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Bill would allow Qwest to boost rates on basic phone service - June 3, 2008
Communications could boost its rates for traditional phone service as much as 32 percent under a bill working its way through the Legislature. The Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee approved an amendment to another bill Tuesday that would pave the way for the hike...

Deutsche Telekom hires supervisory head - June 1, 2008
Deutsche Telekom AG said Friday Ulrich Lehner has been named the new Chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Telekom. The decision was taken by the supervisory board at its meeting Friday. He was appointed to the Supervisory Board on Apr. 17, 2008 by order of court for a limited period...

Special deal for Telecom roamers - May 29, 2008
Australian Government said it would let Telstra close its old CDMA mobile phone network from April 28. Unlike Vodafone mobiles, standard Telecom mobiles are not compatible with other existing mobile networks in Australia. In January, the Australian Government gave Telecom a threemonth reprieve when it forced Telstra to postpone the networks closure...

Vodafone extends Mobilkom pact into Serbia - May 27, 2008
Vodafone said Thursday that it has extended its partner market agreement with mobilkom austria group to Serbia, where Vodafone will introduce a range of Vodafone-branded products and services through mobilkom austria's subsidiary,Vip mobile...

Foreign phone scammers rip off companies - May 25, 2008
Foreignbased criminals are ripping off Australian companies by hacking into their telephone systems and racking up massive bills. A Melbourne retailer and university were last week hit with collective phone bills of more than $100,000 of overseas calls with police still gathering evidence of more victims. Both parties are angry with Telstra which, they say, is insisting they pay the bills...

Truphone raises £16.5m - May 24, 2008
UK – Mobile internet network operator Truphone has raised £16.5m ($32.7m) of Series B venture capital funding. The round was led by private investors, with all of Truphone’s existing backers – Burda Digital Ventures, Eden Ventures, Independent News & Media and Wellington Partners – also participating...

BT Conferencing Acquires Wire One Holdings - May 23, 2008
BT Conferencing Inc., a business unit of UK telecom giant, BT Group, has agreed to purchase Denver, Colorado-based videoconferencing provider, Wire One Holdings Inc., the two companies announced on Thursday. The value of the deal was not disclosed except to say that the gross assets of Wire One totaled $90.5 million ...

Dish suit targets "pirate" signal - May 21, 2008
Dish Network Corp. is in federal court in Santa Ana, Calif., this week seeking damages from a News Corp.-owned company that allegedly enabled individuals to pirate Dish satellite-TV signals. Opening arguments in the case were Wednesday, with the Douglas County...

AIRCOM packs into Malaysia - May 20, 2008
AIRCOM International, the leading independent mobile network planning and optimisation consultancy, has been appointed by Malaysia’s Packet One International, to provide planning support to its WiMAX network. Packet One has chosen AIRCOM’s ASSET tool to help plan and optimise the network, prior to a full roll out later in the year, making it one of the first to commercially deploy one of the largest WiMAX networks...

VoIP Industry to Lead in Job and Wage Growth, Says IBISWorld - May 18, 2008
VoIP communications will create more jobs than any other industry this year, according to a recent study by IBISWorld Inc., a business research firm. The VoIP industry will see average annualized job growth of approximately 19.4% through 2012, and average annualized wage growth of 21.8% over the same period...

UK firms surveyed on 21CN - May 16, 2008
The UK’s business telecoms purchasers, typically tied into three year contracts, have little faith that BT will deliver its £10 billion Next Generation communications Network by its 2011 deadline, according to research conducted for ntl:Telewest Business, part of the Virgin Media Group. Just three in five questioned were aware of 21CN, which will see BT’s entire UK network replaced, a ‘radical vision’* that will eventually impact every UK firm that uses the network...

Telecom Pushing Harder Than Ever Within Hispanic Market - May 15, 2008
Hispanics represented $863 billion or 8.6% of total U.S. consumer buying power last year, and their buying power will hit $1.2 trillion by 2012, reports the Selig Center for Economic Growth. Even more alluring, from carriers' standpoint: By 2012, U.S. ethnic communities will represent $84 billion, or 35% of all residential telecommunications expenditures--and Hispanics, who now make up 14.8% of the population, will spend the most, according to the latest study from The Insight Research Corporation...

