Eagle: Connex buy aids IPTV strategy
Eagle Broadband hopes its acquisition of Connex Services, announced yesterday, will aid its burgeoning IPTV business, a company executive said....
AT&T tests ad-sponsored directory assistance
AT&T is testing an ad-supported directory assistance service that gives callers free access to the phone numbers of specific businesses or listings by type of business, the company said today...
Eagle Broadband grows IT business via acquisition
Eagle Broadband last week agreed to acquire the corporate information technology (IT) customers of Houston-based Connex Services, the company announced today...
JacobsRimell gets busy in Norway across Europe
While some vendors were demonstrating technology advances through Catalyst projects or providing case studies through sessions at TeleManagement World last week in Dallas, JacobsRimell demonstrated the acceptance of its standards-based fulfillment solutions with deployments at UPC Broadband and Norway’s Get...
Cisco adds $2B in financing to emerging markets
Cisco Systems’ financing arm, Cisco Capital, is dedicating $2 billion per year in short-term inventory financing capacity for its channel partners in emerging countries....
‘Merger wars’ heat up Washington
The political process surrounding the pending merger of AT&T and BellSouth continues to get more complicated. On Friday, Sam Feder, general counsel to the Federal Communications Commission...
Redback wins triple-play deal
A new European joint venture, led by French broadband carrier Completel and electronics retailer Darty, is rolling out Triple Play services in 15 European countries, using Redback Networks’ multi-service edge routers, the company announced this week....
ITU: AT&T makes ITU ‘premiere’with disaster recovery focus
HONG KONG--This year’s ITU Telecom World 2006 not only marks the global show’s first appearance outside Geneva, Switzerland, but also AT&T’s first appearance as an exhibitor...
ITU: Hitachi blends telecom, consumer electronics expertise
HONG KONG--It wasn’t by accident that visitors to Hitachi’s booth at ITU Telecom World 2006 were awed by the display of a 60-inch plasma video display, featuring high-definition service...
ITU: BT launches consulting businesss
HONG KONG--BT used ITU Telecom World 2006 to announce the launch of a new business unit, 21C Global Venture, that will market its next-generation network expertise to service provider customers around the globe...
ITU Reporter’s Notebook: Dec. 4, 2006
HONG KONG--The first ITU Telecom World show to be held outside Geneva, Switzerland, is a decidedly Asian affair but retains many of the characteristics of its predecessors...
ITU: Telecom technology attempts to aid economic development
HONG KONG--The Chinese government promised cooperation with potential investors, a European regulator promised to keep hands off industry standards and Cisco Systems’ chairman promised more innovation--all in the name of enabling telecom technology to solve some of the world’s economic development challenges. ...
ITU: Micro-funding could aid telecom development
HONG KONG--Microfinancing is in the spotlight at the ITU Telecom World show here, as the global telecom community looks at ways to better leverage technology to improve the quality of life in developing nations...
A Telephony Podcast: ITU Telecom World Preview
The ITU Telecom World show commences for the first time in Hong Kong next week. Telephony Editor-at-Large Carol Wilson discusses how she expects the event’s Asian debut to be different as she prepares to cover the show...
Verizon lands McCoy’s with satellite package
Verizon Business today is trumpeting its successful courting of McCoy’s Building Supply, a Texas-based retailer and former AT&T customer which operates 85 retail centers in five Southern states...
Democrats likely to change reform direction
The reassertion of Democratic control in Congress will impact key telecom issues currently under debate in Washington, including Net neutrality, universal...
BPL freedom from unbundling no panacea
The FCC moved to level the regulatory playing field between broadband over powerline, or BPL, and other forms of broadband this month, though BPL is not...
Clearwire launches first major market
Clearwire has entered its first major metro market, announcing today it has rolled out services in the greater Seattle-Puget Sound area. The metropolitan region covers Seattle, Tacoma and Everett, Wash., and contains roughly 2 million people...
Microsoft to support metro Wi-Fi
Microsoft is getting into the municipal Wi-Fi business, announcing this week a partnership with MetroFi to bring content and advertising to the service provider’s free Wi-Fi public access network in Portland, Ore...
Motorola acquires Netopia
Motorola will acquire Netopia for about $208 million in cash, the companies announced today...
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