TelecomDirect News Daily Update - February 9, 2006

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Oh, Wireless, Where Art Thou?

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Now that Cabelcos have paired with Sprint Nextel Corp. for mobile wireless service, what are other CLECs to do about achieving the desired quadplay? Many regional CLECs simply don't have the volume, expertise or resources to take on a full-fledged MVNO business. Fortunately, help is on the way. "It's now mandatory for a CLEC to have...

Jordan: France Telecom Looks to Take Controlling Jordan Telecom Stake

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France Telecom, which took a 40% stake in the Jordanian fixed-line incumbent when it was privatised in 2000, is in negotiations with the Jordanian government to increase its stake by 11% and thereby take a majority shareholding in the operator, Reuters reports. The state pension fund and private institutions own a 18.5% stake in Jordan...

Broadband Boosts BT Q3 Results

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BT Group has announced not-so-wonderful results for its fiscal third quarter of 2005 and the nine months ending 31 December 2005. According to chief executive Ben Verwaayen, growth at the operator's broadband business helped boost results in a dynamic business environment. The company said that connections through BT Wholesale stand at...

Vonage Files for $250 million IPO, Appoints New CEO

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Vonage Holdings Corp., the United States' largest Internet telephone service, on Wednesday filed for an initial public offering worth up to $250 million. The company also appointed Mike Snyder chief executive, succeeding founder Jeffrey Citron, who will remain chairman and take the new title 'chief...

Motorola Launches Virtual Mobile Wallet

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Leave your wallet, credit cards and cash at home. All you'll really need is your mobile phone. Motorola says its M-Wallet gives users quick and secure access to their bank accounts and eliminates the need to ever carry credit or debit...

Remote Control

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Mobile devices have become a bit of a mixed blessing for IT managers -- allowing unprecedented freedom and productivity, but raising a host of management issues most are unused to handling. To relieve some of that burden, developers are increasingly offering over-the-air management solutions that allow IT managers to do things like...

Research: VoWLAN Device Sales To Spike In 2007-08

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Enterprise Voice-over-Wireless LAN (VoWLAN) usage is expected to grow dramatically during the next three years, according to a new study issued by TelecomWeb's sister division InfoTech as part of its "InfoTrack for Enterprise Mobility" program. In its Mobile Communications in the U.S. Workplace report, InfoTech also predicts annual U.S....

Europe Is Urged to Improve Web Security

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VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- Europe must work harder to make the Internet more secure as the nature of online threats becomes increasingly criminal across the 25-nation bloc, a senior EU official warned Thursday. "We are still far from achieving the goal of secure and reliable networks that protect confidential and reliable...

Cable Telephony Service Revenues to Hit $10 Billion by 2009

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., February 8, 2006 - Worldwide cable telephony service revenues rose from $4.5 billion in 2004 to $5.6 billion in 2005, and are projected to reach $10 billion by 2009, reports In-Stat. The widening availability of VoIP-based cable telephony services has resulted in thousands of new cable telephony subscribers for...

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