German networks need a huge investment to improve their standards. In fact, according to Rene Obermann, the boss of leading telecom service provider, Deutsche Telekom, all the carriers put together have to invest a staggering amount of € 50 billion just to meet the growing demand for mobile phone data apps.

Rene Obermann told the local German newspaper, Sueddeutsche Zeitung that the € 50 billion was absolutely necessary because, nowadays, people use more and more bandwidth ravenous apps. He predicted that the average consumption of bandwidth by a single person will reach about 10-15 gigabytes per month.

Bahraini telecom company, 2connect, was recently listed amongst the top three telecom companies in the middle-east. The so called next generation company was listed along with the other 2 major telecom companies, Zain Group and Oman’s Nawras. It will be competing for the first place with the 2 companies next month in the Arab Investment Summit in Abu Dhabi.

The MD and founder of 2connect, Fahad Al- Shirawi, stated that this was an honor; first for Bahrain and then for 2connect. He mentioned that he had the favorable environment in Bahrain to thank for all the progress he has made in only six years of operation.

Cell phones are the most well liked source to flick through the Internet in rural parts of China. However, a survey revealed that a digital split is still developing between China’s urban and rural areas.
Rural parts of China had more than hundred million users of the Internet at the completion of the previous year. This accounted for a meager 15% of the total rural population of China, as revealed by a report that was put online by the CNNIC, the government managed supervisor of all the Internet domain names in China. That is compared to the 45% of people who are online in urban areas, a crack that kept on widening for the past 2 years, the report stated.

For a meager $1, the Line2 app certainly has the capacity to start a revolution in the field of telecommunications. It is very useful in saving money and making calls in places where AT&T’s signal is weak. Line2 is like an alternate phone within one’s phone. It gives one’s phone an extra phone number. This phone number comprises of everything including its very own contact list and voice mail.