Compaq also announced its new Triple Play broadband Internet access program, which offers customers a choice of three high-speed Net access options: cable modem, DSL, and satellite.
Communities that are keen to obtain fibre-based broadband are being asked to publicly declare their desire for high-speed net access.
However, like many areas around the world the region is grappling with how to deliver high-speed net access to rural areas where the market is reluctant to go.
To try to make up for the time lag, the two European companies have set up research offices in Japan and routinely conduct market surveys to understand what makes i-mode tick and, by extension, how consumers might react to high-speed Net access from their phones.
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This practice, along with so-called "all-you-can-eat" Net access plans, allows surfers to stay online without worrying about running up huge bills.
Sophisticated high-net worth taxpayers with access to Bain Capital, Goldman Sachs and other big bank investment programs can relate to these offshore investment opportunities, complications, and compliance challenges.
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The UK's Information Commissioner has unveiled new rules that put limits on the freedom that companies have to monitor what their employees are doing with e-mail and net access.
There's another reason why giving away free Net access may ultimately prove workable - or not, depending upon geography.
Among Americans who did not finish high school, 38 percent have wireless net access and 20 percent report being cell-only wireless users.
However, customers on this plan will only have a data allowance of 500MB, at which point net access is stopped unless a data add-on is bought.
That's a big reason why in Hong Kong, where cross-town calls are not metered, free net access hasn't even been attempted even though there are scores of service providers battling for market share.
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More than 70% of non-users felt that they should have access to the net.
Its Net Fone package bundles broadband access, Internet phone service and free-to-air TV channels, and is attracting nearly 30, 000 new customers a month.
"The high-valued homes that are fetching the highest prices are the ones that cater to the lifestyle interests of the high-net-worth individuals, " she says, citing considerations like easy access to leisure activities and good food and wine.
Even PLDT, which already operates a cable-TV system and an Internet service provider, is planning to offer cable Net access, "maybe before the end of 1999, " says Samson.
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Once they have access, companies will be able to offer their own brand high-speed ADSL net surfing services.
They ensure that each home has access to a bed net to protect the family from malaria, a pit toilet, first-aid training and other basic health and safety practices.
Computer geeks call it war-driving or Net stumbling: roving around with a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop to scan for nearby Wi-Fi access points, then trying to see if they can use them for free.
Currently, Internet access is most attractive to young, educated, English-speaking Chinese who can use the Net as a window to the world and a means to communicate with friends and ex-classmates living abroad.
Unlike services like Facebook and Twitter, which invited third-party developers to build on top of their platform and then turned around and offered competing services, App.net is conceived as a pure API a set of programming instructions that let developers access a real-time feed.
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The 'bring-your-own-access' model it is using marks a big change from existing services which tie everything to one net account.
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