Pakistan Telecom Sector Gets $1.314 Billion Foreign Invest - May 14, 2008
Foreign investment in Pakistans telecom sector witnessed a 7.2% growth on year in the first six months of the current financial year that began July 1, government data issued Wednesday showed. During the JulyDecember period, foreigners invested $1.314 billion in the countrys telecom sector compared with $1.225 billion during the same period last year, Islamabadbased Pakistan Telecommunication Authority said in a report...

Gotalk acquires Aussie phone card company World Telecom - May 12, 2008
Gotalk CEO Steve Picton said the acquisition will take gotalk further into the prepaid phone card sector. Already gotalk has broad reach in all retail channels with both electronic and physical presence. gotalk products are in Coles, Woolworths, Australia Post, 7Eleven, BP, Caltex and a number of other leading retailers...

Australian government terminated to build a rural broadband network agreement with a Singapore backed consortium - May 9, 2008
OPEL partners Futuris Corp. and Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. said in statements to the Australian Securities Exchange that the government on Tuesday had advised that it considers the conditions have not been satisfied and has terminated the funding agreement. Confirming the termination, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said the agreement was...

AT&T, EDS, T-Systems Win Billions in Shell IT Contracts - May 8, 2008
Royal Dutch Shell will spend nearly $4 billion during the next five years on outsourcing contracts with AT&T, T-Systems and EDS. The petroleum giant awarded $1.6 billion to AT&T, $1 billion to T-Systems and $1 billion to EDS. Better Email Security Just Got A Whole Lot Easier. And Cheaper. Introducing Security Software As A Service From Webroot. Free 14-Day Trial...

Smaato and MobiComp new service for inserting tailored advertising demonstrated at Smaato’s booth at CTIA - May 7, 2008
A new way of presenting mobile adverts to subscribers will be unveiled by MobiComp, a leading mobile computing and wireless solutions provider, and Smaato, a pioneering developer of ad-enabling technology for mobile phones. The new service will be demonstrated at Smaato’s booth (#802) at CTIA...

Safaricom readies for HSDPA service launch - May 6, 2008
Kenya Kenyan mobile service provider Safaricom said it has completed trials of HSDPA services and plans a launch later this month. Safaricom CEO said the HSPDA technology will be used to deliver services such as mobile video conferencing and video calls, as well as computer data access over a modem. A number of trials have been carried out to test the network and the operator is ready for the launch...

Korean operators add 261,000 customers in March - May 5, 2008
Korea, Republic of South Korean mobile operators attracted 260,732 new customers in March to reach a combined customer base of 44.27 million at the end of the month, fact sheets from the operators show. SK Telecom added 125,000 new customers in March to end the month with a total of 22.37 million...

Czech Telefonica O2 new CFO - May 4, 2008
Telefonica O2 Czech Republic AS (BAATELEC.PR), the local unit of Spain's Telefonica SA (TEF), Wednesday said that effective as of May 1, 2008 Vice President for Finance of Telefónica O2 Czech Republic Ramon Ros will leave the company. He has been appointed to the position of Chief Financial Officer for O2 UK...

Qwest CEO gets compensation valued at $17.4 million - May 3, 2008
Qwest Communications chief executive Edward Mueller, leading the company as it recovers from a 2002 accounting scandal, received compensation in 2007 valued at $17.4 million, according to a regulatory filing Friday. Former CEO Richard Notebaert, who retired in August, received $16.8 million in 2007 compensation, including $8.0 million in severance pay...

Etisalat holds talks with Spice on entering Indian market - May 2, 2008
India UAE-based operator Emirates Telecommunications said that it held meetings with India's Spice Communications and others about possibly making investments to enter the Indian market, writes the Economic Times...

Microsoft to appeal $367M patent ruling - May 1, 2008
A jury on Friday ordered Microsoft Corp. to pay $367.4 million to Alcatel-Lucent for infringing on two patents, a decision the software maker vowed to appeal. The U.S. District Court jury in San Diego found that handwriting recognition technology in Microsoft's Tablet PC operating system infringed on pattern recognition patents held by Paris-based Alcatel-Lucent...

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