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Internet to remain sluggish until mid-month
Residential internet users will continue to experience slow Web connections until at least the middle of January, telecommunications officials said yesterday.Internet service providers (ISPs) had reached 70 to 80 per cent of their international connection capacity by yesterday, according to the Office of the Telecommunications Authority, but businesses would be given priority over residential connections until submarine cables damaged in the Boxing Day earthquake could be repaired.
One ship remains in the Luzon Strait off Taiwan to repair six cables damaged in the quake, while a second ship, damaged on the way to the scene, was still undergoing repairs in Taiwan.
Ha Yung-kuen, acting director-general of telecommunications, said four other ships would arrive at the scene in the next week to help repair cables in a 300km-wide area.
He said the earthquake had caused huge damage to the seabed "turning mountains into valleys and valleys into mountains", but added: "If one of the six damaged cables can be brought back to service by the middle of this month, we expect the internet can resume normal service."
AsiaMedia :: Internet to remain sluggish until mid-month, says telecoms body
What is convergence anyway?
Devices, networks, services, voice, data, media, entertainment - convergence can refer to any one of these areas and is so often used its meaning can be lost. Stewart Baines explains the term's numerous definitions.It was perhaps Nicholas Negroponte who first identified convergence. Founding the MIT Media Lab in the late 1970s he foresaw the coming together of the worlds of IT, television and movies, and print and publishing.
Decades later and convergence is all around us: in the boardroom, on the stock market, over the air and in your pocket. It's a terms used possibly too frequently and frivolously, and now has lost its prophetic meaning. Convergence can be stuck like a label on any product or service that a vendor chooses.
So just what is convergence in the technology industry?
Seventy-one per cent recognise it as the delivery of voice, video and data across all networks. Half of them think it also refers to the integration of fixed and mobile solutions. Fifty per cent again believe convergence relates to a device that provides all fixed and mobile voice and data services on a single handset.
So what is convergence anyway? - silicon.com
Taiwan 3G users to reach two million in 2007
Vibo Telecom, one of the five operators of 3G mobile communication services in Taiwan, projects the number of subscribers using 3G handsets in Taiwan to increase from 700,000-800,000 currently to two million by the end of 2007, said company general manager David Wang at yesterday's press conference.Correlating with the growth in number of 3G subscribers, 1.4 million 3G handsets are expected to be sold in Taiwan next year, accounting for 20% of total handset unit shipments in the market, Wang indicated. Early this year, the proportion was below 10%, and then, it grew to the current 15%, Wang added.
