New group urges public/private sector partnership to facilitate municipal broadband

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Public-sector IT could learn from
private-sector success

Public-sector IT could learn from
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CRM Hot Topic: Public Sector v Private
Sector

CRM Hot Topic: Public Sector v Private
Sector 02/12/2004 04:08 AM
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Ricochet Offers Broadband Portable
Internet to Municipal & Public Safety
Workers

Ricochet Offers Broadband Portable
Internet to Municipal & Public Safety
Workers 05/12/2004 05:28 AM
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Promote broadband, EU tells public
sector

Promote broadband, EU tells public
sector 05/13/2004 07:48 AM
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New face to lead Microsoft's public
sector group

New face to lead Microsoft's public
sector group 09/22/2004 09:59 AM
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Open Source group wins € 2.6m EC
grant for public sector push

Open Source group wins € 2.6m EC
grant for public sector push 04/16/2004 08:50 AM
'Local business ecosystems'

Guidance for public sector web sites
which sell online to the public

Guidance for public sector web sites
which sell online to the public 12/15/2003 03:35 AM
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Municipal Broadband at SXSW

Municipal Broadband at SXSW 02/07/2005 01:07 AM
Events move so fast, my head spins: a few days after covering the flurry of activity around the New Millennium Research Council's report discouraging municipal broadband, I was asked to moderate a panel on the discussion on March 14 during the South by Southwest (SXSW) music, arts, and interactive festival and conference in Austin, Texas. Esme Vos is also on the panel, from MuniWireless.com, and we should have a rip, and might I add, roaring time. The interactive part of the event runs March 11 to 15; the overall event is from March 11 to 20....

The Ups And Downs Of Municipal Broadband

The Ups And Downs Of Municipal Broadband 04/14/2004 11:51 AM
Following last month's Supreme Court ruling stating that state s could outlaw municipal broadband, ZDNet has an interesting interview with Jim Ballmer, one of the lawyers fighting to let municipalities offer broadband, should they want to. Meanwhile, the very large UTOPIA municipal broadband (offering fiber to the home) project in Utah was dealt a huge setback last night when Salt Lake City decided not to support the project, after a fairly intense fight over the issue. Qwest is rejoicing, as they've been complaining about UTOPIA ever since it was first conceived. However, the folks behind UTOPIA are clearing trying to push ahead, and hope that they'll be signing up a few other cities to help out soon. The big questions now are whether or not the other cities involved are willing to foot the larger part of the bill and whether or not they'll be able to find enough subscribers to make AT&T still be interested in being a service provider on the network. Once again, we return to the example of Burlington, Vermont, where a municipal fiber connection with ownership by its own users means much more opportunity for everyone except companies who previously had the local monopoly on providing (much slower) broadband access. A municipal solution that allows companies to sign on as providers builds on the idea of a natural monopoly while still allowing true competitive market pressures to provide people with better services.

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NRMC Report on Municipal Broadband Is
Out

NRMC Report on Municipal Broadband Is
Out 02/05/2005 09:27 PM
I've read the report, and it's worth downloading and reviewing: The report from the NMRC is called "Not In The Public Interest - The Myth of Municipal Wi-Fi Networks -- Why Municial Schemes to Provide Wi-Fi Broadband Services With Public Funds Are Ill-Advised." I've studied it now and have some comments. Before reading my comments, you should review that report and one that's a predecessor and cited in this report and in some of the advance publicity from The Heartland Institute, which co-produced the report--The Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University's Municipal Broadband in Concord: An In-Depth Analysis. (See also Karl Bode's more irate analysis of the report.) I'm going to back in time to March 2004, when the Beacon Hill Institute report was published because many elements of it are embedded in the NMRC report. The Concord report from Beacon Hill analyzes whether a proposed network in Concord, Mass., has any hopes of producing a good return with low risk. The report looks at four cities, including Tacoma, Wash., and Ashland, Ore., and also examines RCN, a cable operator that tried to offer competitive broadband services in areas with incumbent operators. Some financial details in the report on Tacoma and Ashland date to 2001 partly because financial information isn't readily broken out for these two projects. Based on aspects of the Beacon Hill report, it was clearly primarily written in late 2003 when full-year figures for 2002 were all that would have been available. It's tricky to tease out where they got numbers for Ashland and Tacoma even after studying and following the footnotes and reading reports at the various project sites. For instance, a citation on Ashland borrowing as much as $20 million from other city agencies to make up revenue shortfalls in their fiber network is attribute to a site called Dynacorp-sucks.com that was "last accessed January 28, 2003" in the footnote reference. There is no record of this site at Archive.org, either, which doesn't mean it didn't exist, but means I cannot research what used to be there. On the Ashland Fiber Network site and City of Ashland's site, I cannot find recent numbers on cost and capital expenses, except that in the 2003-2004 budget, income from AFN outstrips expense by about 15 percent ($2.67 million in versus $2.33 million out). There appears to be no primary research in the Beacon Hill report, such as...

