Xfera Awards W-CDMA Contract to Ericsson
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Nordic telecoms group TeliaSonera's Spanish mobile unit, Xfera, has awarded a three-year managed services contract for its new W-CDMA network to Sweden's telecoms equipment vendor Ericsson. Under the terms of the deal, Ericsson will be fully responsible for the operations, management and maintenance of Yoigo's 3G network, ...
German Telecoms Regulators Bend to EU Pressure to Reexamine Wholesale Lines
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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- German telecoms regulators bent to EU pressure Wednesday, saying they would keep looking at competition problems in the German market for wholesale leased lines -- dominated by former state monopoly Deutsche Telekom AG. The European Commission said the Bundesnetzagentur, or BNetzA, had withdrawn an...
Fighting Spam at the Network Level
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E-mail content is important to message recipients, but not very useful for spam filtering. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Computing suggest that Internet service providers (ISPs) could better fight unwanted junk e-mail by addressing it at the network level rather than by using currently available ...
Yahoo!, Google Make Wireless Strides
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Internet rivals Yahoo! and Google continue to further entrench themselves in the wireless space. The latest: Yahoo! is ready to try out its graphical advertising platform for its Mobile Web service, while Google has forged a wireless agreement with Leap Wireless International. Yahoo! acknowledges that the graphical advertising ...
New Group Advances Wireless Device Management, Security
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U.K.-based Synchronica is throwing its support to the new Device Management Forum and to its associated portal that was launched Oct. 31. The mobile-device management and synchronization software company says the DMF is the first group to focus on the key issue of mobile-device management, and it reportedly involves a group of ...
Strix Retracts Some NTT Claims
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Wireless mesh startup Strix Systems Inc. has issued a retraction of some its statements about the major Japanese deal with NTT Data Corp. subsidiary, NTT West, it announced earlier this month. The brief statement retracts information that was 'inaccurate' or [issued] without full authorization of NTT West, such as 100 ...
NTP Takes Another Shot
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Having scored against Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), NTP Inc. is going after another big name in mobile messaging: Palm Inc. NTP, a patent-holding company based in Arlington, Va., said today it has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Palm for violating intellectual property relating to mobile email. Palm, the maker of the ...
Worldwide Cable TV Households Continue to Grow as Cable Operators Expand Offerings
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Cable TV operators continue to expand the reach of their cable video and high-speed data services, reports In-Stat. While this service expansion is delivering only modest total household growth, it is being offset by solid service revenue gains. Overall, rising consumer demand for more TV content, ...
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