Massive Mob Files Spectrum Auction Bid Papers
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A large crowd of 266 potential bidders filed notice of intention with the FCC to bid in next month's highly anticipated 700 MHz spectrum auction. Surprisingly, according to FCC notices posted yesterday afternoon only 96 of the applications were deemed complete and acceptable -- including the highly publicized one by Google --...
SFR Launches US$2.9-bil. Takeover Bid for Neuf Cegetel
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French mobile group SFR has reached an agreement to buy the country's leading alternative fixed-line telco, Neuf Cegetel, for around 2.05 billion euro (US$2.94 billion). SFR, jointly owned by Vivendi and Vodafone, already owns a 40.5% stake in Neuf Cegetel and wants to buy the 29.5% stake held by the Louis Dreyfus trading house...
Mobilkom Selects Ericsson for Austrian HSPA Network Expansion
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Ericsson has been selected by the leading Austrian operator, Mobilkom, to expand and upgrade its W-CDMA network with the latest high-capacity HSPA functionality in the Carinthia region. Under the terms of the agreement, Ericsson is supplying its latest HSPA technology, enabling high-speed mobile broadband with uplink speeds of up to...
Authorities Call for BSkyB to Lower ITV Stake Below 7.5%
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The United Kingdom's Competition Commission has called for the satellite pay-TV group, BSkyB, to cut its stake in terrestrial broadcaster ITV to below 7.5%. In a report submitted to U.K. Secretary of State for Business and Enterprise John Hutton, the Competition Commission said BSkyB's 17.9% stake in ITV is anti-competitive...
Content, Quality, Convergence Drive IPTV
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IPTV has been slowly making its way from over-hyped technology to widespread reality, making 2007 'the year IPTV got real,' according to Telephony's end of the year review. If 2007 was the year for service providers to advance their early services, then 2008 should be the year they perfect them. Telephony Associate...
WiMAX Forum Opens Lab for Mobile
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The WiMAX Forum says its lead certification lab in Spain is now open for formal WiMAX certification testing and evaluation of mobile WiMAX products. Four other certification labs - in the United States, Taiwan, China and Korea - are expected to open for mobile WiMAX testing shortly. The open labs...
Moto Bonds With Korea
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Although 2008 will mark the first rollout of Docsis 3.0-based services in the U.S., most of the deployment activity happening now tends to involve cable MSOs in Asia and Europe. The latest example: Two South Korean operators -- C&M and CJ CableNet -- have teamed up with Motorola Inc. to produce a 100-Mbit/s cable modem...
Email Archiving Blitz Wraps Up 2007
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Could 2008 be the year when users finally get to grips with email management? Vendors, seeking to tap into IT customers' struggles with Exchange and a constantly shifting regulatory climate, clearly hope so. The last month has seen a flurry of announcements from suppliers looking to help streamline and secure corporate email. ...
Ultrawideband Beginning To Take Off
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The market for Ultrawideband (UWB) silicon is finally beginning to take off in 2007, reports In-Stat. Though regulatory hurdles over UWB still persist worldwide, the first UWB-enabled notebook PCs have shipped this year from Dell, Lenovo, and Toshiba, the high-tech market research firm says. "The primary...
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