Does Municipal Broadband Save Jobs?

Does Municipal Broadband Save Jobs? 04/30/2004 01:33 PM
Just as certain states (at the urging of big broadband providers) are trying to ban municipal broadband offerings, Broadband Reports is looking at whether or not municipal broadband helps create jobs and boost the local economy. It seems like it's a mixed bag - but in a fairly expected way. Obviously, it has the ability to do two things: (1) give jobs to local residents working for the municipal broadband service provider and (2) help create new jobs for those who need broadband. However, it's unlikely (on its own) to suddenly turn any town or city into the next Silicon Valley. Still, with some towns unable to get broadband any other way, it can clearly help towns keep jobs that would otherwise go away. Considering the fact that, these days, many jobs require broadband access, it seems somewhat ridiculous for states to mandate that their towns and cities can't come up with their own solutions.

Senators back municipal broadband

Senators back municipal broadband 06/24/2005 03:32 PM
In the face of opposition from the telecom industry, some US senators are supporting municipal broadband.

Model Anti-Municipal Broadband Bill

Model Anti-Municipal Broadband Bill 12/22/2004 01:27 AM
Esme Vos has uncovered (and has available for download) the model bill for state legislatures to ban municipal broadband: The inestimable Vos has emerged as a firebrand for fighting back the rhetoric of incumbent teleopolies that have put out the meme that there are unfair tax breaks and unfair advantages that a municipal operation has over private enterprise. This ignores the subsidies provided--estimated at over $700 per person in Pennsylvania over the last 10 years of a failed Verizon development plan, non-refundable--and "taxes" that telcos and cable companies are often able to collect for their own coffers. Vos now posts the bill that someone--she'd like to know the individual--wrote to distribute to various legislatures under the guise of competition. Competition means not taking money from taxpayers, charging them by overpriced tariffs defended to the death, collecting and keeping funds intended for rural or impoverished citizens to have universal access, and fighting for the right to squeeze the pipes to prevent interesting competitive services from rising. Competition does mean building neutral infrastructure paid for by access fees that allow all comers to compete on a level playing field to let the market determine the best use of resources. It's strange how businesses that hate regulation in theory love how it supports their business models. Also strange how many folks who claim to want real markets only really want big businesses to be able to dictate to their markets what things cost. I looked at the innards of the Word doc that Esme posted, but the only secret information it contains is about her computer, not any previous computers. On Monday morning, she posted the list of board members of the American Legislative Exchange Council, the group behind the model legislation. Update: Sascha Meinrath calls astroturf on three organizations, including ALEC, that are behind anti-municipal telco/cable/telecom service bills, pointing out that their boards' members are mostly made up of folks that more likely have their own companies' interests at heart despite the mission statements....

Podcast: Municipal Broadband Panel
Discussion

Podcast: Municipal Broadband Panel
Discussion 03/17/2005 03:44 AM
Listen to an hour of discussion at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) on municipal broadband: Deep in the heart of Texas, mere blocks from the State House where a bill is under consideration to ban all forms of municipal networking, I led a panel discussion at SXSWi with three people well poised to discuss the issues: Esme Vos of muniwireless.com, Rich MacKinnon of Austin Wireless, and David Isenberg of the SMART Letter. The conversation was fairly focused, and you'll hear the same themes over and over again: disruptive technology is threatening incumbents who are trying to prevent all forms of experimentation and innovation by municipalities because any success on these fronts could produce competitive private businesses. All three panelists agreed the innovation and competition were good, and all four of us at various times agreed that utilities should probably not have anything to do with broadband except in facilitating competition by removing barriers to access to poles and conduits, or by contracting private firms to build neutral networks onto which any provider can roam. The audio quality is mixed: you can hear the panelists quite well, but questioners and commenters from the audience--including well-known quantities like Jock Gill, Dewayne Hendricks, Cliff Skolnick, and Jon Lebovsky--are a little faint. You can download the audio in MP3 format either directly as MP3 [31 MB] or as a ZIP archive [24 MB]. An article in yesterday's Austin Business Journal--in which publication my picture will appear in about two weeks in an unrelated story--points out that even airport-based Wi-Fi and broadband could be threatened because the contract that the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport has with Wayport would be banned under the first form of the house bill....

