25.08.2008
VoIP leads IMS charge
Infonetics Research has a new report suggesting that about 75 percent of service providers around the world plan to offer VoIP services over IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) infrastructure by the first half of 2009. That comes as good news, as the industry has begun to see something of a backlash... |
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25.08.2008
AT&T reportedly ends CallVantage sign-ups
AT&T reportedly is no longer accepting new customer orders for its CallVantage VoIP service. The company previously had stopped its active marketing of the stand-alone VoIP brand through resellers and, more recently, launched a VoIP service as part of its U-verse broadband package. The demise... |
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25.08.2008
Cablecos' phone offerings get a boost in the media
The mainstream media has discovered that cable companies are making a move into the home telephone market. That can only be good news for an industry segment that’s looking for income in every nook and cranny it can find (will it follow AT&T’s lead from last week and start offering... |
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22.08.2008
Harbinger ups ownership stake in Cablevision
Cablevision management might want to pick up their pace a little, because hedge fund Harbinger is gaining on them. Regulatory filings yesterday showed the activist investor, which likes to shake up the management of companies it has a stake in, increased its holdings to 8.1%, some 18.95 million... |
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21.08.2008
Cox eyes $500 million wireless investment
Cable TV company Cox Communications already has committed $300 million at auction to acquire 700 Mhz wireless spectrum, and company president Patrick Esser said at the Progress and Freedom Foundation`s Aspen Summit that Cox will spend a total of $500 million to roll out mobile content... |
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21.08.2008
Verizon to conduct FiOS safety checks in NY
Verizon Communications will conduct safety inspections of all FiOS installations completed in New York before Aug. 1, after the New York Public Service Commission uncovered electrical code violations during routine inspections of some deployments. The carrier said its installations are... |
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21.08.2008
Deutsche Telekom hit by data trade scandal
Deutsche Telekom has had a tough summer. First, it was caught in a scandal involving spying on its own executives and board members. Now the German telecom is embroiled in a scandal involving the sale of its customer data to third parties.The worst part - aside from the obvious privacy... |
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21.08.2008
Africa soon to have a glut of bandwidth
New submarine cables, scheduled for completion over the course of the next several years, could take Africa from a severe shortage of international bandwidth to a more-than-comfortable excess. In fact, the abundance of bandwidth could drive prices for data transmission into the bargain basement... |
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20.08.2008
Service Provider Spotlight: ACS pushing multiple frontiers
Who: Alaska Communications SystemsVitals: This service provider is based in Anchorage, has about 214,000 local access lines and 148,000 wireless customers, and provides multiple services over about 75 percent of Alaska.Why you should care: The company is aggressively upgrading its wireless network,... |
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19.08.2008
Gartner sees telecom spending up despite economy
The economy may be stuck in low gear, but telecom and IT spending will continue to be strong for at least the next three years, says research firm Gartner Inc. The firm expects 2008 spending to increase 8 percent to $3.4 trillion."The U.S.-led economic downturn shows no sign of... |
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