By David Sims
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IDEA has “taken another significant step… by charging online for data services
for our prepaid customers. Data services usage is on the rise and it was
important to not only extend data services to prepaid customers but also charge
customers differentially depending on the importance of the service for them,”
said Vikram Mehmi, CEO, IDEA Cellular.
The Nokia ICD is a network-based centralized service and
content control system, which enables operators to analyze, charge and manage
services “in a flexible manner.”
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The multimillion dollar deal will see the Axiom Systems Axioss used to design
and deliver services such as IPVPN, Metro Ethernet and VoIP. Their current
IPVPN OSS systems will be replaced by AXIOSS and new systems and processes will
be created to launch next generation IP services.
This implementation will offer a number of benefits in the eyes of Cable and
Wireless officials, who cite an enhanced ability to “offer market leading IP
services” and “reduce Cable & Wireless’ operating and maintenance costs as
a result of the simplification of physical and software architecture.”
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Unlike other Internet-based communications applications currently available, BIOS
says, “the IVE service ‘seamlessly’ combines the best elements of standard VoIP
services with live video, resulting in VoIP Plus,” what Sony claims is “the
next generation of IP-based communications.”
Of course Yahoo, AOL and others also offer video-calling services similar to
IVE, but as BIOS says “Video-phone services have long been touted by technology
enthusiasts but have struggled to attract a mainstream audience.”
The IVE service offers customers the ability to make free, unlimited video and
voice calls worldwide, “as well as place video and audio calls to mobile
phones, telephones, and any other traditional video or audio conferencing
system.”
One nice thing is that it’s not all-proprietary. The IVE service’s
patent-pending standards-based technology “allows all IVE users to directly
contact all other standards-based video users and even those who do not have
video access or Web cameras.”
The Sony IVE service, powered by GlowPoint, offers flat-rate monthly services
that range from $10 per month to $19.95. The IVE application can be downloaded
for free from www.sonyive.com.
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The telephones & terminals specified in the supply agreement will be
marketed by VoEx and their partners to their residential and business
customers. The initial product
deployment will be in cities in North Iraq, with plans to expand throughout
Iraq and the Middle East and North Africa.
The expense and logistical difficulties inherent in extending a conventional
copper-wire “land-line” telecommunications grid throughout the Middle East can
cause delays of many months for qualified customers to gain access to a
conventional phone system. So Hantel’s offering fixed wireless technology as an
alternative to build-out of the regional wire telecommunications network.
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The survey finds that of the 17% of women who have set up businesses in the UK,
the highest proportion are over 40. Over half of independent business women in
their mid-40s established their companies when aged 40 or over. Only eight per
cent of today’s “one woman bands” aged 55-plus began their business when they
were in their 20s.
Age and family are not seen as obstacles to women’s ambitions in business, with
less than five per cent of women who have not set up their own business citing
children as a barrier. Finance is the number one red light for the majority of
women, with 56 per cent citing lack of available money and risk factors
associated with funding as their main reason for not setting up in business.
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