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Verizon Wholesale Plans to Add Wireless to Bundle in 2008 - Mar 23, 2008
As part of its ongoing bundling strategy, Verizon Partner Solutions, the wholesale arm of Verizon Communications, is working on creating a quad-play bundle for resellers of its voice, data and video services, according to a VPS executive attending the COMPTEL PLUS Convention and Expo. The possible addition of wireless to the products available to resellers is a continuation of a bundling strategy begun two years ago when the organization was formed following the merger of Verizon with MCI...

Telekom Austria Mulls Mobile TV Appeal - Mar 22, 2008
Telekom Austria said it is still considering whether to launch an appeal against the disqualification of its mobile TV licence application. Austria plans to allocate one licence for DVB-H, with other mobile TV providers paying the licensee to offer channels to their subscribers. Telco's CEO claims regulator originally approved operator's application and confident company can play a part in mobile TV...

Small and Medium Businesses in India to Spend on IT - Mar 21, 2008
Small and medium businesses in India are set to spend US$9.7 billion on IT this year, up 22% over 2007. This spending is driven by a boom in the overall economy and a rise in the number of small businesses. This forecast is based on the latest study by New York-based Access Markets International (AMI) Partners, Inc., that also reports 80% of SMBs are confident about reporting revenue growth in 2008...

Citizens Communications Reports Fourth-Quarter Profits - Mar 21, 2008
Citizens Communications Co reported higher-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings, bolstered by strong revenue from two recent telecom firm acquisitions of Commonwealth Telephone Enterprises and Global Valley. During the fourth quarter, Citizens added about 22,400 high-speed internet subscribers, but like most incumbent telecom carriers, suffered a decline in residential landline subscriptions...

Etisalat Plans Expansion to Iraq - Mar 20, 2008
United Arab Emirat's Etisalat is preparing to enter the Iraq market. Two of Iraq's three mobile licences are held by Gulf groups: MTC and Qtel. The third licence was bought by the Kurdish company, Korek Telecom. The UAE company was also holding talks with the Kurdish regional government over the deal, Etisalat CEO said...

Belgium's Belgacom Buys Poncin - Mar 19, 2008
Belgian's biggest telecommunication group, Belgacom SA, is taking over the private limited company Poncin, allowing it to further develop the long-standing, thriving cooperation between the two companies in the specific market dynamics of the Liège area. With five telecom shops and a call center, Ets Pierre Poncin is a reseller of telecommunication services in the Liège region in Belgium...

Pakistan Cuts Access to YouTube Worldwide - Mar 17, 2008
Pakistan, in an act of information provincialism, inadvertently made the YouTube inaccessible to users around the world Sunday afternoon. The blackout left network administrators and Internet activists wondering on Monday how Pakistan’s actions, meant to restrict only its own citizens from accessing YouTube, could have such widespread reverberations, and whether such a disruption could be reproduced by someone with more malicious intent...

Siemens to Cut Jobs, Shift Some More - Mar 15, 2008
Siemens AG will reorganize its corporate telecom unit, eliminating 3,800 jobs while another 3,000 will be transferred to partners or other units, its biggest cuts in years. The job cuts and shifts will be global and affect nearly 40% of the unit's 17,500 workers. The company said in a statement that the decision is part of the conglomerate's plan to reorient and restructure its Siemens Enterprise Networks unit, and is intended...

RadioShack Revenue Down on Lower Postpaid Wireless Sales - Mar 14, 2008
RadioShack Corp. saw its stock soar more than 22% today after reporting a rise in net income for the fourth quarter and full year in 2007. Fourth-quarter revenue reached $94 million. Full-year revenue for 2007 reached $4.3 billion, down more than 8% over the prior year. Full-year net income reached $237 million, up from $73.4 million in the prior year...

Verizon Wireless to Publish Version 1.0 at Conference - Mar 12, 2008
Verizon Wireless announced that it is planning to publish the technical specifications for wireless devices at its upcoming Open Development Device Conference. Verizon said the conference will focus on how manufacturers and entrepreneurs new to the wireless market can bring new wireless devices to the marketplace under its Open Development initiative. The carrier said it still expects its network-only option to be available later this year...

Qwest Not Satisfied with Sprint - Mar 11, 2008
Qwest Communications International Inc. acknowledged d that its current wireless partnership with Sprint Nextel Corp. is inadequate. Qwest's CEO told analysts that he was looking to expand upon Qwest's current re-seller agreement with Sprint that expires during the first quarter of next year. Whatever new deal Qwest works out, it's possible it could be with AT&T Inc. or Verizon Communications Inc. instead of Sprint...

Global Consortium to Construct Undersea Cable System Linking US and Japan - Mar 10, 2008
A consortium of six international companiesy have executed agreements to build a high–bandwidth subsea fiber optic cable linking the United States and Japan. The new cable system, named Unity, is expected to initially increase Trans–Pacific lit cable capacity by about 20 percent, with the potential to add up to 7.68 Terabits per second (Tbps) of bandwidth across the Pacific...

France's ARCEP to Ease Fixed Line Regulations - Mar 9, 2008
France's telecoms regulator has announced plans to ease regulation in the country's fixed voice market following the widespread adoption of IP telephony services. ARCEP said it was submitting to public consultation its plan to deregulate the fixed telephony retail markets and focus on access and interconnection which constitute a long-term bottleneck...

Morph Demos Nanotech Mobile Devices - Mar 8, 2008
Nokia demonstrated the possibly flexible future of mobile devices at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York until May 12. Morph is demonstrating how future mobile devices might be stretchable and flexible, allowing users to transform their mobile devices into radically different shapes. It demonstrates the ultimate functionality that nanotechnology might be capable of delivering: flexible materials, transparent electronics and self-cleaning surfaces...

