Data Quality Management: A Key to Operator Profitability
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Understanding how an operator can improve business performance through better data quality is not just a question of knowing what the operator is now; you need to know what it has been in the past. Like contestants on an extreme makeover show, operators are seeking to transform their external appearance to fit the demands of the market:...
Time is Not Right for 3G Licensing, Says MII Official
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The Chinese government has no short-term timetable for launching 3G in China, according to South China Morning Post reports citing Zhou Baoyun, the vice director of the Ministry of Information Industry's (MII) general office. According to Zhou, while the necessary conditions exist for 3G introduction in China, the technology -- especially ...
IP Changes Rules of Interconnect Game
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SINCE INTERCONNECTION accounts for a large portion of expenses and revenue for traditional wholesale carriers, the game of keeping these systems up-to-date and reducing complexity is well-known and played often. But as voice margins decline, operators are looking to deploy IP data services, like interactive gaming, music and videos,...
Cesky Telecom Fined US$3.4 mil. Following Probe into ADSL Pricing
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The Czech Republic's competition authority, the UOHS, has announced that Cesky Telecom has been fined 80 million koruna (US$3.4 billion) following rivals' complaints that it has abused its ADSL market dominance. Cesky Telecom has said that it is considering an appeal against the decision and the level of the fine, which had been reduced...
EBay Plans Payments Using Cell Phones
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Paypal, the online payment service owned by eBay Inc., has begun testing a new offering to allow people to make and receive payments using cell phones and other mobile devices. Paypal Mobile is being tested by an unspecified number of eBay employees and will be available to the public in the United States, Canada...
Nortel, Minerva Find IPTV Partners
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The recently announced relationship between Minerva Networks Inc. and Nortel Networks Ltd. (NYSE/Toronto: NT - message board) could be the smaller company's entree into large telco accounts and Nortel's chance to interlock one chosen middleware vendor with its IMS offering. At this week's TelecomNEXT conference, Minerva and Nortel...
Yahoo! Unveils IM with Voice
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Yahoo! is aiming to boost its instant messaging service by allowing customers to make calls from their PCs to landline and wireless phones. The VoIP service runs $2.99 a month. For $2.99 per month (or $29.90 per year), subscribers gain access to one or more phone numbers to receive calls from regular or mobile phones via their Yahoo...
CLECs Urged Toward 'Co-opetition'
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At the CompTel conference and expo in San Diego, domestic competitive carriers are being advised to think about linking their network infrastructures on a spot basis when necessary in order to cope with uncertain incumbent pricing and contract terms when it comes to now-restricted unbundled network element platform (UNE-P) availability. ...
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