Grameenphone pays $37.3m in fines

Bangladesh based mobile operator, Grameenphone has agreed to pay an administrative fine of $37.3 million to the telecoms regulator, the BTRC for providing E1 connectivity to third parties, enabling the use of VOIP technology which is unlawful and illegal, reports Cellular News.

"We deeply regret that such unlawful practices were carried out and not disclosed earlier by Grameenphone," says Anders Jensen, CEO of Grameenphone.

"We have cooperated with BTRC in the investigations and the Grameenphone board also mandated an investigation by an external auditor to look into all aspects of our operations to ensure that we fully comply with all laws and regulations."

As Intel gets ready to bring its newest chip designs to life at its developer forum, the company is touting its ability to put its processors to sleep, reports CRN.

The ability to remotely wake up a processor is a feature that the company is building into its motherboards and plans to release next week.

The idea of the feature is to enable home PCs to be put into sleep mode and awoken only when the processor is needed, allowing users to put their computers into sleep mode rather than leave them for fear of losing VOIP or media-sharing services.

VOIP business services are set to grow as net telephony increases its foothold in the enterprise, states Silicon.com.

Infonetics Research predicts that business customer share of worldwide hosted VOIP service revenue will increase from 26% in 2007 to 41% in 2011.

It also reports that worldwide revenue from hosted VOIP and managed IP private branch exchange services leapt up 52% to $24 billion last year.