Of Municipal Broadband, Astroturfing And
Figuring Out What The Real Story Is

Of Municipal Broadband, Astroturfing And
Figuring Out What The Real Story Is 02/05/2005 09:49 PM
It's been pretty fascinating to watch this story develop over the past few days. Of course, it's nothing new to find out that supposedly "objective" research was actually carried out to favor a specific interest, but congratulations should go out to Glenn Fleishman for focusing the attention on the real story here. The background is that an organization called the New Millennium Research Council came out with a report which seemed to suggest that all municipal broadband was pure evil (well, not exactly, but that's how the pre-release info made it sound). Glenn took it upon himself to pull back some of the curtain on the folks who were behind the report. eWeek then took that a step further, and suddenly the "story" was no longer about the evils of municipal broadband -- but the sketchy connections between powerful telco interests who have been fighting as hard as they can against any kind of competition and the group that wrote the study. Glenn later gave a thorough review of the actual report, where he notes it's not nearly as bad as it had appeared from the initial leaks, and that it does raise some valid points. However, the real story is the underhanded way in which this report was written, with money being funnelled from a group supported by the big telcos to what appears to be nothing more than a front organization to write up reports that favor its funders. Now, others are picking up on the astroturf attempt, rather than the study itself.

US senators offer bill to protect
municipal broadband

US senators offer bill to protect
municipal broadband 06/24/2005 06:54 PM

WASHINGTON - Two U.S. senators have jumped into a growing debate about whether cities should be allowed to create tax-funded broadband services, with the two introducing a bill that would prevent states from outlawing municipal broadband projects.

Fourteen U.S. states have passed laws limiting municipal broadband services, with large Internet providers lobbying against city-offered services.

The Community Broadband Act of 2005, introduced Thursday by Senators John McCain, an Arizona Republican, and Frank Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat, would prevent states from outlawing municipal broadband service while requiring cities to regulate their own broadband services the same as they regulate competitors. For example, a municipal broadband service would have to pay the same franchise fees as other providers.

Several cities, including Philadelphia, have explored offering municipal broadband, typically using Wi-Fi technology, in recent months. Late last year, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell signed legislation preventing further municipal broadband projects, but along with the bill came an agreement between the city of Philadelphia and Verizon Communicatons Inc. over a city-run Wi-Fi network.

The Community Broadband Act is needed to meet President George Bush's goal of universally available broadband in the U.S. by 2007, McCain said in a speech Thursday. McCain noted that the U.S. ranks 16th among nations in broadband penetration.

"This is unacceptable for a country that should lead the world in technical innovation, economic development and international competitiveness," McCain said. "As a country, we cannot afford to cut off any successful strategy if we want to remain internationally competitive."

Private investment in the Internet should be protected and continued, he added. "However, when private industry does not answer the call because of market failures or other obstacles, it is appropriate and even commendable, for the people acting through their local governments to improve their lives by investing in their own future," McCain said. "In many rural towns, the local government?s high speed Internet offering may be its citizens only option to access the World Wide Web."

Verizon and SBC Communications Inc., which both offer DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) services, have opposed municipal broadband, as has Time Warner Cable, saying tax-funded services should not be allowed to compete against existing commercial services. A spokesman for Verizon said Friday the company had not reviewed the McCain/Lautenberg bill and had no comment on it. An SBC spokesman didn't immediately respond to a request for comments.

The two telecom giants, however, helped fund a study released in February that said municipal Wi-Fi networks could have "grave flaws."

The New Millennium Research Council study suggested municipal broadband services could dedicate tax dollars to rapidly outdated technology. The study also noted that municipal broadband networks could be expensive to maintain. "Municipal Wi-Fi networks present a number of serious problems that are being overlooked as cities rush into committing millions in taxpayer dollars to pay for network development and expansion," the study said.

The McCain/Lautenberg legislation stands in contrast to a bill introduced in May by Representative Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican and former SBC employee. The Sessions bill, the Preserving Innovation in Telecom Act of 2005, would outlaw municipal broadband services in areas where competing commercial services exist. The bill has been referred to a House subcommittee.

