Ten Belgian Cable Companies Set to Merge
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Ten cable companies in Belgium's southern region of Wallonia are set to merge according to Belgian daily Le Soir to create the biggest rival to the country's dominant cable company, Telenet. In a report, the paper said cable companies ALE and Brutele will join forces to buy eight other Walloon operators for as much ...
Dutch Regulator Orders Cuts in Mobile Termination Rates
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The Netherlands' telecoms regulator, OPTA, has ruled that the country's five mobile operators would have to cut their mobile termination rates by nearly half by 2010. In a statement today, OPTA said the move will save consumers about 190 million euro (US$257.2 million). Mobile tariffs will be reduced by about 5 euro ...
Trend Sees Cell Phone-Only Use Growing
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More than a quarter of young adults have only cell phones, making them the leading edge of a strengthening move away from traditional land line telephones, a federal survey showed Monday. Overall, the portion of adults with only cell phones grew by more than 2 percentage points in the latter half of last year to nearly 12 ...
EC Accepts Poland's Tweaked Broadband-Access Proposal
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Earlier today, the European Commission (EC) released a decision that endorses the Polish telecom regulator's amended proposal concerning the market for access to fixed telephony services in that country. On March 13, the EC told Poland's regulator, the Electronic Communication Office (UKE), that broadband access services ...
AlcaLu Buys Gateway Vendor
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Alcatel-Lucent is to buy multiservice enterprise gateway vendor NetDevices Inc. for an undisclosed sum to help speed up its product delivery and development capabilities. NetDevices has developed a range of enterprise gateways that can sit either at the enterprise office location or in a remote data center. The products, which ...
Carriers Good at E-Commerce Basics
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When it comes to e-commerce, wireless operators have got the basics down but need to work on innovative features that will help them boost online and in-store sales as well as retain their customers. That's the conclusion of a study just released by Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG). Overall, the study ...
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