Total Telecom Online back issues from October 2007:
MNCs slow to accept convergence - Telefonica.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Nick Wood , Total Telecom Convergence may be a term frequently heard in the telecoms industry, but Telefonica is not expecting its enterprise customers to embrace the concept just yet. "The perception of the customer is that [convergence] will come, but that ...
O2 signs mobile search deal with Yahoo.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Nick Wood , Total Telecom O2 and Yahoo Monday announced a partnership agreement which will see the Internet company provide mobile search and advertising services to O2 customers in Europe and Latin America. The deal will see Yahoo's total addressable market ...
Hipcom Delivers white label VoIP [BroadSoft].
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: BroadSoft Trunking ideal for UK resellers targeting SMEs with premises-based equipment GAITHERSBURG, MD, October 1, 2007 -- BroadSoft, Inc, a leading provider of VoIP application software, today announced that Hipcom, a hosted IP telephony wholesaler, has ...
Nokia Siemens appoints board member [Nokia Siemens Networks].
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Nokia Siemens Networks Edited Press Release Nokia said Monday that Rudi Lamprecht, member of the Corporate Executive Committee of Siemens, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Nokia Siemens Networks, effective as of September 30, 2007. ...
BT to buy Lynx Technology [BT Group].
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: BT Group Edited Press Release BT Group said Monday that it has acquired Lynx Technology, a UK supplier of IT services. The company said that the acquisition of Lynx Technology follows the purchase of Basilica Computing that BT announced in August ...
Operax field trial with Telecom Italia [Operax].
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Operax Operax demonstrates QoS guarantees on Telecom Italia's Next-Generation Network to enhance user experience and provide robust scalability Operax, the leading vendor of Network Service Quality control solutions, has today announced a successful field ...
Magyar Telekom joins race for Telekom Slovenije [Magyar Telekom].
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Magyar Telekom Edited Press Release Hungary's largest telecommunications provider by market share, Magyar Telekom Nyrt.(MTA) said Monday that it registered in the public tender of the Republic of Slovenia for the sale of an equity stake in Telekom Slovenije ...
Telenor says Alfa continues to boycott Kyivstar meetings [Telenor].
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Telenor Edited Press Release Telenor Monday said Storm, a wholly owned subsidiary of Russia's Alfa Group, did not attend a Kyivstar shareholders meeting scheduled to be held Monday at 1000 local time in Kyiv, Ukraine. Another shareholders meeting ...
Coms subsidiary wins contract [Polycom].
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Polycom Edited Press Release Polycom has Monday appointed VCOMM (U.K.) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Coms plc, as U.K. distributor for Polycom SoundPoint(R) range of VoIP business phones. Coms aims to make the Polycom business VoIP phones ...
BELNET selects Juniper [Juniper Networks].
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Juniper Networks BELNET Selects Juniper T1600 and M120 to Accelerate Network Growth SUNNYVALE, Calif., & BRUSSELS, Belgium, October 1st., 2007 -- BELNET, Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, and its partner ...
Wave7 Optics teams with Telindus, Cisco [Wave7 Optics].
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Wave7 Optics Network to Deliver Full "Triple Play" ...
Wave7 Optics FTTP project [Wave7 Optics].
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Wave7 Optics Tullahoma Utilities Board ...
Mobile advertising on the up.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Mary Lennighan, Total Telecom Mobile advertising is moving up the agenda for companies looking to get their message to consumers, with some brands showing an increasing willingness to get into the mobile space. But getting to grips with new advertising models, ...
3 UK, Skype working on mobile handset.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Nick Wood , Total Telecom 3 UK is working with Skype and a handset manufacturer in the Far East to develop a new low-cost mobile handset that will make it easy for customers to make free calls over the Internet, it emerged Tuesday. The news came as Skype owner ...
Bandwidth demands lead carriers to DPI - Allot.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Mary Lennighan, Total Telecom Telecoms operators in Europe are looking closely at deep packet inspection as a way of controlling the traffic on their networks, according to Allot Communications. While it is unsurprising that Allot, a deep packet inspection ...
IT Europa extends coverage [IT Europa].
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: IT Europa acents New correspondent appointed for the region (London -- 2nd October 2007) IT Europa is pleased to announce the expansion in its southern European coverage with the appointment of Valeria Camerino to the staff. Valeria has a Masters degree in ...
