Bell Aliant (Toronto: BA-UN.TO ) reported a 1 percent drop in second quarter 2011 revenues of CAD 693 million. However, strong numbers in the growth of its IPTV and broadband sectors led it to boost its full fiscal year’s guidance. Its revised fiscal projection is now between CAD 2.72 billion and CAD 2.78 billion. Its [...]
“Telecom operators in Africa face quite a few challenges in bringing costs down. The two key hurdles are lack of DSL access guidelines and the high hook up costs to inland fiber-optic networks. These crucial barriers have forced some African telecom companies to ask for government intervention.
Whether or not businesses or private persons should use VoIP is a decision that depends on the advantages of VoIP compared to the effort of changing the existing communication systems. Some of the advantages shall be presented here. Cost reduce Both, businesses and private produce, can save great amounts of telephone fees when [...]
„Voice over IP“ (VoIP) describes an approach to use the internet protocol for telephone communication. This includes telephony over ADSL or VDSL lines. In contrast to conventional telephone calls, VoIP does not establish an actual “line” between the participants. Instead, the speech is converted into packages that are sent as usual data. These packages do [...]
ADSL stands for “Asymmetric Digital Subsriber Line.” It is currently the most popular connection protocol for digital broadband connections to the Internet. It is a derivation of the DSL standard from the 90s. Unlike DSL, ADSL is asymmetric: That means that the data transfer rates for sending and receiving have different amounts. An ADSL user [...]
