Least Cost Terminating Traffic: Automation Is Key
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In a wireless environment, the costs of terminating traffic vary greatly depending on how and where it is terminated. In most cases, the most cost-effective ways to terminate traffic are available within the low-cost facilities of a carrier's MTA (major trading area), where calls incur local charges. The cost of calls terminated...
Network Magic Promises Pain-Free Home Network Management
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Until recently, network management was a headache reserved for technology professionals. But as more ordinary people interconnect their home computers, peripherals, telecom and media gear via wired and wireless technologies, network management is rapidly becoming everybody's problem. Windows' built-in network management...
Mobile Operators Up in Arms Over EU's Roaming Charge Cuts
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The GSM Association has published a study attacking the European Union (EU)'s proposals to force mobile operators to slash international roaming charges for subscribers travelling within the region. The study, produced by the CRA consultants for the GSM expressed concern that the regulation could make operators offer roaming services at...
TPS, France Telecom Launch World's First High Definition IP TV
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France Telecom has teamed up with TPS to launch the first high definition IP TV service in the world. Both parties have announced plans to roll out the service on France Telecom's Malign TV starting from 1 June 2006, in time for the football World Cup. The service will offer subscribers of Malign TV HD option TV channel TF1, M6 and TPS...
Wi-Fi Net Sought For 900-Sq.-Mi. NY County
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A county government in New York has begun considering a plan that would allow companies to bid on building and operating a huge Wi-Fi network -- one that would cover a 900-sq.-- mi. area and that would offer free Internet access to potentially hundreds of thousands of users. Suffolk County on Long Island, with approximately 1.5 million...
Vonage Targets $500M From IPO
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VOIP services specialist Vonage Holdings Corp. plans to net nearly $500 million from an IPO on the NYSE that would value it at around $2.65 billion, according to documents filed on Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) . The documents show that Vonage, which has been skirting around the IPO process for months,...
Nokia Agrees to Pay InterDigital
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InterDigital Communications Corporation's stock soared following news that the company reached a favorable settlement in its royalty dispute with Nokia. Nokia agreed to pay the company $253 million. The settlement involves a dispute surrounding Nokia's royalty obligations for its sales of 2G TDMA-based products. The agreement settles...
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