Finding the Winning Formula
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The following is an excerpt from 'Finding the Winning Formula' in PricewaterhouseCoopers InfoComm Review, Volume 11, No.1, titled 'Trailblazing'. To read more and view all articles, please click here. From mobile to cable, from alternative network operators to resellers, and from portals to...
The Corporate Fraud Cycle: How to Break the Chain
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This article was originally published in Executive Perspectives, pwc.com global monthly business magazine
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by Thomas W. Golden, Steven L. Skalak, and Mona M. Clayton ; Fraud evokes a visceral reaction in us. It is an abuse of our expectation of fair treatment by fellow human beings....
USF Bills Call for VoIP Players to Ante Up
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THE UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND (USF), while still at billions of dollars, is dwindling, due to a decreasing number of contributors, and, in the interest of sustaining the fund, many in the telecom industry want IP operators to ante up. One House bill and one Senate bill call for this change directly, but the outcome of those proposals is...
White House Supports U.S. Liberalisation of Video Franchising
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The administration of George W. Bush has released a statement in support of a bill that would ease the entry of telecoms operators into video markets. Under current legislation, the likes of AT&T and Verizon must negotiate individually with thousands of municipalities to receive the go-ahead to launch video services. The bill would...
Regulator Mulls Splitting Telecom Italia's Commercial, Network Units=C2=A0
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Italy's telecoms regulator is considering mandating Telecom Italia to split its commercial and network operations. Speaking in an interview with the daily Il Sole 24 Ore, regulator president Corrado Calabro said that he was open to the possibility of compelling Telecom Italia to separate its units, hinting that his office was already...
China Mobile Acquires 19.9% of Phoenix Satellite TV from STAR Group
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China Mobile and Hong Kong-listed Phoenix Satellite Television Holdings have today announced a purchase of a 19.9% interest in Phoenix from business mogul Rupert Murdoch’s STAR Group by China Mobile (Hong Kong), China Mobile’s holding company. After the transaction, STAR - a wholly-owned unit of Murdoch's News Corp. -...
Talkin' Up VOIP
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Unstrung readers are a well-packetized lot according to our latest site poll. A 73 percent majority of respondents to the "Wireless VOIP" poll say that they have used a WiFi-based voice-over-IP system of one kind of another, with another six percent unsure if they have used one or not. Nearly 50 percent of respondents...
Two Charged in VOIP Hacking Scandal
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Federal authorities pressed charges Thursday against a second man who helped perpetrate a VOIP wholesale scheme that defrauded at least 15 VOIP service providers. Robert Moore of Spokane, Wash., also known as the 'Spokane Hacker', was served papers Thursday but had not yet been taken into custody, according U.S....
Group Calls for Special Access
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WASHINGTON -- A divergent band of communications companies, including several wireless carriers, has asked the Senate subcommittee working on the telecommunications act rewrite to preserve low pricing on Bell company-supplied network backup lines. The presidents and CEOs of wireless carriers Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA...
C&W Sends Bulldog To The Pound
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Cable & Wireless, the U.K.'s second-largest fixed-line network operator, is getting out of the retail broadband business barely two years after it bought Bulldog, the ISP unit on which it has now lost a large fortune. In a statement issued this morning, C&W said it is laying off some 150 people involved with retail...
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