Communications restored in Nepal
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Phone lines and internet connections are restored a week after Nepal's king took control of the country.
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India just launched a communications satellite.
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Users will be able to update social networks Facebook, Jaiku and Twitter by a phone call.
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Blog: How can you stretch WiFi? Communicate between peaks in the Andes
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Growth is returning to the global wireless giant.
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WASHINGTON -- Congress guaranteed the flow of Internet aid to schools and libraries and provided federal funds to upgrade emergency 911 services for calls from mobile phones in a communications bill approved Wednesday and sent to the president for his
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By Bangkok Post, Thailand  Feb. 16--Short and multimedia message (SMS and MMS) traffic surged on  Valentine's Day as local mobile phone users sent a greater variety of text,  picture, sound and video greetings, according to operators.
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(InfoWorld) - A powerful earthquake that struck northern Japan Monday morning has caused disruption to communications services in the country. The earthquake struck at 10:13 a.m. just off the coast of Niigata prefecture, which is north west of Tokyo. The magnitude 6.8 quake registered an intensity of 6+ on Japan's scale of 0 to 7, in three locations. Citing figures collected at 1:30 p.m. Japan's NHK television reported at least two people were killed and more than 190 people injured. Television images showed dozens of collapsed buildings and damage to structures such as bridges. At one point black smoke was seen rising from the Kashiwazaki nuclear plant but the operator said this was from an electrical transformer that had caught fire and the reactors had shut down safely with no release of radiation. Japan is one of the most seismically active countries in the world and buildings standards are high to avoid widespread damage during strong quakes. As a result of the temblor major telecommunications carriers have imposed restrictions on phone calls into and out of the affected area. NTT East, the major fixed-line provider in the area, has activated its "disaster dial 171" service that allows people in the area to leave voicemail messages that can be checked by those in the rest of the country. An Internet version of the service, Web 171 has also been activated and allows those affected to leave voice, still image and video images for friends. The major cell phone carriers have similarly restricted calls and activated their own disaster message board services on wireless Internet sites. The restrictions are put on telecom networks to keep lines free for emergency purposes and also to avoid a collapse of the network due to the massive surge in calls often seen after a powerful earthquake.
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With Maoist attacks on the rise in Nepal, authorities apprehend large-scale displacement of people. In fact, a good indicator of this âflight of passageâ is a newspaper report on Iraq-bound Nepalese that
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Nepalese officials say they hope to retrieve the bodies from a recent helicopter crash when the weather improves.
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Authorities in Nepal appealed to  villagers on Monday for help in finding a helicopter chartered  by conservation group WWF, nearly two days after it disappeared  in bad weather with 24 people on board.
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Maoists rebels have lifted a blockade that cut Nepal&#39;s capital Kathmandu off from the rest of the country for a week. In a statement released Tuesday, however, the rebels warned the
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Nepal yesterday briefly lifted a curfew imposed on the capital after widespread rioting in response to the slaying of 12 Nepalese in Iraq, as the death toll from the unrest rose to two.
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By MATT COLEMAN  It's easy to take instant communication for granted with the accessibility of cell phones and the Internet. This becomes a little more difficult when the person you're communicating with is in a war zone.
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Maoist rebels and the Nepal government said they had settled a dispute over monitoring each other's fighters and weapons, a move which revives their peace process and power-sharing plans.
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Kathmandu: Nepal will briefly lift a curfew imposed on the capital on Thursday, after widespread rioting in response to the slaying of 12 Nepalese in Iraq, announcing the death toll from the unrest had risen to two.
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Intelsat Ltd. has regained communications with a satellite that it lost track of last weekend, but engineers do not know if they will be able to fully restore service. -The Washington Post