Ericsson was awarded the China Green Company Award from China Entrepreneur magazine, Enterprise Institute and Guanghua School of Management of Beijing University as part of an annual conference on corporate social responsibility.
According to Ericsson, ‘green’ is defined as the harmonious co-existence not only between man and nature, but also among human beings, the latter of [...]
Australia’s M2 Telecommunications, a reseller of Optus’ mobile network services, is looking for strategic alliance partners to further expand its Green Mobiles-branded product to environmentally conscious consumers.
Green Mobiles, launched in September 2007, promises customers a 10% donation towards purchasing carbon offsets for every dollar they spend with the company. Unlike many other “green” products, the [...]
Korea Telecom revealed a three-stage green management roadmap that will drive sustainability at the corporate level as well as explore growth opportunities with green solutions and renewable energy generation by 2012.
According to the Korea Times newspaper, KT’s will adopt sustainability measures, raise awareness, secure eco-friendly technologies and adapt of international accords on climate change in [...]
By Pamela Perez, CommsDay
UK/Malaysian firm Stratospheric Airship Technologies says it will invest US$500 million to build solar-powered commercial airships in Subic Bay Freeport, Philippines, that will carry broadband and telecommunications equipment, reported the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Power systems specialists Eltek Valere tells Green Telecom all about its new Flatpack 2 high efficiency Rectifier that promises to reduce energy wastage by telecommunications networks by more than 50%.
Eltek Valere, the energy system arm of Norwegian-listed Eltek, has launched a new high efficient rectifier that aims to dramatically reduce the energy wasted during the [...]
The world’s biggest mobile operator, China Mobile, released its first corporate social responsibility report this month, outlining its commitments to help sustainable economic and social growth in China, as well as pledging to reduce its impact on the environment through energy efficiency and waste management programs.
Commenting in the report, China Mobile’s president, Wang Jianzhou, [...]
Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) says that operators installing cell sites in remote locations will select renewable energy as their first choice by as early as 2011.
Pointing to the requirements of operators in fast growing emerging markets where electricity grids are not always available, NSN says that renewable energy such as wind and solar is now [...]
A new survey by Greenpeace to find ‘green’ electronic devices available on the market in 2007 yield overwhelmingly disappointing results, with only three out of 37 products tested scoring higher than then the half way mark of 5 out of 10 possible points, with the highest score from all the products maxing out at 5.3 [...]
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Nokia Siemens Networks is looking to revolutionise the mobile network with is Liquid Radio architecture, which not only promises to re-architect today’s base station infrastructure, but also to ultimately bridge the gap between highly specialise (and expensive) telecoms equipment and commoditise (cost competitive) computer components. Green Telecom Live talks to Mike Murphy, head of Technology [...]
Interview with Telenor Connexion: Inside the world of M2M
Telenor Connexion, the unit of the Telenor Group focused on the machine-to-machine market, has been developing and deploying M2M applications for customers for the past decade. Green Telecom Live speaks with Gwenn Larsson, head of marketing at Telenor Connexion, about what makes M2M different from the rest of the mobile industry and the kinds of [...]
Verne Global outlines Iceland data centre plans
Two years after we first published the Icelandic government’s plans to promote the building of data centres on its shores, a venture capital-backed start tup, Verne Global, is looking to make it a reality.
Verne Global, backed by General Catalysts from Boston, Novator in London and the Wellcome Trust, is now constructing a wholesale data centre [...]
Next gen data centre architecture Part 2: Cisco’s Unified Computing
Cisco this month unveiled what some company executives dubbed one of the biggest announcements for the network equipment maker – ever. With the announcement of its Unified Computing, Cisco officially enters the computing space, although not quite as previous speculation in the industry had outlined. Instead of just producing its own blade server, Cisco unveiled [...]
Next gen data centre architecture Part 1: Juniper’s single switching fabric
In the past couple of weeks, cloud computing has really taken off, with both service providers, server makers, and switching vendors all making big announcements on service deployments and new gear designed for cloud operating environments.
Specifically, both Juniper and Cisco made significant announcements in their vision of a next generation data centre environment that can [...]