05.03.2010
Abry partners to acquire RCN for $1.2 billion
RCN, a cable previously known overbuilders appear in mid-1990, has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Abry Partners approximately $1.2 billion. Buying Information has been greeted positively by investors as the company `s shares rose 23 percent.
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24.02.2009
Accenture and Cisco expand partnership to encompass UC, IT services
Accenture and Cisco have decided to take their partnership up a notch, creating a group to help large enterprises implement unified communications, collaboration and data center virtualization capabilities into their business processes.In the relationship, the Accenture & Cisco Business Group... |
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15.08.2008
Activist hedge fund buying stake in Cablevision
Analysts and industry watchers who celebrated the "new openness" of Cablevision and its CEO James Dolan after the company hosted a three-day meeting for investors this week can start cleaning up the confetti. Turns out the powers that be at the Long Island-based cableco may have felt compelled to... |
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18.11.2008
Adobe goes VoIP, service hosted down in CoCoMo
Finally, Adobe Systems has released a public beta of CoCoMo, a hosted service that developers can use to add VoIP, video conferencing and other collaboration features to apps built with Adobe`s Flex developer tools.Adobe is spinning CoCoMo as a way the company is going to straddle the worlds of... |
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25.02.2009
Adtran eyes ONT launches, stimulus-related activity
Network equipment vendor Adtran, already listed by at least one industry analyst as a company that is likely to benefit from broadband stimulus funds targeted at under-served markets, said it will launch three new lines of optical network terminal units next month as part of its broadband... |
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20.10.2011
ADVA Optical's wireless backhaul focus boosts Q3 2011 results
ADVA Optical Networking`s (XETRA: ADV.DE) focus on growing out its Ethernet access business to target mobile backhaul and other long-haul WDM optical networking opportunities continues to pay off as the European vendor reported that Q3 2011 revenues rose 1.9 percent to €79.3 million ($108.5... |
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15.11.2010
Advantage Partners purchases GTA TeleGuam
With many of its goals achieved to privatize and transform GTA TeleGuam into a private multi-service wireless and wireline service provider, Shamrock Capital Advisors has sold its stake in the service provider to Advantage Partners. Under the terms of the agreement, AP TeleGuam Holdings, Inc., an... |
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06.06.2008
Africa lures telecoms with promises of untapped bounty
With Europe becoming hypercompetitive (and saturated) and Asia quickly following, more telecom firms are looking to Africa to brighten bottom lines and as an opportunity to broaden networks.A relative storm of deal-making has swirled across the continent—from top to bottom—as mobile and... |
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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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03.06.2008
Africa's Telkom Attracts Group of Buyers
The topsy-turvy world of telecom in Africa’s rapidly emerging market took another interesting turn as Africa’s largest fixed-line operator, Telkom SA Ltd., said it had been approached with an offer for its non-mobile business (it holds a 50 stake stake in Vodacom Group, which currently... |
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