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India Telco Bharti to Launch Rechargeable Calling Card in Canadian Market - December 6, 2008
Indian Telco Bharti announced that they have introduced their rechargeable online calling card product called Airtel CallHome into the Canadian marketplace. Over 1.5 million Indian's living in Canada, they feel well positioned with a rate of roughly $0.058 per minute to take over as one of the prominent companies serving this community...

Rogers Communications Q3 profit rises 84 per cent driven by iPhones - December 4, 2008
Rogers Communications Inc. says profits nearly doubled in the latest quarter as the Canadian debut of the Apple iPhone sent the wireless, cable and media company's results higher. Canada's largest cable-TV and mobile-phone operator reported Tuesday that third-quarter net income rose 84 per cent to $495 million, helped by spectacular sales of the iPhone...

Visa settles Discovery suit for 1.9B dollars - December 2, 2008
Visa Inc. gave details of a $1.8875 billion settlement with Discover Financial Services on Monday. Discover (NYSE: DFS) filed suit in 2004 against Visa (NYSE: V) and MasterCard (NYSE: MA) seeking about $6 billion in damages and alleging it was harmed by the two card networks not allowing its member banks to issue Discover cards. Visa and MasterCard reached an earlier settlement with American Express (NYSE: AXP) for $3.9 billion...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs Unimpressed by Apple TV Sales - December 1, 2008
Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, admitted in an earnings call earlier this week that the company’s digital video receiver device, Apple TV, has not been as successful as was hoped, and isn’t likely to become popular in the foreseeable future. Jobs stopped short of calling Apple TV a failure, however, calling it more of an experiment...

Understand How Telstra Will Remain Resistant from Economic Downturns in Australia's Telecommunications Sector - October 30, 2008
Research and Markets has announced the addition of IE Market Research Corp.'s new report, Safe Haven: Telstra Remains Resistant from Economic Downturns in Australia's Telecommunications Sector to their offering. In this Competitor Insight report on Telstra Corp., we provide five reasons why we think Telstra will be resistant to an economic slowdown...

Chinese iPhone Knockoffs Described With Hilarious Engrish - October 29, 2008
We all know how much companies in China love producing knockoffs of successful products, and ActFind is selling a bunch of the iPhone. Whats interesting is that ActFind is simply using photos of the real iPhone to sell some of the fakes. The items names and descriptions give away they are fake..

Japan, Sweden and Netherlands Lead World in Broadband Network Quality - October 26, 2008
Japan currently boasts the world’s highest-quality broadband infrastructure, followed by Sweden and the Netherlands, according to researchers at Oxford University’s Said Business School. Researchers used a number of indicators, including upload/download speeds and internet latency, to calculate a “Broadband Quality Score” for each of 41 countries...

Manitoba Telecom reports Q2 profit drops 33 per cent to $38M - October 23, 2008
Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. (TSX:MBT) confirmed its annual growth targets Monday, despite reporting a 33-per-cent drop in second-quarter profit due to restructuring and other expenses. We're on track to meet our guidance for 2008, and to date we have not been impacted by the negative forecasts around the economy, CEO Pierre Blouin, told a conference call Monday...

ADB funds Roshan services development in Afghanistan - October 22, 2008
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide a USD 55 million loan to local mobile phone provider Telecom Development Company Afghanistan, for coverage expansion to parts of the country that have poor or no telecommunications infrastructure. In addition, the operator, which operates under the name Roshan, plans to use these funds to support the roll out of its mobile banking system called M-Paisa...

SingTel profit falls 5.3 pct on stronger currency - October 20, 2008
Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., the largest telephone company in Southeast Asia, said Tuesday that its April-June quarter profit fell 5.3 percent as a stronger local currency undermined the value of income earned abroad. The company, also known as SingTel, said in a statement that its net profit for the fiscal first quarter fell to 878 million Singapore dollars...

Iraq Communications Ministry to Discuss Sector Issues at October Conference - October 19, 2008
The Iraqi Ministry of Communication is working with CWC Associates to hold a Telecoms Conference in London on the 13-14 October 2008. The event will focus on Iraq's progress to liberalisation, investment opportunities in broadband network roll-out, progress on fibre-optic connectivity, and WLL opportunity for connectivity and service delivery. The conference will feature the Ministry of Communication's vision for the development of telecommunications services in the country...

Ericsson in mobile broadband pilot to boost social and economic development in Bangladesh - October 16, 2008
The pioneering project, called Alokito Bangladesh (Enlightened Bangladesh), will demonstrate high-speed internet access and a range of advanced services - including mobile health and mobile learning - in the region of the capital, Dhaka, from early August to the end of October this year. Ericsson is seeking to showcase how the technology can be a major catalyst for social and economic empowerment by bridging the digital divide in this developing market...

