Nokia-Siemens Looks to U.S. for Growth
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Dow Jones has reported an interview with Simon Beresford-Wylie, CEO of Nokia-Siemens Networks. The interview notes that Nokia-Siemens is one of the vendors chosen for the Long Term Evolution (LTE) test under way that Verizon Wireless has announced it will conduct. Together with the relationship between Nokia-Siemens and...
Start-up Launching Bonded Cable-DSL
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A British start-up is planning to launch managed broadband services in the U.S. that will bond ADSL lines as well as broadband lines from multiple providers. The company, Sharedband, hopes to launch services initially in Seattle next month, with plans to expand nationwide throughout 2008. Sharedband's initial...
Nortel Fields New SMB Offerings
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Nortel unveiled a string of new products it's touting as being "custom built" for the small- to medium-business (SMB) market rather than simply being re-jiggered versions of offerings first proffered for the enterprise market. The offerings include a suite of new features for Nortel's Business Communication...
Verizon Wireless Supports Android
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Verizon Wireless has come out in support of Google's open mobile platform Android. According to an interview with BusinessWeek, Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam said that the open platform "is an enabler" of the carrier's plans. Given the company's announcement last week that it plans to open its network to...
FCC Denies Verizon's Rate Request
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Tis the Christmas season, and, in the holiday spirit, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ruled that Verizon Communications Inc. must maintain its selfless generosity towards CLECs and other carriers that lease the incumbent's lines in certain markets. The FCC decided late yesterday that Verizon is still required...
Telecom Italia Dumps UMA for FMC
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Telecom Italia SpA has decided not to use unlicensed mobile access (UMA) for its fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) service Unica, and has relaunched the service with a homegrown SIP-based solution. The operator made the technology change because of Italy's regulatory regime and the limited availability of UMA-enabled...
'Green' Storage Requires No Hardware
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SAN FRANCISCO -- In addition to "Iraqi peace plan" or "Paris Hilton modesty" we can add the phrase "green storage" to today's list of oxymorons. That was the upshot of a conference keynote this morning given by Jon Toigo, who weighed the merits of allegedly green storage options like...
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