TelecomDirect News Daily Update - Monday, May 8, 2006

******************************** PricewaterhouseCoopers Presents The TelecomDirect News Daily Update For May 8, 2006 ********************************

DBS vs. BELL: A LOSING PROPOSITION?

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THE RBOCS HAVE SOLD about 1.5 million subscriptions to direct broadcast satellite (DBS) services like those offered by DIRECTV Group Inc. and DISH Network since becoming resellers for those companies in 2003. But now telcos are installing fiber access networks to roll out IPTV, which would compete with their DBS wholesale partners. In...

The Wireless Back Office, Up Close and Personal

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As consumers demand more customization in the mobile environment, off-net activities threaten to reduce mobile operators to a bit pipe. Carriers can protect their value and differentiation by enabling non-walled-garden m-commerce and adapting their back-office framework to support the shift toward personalization. Consumers are using...

Two More Try to Join the Big Six

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The mobile phone industry is dominated by six companies, but that isn't stopping a couple of manufacturers with limited brand recognition from seeking to boost their sales in the United States. Nokia, of course, is the dominant power in handsets and claimed a 35-percent market share worldwide in the first quarter of 2006. At the end of...

Telefonica Signs Content Deal with Warner Brothers

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Spain's fixed-line incumbent, Telefonica, has signed a contract with Warner Bros, the leading film and TV production company. Significance: The deal will enable Telefonica to distribute Warner films as part of its video-on-demand (VOD) offering, and make Telefonica's current IP TV service Imagenio more attractive. Spain's number two and...

Vodafone Selects New Roaming Client

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Vodafone signed up as a licensee of PCTEL's Roaming Client software. Financial terms of the agreement were not outlined. The mobile operator plans to use the software as one of its 3G connectivity management software solutions. The Mobile Connect software is designed to facilitate connection to the Internet over different types of...

Second Try: AOL AIMs At VoIP

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Time Warner's AOL subsidiary, in another run at the VoIP market, is about to launch another VoIP service - this time built around its AIM instant messenger service and offering free phone numbers for incoming calls - a disruptive "market first" aimed at the hearts of such competitors as eBay subsidiary Skype. According to multiple...

NTL Adds to UK Jobs Woe

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U.K. cable operator ntl group ltd. (Nasdaq: NTLI - message board) is expected to announce Tuesday that it will cut about one third of its 17,000 employees following its merger with fellow cable firm Telewest Global Inc. (Nasdaq: TWSTY - message board). (See NTL & Telewest: Together at Last!.) Weekend reports in the U.K. press...

Contest Seeks Answers to Wireless Networking Questions

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The arrival of wireless ad hoc networks has spawned numerous questions concerning service level tradeoffs. Will users sacrifice bandwidth, signal strength or speed to ensure system effectiveness? How can these tradeoffs be achieved? And what are the incentives that will get users to provide services -- such as routing -- to other nodes?...

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