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Colin Bennett

India has 4.38mn broadband users - 0 views

  • The Trai statement said, the country added 8.81 million telephone connections (both wire and wireless) during June 2008 as compared to 8.46 million it added during May 2008. In the wireless segment, which includes GSM, CDMA and WLL, there was an addition of 8.94 million as against 8.62 million during May 2008.
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    The Trai statement said, the country added 8.81 million telephone connections (both wire and wireless) during June 2008 as compared to 8.46 million it added during May 2008. In the wireless segment, which includes GSM, CDMA and WLL, there was an addition of 8.94 million as against 8.62 million during May 2008.
Colin Bennett

Copper demand in China - 2 views

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    ""On a fundamental basis, at the moment, the market is still extremely well supplied with material," Matthew Wonnacott, a senior consultant at CRU Group in London, said in a telephone interview. "There's really no reason why anybody should need to withdraw material from an exchange for consumption. Demand in the market is just disappointing this year. It's not just China, in general demand is poor.""
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Verizon, 2 unions agree on new 3-year contact - International Herald Tribune - 0 views

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    Verizon Communications Inc. and two unions representing 65,000 workers who had threatened to strike within hours agreed Sunday on a new three-year contract that provides 10.5 percent wage increases and changes in retirement benefits.The union workers are in the traditional telephone part of the company, which is engaged in the labor-intensive process of replacing most of its copper phone lines with optical fiber. Verizon Wireless, the company's big growth driver..
Colin Bennett

Ericsson exec sees WiFi hotspots becoming the new telephone booths - Engadget - 0 views

  • While it hardly comes as much of a surprise, Ericsson Chief Marketing Officer Johan Bergendahl is now predicting nothing short of the demise of WiFi hotspots, and he's saying that they'll be replaced by -- you guessed it -- mobile broadband.
Colin Bennett

The decline of the landline - 0 views

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    IF YOU want to save money, cut the cord. In these difficult times ever more Americans are heeding this advice and dropping their telephone landlines in favour of mobile phones (see article). Despite some of the flakiest mobile-network coverage in the developed world, one in four households has now gone mobile-only. At current rates the last landline in America will be disconnected sometime in 2025.
Colin Bennett

UK Government seeks guidance on copper telephone network - 1 views

  • 'The benefit of switching off copper networks is that this may further incentivise investment by operators to increase coverage of non-copper networks, and also act as a spur to replace last-mile copper networks, or allow substitution with mobile or fixed wireless services.,' it went on.
Colin Bennett

INFOGRAPHIC: Mining your iPhone - 0 views

  • Engineering experts over at 911 Metallurgist, with some help from the designers at Neomammalian Studios, break down the innards of smartphones and how much the raw metals are worth.
James Wright

USA - General Cable report 4% y-o-y and 5% sequential rise in H1 2012 shipment volumes - 0 views

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    General Cable reported a rise in sales volume by metal weight of 2% q-o-q (+5% y-o-y) in Q2 2012 due to demand in France and the Mediterranean as well as stable demand in most ROW and North American businesses. Bright spots for demand included: ongoing grid investment and the resultant demand for medium voltage cables in France; stronger demand from telephone and electric utility businesses in North America; improving domestic conditions following the Q3/4 2011 severe flooding in Thailand; and strong mining activity in Chile.
Hans De Keulenaer

Fibre, copper and aluminium - 0 views

  • I've been travelling around Broadband Britain with a whole lot of clutter in my suitcase - three phones, two computers, an SLR camera, three USB mobile broadband dongles, a digital radio recorder and two microphones. But buried in my bag are two lengths of cable - one traditional twisted pair copper telephone wire and one fibre-optic cable,
Colin Bennett

Types of Cables in Transmission Distribution - 0 views

  • Low-Voltage Cables "Transmission and Distribution Electrical Engineering" breaks down transmission and distribution cables into five separate categories. The most basic category is "low voltage." This includes cables used for telephone wires, as well as fire-retarded and resistant cables. These cables have the lowest maximum voltage of the four groups, ranging from 50 to 1,000 volts. Medium-Voltage Cables Medium-voltage cables --- which have a maximum capacity ranging from three to 7.2 kilovolts --- are the next class of transmission and distribution lines. These cables are typically used for solid dielectric and MI/MIND purposes. High-Voltage Cables The third class of transmission and distribution cables is high voltage. These power lines can carry a maximum voltage capacity of 10 to 150 kilovolts. While these cables can be used for the same purposes as low- and medium-voltage cables, their higher threshold makes them less cost-efficient than lower-grade wires. The main purposes of high-voltage wires include oil-filled cables, as well as gas-pressure or gas-insulated ducts. Very High-Voltage Cables Like medium- and high-voltage cables, very high-voltage lines are used for solid dielectric, oil-filled and gas-insulated ducts, but in situations where a higher maximum voltage is required. These cables have a maximum capacity of 150 to 300 kilovolts. Because of their very high-voltage capacity, these are typically transmission lines and not distribution lines.
Colin Bennett

Bell Labs Hits 10 Gbit/s Broadband Over Copper - 0 views

  • Bell Labs is back, recently setting a new world record of 10 gigabit per second over existing copper wires. Why is this important? Because it solves the fiber-to-residence problem. Fiber cables for high-speed Internet services are being laid all throughout the country and world, but at a relatively slow rate due to the "curb-to-residence" problem. Many home owners are reluctant to let their lawns be dug up to lay fiber from the curb to the house, and many Internet providers are reluctant to incur the cost. Now Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs (Murray Hill, New Jersey) has a invented a solution -- a method of running 1-to-10 gigabit per second broadband signals from the curb to the residence using the existing copper telephone lines already there.
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