******************************** PricewaterhouseCoopers Presents The CommunicationsDirect Daily Update For November 13, 2007
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Our new poll: Is Google going to significantly change the mobile phone industry? Visit our website to vote.OTE Launches Bid for Full Control of CosmOTE
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Greek incumbent operator Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation (OTE) has launched a 2.8-billion-euro (US$4.09 billion) offer to buy out minority shareholders in its mobile subsidiary, CosmOTE. In a statement, the company said it is offering 26.25 euro (US$38.35) per share, which raises the final cost to 2.8 billion euro for the...
EU Unveils Plan to Open Up Phone, Internet Sector
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STRASBOURG, France -- The European Commission presented plans today to set up an EU-wide body with the power to separate telecom networks and access providers and regulate other aspects of the industry to foster competition and reduce costs for customers. Under the proposal, which some large telecommunications companies have ...
Survey Sez: Going Green Benefits Contact Centers
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Businesses across all sectors are beginning to understand the benefits of adopting green strategies within the contact center and, as a result, they reportedly plan to put in place strategies to improve their environmental performances. So said the "On the Conference Floor" survey of senior managers and executives...
O2 Calls iPhone Fastest-Selling Device
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The highly anticipated European release of the iPhone last Friday is going well, according to U.K. carrier partner O2. The company reportedly said that it has sold "in the tens of thousands" of the devices. The carrier also said Apple's handset is the fastest-selling device it has ever had, and that over about 66% of...
Microsoft Eyes Mobile Music Play
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Microsoft may be moving beyond selling portable digital music players to hawking digital music over the airwaves. It said today it is negotiating with Openwave to buy the company's mobile music platform, Musiwave, in order to integrate it with Microsoft's consumer entertainment applications and the Zune platform. ...
Hammerhead Unveils PBT Smarts
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Hammerhead Systems Inc. is continuing its push to provide a vital link between the worlds of MPLS and Provider Backbone Transport (PBT), this time tackling the idea of multipoint services. Until now, the vendor has promoted its HSX 6000 aggregation box as a gateway that interconnects MPLS and PBT, the pre-standards ...
Orange Builds on FMC Base
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Orange France continues to lead on fixed/mobile convergence (FMC) services and has increased sales of dualmode WiFi/GSM handsets by more than 50 percent in the third quarter of this year. At the end of September, Orange had sold 468,000 dualmode WiFi/GSM handsets for its unlicensed mobile access (UMA)-based services in...
Size and Growth of Smartphone Market Will Exceed Laptop Market for Next Five Years
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Smartphone OS-based phones will grow at more than a 30% compound annual growth rate for the next five years globally, taking an increasing share of the overall phone market that is otherwise growing in single digits, reports In-Stat. The unit volume of smartphones globally also exceeds the unit sales for...
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