TelecomDirect News Daily Update - Monday, April 10, 2006

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IPTV Privacy Risks

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I went to the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show with the goal of learning more about IPTV, and in particular, whether there are any services that IPTV can deliver but traditional hybrid fiber/coax cable technology cannot. What I learned is disturbing. But first, let me define IPTV. The term means different things to different people....

Telefonica Wins Colombia Telecom Bid for US$348.4 mil.

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After the fourth round of negotiations, Telefonica Group won the auction for a 51% stake in state-owned operator Colombia Telecoms on 7 April 2006, with a bid of 853.57 billion Colombian pesos (US$348.4 million), according to local newspaper El Cronista Comercial. This was 60% higher than the minimum price of 533.57 billion pesos set by...

Cell Phone Industry Steps Closer to VoIP

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LAS VEGAS -- Wojtek Felendzer held a mobile phone to his ear as he walked across the room, the call automatically switching behind the scenes from a Wi-Fi wireless hotspot to the regular cellular network. "Can you still hear me?" the Nokia Corp. employee asked. "Yes," the reporter answered. "That's good," he said. "This is...

Wireless Achieves Record Growth

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Wireless service penetration rate stands at nearly 70 percent in the U.S., thanks to the addition of 25.7 million new subscribers during the six months ended December 2005, according to CTIA's semi-annual wireless industry survey. The association calculates the U.S. closed 2005 with 207.9 million wireless customers, which is a 14.17...

Nortel Acct'ing Mess Worsens; Divisions On The Block?

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Oh, brother. Just when everyone thought it couldn't get worse, Nortel disclosed it's made yet more mistakes in accounting and will shift an additional unknown amount of previously reported revenue into future quarters -- resulting in even larger losses when the company finally files its restated financials. At the same time,...

Researchers Eye Cooler Mobile Devices

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Mobile devices are hot, in terms of both popularity and operating temperature. Much of the heat generated by devices like notebook computers and smart phones come from microprocessors. Today's very large scale integration (VLSI) processors hold more than 100,000,000 transistors running at very high speeds. With even denser...

Mobile Giants Size Up DSL

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Good news for DSLAM vendors: Pure-play mobile operators such as O2 plc and Vodafone Group plc (NYSE: VOD - message board) are set to enter the fixed-broadband fray in Europe, and are sizing up local loop unbundling (LLU) options that would see them procure and deploy their own DSL equipment. Vodafone last week announced a management and...

Dramatic Growth in Store for Multimedia Handsets, but Consumers Still Not Enthused About Multimedia Options

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The number of cellular phones with multimedia capability will double in the next two years, but this capability is still not generating much consumer enthusiasm, especially in the US, reports In-Stat. In spite of the phenomenal growth of dedicated MP3 players during 2005, user interest in having this capability...

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