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European Union to Sue Belgium, Poland and Portugal over Telecoms Rules - Feb 23, 2008
The European Union (EU) Commission is to take Belgium, Poland and Portugal to Europe's highest court for violating European telecoms rules. The Commission has been calling for Portugal to drop its Portugal Telecom golden shares, but the government has vowed to retain them...

World Telecom Group Makes Personnel Changes - Feb 22, 2008
World Telecom Group (WTG) recently hired Jay Rubin as director of project management. Rubin will be working closely with WTG's CEO, Vince Bradley, to manage key projects in the company and develop new systems of automation. Additionally, Eldridge Aubry recently accepted the new position of partner development manager (PDM)...

Finger-Thin Cables Tie Internet Together - Feb 20, 2008
The lines that tie the globe together by carrying phone calls and Internet traffic are just two-thirds of an inch thick where they lie on the ocean floor. The slim fiber-optic cables that carry the world's communications are much like ships, in that they're the cheapest way for carrying things over long distances...

Orascom Receives Mobile Licence in North Korea - Feb 19, 2008
Mobile operator Orascom Telecom has been granted a commercial licence to provide mobile telephony services in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea using WCDMA technology. The licence has been granted to Orascom's subsidiary Cheo Technology which is controlled by Orascom Telecom with an ownership of 75 percent while the remaining 25 percent is owned by the state-owned Korea Post and Telecommunications...

Phone Problems Continue in Portales, New Mexico - Feb 18, 2008
People in Portales, New Mexico began experiencing problems with phone service Thursday afternoon. Residents were reporting problems dialing some local numbers but not others. Long distance and calls placed from cell phones to local numbers seemed to be unaffected. The numbers affected were apparently those that had been changed to Yucca from Qwest...

China Telecom Will Merge with 20 Affiliates - Feb 17, 2008
China Telecom will hold a special shareholder meeting on February 25 to review and approve an agreement regarding its merger with 20 wholly-owned companies. In the meantime, the company's affiliate North Telecom Co., Ltd will be changed into North Telecom Business Department under China Telecom's direct control...

VoIP Test Solutions Provider Sunrise Telecom Offers FTT 1000 OTDR - Feb 16, 2008
Sunrise Telecom has announced the availability of FTT 1000 Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR). The FTT-1000 is said to be ideally suited for installation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of access, metro, and long haul networks, and has advanced features and compact, high performance design save time and reduce errors while technicians perform tasks critical to characterizing fiber networks...

Rockwell Collins to Add Jobs in Richardson - Feb 15, 2008
The Texas Enterprise Fund is awarding $1.67 million to communications and aviation electronics provider Rockwell Collins Inc. to expand its operations in Richardson and create 334 jobs. Rockwell Collins' expansion and commitment to create more than 330 new jobs is a strong indicator of Texas' vibrant economy and business-friendly climate...

Kenya Telkom to Send Half of Its Workers Home - Feb 13, 2008
More than half of Telkom Kenya employees are to be laid off over the next two weeks as the lossmaking firm starts implementing a plan expected to help it return to profitability. The staff numbers currently stand at about 7,521 after it sent home 9,767 last year. The layoffs will save Telkom Sh4.2 billion in labour costs annually...

Monaco Telecom to Collaborate with Alvarion, Cisco and Nokia on Mobile WiMAX Initiatives - Feb 13, 2008
Monaco Telecom to Collaborate with Alvarion, Cisco and Nokia on Mobile WiMAX initiatives affiliate of cable and wireless to foster personal broadband services. This initiative between all four companies will demonstrate the mobility and high-speed features of new technology...

China Telecom Loses 1.48 Million Customers as China Mobile Flourishes - Feb 12, 2008
China Telecom, lost a record 1.48 million landline telephone customers last month and posted its first ever fullyear drop in users, due to the rapidly increasing popularity of mobile phone services. In the meanwhile, the country’s leading wireless carrier, China Mobile, which is also state-controlled, separately reported gains of 6.6 million customers in the same 31-day period...

Oger Telecom Says Plans South Africa Investment - Feb 11, 2008
Oger Telecom will invest part of its $2.6 billion proceeds from the sale of a stake to Saudi Telecom Co. in South African fixedline operator Telkom giving it access to markets from Turkey to South Africa. Oger Telecom announced a $1.25 billion initial public offering in 2006 but cancelled it on concerns about tumbling Gulf Arab markets...

Open IPTV Forum Announces Tilgin as Newest Member - Feb 9, 2008
Swedish firm Tilgin has been selected as a new member of the Open IPTV Forum following other new members to join the forum include: Alcatel-Lucent, LG Electronics, Telefonica, TeliaSonera, and ZTE Corporation, all contributing to the IPTV industry...

Indonesia Telkomsel to Seek $750 million in Financing - Feb 8, 2008
Indonesia's biggest mobile telephone operator Telkomsel plans to seek a minimum of US$750 million to help finance its capital expenditure this year through a combination of Medium Term Notes and bonds. Telkomsel president director Kiskenda Suriahardja said about 40 percent ...

