Our new poll: Do you use IPTV? Visit the site to vote.AT&T Makes Another Acquisition with Edge Wireless
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AT&T has announced that it is to acquire full ownership of affiliate company Edge Wireless, a 1900 MHz band, GSM, regional network operator based in the Pacific Northwest. Edge Wireless has over 172,000 subscribers and 300 cell sites in southern Oregon, northern California, south-east Idaho, and Jackson, Wyoming. AT&T has...
T-Mobile Wins Court Appeal to Sell Apple's iPhone Exclusively
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FRANKFURT, Germany -- A court ruled today that T-Mobile can sell Apple's much sought-after iPhone exclusively, reversing a lower court's decision that said an unlocked version must be sold in Europe's biggest economy. The Hamburg District Court said Tuesday that T-Mobile, part of Deutsche Telekom AG, could indeed...
Wi-Fi Takes Small Steps for FMC
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Wi-Fi, although starting to gain traction in the market due to several successful fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) launches and an increasing presence in flagship handsets, remains a niche feature for most mobile phones, according to a report by IMS Research. The number of Wi-Fi shipments has grown substantially over last year;...
Submit A Business Plan, Win An E-Mail Server
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N.Y.-based Zrinity, a provider of e-mail delivery server and systems, is marketing a new "Enterprise to Entrepreneurs" program along with a new set of e-mail marketing resources that include "Zpedia," which offers definitions of e-mail-marketing-related terminology and also links to a number of e-mail marketing...
T-Mobile Inks 5-Year Contract with Ericsson
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Ericsson announced that it has signed a 5-year managed services deal with Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Mobile UK. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Ericsson said, in a statement, that about 190 T-Mobile employees would be transferred to Ericsson under the agreement. The telecom equipment provider also...
NexTone, Reef Point (Finally) Merging
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After weeks of speculation, NexTone Communications Inc. and Reef Point Systems Inc. have made it official. On Dec. 2, the companies signed a definitive agreement to merge. The transaction, being announced today, is expected to close in early January, so that NexTone and Reef Point can enter 2008 as a single entity,...
700 MHz Deadline Looms
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Some major carriers are being a little more circumspect than Google about their bidding plans for 700 MHz spectrum. Today is the deadline for companies to inform the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of their intention to bid on the spectrum, which is opening up as analog TV broadcasters move off these airwaves and onto...
Users Draw Up Virtual Wishlists
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The holidays and virtualization go together like, well, cranberries and RAID arrays, perhaps. Still somehow, the season calls out for punishing analogies, especially as users check in with their wishlists for server virtualization products -- functions and capabilities that for now they can only dream about (or undertake as ...
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