Six Rivals to Compete for TP's ADSL Customers
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Poland's telecoms market regulator, the UKE, has confirmed that the country's fixed-line incumbent Telekomunikacja Polska (TP) has so far signed agreements with a total of six telcos, Netia, GTS Energis, Telefonia Dialog, Exatel, eTel and e-Telko, for the delivery of wholesale ADSL access. Poland's leading alternative telco, ...
Nokia, Samsung, and Panasonic Sued over Bluetooth Patent Infringement
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The Washington Research Foundation (WRF), a non-profit technology marketing division of the University of Washington is suing a number of suppliers of Bluetooth devices including Nokia, Samsung, Matsushita and Panasonic claiming that their products infringe at least one patent owned by the organisation. Reuters reports that the companies ...
Managing the Right Tension
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Of all the competing objectives every company faces, three pairs stand out: profitability versus growth, the short term versus the long term, and the whole organization versus the units. In each case, progress on one front usually comes at the expense of progress on the other. The authors researched the performance of more than 1,000 ...
Hitting the Road With Mobile Apps
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Here's a field that's growing legs: mobile enterprise applications. International Data Corp., a Framingham, Mass.-based technology research firm, forecasts that the mobile enterprise application market will grow from $1.2 billion in 2005 to $3.5 billion in 2010. That means we're about to see a lot more people running ...
Sprint Unveils 1 GB Memory Phone
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Sprint Nextel is rolling out a new handset from Sanyo that sports 1 GB of internal memory. Separately, the wireless carrier has officially launched N, its nighttime mobile TV network for teens. The Sprint Power Vision M1 by Sanyo was designed with music and entertainment fans in mind, according to the carrier. The phone features ...
Speculators Bet On Sonae's PT Bid Sweetener
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Shares in Portugal Telecom (PT) were trading a touch higher than $13 yesterday, leaving speculators scratching their heads over just what Sonae may have up its sleeve as its next trick in a now year-long $14.8 billion hostile attempt to take over Portugal's dominant carrier. Sonae finally formally submitted its tender-offer ...
Cingular: The Call of the WiFi
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Competition for an early slice of the fixed/mobile convergence (FMC) pie in the U.S. could be heating up now that AT&T Inc. has taken full control of the Cingular Wireless LLC joint venture following the completion of its $86 billion acquisition of BellSouth Corp. over the new year. Cingular's convergence plans ...
Cingular: The Call of the WiFi
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Competition for an early slice of the fixed/mobile convergence (FMC) pie in the U.S. could be heating up now that AT&T Inc. has taken full control of the Cingular Wireless LLC joint venture following the completion of its $86 billion acquisition of BellSouth Corp. over the new year. Cingular's convergence plans ...
AT&T Merger: The Storage Angle
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With the FCC's long-awaited approval of AT&T's merger with BellSouth finally in place, the companies face the formidable task of converging their customers, products, and services -- including storage ones. But the largest telecom merger in U.S. history, a deal valued at about $85 billion, may not produce much ...
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