TelecomDirect News Daily Update - September 29, 2006

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French Fixed-Line Telecoms Market at a Crossroads

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The intense competition in the French fixed-line telecoms market took a sharp turn earlier this week, as the key players announced optimistic but divergent views on the future of the market. The leading alternative residential broadband provider, Iliad, threw down the gauntlet earlier in the month-announcing plans to invest 1 billion ...

Microsoft's Zune Player to Cost $249.99

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SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp.'s Zune music player looks a lot like an iPod, acts a lot like an iPod and will cost about the same as an iPod. The software giant said Thursday that it will charge $249.99 for the device, signaling that it isn't planning to spark a major price war to gain market share. It's not ...

ESPN Pulls Plug on Cell Phone Operation

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NEW YORK -- The planned shutdown of the Mobile ESPN cell phone service marks the first major bust in a rush of specialized wireless ventures targeting niche audiences they contend are underserved by the Cingulars and Verizons of the world. Mobile ESPN had made the same argument since its launch less than a year ago. But in ...

BenQ's German Mobile Unit Files for Insolvency

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MUNICH, Germany -- BenQ Corp.'s German mobile phone unit filed for insolvency Friday, endangering 3,000 jobs and drawing a suggestion from former owner Siemens AG of legal action against the Taiwanese firm. An administrative court in Munich, where the BenQ unit is based, said it received the application for insolvency ...

Verizon Delivers Motorola KRZR

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Hoping to build on the momentum of its popular RAZR handset, Motorola announced the commercial debut the phone's skinnier cousin, the KRZR. Verizon Wireless is the first wireless carrier to offer the ultra-thin device. The MOTOKRZR K1m is17 millimeters thin, 44 mm wide and sports a reflective, metallic gloss finish. The handset ...

New Coalition Pushes IP-Based Wireless Issues

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A new wireless coalition has been formed to press for changes and for what it considers 'enhancements' in spectrum-management policies to help promote Internet Protocol-based technologies, services, applications and other advancements via RF use. The Wireless Broadband Coalition (WBC) includes as its initial members ...

Alcatel/Lucent Wait on W OK

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Approval for the merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies Inc. looks set to be granted, or denied, by U.S. President George W. Bush. That's because the final regulatory clearance the two vendors need, from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), is heading for the office of the President ...

BT & T-Mobile: No Convergence

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T-Mobile USA has denied reports that it will enter into a partnership with BT Global Services to offer fixed/mobile services in the U.S. Reports out of the U.K. this week claimed BT and T-Mobile USA would partner to launch a converged service in the U.S. enterprise market. "Information about T-Mobile and BT has been ...

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