Today's World of Wireless Terms
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The telecommunications industry's lexicon is ever-changing and its acronyms and words sometimes have different meanings for different people. In no sector of communications is the vocabulary more dynamic than in the wireless space. So xchange is taking this, our first issue of 2007, as an opportunity to revisit the definitions of ...
Elion Selects Alcatel-Lucent Triple-Play Solution, Launches HDTV
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Estonia's leading fixed-line operator has selected Alcatel-Lucent for the delivery of enhancements to its triple-play services. M2 Presswire reports that Elion now has a total of 141,000 broadband subscribers, including 26,000 to its DigiTV package, which offers up to 70 digital TV channels, fixed-line telephony, and internet ...
BT Says It Agreed to Buy India's i2i for Undisclosed Sum
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LONDON -- BT Group PLC, Britain's former phone monopoly, said today it agreed to buy i2i Enterprise Pvt Ltd., an India-based Internet protocol communications services business, for an undisclosed sum. BT will become the biggest foreign global carrier operating in India today as the result of this ...
Phonemaker Sony Ericsson Unveils New Models in Bid to Increase Market Share
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Sony Ericsson unveiled eight new phones Tuesday aimed at helping the world's fourth-biggest mobile phone maker make inroads into emerging markets in India, China and Latin America. The company, a joint venture between Stockholm-based LM Ericsson and Japan's Sony Corp., is already well known for its ...
Cable Giants Taking VOIP to SMBs
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The nation's two largest cable operators are launching comprehensive voice services for the small-to-medium-sized business (SMB) market this year. Both Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc. plan to introduce customized VOIP offerings for SMBs over the coming months, following in the recent footsteps of Cox Communications ...
Spansion Shows Off First Flash Security for Handsets
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Calling it the first Flash memory subsystem that provides security protection from viruses, attacks and service thefts, Spansion has unveiled a product that uses MirrorBit and Spansion Secure technology to provide commercially available handsets with hardware-based encryption at the highest level of protection. Traditionally, ...
Congress Ponders FY08 FCC Budget
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In the huge FY08 budget Congress just received from President Bush is proposed funding for the Federal Communications Commission of $313 million. At this funding level, covered programs include mandatory increases in salaries and benefits, and inflationary increases for contractual services. The request also provides funding to ...
Tech Roundup: Broadcom & VLSI
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This week's tech roundup sees chipmakers working on even smaller combo chipsets -- want Bluetooth and FM radio with that order of WiFi. While Verizon Wireless finally unveils its CDMA Rev. A game; along with other tasty wireless news nuggets. Radio WiFi: Chipmaker Broadcom Corp. is claiming a first with a chipset that ...
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