Range of Possibilities for Svyazinvest Restructuring Suggested by Russian Minister
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A spokesman for Russia's Economic Development and Trade Ministry has hinted that a range of possibilities are being explored regarding the restructuring of national fixed-line holding Svyazinvest. The group controls seven pan-regional operators-CentreTelecom, North-West Telecom, Southern Telecom, Volgatelecom, Uralsvyazinform, ...
Cisco Launches PTT over wVoIP
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ZDNet reports from Interop 2007 that Cisco has launched a new product, the Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7921G handset, which supports applications including Berbee Push-to-Talk over 802.11a and 802.11g Wi-Fi networks. This forms part of Cisco's retail industry solution, which uses the Cisco Unified Wireless Network ...
U.N. Cancels European Telecoms Conference in Bulgaria
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GENEVA -- The U.N. telecoms agency said Friday it has canceled a major European conference in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia because companies and officials in the country were running behind in their organization. The ITU Telecom Europe 2007 was scheduled to take place in December, bringing together 100 companies and 5,000 ...
Enterprise FMC Grows Up
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LAS VEGAS -- Interop -- Fixed/Mobile Convergence attracted attention at the Interop show this week, but startups and big names alike have to contend with U.S. carriers control over the flow of dual-mode devices. Enterprise FMC contender DiVitas Networks has just inked a new partnership deal with Microsoft Corp., linking ...
Euro Scorecard: Telefonica Dominates
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We're so close to Memorial Day Weekend that you can smell the hot dogs and stale beer in the air. There's nothing more American than the first official weekend of summer, which is why we're using the event to hand out our first-quarter 2007 Wireline Carrier Scorecard for the, uh ... European carriers. You know the ...
Nokia and Qualcomm: The Battle Continues
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Nokia and Qualcomm are still at it. Most recently, the phone manufacturer responded to Qualcomm's April 2, 2007, lawsuit by filing a counter-suit, claiming infringement on six of its own patents used in the chipmaker's GSM/WCDMA and CDMA2000 chipsets. Nokia also released a statement saying that its products do not infringe on ...
MEF Unveils P-TV Draft Best-Practices Code
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The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) yesterday published a draft Code of Practice outlining best practices for Participation Television (P-TV) in the United States. According to the group, P-TV services typically provide viewers the ability to interact with television shows -- for example, where viewers are asked to text in votes ...
How to Swap Out Vendors
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An old song said it well: It's tough to belong to someone else when the right one comes along. But plenty of IT pros who 'married' one key supplier early on have made the transition to another, often with a minimum of pain and disruption. "It all depends on the kind of relationship you have," says the director ...
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