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Storm knocks out cell phone, Internet service (1145)

“Another thing is if you have a neighbor with a hardwire telephone, you can give that number to your family members as an emergency contact number, and that's maybe how you relay a message if your cell phones are down,” Jansen said. Even with multiple …

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BT pulls the plug on 56K dial-up

Using an analogue modem – which literally transformed data into audible screeching, and listened for the response – connected to a Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) line, it was possible to browse the internet at a theoretical peak speed of 56.6Kb/s.

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Sri Lanka: a nation at peace

More than 95 per cent of the island nation's 20 million population is now served by modern telecommunications, nearly four million households have fixed telephone lines and mobile phone use has increased by more than 500 per cent since 2005. "I must …

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UPC upgrades Romanian services

The fastest offered by any company in the country, it is initially being made available in nine cities, including Bucharest, which together account for 60% of UPC Romania's internet coverage area. As of early July, UPC Romania had around 340,000 …

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Dutch plans for analogue cable resale may never happen

Reasons for the delay include the court appeal brought by Ziggo, UPC and the third-largest cable operator Delta against the law, and the opposition expressed by the European Commission over how the government implemented the obligation. Meanwhile the …

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Shutdown at Nasdaq Is Traced to Software

In particular, a series of attempts by a market operated by the NYSE Euronext to connect with the Nasdaq system that reports the prices of recent trades generated a surge of data. That led to a failure of Nasdaq's backup systems, … “Our job here is …

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