| Tracking COVID-19’s Impact on Global Internet Performance - 13/03/2020 |
| Ookla |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | The Americas | United States of America |
| Ookla® is closely monitoring the impact of COVID-19 on the performance and quality of global mobile and broadband Internet networks. National network performance metrics based on Ookla data are provided in select nations. This article may assist in the understanding of how networks are responding to this unprecedented situation. Ookla will continue to update this information as we have worthwhile (...) |
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Perma Link Keywords: QoS, QoE, fixed network performance, mobile network performance, COVID-19, coronavirus, global speeds |
| CHAIRMAN PAI LAUNCHES THE KEEP AMERICANS CONNECTED PLEDGE - 13/03/2020 |
| Federal Communications Commission (FCC) |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | The Americas | United States of America |
| Chairman Pai Calls on Broadband and Telephone Service Providers to Promote Connectivity for Americans Impacted by the Disruptions Caused by the Coronavirus Pandemic. WASHINGTON, March 13, 2020—Yesterday, in multiple phone calls with broadband and telephone service providers and trade associations, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai emphasized the importance of keeping Americans c (...) |
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| Using Mobile Fetal Monitor iCTG as a countermeasure against the new type of coronavirus. - 13/03/2020 |
| Melody International Ltd. |
| Technical Community and Civil Society | Asia & Pacific | Japan |
| Hokkaido University has started using Melody International’s Mobile Fetal Monitor iCTG as a countermeasure against the new type of coronavirus. Pregnant women do not want to go to the hospital for maternity check-up, because hospitals are the primary infection cluster. If the melody is used by a pregnant woman, it will be measured at home and prescribed while at home. The best way to counter the n (...) |
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| Request to Digital Signage Related Industrial Organizations to Distribute Information on COVID-19 Infection - 13/03/2020 |
| Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Asia & Pacific | Japan |
| The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan requested industrial associations related to digital signage to distribute a PR video created by the Office of Public Relations under the Minister’s Secretariat of the Cabinet Office on COVID-19 infection. |
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| Beeline provides free calls to essential agencies and hospitals amidst outbreak in Moscow - 13/03/2020 |
| Beeline |
| TELECOM/ICT Operators and Service Providers | CIS countries | Russian Federation |
| Beeline is resetting to zero the cost of calls to the Moscow Department of Health, to the hotline in Moscow dealing with citizens returning from foreign countries, and to programs of the ministry of health of the Russian federation for its consumers. Additionally, they are offering free calls from international roaming to hotline numbers of the government and different airlines. |
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| Greenland creates a hotline for concerned citizens to ask questions about COVID-19 - 13/03/2020 |
| Greenland Government |
| TELECOM/ICT Operators and Service Providers | Europe | Denmark |
| The "Corona Hotline" is available over phone or email, for citizens to ask questions about the COVID-19 in Greenland. |
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Perma Link Keywords: information; hotline |