Sessions introduced the bill to ?discourage local governments from wasting taxpayer funds on building duplicative infrastructure while at the same time encouraging private-sector companies to offer continually innovating service in underserved areas by removing the specter of government competition" he said in a statement when the bill was introduced.

On Thursday, 40 groups representing local governments, the IT industry and consumers sent a letter to members of Congress asking lawmakers to support pro-municipal broadband legislation. Among the groups signing the letter were the League of California Cities, Public Knowledge, the Rural Broadband Coalition, Consumers Union and the Fiber to the Home Council.

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Heavy-Hitters Join Pro-Municipal
Broadband Legislative Battle

Heavy-Hitters Join Pro-Municipal
Broadband Legislative Battle 06/24/2005 10:01 PM
Dell, Intel, Texas Instruments, and others want more broadband to sell more gear to consumers: They've increasingly gotten involved in the ongoing debate over whether incumbent monopolies and duopolies deserve right of first refusal for broadband deployment in their service areas over municipalities because of incumbents' investments, municipalities' tax-free and bond-raising abilities, and the role of government in competing with private enterprise. The Wall Street Journal walks through the issue, starting with a small town in Texas that's building broadband because SBC can't or won't. The Texas legislature was considering a telecom "reform" bill--a bill which removed many public service and oversight controls on telcos--that would also have banned municipalities from participating in broadband. The original bill was so broad it would have banned virtually all private-public partnerships that the FCC and the Bush Administration have stressed for extending broadband into the furthest reaches of the country. The backlash is now coming since Texas's bill hit defeat for a variety of reasons, partly including Dell's founder picking up the phone and calling legislators. You see, computer makers would enjoy selling more equipment and one way to do that is broadband. (Homes with broadband connections tend to buy newer equipment and more computers, among other reasons.) Pete Sessions (R-Texas) has introduced a bill at the national level to pre-empt local legislation (there's that anti-federalism again) governing municipal operation of broadband. Sessions is the representative from SBC: a former employee with huge stock and stock options held directly (not in trust) with a spouse who currently works there. His chief of staff told the Wall Street Journal that "the congressman's ties to SBC do not present a conflict of interest." Except in that he has millions of dollars at stake over SBC's continued performance in the market....

Private sector NHS deal collapses

Private sector NHS deal collapses 04/15/2004 11:35 AM
A private sector deal to build a chain of NHS independent treatment centres has collapsed, it has emerged.

Coast PC appeals to private sector

Coast PC appeals to private sector 06/20/2004 06:52 PM
East African Standard Jun 20 2004 10:30PM GMT

Feds Want Private-Sector Security Data

Feds Want Private-Sector Security Data 04/05/2005 07:41 PM
IT companies seem reluctant to join the new CISO advisory board and share data on network attacks and outages with the government.

Government poaches top private-sector IT
chief

Government poaches top private-sector IT
chief 05/07/2004 12:11 PM
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DHS makes bid for private-sector
security data

DHS makes bid for private-sector
security data 02/19/2004 06:17 PM
The Protected Critical Infrastructure Information program will enable the private sector to share vulnerability and security data with the government in a way that protects sensitive or proprietary corporate data from public disclosure.

Zero excise on PCs: hardware sector
urges govt for re-look

Zero excise on PCs: hardware sector
urges govt for re-look 07/11/2004 06:20 PM
Navhind Times Jul 11 2004 8:50PM GMT

Local authority IT salaries closing on
private sector

Local authority IT salaries closing on
private sector 05/24/2004 04:05 PM
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Survey shows security improvements in
private sector

Survey shows security improvements in
private sector 03/06/2004 01:56 AM
In addition to boosting cybersecurity spending on average by 10%, nearly all of the 100 CEOs surveyed by the Business Roundtable said security expenditures would hold steady or rise a bit this year.

Private Sector Too Wary Of Sharing
Security Information

Private Sector Too Wary Of Sharing
Security Information 07/28/2004 10:59 AM

UN Calls On Private Sector To Bridge
Digital Divide

UN Calls On Private Sector To Bridge
Digital Divide 06/13/2004 07:30 AM
UN Calls On Private Sector To Bridge Digital Divide
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A new report from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says global ICT corporations could play an important role in narrowing the digital divide in developing countries by mentoring, training and assisting local businesses. The UNDP says discussions are ongoing with global companies such as Microsoft and HP on how they can best contribute to the issue.

