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Under the Spotlight 94Orascom CEO Adds TIM Hellas to Burgeoning Medit- erranean Empire
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Private equity players Apax and Texas Pacific Group (TPG) have finally sold off the Greek mobile operator, TIM Hellas, and its mobile operator subsidiary, Q-Telecom, for 3.4 billion euro (US$4.4 billion), netting themselves a tidy 1.7-billion-euro profit after just 20 months in the business. The sale price, which includes a ...
TransTelecom and NTT Agree to Deal for International Fibre-Optic Cable Deployment
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NTT Comm, the long-distance and international arm of Japanese telco NTT, and Russian long-distance backbone operator TransTelecom are close to agreeing to a deal on the laying of an international fibre-optic cable line, according to press reports. The cable would link the island of Sakhalin, in the far east of Russia, with the northern...
Patents Wars: AT&T vs. Microsoft vs. Alcatel; Vonage vs. Verizon
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The next few days will be busy regarding patents, with a number of issues coming up for court judgements. The case with the most far-reaching international ramifications involves AT&T and Microsoft, which questions the ability of U.S. federal courts to award damages for patent infringement that occurs overseas -- in this case, the use ...
Coming Soon: A Fixed-Mobile Convergence Spike
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In an era of dramatic changes to telephone services, one of the hottest new market phenomena is fixed-mobile convergence. ABI Research has found that, by 2011, some 250 million users will be making and receiving phone calls over converged fixed-mobile networks and access points, and the firm expects capital expenditure in ...
Cisco's Charmed by Cable VOIP Growth
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Cable MSOs such as Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc. are showing big growth in VOIP, and Cisco Systems Inc. is laughing all the way to the bank. Cisco's VOIP equipment business grabbed market share leadership from Nortel Networks Ltd. in the fourth quarter, according to new research from market analysts ...
BlackBerry Convergence
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Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM); Toronto: RIM) was one of the stars of the show at last week's 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona. Some news of the vendor's technology updates, however, got lost in the information cavalcade, but could prove to be crucial in the long-term. The BlackBerry was on the rise at the show. The Canadian ...
Alltel for Sale?
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During yesterday's earnings conference call, Alltel representatives said the company was reviewing strategic options, which sparked conjecture that the operator is shopping for potential suitors. With its strong presence in the U.S. rural market, it could be a big win for the right provider looking to grow its subscriber ...
Cisco Reacts to Reactivity
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Cisco Systems Inc. is continuing its push into applications territory, announcing today a bid to acquire Reactivity Inc. , a vendor of XML-processing appliances. The $135 million cash deal is expected to close by the end of April. Reactivity's 56 employees would be folded into Cisco's Datacenter Switching and Security ...
Non-Proprietary I/O Making Gains In Several Markets
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Non-proprietary I/O is having an increased presence within the central processing, printed circuit board, and IP communities, reports In-Stat. HyperTransport, PCI Express, and Serial RapidIO have all announced major revisions to their existing standards, the high-tech market research firm says. All three ...
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