News from E-InSite

News from E-InSite

News from E-InSite

News from E-InSite

News from E-InSite

Dolphin swims upstream with pre-paid mobile phone accountRichard WilsonDolphin Telecommunications has added a pre-paid account option for its Tetra-based mobile communications service for business. According to the company, the feature will allow users to pay for all personal calls on a Dolphin handset independently of the business calls which are billed to their employer. Dolphin has also introduced a call ...

Tory’s newest MP takes hold of the Internet bannerMelanie ReynoldsMichael Portillo has used his first public speech after re-election as an MP to attack the European Union for lacking the agility to cope with the new Internet-enabled world.Speaking at the opening of TMA32, the annual telecoms event this week, Portillo said that because of the Internet governments will no longer ...

European university demonstrates first 150Mbit/s wireless LANRoy RubensteinEurope has achieved a world first in demonstrating a broadband wireless local area network (LAN) transmitting data at 150Mbit/s. “The gross data rate was 213Mbit/s, including error correction, over a 8m link,” Dr. Peter Smulders, a staff researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology involved in the project, told Electronics Weekly. “It’s like broadband ...

Government asks industry what it should do with 3.4GHz radio bandMelanie ReynoldsThe 3.4GHz radio frequency spectrum previously licensed to Ionica, the failed radio fixed access telephone operator, is to be re-licensed for wireless telecoms services to homes and businesses.The government’s consultation period into the use of the frequency known as Fixed Wireless Access will end on December 20. Its purpose ...

Matthew Thomas