Uncertainty Trails Telecom Italia's Plan to Split Mobile and Fixed Units
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The future of Italy's leading telecoms group, Telecom Italia, became unclear yesterday as the company's board approved a plan to reinvent the company as a media-focused player and spin off its mobile and fixed-line units. Although the company said it has not given any mandate nor received any offers for a sale of its assets, ...
Telus to Convert to Income Trust
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Telus has announced that its board of directors has approved plans to reorganise Telus as an income trust, which will stand to be the largest in Canada. While this is still subject to regulatory approval and a vote by shareholders requiring 66.6% agreement, this move will allow the company to optimise its tax position and pass on more ...
DBD Signs Airspan for WiMAX Roll-out
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Germany's leading WiMAX provider, Deutsche Breitband Dienste (DBD), has signed a contract with Airspan Networks for the roll-out of WiMAX technology in Germany. According to the terms of the deal, Airspan will deploy its AS.MAX family of WiMAX products. DBD has placed orders for 400 base stations under the agreement to date. Airspan ...
Creative License: Content Aggregators Ease the Pain of Video Launches, Expansions
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A growing number of outsourcers known as content aggregators are approaching telcos, and others, with packages of video content and related services so service providers don't have to negotiate their own time-intensive licensing deals with studios and other programmers in a one-off fashion. Many content aggregators are targeted ...
Cingular to Launch Keyboard Nokia Phone
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NEW YORK -- Cingular Wireless plans to sell a new BlackBerry-like device from Nokia Corp. for as low as $150, perhaps the most aggressive entry yet in an increasingly crowded market of devices with typewriter keypads for wireless e-mail and text messaging. The Nokia E62, a version of which went on sale overseas earlier this ...
AT&T Launches Live Broadband TV Service
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NEW YORK -- AT&T Inc. is launching an Internet TV service where subscribers can watch live cable channels such as Fox News on any computer with a broadband connection for $20 per month. The AT&T Broadband TV service announced Tuesday features about 20 channels of live and made-for-broadband content. The channel ...
FCC Eyes New Uses For 700 MHz 'Guard Bands'
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering new uses for so-called 'guard bands' in the 700 MHz frequency range that were auctioned off to licensees in 2000 and 2001. The winners of the licenses have deployed only a handful of systems since that time. In a recently released Notice of Proposed Rule ...
Wireless Challenge Remains After 9/11
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says that it has made 'significant advances' in making emergency service radios interoperable on this fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The DHS, however, adds that true interoperability requires a long term, continuing investment and cannot be solved by a one ...
XConnect Takes Out Pulver's IPeerX
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The VOIP peering company XConnect Global Networks Ltd. announced Tuesday its acquisition of VOIP pioneer Jeff Pulver's peering company IPeerX. The terms of the deal were not disclosed; the companies are saying only that both cash and stock changed hands. IPeerX was originally the carrier peering portion of the Pulver.com ...
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