Amman - Investment in Jordan's telecommunication sector reached 1 billion dinars (1.4 billion dollars) over the past seven years, Telecommunications Regulatory Commission head Ahmad Hiyasat said Thursday.

A number of new laws and regulations had helped boost competitiveness in Jordan's telecommunications sector, he told a foreign investment conference in Amman.

The government had also withdrawn from the sector and opened it to foreign investors - the first Arab country to do so, Hiyasat said.

In order to increase its capacity coverage, the Palakkad telecom district of Bharti Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is planning to set up nearly 27,000 broadband lines and 50 additional mobile towers.

While speaking with mediapersons K L Jairam, BSNL general manager said, “There is a spare land line capacity of 60,000 in the district and a spare capacity of 30,000 for WLL which could help provide instant connections to as many persons.”

MTNL is providing broadband services, which would lower the rent of another tariff plan by 34%.

In New Delhi, MTNL Broadband services reduced the charges up to 50% for the users. Due to the decreasing rates in the broadband services, the public sector telecom major is planning to charge a monthly rent of only Rs 99 per 150mb of free download.

The internet lovers will also have a scheme of paying only Rs 149 with free download of 400mb and all this would be applicable from the of August 15th.

Amman  - Jordan's telecommunication investments reached one billion dinars (1.4 billion dollars) over the past seven years, the head of the country's Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, Ahmad Hiyasat, said Thursday.

Speaking at a foreign investment conference currently in process in Amman, Hiyasat said a number of laws and regulatory decisions had "helped to boost the competitiveness of the country's telecommunications sector."

London, Aug 14 : Britons are chatting like never before, says a new research, which found that the natives are spending a record amount of time chatting on the phone.

According to the study, they spent a total of 247billion minutes on the blower last year, up from 233billion in 2006, reports The Sun.

More calls are made from mobiles, with landline use falling.

They spend an average ten minutes a day talking and texting on a mobile — twice the 2002 figure.

But one in ten people with a landline say they never use it.