The U.S. city of Topeka has been temporarily renamed ‘Google’ in a bid to host the search giant’s trial of a new super fast broadband network. The Kansas city capital will unofficially be called as “Google, Kansas — the capital city of fibre optics” during March.
The company previously invited nominations of towns and cities to participate in the experiment that would provide up to 500,000 people with ultra high speed broadband at speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second — 200 times faster than the average UK speed of 5 mb/s. Mayor William Bunten backed the idea, proposed by a local activist, to help boost its chances of taking part in the trial.
“The City of Topeka welcomes the opportunity to participate in this unique technological experiment, if selected as Google trial community, to benefit our citizens in providing all opportunities to access Internet Technologies,” The Telegraph quoted a statement on the council’s website as saying.
Mr. Bunten added: “We’re having a good time of it. There’s a lot of good things that are going on in our city. It’s just a little different, and will probably bring some attention.” Dan Martin, a Google spokesman, added: “People are hungry for faster speeds and improved Internet access.”
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
3G writes new telecom chapter : Governor Narasimhan
The Governor, Mr E.S.L. Narasimhan, on Wednesday launched the state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited’s (BSNL) third generation (3G) mobile services in Hyderabad offering a plethora of features such as live TV, high-speed mobile broadband and movie download.
The 3G services would offer customers video telephony, high-speed Internet and various value-added services such as mobile TV, location surveillance and video-on-demand.
“With the launch of the 3G services, BSNL has taken a generation leap. It has unveiled a new chapter in the history of telecom sector in the state that has expanded by leaps and bounds,” Mr Narasimhan said after the launch of the 3G services.
Mr T.N. Sudhindra, the chief general manager of BSNL, Mr Rajiv Agarwal, the principal GM, and Mr K.K.Thakur, the GM, marketing, participated in the programme.
Mr Sudhindra said, “The 3G services will be extended to 28 cities in the state in a phased manner. Currently, we have a customer base of 41 lakh under the 2G services. We have planned to give 19 lakh new 2G connections and 3.35 lakh 3G connections.”
The 3G services are available both in pre-paid and post-paid tariff plans. Pre-paid customers can take a new connection for Rs 59 towards SIM cost and Rs 120 as other charges with a validity period of six months.
Existing post-paid customers can get the 3G services by sending an SMS ‘M3G25’ to 53733. They will be charged Rs 25 extra as fixed monthly charges in addition to their existing plan charges.
The 3G services would offer customers video telephony, high-speed Internet and various value-added services such as mobile TV, location surveillance and video-on-demand.
“With the launch of the 3G services, BSNL has taken a generation leap. It has unveiled a new chapter in the history of telecom sector in the state that has expanded by leaps and bounds,” Mr Narasimhan said after the launch of the 3G services.
Mr T.N. Sudhindra, the chief general manager of BSNL, Mr Rajiv Agarwal, the principal GM, and Mr K.K.Thakur, the GM, marketing, participated in the programme.
Mr Sudhindra said, “The 3G services will be extended to 28 cities in the state in a phased manner. Currently, we have a customer base of 41 lakh under the 2G services. We have planned to give 19 lakh new 2G connections and 3.35 lakh 3G connections.”
The 3G services are available both in pre-paid and post-paid tariff plans. Pre-paid customers can take a new connection for Rs 59 towards SIM cost and Rs 120 as other charges with a validity period of six months.
Existing post-paid customers can get the 3G services by sending an SMS ‘M3G25’ to 53733. They will be charged Rs 25 extra as fixed monthly charges in addition to their existing plan charges.
