CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update - September 25, 2007

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AT&T Wins U.S. Government Contract Worth Up to US$1 bil.

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AT&T has been awarded a US$270-million contract for network services, the first to be awarded under the General Services Administration's 10-year Networx Universal contracting programme, which is budgeted at US$20-68 billion. Reuters reports that the deal to build out and manage a next-generation converged network for the...

Alcatel-Lucent Wins Network Contracts from China Mobile, Unicom Subsidiaries

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Alcatel-Lucent has announced that three subsidiaries of China Mobile have selected the European telecoms equipment maker to provide network optimisation services for their wireless networks in Shanghai, Guizhou and Shanxi provinces. Inner Mongolia Unicom, a subsidiary of China Unicom, also selected Alcatel-Lucent to optimise its...

What's Google's Interest in Wireless?

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First the Google phone, now its partnership with Sprint -- Google's mobile ambitions are extensive, but how far will the Internet giant go? The most active service provider in wireless of late isn't the one you'd expect. Internet titan Google has taken an active interest in all things wireless: launching...

Blyk's Ad-Funded Service Hits UK

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Blyk launched its advertising-funded mobile service for young people in the U.K. today, with plans to launch in other European markets next year. Blyk, which is an invitation-only MVNO service, is seeking to create a kind of mobile social network. Subscribers, which Blyk calls "members," have to be invited either...

Motorola Shows Off Latest WiMAX Device

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Motorola is showcasing its latest WiMAX solution, the CPEi 300, during the WiMAX World USA show in Chicago this week. The new CPEi 300 Series is a desktop consumer device that provides wireless broadband connectivity; it features one data port for data-centric operations and two analog terminal adaptors (ATAs) so end users can...

Proposed 'WiMAX Killer' Standard Unveiled

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The CDMA Development Group (CDG) and the Third Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) today released their proposed Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB) standard, the technology they hope will trump the mobile iterations of IEEE 802.16e-2005 (so-called mobile WiMAX) and Long-Term Evolution (LTE) as the world's eventual 4G standard. ...

Internet Cloud May Dampen the Huge Cellular Opportunity from Mobile Entertainment

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Some 35% of respondents to an In-Stat consumer survey of primarily North American users still only use voice services from their mobile providers, reports In-Stat. This presents a huge opportunity for the entire mobile service industry to get these consumers to partake of some mobile data and entertainment...

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