Telecom posts annual profit of $713m - October 14, 2008
Telecom has posted annual profit of $713 million, in line with the company's guidance, but down 15.5 per cent from last year. Telecom is currently battling increasing competition and rising costs as it implements a Government-enforced three way operational separation...

Verizon to Challenge Comcast in Washington DC Cable TV Market - October 12, 2008
The District of Columbia Office of Cable Television has reached an “agreement in principle” that will likely allow Verizon Communications to launch its FiOS TV service in Washington D.C. The deal, which took nine months to negotiate, still requires the approval of Washington’s mayor and council, and must undergo legal scrutiny from the Office of the Attorney General. Assuming this goes smoothly, FiOS TV service could be available in parts of the city by early next year, posing new competition to cable incumbent, Comcast...

Vodafone offers live Bundesliga matches via 3G streaming - October 11, 2008
Vodafone Germany will broadcast all 612 first and second division Bundesliga matches live and in full length in the 2008/2009 season for customers with 3G mobile phones. By booking the Vodafone live! Football Flatrate, customers can watch their favourite team play for EUR 7.50 a month. The first month is a free trial...

Malone may swap for AOL - October 10, 2008
Liberty Media chairman John Malone may consider swapping a stake in Time Warner for the media company's AOL Internet-access business. Time Warner has been seeking a buyer for the division and will separate it from AOL's advertising and content unit by year-end. Analyst Anthony DiClemente of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in New York estimated in a note last month that the access unit is worth $1.5 billion...

French Parliament Urges More Spectrum for Mobile Broadband - October 8, 2008
France is pondering reserving part of the digital dividend—the spectrum that will be freed up once the analogue TV signal is switched off. In a report submitted to French Prime Minister François Fillon, a French parliamentary commission recommended...

Telecommunications company TeliaSonera says 2Q profit rose 7.8 percent - October 7, 2008
Nordic telecommunications operator TeliaSonera AB reported a 7.8 percent rise in second-quarter net profits Thursday, mainly thanks to stronger revenues and margin improvements. The Stockholm-based company also reiterated its forecast for 2008, saying sales were expected to continue to show stable growth compared with 2007...

Ontario Phone Cards Reveals Phone Card Industry Practices - October 5, 2008
Ontario Phone Cards has disclosed information on deceptive marketing practices in the phone card industry in response to the Competition Bureau’s request. The Canadian Federal Competition Bureau had announced the receipt of numerous complaints regarding hidden fees, higher rates, and fewer minutes than advertised...

Britain Mobile Internet Penetration Close to 13 percent - October 4, 2008
Mobile internet penetration in the UK currently stands at 12.9%, behind America (15.6%) and ahead of Italy (11.9%). In the first three months of this year, 28% of British mobile internet users recalled seeing advertisements while browsing the web on a wireless device, suggesting that the country has a budding mobile advertising market...

FCC censures Comcast for blocking traffic - October 2, 2008
The Federal Communications Commission, in a 3-2 vote, asserted a new authority and ordered the cable giant to stop certain practices that interfere with online traffic. At a meeting in Washington, the agency called Comcast's actions inconsistent with "an open and accessible Internet."...

Critical Links, Telcomms partner - October 1, 2008
Critical Links, a global provider of converged voice, data and IT solutions for Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs), and Telcomms, a high-growth innovative Wireless and VoIP solutions distributor in Italy, announced a reseller agreement through which Critical Links’ flagship product...

Acme Packet nets new Canada customers - September 28, 2008
Acme Packet, the leader in session border control solutions, today announced four new customers across Canada that are leveraging Acme Packet’s Net-Net® session border controllers (SBCs) for the delivery of trusted, first-class IP interactive communications. Broad-Connect Telecom, Call Genie, MTO Telecom and Protus have deployed...

China ends June with 601 mln mobile users - September 27, 2008
In the first half of this year, some 53.5 million mobile users entered the market in China, bringing the total mobile user base to 601 million at 30 June, Interfax writes citing the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). In June, the mobile operators added about 8.63 million new users...

New satellite in orbit for Dish Network - September 25, 2008
Sea Launch Co has launched a new satellite for Dish Network Corp. A rocket carrying the Echo Star 11 satellite lifted off Tuesday night from a Sea Launch Co rocket platform in the Pacific Ocean. Dish Network also disclosed Wednesday that the EchoStar 2 satellite, launched in 1996, failed Monday...

Locus Reinforces Commitment to Fair Value & Clear Product Disclosure with Expansion of the 'S' Calling Card - September 23, 2008
Locus Telecommunications announces the recent distribution expansion of the S Card, a prepaid long distance calling card with competitive national and international rates. As an example of a well established calling card that reinforces Locus' commitment to fair value and clear product disclosures, the company has decided to expand distribution of the S Card in key markets such as LA, Washington DC and Texas. In addition, it is expected to launch in Northern New Jersey, at the end of August, through Locus' distribution partnership with SDI ...

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