Report: Private Sector Too Wary Of
Sharing Security Information

Report: Private Sector Too Wary Of
Sharing Security Information 07/28/2004 09:36 AM

E. China sees growth in private
high-tech sector

E. China sees growth in private
high-tech sector 01/11/2004 07:56 AM
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Internet sales only one per cent of
private-sector business, says StatsCan

Internet sales only one per cent of
private-sector business, says StatsCan 04/16/2004 02:26 PM
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High Technology Expedites Private
Sector’s Response to Tsunami Relief

High Technology Expedites Private
Sector’s Response to Tsunami Relief 01/07/2005 04:29 AM
As US corporations continue to deploy emergency giving campaigns to support the tsunami relief effort in Asia, technology solutions are playing a crucial role behind the scenes. 4Charity Systems helps corporations, through its web based software, to accurately donate, track and expedite the fulfillment of employee donations and corporate matching gifts. [PRWEB Jan 7, 2005]

Only in the public sector

Only in the public sector 01/18/2004 03:51 PM

Only a government agency would have hours like this. Not only can a real business not get away with something that complicated, I don’t think it would occur to anyone to do that in the first place.

Public Sector IT Solutions

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BEA signs UK public sector MoU

BEA signs UK public sector MoU 04/05/2005 06:42 AM
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DPA causes public sector headache

DPA causes public sector headache 04/13/2004 07:25 AM
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Microsoft breaks into UK public sector
CRM

Microsoft breaks into UK public sector
CRM 05/20/2004 04:12 AM
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Sex-bias and power in the public sector

Sex-bias and power in the public sector 01/06/2004 04:32 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jan 6 2004 3:14AM ET

IDC: Public sector crunch to bite PCs

IDC: Public sector crunch to bite PCs 03/14/2003 12:15 AM
Research firm IDC reduces its PC sales forecast for 2003, saying government and education budget cuts could have an impact on worldwide sales.
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Palm Conduits for Delphi

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Go to the Poles

Go to the Poles 09/23/2004 09:10 AM
On Nov. 2, 2004, give something back to democracy: "I pledge to have sex with a voter on election night and withhold sex from non-voters for the next four years."

Polls at the poles

Polls at the poles 09/20/2004 10:42 AM
One day last week a Gallup poll had Bush up by 13 points -- and Democrats promptly broke into a panic and Republicans broke out the bubbly. But then a Pew poll called the race tied. What gives?

N.Korea, U.S. Still Poles Apart on Eve
of Talks (Reuters)

N.Korea, U.S. Still Poles Apart on Eve
of Talks (Reuters) 06/22/2004 02:54 AM
Reuters - Negotiators at six-party talks in Beijing this week will discuss a freeze of North Korea's nuclear programs and inspections leading to their dismantling, a South Korean official said Tuesday.

U.S., N.Korea Emerge from Talks Poles
Apart

U.S., N.Korea Emerge from Talks Poles
Apart 06/26/2004 05:59 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jun 26 2004 10:44AM GMT

UK Poles mourn death of 'father'

UK Poles mourn death of 'father' 04/03/2005 10:21 AM
As the world mourns the passing of John Paul II, thousands gather at Britain's largest Polish church.

Poles push patents off EU agenda

Poles push patents off EU agenda 12/22/2004 01:26 AM
ZDNet Dec 21 2004 4:55PM GMT

U.S. Promises Poles Support on Wartime
Anniversary

U.S. Promises Poles Support on Wartime
Anniversary 08/01/2004 01:23 PM
Reuters via Wired News Aug 1 2004 4:39PM GMT

Poles play GameBoy 'blip-pop'

Poles play GameBoy 'blip-pop' 12/22/2004 01:59 AM
A group of Polish artists has taken the blips, boops and beeps of Nintendo's GameBoy to a new level.

U.S. Says Poles Find Old Sarin Shells in
Iraq

U.S. Says Poles Find Old Sarin Shells in
Iraq 07/03/2004 12:45 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jul 3 2004 4:44AM GMT

For Poles, Some Unfinished Business:
Sainthood for the Pope

For Poles, Some Unfinished Business:
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A ragtag crowd of Poles replaced the rows of silent priests at the front end of St. Peter's Basilica, where they lobbied loudly and exuberantly for their man.