Le Ru Telecom Chooses Airspan for Its 3.65 GHz WiMAX Network in the US - Feb 7, 2008
Airspan Networks Inc., a leading worldwide provider of WiMAX broadband wireless access networks, announced today that LeRu Telecom of Missouri, has chosen Airspan to supply HiperMAX base stations and related CPEs in the 3.65 GHz band in the U.S. Airspan will supply its WiMAX equipment through its U.S. channel partner, Stutler Technologies...

India's Reliance Communications Wins Telecom License in Uganda - Feb 5, 2008
India's Reliance Communications Ltd won a licence to be Ugandas sixth telecom operator. The licences also provide for international long distance services enabling the company to link its Ugandan network with its unit Flag Telecoms upcoming undersea cable slated to cover countries like Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Madagascar and Mauritius...

Saudi Telecom to Buy Oger Stake for $2.6 Billion - Feb 4, 2008
Saudi Telecom Co., the largest Arab telecom firm by market value, said on Sunday it had agreed a $2.6 billion deal to buy 35 percent of Oger Telecom, gaining access to markets from Turkey to South Africa. The company lagged its regional rivals...

U.S. Businesses Pay as Much as $693 in International Cellular Roaming Fees - Feb 3, 2008
Qwest will host its first full-blown analyst meeting since the days of Joe Nacchio, and the Denver-based company is going all out, expecting up to 200 attendees, including financial and industry analysts and media. Scheduled speakers include Qwest CEO Ed Mueller and chief financial officer John Richardson...

Qwest Goes All Out for Its First Full-blown Analyst Meeting since Nacchio - Feb 2, 2008
According to recent study, each time employees of U.S. companies travel overseas for work, they're racking up international mobile phone roaming charges as high as 12 times the average monthly wireless bill. Roughly 15 percent ...

Aircell to go Airborne on American Airlines - Feb 2, 2008
Aircell's in-flight broadband service will be tested out of New York after it gets FAA certification. The company plans to eventually offer a variety of pricing plans for its in-flight Wi-Fi service. It is also considering partnering with a satellite company for international service...

Maximizing VoIP Benefits in the Call Center - Feb 1, 2008
Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) has recently become more common in corporations large and small. By combining separate voice and data transmissions onto the same line, this new communications option enables companies to lower their telecommunications costs and, after taking advantage of the savings, companies are looking to extend VoIP's benefits...

Polish Telecom Incumbent Begins Testing FTTH Broadband Technology - Jan 30, 2008
Poland’s Telekomunikacja Polska SA is ready to start testing its fibertothehome broadband technology (FTTH), after rolling it out to all residents of a new apartment building in the Wola district of Warsaw...

Carrollton Company to Launch Wristwatch Phone - Jan 29, 2008
Turtle Wireless has announced plans to launch a triband GSM phone designed to look like and be worn as a wristwatch with a touch screen, WAP/GPRS compatibility, MP3/MP4 capability and 128MB of internal memory feature. The package includes a stereo Bluetooth headset, data transfer cable and charger...

Juniper to Invest $70 million in India - Jan 28, 2008
Juniper Networks plans to invest $70 million in Research and Development in India by the end of 2008. The company which already has a R&D center in Bangalore also hopes to add another 600 people to its 800 strong R&D team...

Mexico Cable Industry Calls for Restrictions on Telmex - Jan 27, 2008
Mexicos cable television industry asked the government to place restrictions on Telmex, the country's largest fixedline phone company, before allowing it to offer television service. The restrictions are hoped to promote balance and sustainable competition...

Telecom Blooms in the Middle East - Jan 26, 2008
Researcher predicts that the six oil rich Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are likely to pour as much as $375 billion into the expansion of telecom and related infrastructure in the next 10 years, and a lot of that investment will be put to work in areas outside each nations traditional territory...

Twenty-five percent of Next Billion Mobile Users Will be Indians - Jan 25, 2008
A new report from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has estimated that around 91 million households in India belong to this next billion segment. In other words, although only about 1 in 20 of the first 2 billion mobile subscribers live in India, as many as 1 in 4 of the next billion subscribers will be Indians...

Telecom IT Spending to Exceed $46 Billion in 2008 - Jan 24, 2008
A new report by Insight Research says that the global market for operations support systems (OSS) the computing and software IT infrastructure that performs engineering, provisioning, and management functions in telecommunications networks will exceed $46 billion in 2008...

Telefonica Hears China and Italy Call - Jan 23, 2008
Telefonica plans to devote more to China and Italy this year after December's management reshuffle. The Spain's leading telecommunications company is not looking at major acquisitions, but wants to focus on organic growth...

Pakistan Adds 2 Million Mobile Phone Customers in December - Jan 22, 2008
Pakistan wrapped up 2007 with a total of 76.61 million mobile phone users, up from 74.59 million in November, according to the country’s telecom regulator. Pakistan’s mobile teledensity has gone up from 39.94 percent in 2007...

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