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...charge Arroyo has denied. The resulting impeachment attempt in the country's lower house of Congress was blocked by Arroyo's political allies. Her courting of foreign investment has also drawn fire. In early October, Arroyo canceled a $329 million contract with Chinese company ZTE to build a government broadband network after a businessman who had submitted a rival bid alleged that the deal involved millions of dollars in kickbacks for members of Arroyo's administration. Election Commissioner Benjamin Abalos resigned after the Cabinet Secretary in charge of infrastructure development testified that Abalos had offered him a $4.4 million bribe...
...year-old Zhang Jun is changing all that. The newly promoted deputy director of the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Theatre, Zhang believes the art form can be salvaged to appeal to audiences in the era of roaming broadband and speed punk. During the past two years, he and his team have compressed epic Kunqu scripts until they play about as long as the average movie, and introduced other innovations. The changes are finally starting to draw respectable audiences of curious Shanghainese. At last summer's three-week run of Palace of Eternal Youth, a Tang dynasty love tragedy, two thirds...
...giant hotspot of connectivity where anyone can surf the Internet without cost at any time. Following the initiatives of private companies like Google and EarthLink in San Francisco, the Square connectivity initiative will help bring the digital age to those who may not be able to afford a broadband connection. Although the speed of the free connection will not be as high as Harvard’s private network for students and affiliates, it will be much faster than a dial-up connection...
Catalonia's announcement raised a series of pressing questions. Are governments or businesses the best entities to build wide-area wireless broadband networks? And what technology should those networks employ? Funded by citizens' tax dollars, governments generally look after roads, schools and defense. But telecoms? Haven't most governments been privatizing their fixed-line phone networks over the past 25 years? Why jump back into the same business? Wouldn't state-backed initiatives undermine free-market efforts to build networks and offer wireless services...
Even if governments are gung-ho, regulators aren't so sure. In late May, the European Commission forced Prague to tone down its proposed $16 million free wi-fi initiative by stripping out full Internet access and providing only public-service websites, lest it distort competition. "Investment in broadband networks is primarily a matter for private companies," E.U. Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said after completing a probe that held up the project for months. She added that state subsidies for such networks are acceptable only in limited situations - for example, "if they address a well-defined market failure." The Commission...