nations.
As the NYT story is by subscription only we can’t quote much from the story but ...
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CNN
Indian top court scraps scandal-hit telecom licenses
India's supreme court Thursday ordered the cancellation of 122 cellular permits that have been at the center of a multibillion-dollar scandal involving the country's booming telecommunication sector, attorneys said.
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NEWS.au.com
New mobile phone operating system approved
GLOBAL radio experts have approved radio standards that are to usher in a new mobile phone operating system to replace third generation or 3G technology, the International Telecommunication Union says.
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American Scientist
Leap Second Decision Is Postponed
A decision on whether to abolish the leap second--the occasional, extra second added to the
world's time--has been deferred. Experts at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) were
unable to reach a consensus, so moved the matter to a meeting in 2015... from BBC News Online
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Gizmodo
BitTorrent's New P2P Protocol Could Fix the Internet's Shoddy Streaming Video Quality [Streaming]
Streaming video over the Internet is one of the most important telecommunication developments in the last decade. Problem is, doing so needs a massive system architecture to support it and the feed is often riddled with lag. A new protocol from BitTorret's founder is aiming to change all that. More »
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Wired
Court Revives NSA Dragnet Surveillance Case
A federal appeals court on Thursday reinstated a closely watched lawsuit against the federal government on allegations that the nation's telecommunication companies funneled Americans' electronic communications to the National Security Agency without warrants. But whether the merits of the case will ever be litigated is still uncertain.
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The Nation
PTCL Vfone Azadi offer
KARACHI- Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has re-launched its Vfone Azadi offer for its Vfone subscribers in Pakistan says Senior Executive VP Commercial Naveed Saeed. First launched by PTCL on August 14, 2011 as a special gift to the nation on Pakistans 63rd Independence Day, the re-launched Vfone Azadi now…
Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story
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AP
Maple Leafs and Raptors sold to Rogers and BCE
TORONTO (AP) -- Canada's largest telecommunication companies announced Friday they have agreed to buy the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs and NBA's Toronto Raptors in a deal worth about $1.3 billion....
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UN
UN, Luxembourg partner to strengthen emergency telecoms
The United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Luxembourg today announced that they have agreed to cooperate on strengthening emergency telecommunications and rapid responses whenever natural disasters strike.
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La Voix du Nord
L´Afrique, nouvel eldorado de la télécommunication mobile
L'Afrique, avec son immense retard en terme d'infrastructures et d'équipement informatique, passe directement à l'âge du "tout mobile", notamment pour accéder à internet et aux services bancaires, et laisse entrevoir des perspectives de croissance à court terme uniques au monde.
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Times of India
Ram, Sukh and a Raja
Thou art blessed if neither the BJP nor the ruling Congress takes cognizance of thy analysis. Look at the timing of Pandit Sukh Ramji's incarceration. Now there is speculation that the 86-year-old ailing politician, who as minister of telecommunication in 1996 was charged with Rs 3 lakh bribe, should share the same room with A Raja, the present accused in an estimated 1.76 lakh crore scam on 2G...
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BoingBoing
Pakistan telecom censors ban 1,500 words that must not be texted
Officials at the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) have issued a list of 1,500 words that must be automatically censored from text messages by celphone service providers. The list includes "more than 50 phrases using the word "fuck" and 17 involving "butt". The list includes several apparently innocuous words and phrases, including "flatulence", "deposit" and "fondle". [...]
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The Nation
SMS service to help flood-hit launched
ISLAMABAD (APP) - National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has initiated a mobile SMS service to determine and check existence of flood-affected persons in the beneficiary list for Pakistan Card.This service has been launched in collaboration with Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and all mobile phone operators with the objective to assist provincial and local governments t...
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| 4 | Indonesia | 3.300 |
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| 6 | Turkey | 2.260 |
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| 5 | Rajasthan Patrika | 1.500 |
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| 1 | Hindi | 17.500 |
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| 14 | Polish | 0.270 |
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| 16 | Romanian | 0.110 |
| 17 | Dutch | 0.105 |
| 18 | Korean | 0.040 |
| 19 | Finnish | 0.000 |
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