EarthLink to Expand VoIP Footprint
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EarthLink has offered its VoIP solution in Dallas, Seattle, San Francisco, and San Jose since January EarthLink will now expand to cover Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, San Diego, and Washington D.C. EarthLink VoIP uses standard telephone connections in the home and last-mile copper cable to connect to ...
Vonage IPO Investors Told by Letter to Pay for Shares
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WASHINGTON -- Vonage Holdings Corp. investors who have balked at paying for IPO shares they bought in the company, now worth less than half of the offering price, began receiving letters this week from brokerage firms telling them to write a check or risk legal action. The exact number of letters that were sent to deadbeat ...
Telecommunications Body Summons Telecom Italia to Assess Group Reorganization
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ROME -- Italy's telecommunications watchdog said Thursday it has summoned the management of Telecom Italia SpA to discuss a recently approved plan that would separate the company's mobile telephone unit. The nation's largest telephone company approved the reorganization Monday to separate its fixed and mobile units ...
Verizon Wireless Enhances Search
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Verizon Wireless' new Get It Now Search application is designed to make it easier for its customers to find downloadable content. The new offering allows customers to type in a search request or speak it, the carrier says. The Get It Now Search service is available to Get It Now customers free of charge, according to Verizon, ...
Deutsche Telekom Given 90 Days To Open Its New Net
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German regulators this morning told Deutsche Telekom (DT) it has 90 days to open its spiffy new VDSL network to competitors. DT has been embroiled in a running battle with the European Commission (EC), which pretty much forced the rules on the Germans. At stake is the continued buildout of DT's $3.8 billion network, a project ...
Going Pro(-sumer)
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Are consumers in the United States ready to embrace smartphones with rich feature sets including mobile email, video downloads, MP3 players, and digital cameras? That's the big bet of device makers showing their new wares at CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment this week. A raft of new devices, including the E62 from Nokia Corp. ...
Tellabs Sneaks in a Cingular Win
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Tellabs Inc. has notched up a contract win with Cingular Wireless LLC that the vendor hopes will presage a wave of business in wireless backhaul. Cingular is buying a combination of Tellabs 5500 digital cross-connects and Tellabs 8800 routers, according to Tellabs officials. The win was not formally announced but did appear in ...
The Cellular Modem Market is Finally Taking Off
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The cellular modem market has taken many years to develop, but by the end of this year it will reach a notable milestone, with annual shipments to exceed 5 million units, reports In-Stat. This market got a boost from embedded cellular modems in laptop computers, a class of modem only introduced toward the end of ...
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