U.S., N.Korea Emerge from Talks Poles
Apart (Reuters)

U.S., N.Korea Emerge from Talks Poles
Apart (Reuters) 06/26/2004 09:21 AM
Reuters - The United States and North Korea were as far apart as ever Saturday after nuclear crisis talks, with Washington insisting Pyongyang disclose its uranium enrichment program.

Poles Fill Churches to Mourn Pope (AP)

Poles Fill Churches to Mourn Pope (AP) 04/05/2005 07:04 AM
AP - Poles filled churches, lit candles and gathered in Warsaw on Tuesday for a farewell Mass for John Paul II in a square where he once rallied the nation against communist rule.

Poles mark 1944 Warsaw uprising

Poles mark 1944 Warsaw uprising 08/01/2004 12:38 AM
Poland remembers the 1944 failed Warsaw uprising against the Nazis in which some 200,000 Poles died.

Transatlantic Allies Poles Apart Over
Breasts (Reuters)

Transatlantic Allies Poles Apart Over
Breasts (Reuters) 02/10/2004 02:56 AM
Reuters - Britain and the United States stand shoulder to shoulder in war and peace -- but when it comes to breasts on television, the two cultures are poles apart.

Poles Urge U.S. Against Najaf Assault
-Report (Reuters)

Poles Urge U.S. Against Najaf Assault
-Report (Reuters) 04/15/2004 08:57 PM
Reuters - Polish military officials responsible for security in part of southern Iraq are arguing hard against taking Shi'ite leader Moqtada al-Sadr by force in Najaf, a leading Polish newspaper said late on Thursday.

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Poles call
9/11 film 'propaganda'

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Poles call
9/11 film 'propaganda' 07/25/2004 03:44 PM
Poles call Fahrenheit 911 film "propaganda" .. recognize it when they see it .. better suited

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Bells Toll, Millions of Poles Bid
Farewell to Pope (Reuters)

Bells Toll, Millions of Poles Bid
Farewell to Pope (Reuters) 04/08/2005 06:50 AM
Reuters - Alarm sirens wailed and church bells tolled across Poland to mark the start of funeral rites for Pope John Paul as millions gathered to pay their last respects to their greatest native son and spiritual leader.

Cellphone Antennas to Sprout Atop Light
Poles and Signs

Cellphone Antennas to Sprout Atop Light
Poles and Signs 07/29/2004 10:20 PM
New York City plans to allow telecommunications companies to put cellphone antennas and Internet transmitters on top of lampposts and traffic signals.

[security bulletin] SSRT4719 hp OpenView
Select Access remote unauthorized access

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Cogent Acquires Assets of Dedicated
Internet Access Provider, Global Access

Cogent Acquires Assets of Dedicated
Internet Access Provider, Global Access 09/15/2004 10:58 PM
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Outlook Web Access Stops Responding When
You Try to Access a Mailbox on an
Exchange 5.5 Computer

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You Try to Access a Mailbox on an
Exchange 5.5 Computer 12/31/2003 01:34 AM
This patch resolves problems that were found in the Exchange Server 5.5 CDO since SP4 was released.

Telecoms Want Money for Nothing

Telecoms Want Money for Nothing 05/24/2004 12:41 PM
The cell-phone companies want to publish your unlisted number.

Bintec Access Networks Ships new VPN
Access line

Bintec Access Networks Ships new VPN
Access line 05/06/2004 11:40 AM
Wi-Fi Technology Forum May 6 2004 3:57PM GMT

Telecoms banquet derailed

Telecoms banquet derailed 02/11/2004 11:03 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Feb 12 2004 3:18AM GMT

European telecoms set for growth

European telecoms set for growth 02/16/2004 08:03 AM
ZDNet UK Feb 16 2004 12:13PM GMT

Telecoms prepare for 3G standards

Telecoms prepare for 3G standards 04/23/2004 09:53 PM
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S.E.C. Wants to Know How Telecoms Count
Customers

S.E.C. Wants to Know How Telecoms Count
Customers 07/03/2004 12:47 AM
The Securities and Exchange Commission has told telecommunications carriers to provide the information, which helps investors determine the industry's health.

Rat sparks NZ telecoms blackout

Rat sparks NZ telecoms blackout 06/22/2005 02:40 AM
A rat is being partly blamed for a major communications crash which has caused chaos in New Zealand.

Telecoms watchdog bares its gums

Telecoms watchdog bares its gums 11/04/2003 02:29 PM
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New group urges public/private sector partnership to facilitate municipal broadband

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