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Telenor Deconsolidates Kyivstar from 2006 Results

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The Norway-based telecoms group, Telenor, said yesterday that it will deconsolidate its problem-laden Ukrainian unit, Kyivstar, from its 2006 Annual Report. In a statement, Telenor's board of directors said it had decided to present Telenor's interests in the company in one line, as an investment, in its 2006 figures. Telenor ...

T-Systems Extends IP Network Agreement With Alcatel-Lucent

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German incumbent Deutsche Telekom's business division, T-Systems, has extended its partnership with the global telecoms equipment vendor, Alcatel-Lucent. According to the terms of the deal, Alcatel-Lucent will continue to provide IP-enabled voice solutions for T-Systems, and will offer transformation of networks and services through ...

IPTV revisited: Focusing on next-generation lifestyle services

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The concept of IPTV has been much ballyhooed and rightfully so. But with the raucous buzz that invariably accompanies a 'hot' technology there sometimes is a tendency toward myopia. In the case of IPTV, one first has to wonder what IPTV really is. Many terms are being bandied about these days, like Digital TV, Internet TV, TV ...

Court Backs FCC Over States in VoIP Case

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MINNEAPOLIS -- A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a decision by the Federal Communications Commission that barred states, including Minnesota, from regulating Internet-based phone services. A three-judge panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the FCC's determination in 2004 that companies like Vonage ...

Is Ericsson Abandoning WiMax?

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Networking giant Ericsson AB may be pulling the plug on its development of WiMax to concentrate on upgrading the 3G cellular technology it favors for broadband speeds. The company appears to have stopped internal iMax development efforts at the end of last year and is instead relying on a reseller strategy for the technology ...

Google Earth Mash-Up Helps Mesh Mumbai

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NEW DELHI, India -- Indian startup network operator LifeStyle Networks Ltd. is building a wireless mesh network in Mumbai in an effort to bring broadband connectivity, and a wide range of services from third party companies, to a city of 18 million people. And according to LifeStyle's managing director (MD), Abhishek Javeri, ...

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