Communications & Telecom

For several tense hours on Sept. 11, the United States was deaf, dumb and blind due to the "absolutely massive" loss of communications infrastructure resulting from the collapse of the World Trade Center, a senior U.S. government official said last week.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently proposed to define high-speed broadband connections as information services, which would free providers in that country from the web of regulation that surrounds telecommunication services

A major financial institution this week will receive a report outlining the extent to which its Web site exposes it to potential attacks by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization and other terrorists.

Chinese mobile-communications carrier China United Telecommunications Corp. (China Unicom) has become the first Chinese operator to receive a Mobile Virtual Network Operator license in Hong Kong, according to the Office of the Telecommunications Authority in Hong Kong.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission wants to move quickly to upgrade regulations so that service providers can accelerate the construction of broadband networks, FCC Commissioner Kevin Martin told telecommunications industry executives Wednesday at the Supernet trade show in Santa Clara, Calif.

Telecommunications, networking, high-speed Internet and calf roping may be the marketing tag used to help bring a Western institution into the twenty-first century.

Decentralized systems, such as those used by electronic communications networks (ECN) to trade securities, are a good model for protecting systems from catastrophic attacks such as Sept. 11, financial executives told a U.S. House subcommittee Wednesday.

Decentralized systems, such as those used by electronic communications networks (ECN) to trade securities, are a good model for protecting systems from catastrophic attacks such as Sept. 11, financial executives told a U.S. House subcommittee late last month.