Altitude, Bouygues Telecom Mull Combined Fixed Mobile Services
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French telecoms companies Bouygues Telecom and Altitude have begun negotiations on the joint launch of a fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) service for the business segment. The commercial launch of the combined mobile and fixed-line services is expected to be launched at the end of March this year. Significance: The partnership with ...
A Big Pill to Swallow
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On July 31, Adelphia Communications closed its asset sale to Comcast and Time Warner Cable, ending 40 months of tedious negotiations, culminating in a $12.5 billion deal that involved systems serving 4.8 million customers in 31 states. It also marked the beginning, or in some cases the continuance, of a complicated transition of ...
Nokia Joins Sprint Nextel to Provide Fast Internet Access for Mobile Phone Users
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HELSINKI, Finland -- Nokia Corp. said today it has joined Sprint Nextel in providing technology for the U.S. communications company's wireless network to allow mobile phone users faster access to the Internet. The wireless fourth-generation, or 4G, WiMax technology will be available in late 2007. Nokia said it is ...
Broadband Pricing All Over the Map
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Powered by the availability of High Speed Packet Access radio technology, carriers are finally rolling out 'true' wireless broadband services, offering speeds of up to 3 Mbit/s. But with that welcome development comes a dilemma: How should such services be priced? The answers are all over the map, according to the new ...
Cisco Pays Big Bucks For E-Mail Security Vendor
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Cisco is buying security appliance vendor IronPort Systems for $830 million in cash and stock. Its acquisition of this vendor of systems focusing on enterprise spam and spyware protection is seen as representing a significant broadening of Cisco's security focus, until now aimed almost exclusively at network security rather ...
Virgin Mobile USA Touts Customer Adds
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Virgin Mobile USA ended 2006 with 4.6 million customers. The company reached its current total after adding 600,000 new customers since November 2005. Beyond subscriber adds, Virgin Mobile calculates that its customers sent or received 1.5 billion text messages last year. On average, that translates to each customer sending or ...
In Search of Storage Skills
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Storage is growing at an alarming rate, but getting hold of the staff to manage it is easier said than done. Metadata, virtualization, and security skills are already posing problems. A number of execs are steeling themselves for a tough 2007. "We're in an extremely competitive environment when looking for talented ...
2006 Top Ten: Big IPTV Moments
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Most people will probably look back at 2006 as (another) 'warm-up year' for IPTV. Here at Light Reading we like to think of IPTV as a toddler -- just out of diapers, and about to break a heap load of stuff as part of its 'learning process.' During the past 12 months, the sector's nascent movers and shakers ...
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