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 [zimbabwemetro.com] VoIP Is Now Legal in Zimbabwe ? Econet International Calling Card: The size of some VSAT is about the same size as the TV satellites that have been deployed all over Zimbabwe to watch outside TV broadcasts like SABC. If POTRAZ continues to make entry into data and voice in Zimbabwe business prohibitive, the mushrooming of data and voice satellites, which cost about $ 2000, will continue unabated.All one needs is a satellite dish installed on site pointing in the right direction into the sky and then activating the data and voice with the service provider.

[voiparticle.com] VoIP Technology For The Little Guy With Worldwide Origination: What makes the service unique is that unlike other Internet telephony applications, mail2speak does not require a microphone, a software download or a dedicated broadband connection with special equipment. All that is required to use the service is access to the website and an open phone line or cellphone to receive a call.

 [The Works - Small Business Hub] VoIP technology taken on by more SMEs: According to analysts, the traditional phone-line service is in decline, with VoIP offering greater flexibility because once the systems of data and voice are consolidated into one infrastructure, computer applications and communications technologies become streamlined throughout the business.

[paramedicuk] VoIP providers must allow 999 calls and give caller-location data: The requirements already apply to fixed line and mobile communications providers but the VoIP industry had resisted their extension. In December last year, Voice on the Net (VON) Coalition Europe was set up as a lobby group to influence the regulation of internet telephony.

[telconews.com - Telecom and voip Industry News] European telecoms told to end broadband monopoly: In a draft recommendation for national telecoms regulators, the Commission also highlighted the importance of ensuring that Europe’s former fixed-line phone monopolies are able to secure appropriate returns on their high-speed broadband investments.

[Blogs & Stories @ Top501.nu » Blogs & Stories @ Top501.nu] Top501 IT: Google Reveals Wireless Vision - Open Networks: When it comes to the fixed-line Internet, thanks to an ineffective FCC that has failed to promote broadband competition, here in the U.S. we are stuck with a duopoly. The agency in general, and politician-in-waiting Kevin Martin in particular, would like you to believe that wireless broadband is going to be the answer, perhaps through schemes such as the D Block auction, spectrum grabs by Among the panel speakers was New America Foundation scholar Michael Calabrese, who addressed an otherwise neglected argument offered against white spaces by broadcasters: The claim that auctioning white spaces for licensed use could provide a financial windfall to a cash-strapped government.

[Market Mettle] Telefonicawatch, issue 2008.07-08 snapshot: Telefónica’s capex expectations for 2008 remain at the levels predicted at the beginning of the year, said Telefónica COO Linares, indicating the Group has no immediate intention of slowing its network rollout plans. Telefónica Latinoamérica has taken the largest share of the spend so far this year (and looks set to continue to do so), and comments from Latinoámerica Chief Executive Jose-Maria Alvarez-Pallete suggested roll out of 3G services could begin in earnest in the first quarter of 2009.

[telecoms.com blogs] Voice can still give operators something to shout about: Consumers across Europe are abandoning their landlines in favour of mobile or over-the-top Internet telephony, while ARPUs from those that keep them are stagnant or falling. Yet recent developments suggest that reports of the demise of fixed voice may have been greatly exaggerated.

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