Neuf Cegetel Swings into Profit, Outlines FTTx Offer
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The French alternative fixed-line telco, Neuf Cegetel, has swung back into profit for the 2006 financial year. Net profits rose to 213 million euro (US$279.4 million), up by 407 million euro. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) more than doubled to 544 million euro. Revenues increased by 5.3% to 2.9 ...
Regulator Set to Drop Plan to Splinter KPN's Network
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The Netherlands' telecoms regulator, OPTA, looks set to abandon plans to mandate KPN to spin off its network into a separate business. OPTA had considering compelling KPN to spin off its network assets into a new business, in a manner akin to the United Kingdom's Openreach approach. However, OPTA's new position follows on ...
Phoning in Your Performance
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Thanks to the Internet, and sophisticated new software, it's now possible for a garage band to hold a jam session with members located in garages scattered around the world. Boca Raton, Fla.-based startup eJamming is offering a music-oriented peer-to-peer-based service that even the RIAA might approve of. The company's ...
AlcaLu Tunes Up Redundancy
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Alcatel-Lucent is beefing up high-availability features on its switches and routers, playing up one of the features that's helped it gain ground against Cisco Systems Inc. and Juniper Networks Inc. High availability generally involves having backups available -- a second switch fabric that can take over after the ...
AT&T Homezone Taps Wireless
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AT&T's Homezone now makes it possible for customers to manage their TV recordings via their wireless handsets. The Homezone service, which was introduced last fall, integrates AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet, AT&T DISH Network satellite television and AT&T Home Networking services via a single set-top device. A ...
FCC's Video-Franchise Order Garners Mixed Reception
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The Federal Communications Commission adopted and released its Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding video franchising, and the fur has begun to fly. In the Order, the commission concludes that the current operation of the franchising process constitutes an "unreasonable barrier to entry that ...
Google Spy: Big Team Picking Up Phone
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A Silicon Valley insider claims that 100 people are working on a new mobile device at Google. Speculation about Google launching a device has been rife particularly since Apple Inc. unveiled the iPhone this January. Now, Polaris Venture Partners general partner Simeon Simeonov, claiming to have insider knowledge, has added a ...
Government, Healthcare Take Lead in Mobile Data Use
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The use of wireless data in commercial applications has grown dramatically in the past decade, from $600 million in 1996 to $7.2 billion in 2006, reports In-Stat. Government and Healthcare verticals have the highest adoption rates of wireless data, the high-tech market research firm says. Financial Services, ...
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