T-Mobile Gets Scrappy with Cheap VoIP Service - Mar 7, 2008
T-Mobile's VoIP service innovation, currently in the testing phase in Seattle and Dallas, meant to replace traditional land lines, a move that came just a day after it joined key rivals in announcing a flat-rate mobile plan that could help change the economics of the wireless industry...

Leading Mobile Service Provider in Asia Pacific Region Chooses Intervoice - Mar 6, 2008
Intervoice, Inc. announced a mobile service provider that serves Australasia is migrating its network to Media Exchange, expanding its Short Message Service (SMS) capacity and adding new payment features to its platform. The value of this order is currently estimated to be worth $4.1 million. This migration and expansion will benefit both the service provider and its subscribers...

European Union and Asia Pacific Invests €18 Million in TEIN3 - Mar 5, 2008
The new TEIN3 high speed research and education network collaboration between researchers in the Asia-Pacific region and their peers across the globe has been extended by an €18 million investment. TEIN3 is planned to initially link China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Australia. Plans to extend the network to further Asian countries are under consideration...

Telus Business Solutions Unit Going beyond Phone and Wireless - Mar 4, 2008
Telus Corp. ,well known that Canada's No. 2 telecom company, wants to make its mark with business customers in key markets such as health care and banks. The Vancouver-based firm has targeted energy, financial services and the public sector as key markets for its network and services that go far beyond the wireless phone...

Nigeria's Visafone Begins Mobile Operation - Mar 3, 2008
Nigeria's new telecom service provider, Visafone, began operating CDMA-based mobile services in 12 states across Nigeria, running 3G services over EV-DO. The company is hoping to attract both consumers and corporate customer, covering coverage to more than 40 cities including the capital Abuja...

Galaxia Telecom International Lists on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange - Mar 2, 2008
Galaxia Telecom International announced the listing of the company's shares on the Open Market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the launch of its first mass market of commercial WiMAX network in Algeria. The listing of the company's shares on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange offers investors the opportunity to invest both in wireless broadband technology and in emerging markets...

China Mobile lands in London - Mar 1, 2008
Chinese operator seeks partners with local players in UK, announcing that it will base its European and African headquarters in the U.K. capital. China Mobile follows its fellow state-owned, fixed-line telcos into London. A decision could be announced next month...

Despite Tough 2007, Alcatel-Lucent Ended on a High Note - Feb 29, 2008
Alcatel-Lucent reported it had a better-than-expected fourth quarter, but noted that 2007 as a whole was obviously a difficult one. The company in 2007 generated revenue of $25.8 billion, down 2.5 percent year-over-year at current exchange rate and up 2.1 percent at constant Euro/USD exchange rate. The adjusted operating income was $159.7 million, or 0.6 percent of revenue...

UK Broadband Prices Hit New Low - Feb 28, 2008
Britain's broadband prices hit a new low recently. AOL has led the pack in terms of price reductions. Broadband connections have also gotten significantly faster, with download speeds averaging 8-Mbps, down from 0.5-Mbps four years earlier...

Teleconferencing Service by Free Conferencing Corp. of America - Feb 28, 2008
Free Conferencing Corp. of America, announced the creation of what it said is the industry's first ad-supported free conferencing service: AdConferencing.com. Expanding on the company's suite of free and fee-based conferencing and collaboration solutions, AdConferencing.com integrates...

Quad-Play Telecoms don’t Need Wireless Networks - Feb 27, 2008
Quadruple-play telecom providers don't necessarily need to own their own wireless networks. SureWest liquidated its wireless business, which consisted of airwaves licenses, storefronts, and more than 50,000 customers – for $69 million, using the extra cash to help finance its recent acquisition of Kansas City-based internet provider, Everest Broadband...

Singapore Telecom Says Asia Takeovers a Challenge - Feb 26, 2008
Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. said finding takeovers in Asia has become challenging as more overseas companies are targeting Asia for acquisitions in emerging markets in the region, home to the worlds two fastestgrowing wireless markets. SingTel faces rising competition for regional assets from businesses including Egypts Orascom Telecom Holding SAE and Vodafone Group Plc, the worlds biggest wireless carrier...

Sprint and Clearwire Brush off Rumours of Intel Funding - Feb 25, 2008
Sprint Nextel and Clearwire refused to comment on rumours that Intel Corp. has agreed to help the two companies revive their proposed joint venture. Intel wants Sprint and Clearwire to work together to promote the technology, and is willing to provide funding to the tune of $2 billion. Most analysts believe that the two companies can achieve far more by working together...

Telecom Egypt Selects Alcatel for Submarine Cable Network - Feb 24, 2008
Telecom Egypt and Alcatel-Lucent signed a contract to deploy a new submarine cable network linking Sidi Kerir in Egypt to Marseille in France. The project will enable Telecom Egypt to expand international connectivity, providing diversity from existing cable routes...

Lower Costs, Strong Internet Sales Lift Qwest Profit 89 Percent - Feb 24, 2008
Qwest Communications International Inc. reported an 89 percent increase in fourth quarter earnings on strong sales of Internet and data products, despite aggressive competition and the looming threat of a slowing economy. The telecommunications company also reported a 6 percent drop in operating expenses excluding $393 million in litigation charges...

China Telecom Operators See over 100 Million Yuan in Snowstorm-Related Losses - Feb 23, 2008
China's major telecom operators are expecting combined direct losses of over one 100 million Yuan due to the severe winter weather of the past week. In a statement on its web site, the company's losses were 56.9 million yuan as of Jan 28, largely as a result of network damage and about 6,800 base stations have been shut down...

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