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SMARTS Confirms VimpelCom's Interest in US$550-mil Buy-Out
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Russia's second-largest mobile operator, VimpelCom, is in talks over the purchase of Volga-based mobile operator SMARTS. Various press reports this week, citing "unnamed sources", indicated that talks were under way; now Prime-Tass, citing Vedomosti, has quoted Gennady Kiryushin, SMARTS' chairman and owner of 97% of...
Approval of Alltel Acquisition Fast-Tracked to Enable Participation in 700 MHz Auction
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FCC commissioners were given just three days by Chairman Kevin Martin to consider and approve the sale of Alltel to private equity firm Atlantis Holdings, a holding company for TPG Capital and the Goldman Sachs group, reports Dow Jones. The report states that two senior FCC officials have revealed that the participants in the merger...
Ask.com to Unveil New Privacy Control
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Hoping to establish itself as the Internet's least intrusive search engine, Ask.com is empowering people to prevent their search requests from being deposited in data banks. The new privacy control, called ''AskEraser,'' is scheduled to be unveiled Tuesday. When it's turned on, the...
ProfitLine Helps Enterprises Manage Mobile Users, Expenses
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San Diego-based ProfitLine, a provider of outsourced telecom expense management (TEM) and wireless support solutions, continues to ink contracts for the company's turnkey individual liable (IL) to corporate liable (CL) wireless migration solution. As the market for total telecom cost management (TTCM) solutions continues to...
T-Mobile Launches the Samsung Katalyst
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T-Mobile is now selling Samsung's new handset, the Katalyst. Featuring support for T-Mobile's HotSpot@Home VoIP service, the Katalyst sports a sleek, slider design with a metallic silver finish. It comes with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and a 1.3-megapixel camera. The Katalyst also features advanced messaging capabilities including...
Nortel Pushes More PBT
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Nortel Networks Ltd. is further enhancing its 8600 Metro Ethernet Routing Switch to meet the growing demand for Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) capabilities, the vendor announced today. As the leading flag bearer for PBT, a controversial connection-oriented version of Ethernet that's known as Provider Backbone Bridging,...
EMC Overhauls Invista
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EMC attempted to push its storage virtualization strategy forward today, taking the wraps off the latest version of its Invista SAN virtualization solution, touting improved availability, scalability, pricing, and integration with VMware. Even taking into account the relatively slow progress of storage virtualization, Invista has...
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