Mexico weighs foreign investment in telephones

A Mexican congressional commission has approved a proposal to loosen the current 49-percent limit on foreign investment in the fixed-line telephone industry.

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BOSTON -- The radiation from our cell phones has long been suspected of causing a variety of health issues and some devices do emit more radiation than others, according to a review by the Environmental Working Group.

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(M)ost Americans now have mobile phones, and a Nielsen Mobile report last year found that nearly one in five of us have cut the cord, abandoning our landline service entirely.

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Excerpt: They say there's a fetish for everything, so we suppose we shouldn't be terribly surprised to find out some people really, really get into those stock photographs of women wearing telephone headsets, the ones you usually see on websites that heavily pimp their customer s …

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Ever wondered how you can get directly to a human voice on the other side of the telephone line when calling into big corporations? Well, the next time you have to call a 1-800 number, be sure to check out Dial A Human.

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But in the past year, a new and unexpected woe has been crushing the land-line business: the economy. In the past, a few quarters of slow growth wouldn't have meant really bad news for basic telephony subscribers.

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A giant database of every phone call and email sent in Britain is being considered by the Government. Internet service providers and telephone companies would be forced to hand over records to the Home Office, which would keep them on a computer system.

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If your cellphone breaks in remote northern Namibia, your best hope rests in the decapitated flatbed of a long-dead Toyota pickup, not far from the only tarred road in the dusty town of Opuwo.

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Interesting article about how Verizon totally screwed up a company.

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Nova Media today released FoneLink, an application enabling mobile phone owners to utilize the capabilities of new handsets on Mac OS X systems.

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The quake disrupted telecommunications across Asia and a ripple effect was felt in other parts of the world. Telecommunications across Asia were disrupted on Wednesday after an earthquake off Taiwan damaged undersea cables, jamming Internet services as voice and data traffic vie …

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Cold callers are a source of irritation in most households, but someone, somewhere must be buying what they offer

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How T1 lines support both enterprise VoIP systems and data networks vs traditional circuit switched PBX.

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I need this phone!

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"Yahoo, which has already released a new version of its Communicator (Instant Messaging) product overseas, plans to launch a similar client next week, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.

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The rapid growth in popularity of VoIP phone service is unlikely to slow anytime soon. Just in the corporate arena alone, VoIP phone lines are projected to grow from about 39 million to 532 million during the next four years, according to market research firm The Radicati Group.

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