Observer offers new features [Network Instruments].
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Network Instruments Network Instruments Observer Offers New Features for Network Troubleshooting and Reporting Version 12.1 organises application monitoring around business activities and provides enhanced VoIP reporting Minneapolis, MN - October ...
Prysmian signs deal with Telstra [Prysmian].
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Prysmian Milan, 2 October 2007 - Prysmian Cables & Systems, a leading player in the cable industry, today announced a three year agreement to continue the supply of both, fibre optic and metallic communication cables to Telstra, the largest telecommunications service ...
NemeriX appoints MD, board advisor [NemeriX].
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: NemeriX Leading A-GPS solution provider announces management team and board additions, following CHF 27m Series-C funding and in anticipation of new product releaseOctober 1, 2007, Manno (Ticino), Switzerland ? Shortly after completing a CHF 27m Series-C funding, and in ...
Italtel gives voice to Second Life [Italtel SpA].
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Italtel SpA Italtel presents with Telecom Italia at Broadband World Forum Europe a booth where visitors can enter in Second Life and use First Life Communicator, the application recently introduced by Telecom Italia that allows avatars visiting Alice and TIM islands to ...
Totally Trivial: Content conundrum.
Oct 03, 2007 ... Byline: Nick Wood , Total Telecom Mobile content? No thanks! More than half of the delegates questioned at the MoCollywood mobile content event in London this week admitted to not actually using the mobile content services they are aiming to sell. Furthermore, ...
Globalisation takes over as key driver for network investment.
Oct 03, 2007 ... Byline: Nick Wood , Total Telecom Expanding globally is now the biggest driver for businesses investing in their networks, according to the findings of a new survey announced Wednesday by the Economist Intelligence Unit and AT&T. 28% of the 497 senior executives ...
The Service Box [Italtel SpA].
Oct 03, 2007 ... Byline: Italtel SpA Everyone's talking about it, everyone wants it, and everyone's saying how it's going to completely revolutionise communications and the internet. It's Web 2.0, and Italtel is leading the way with The Service Box (TSB), a software product for creating ...
Adax joins CP-TA [Adax ].
Oct 03, 2007 ... Byline: Adax ADAX JOINS THE CP-TA 3rd October 2007, Reading, UK - Adax Europe Ltd, an industry leader in high-performance converging network solutions, has today announced that they have joined the Communications Platform Trade Association (CP-TA). The scope of the ...
Voda, Orange launch Xiam ad solns [Xiam].
Oct 03, 2007 ... Byline: Xiam Dublin 03/10/07. Xiam Technologies, the Irish company that has pioneered Targeted Advertising and Content Discovery solutions has seen its technology launched by both Orange UK and Vodafone Ireland during September. Both Mobile Operators have launched services using ...
Telenor completes One stake sale [Telenor].
Oct 03, 2007 ... Byline: Telenor Edited Press Release Telenor Wednesday said it has completed the sale of its 17.45% stake in ONE GmbH after having initially announced an ...
MTN selects Cambridge Broadband [Cambridge Broadband Networks].
Oct 03, 2007 ... Byline: Cambridge Broadband Networks Cambridge Broadband Networks on Wednesday said MTN Group Ltd.(MTN.JO), sub-Saharan Africa's largest mobile phone operator, has selected its VectaStar platform for its multi-service wireless network in Rwanda. The England-based ...
Nasstar wins EasyGroup contract [Nasstar].
Oct 03, 2007 ... Byline: Nasstar Nasstar, which provides software on demand, has been appointed by the easyGroup, the private investment vehicle of Stelios, the serial entrepreneur, to provide hosted desktop, hosted exchange email, hosted BlackBerry and hosted sharepoint services to easyGroup ...
Ericsson, Bhutan Telecom contract [Ericsson].
Oct 03, 2007 ... Byline: Ericsson Ericsson said Wednesday it has been selected by Bhutan Telecom (BTL) to supply a WCDMA/HSPA network in a move to transform the mountain kingdom's communications. Under the terms of the agreement, Ericsson will supply an HSPA-enabled network, ...
Avaya, Nokia collaborate on FMC [Avaya].
Oct 03, 2007 ... Byline: Avaya Companies offer intelligent communications solutions that bridge fixed and mobile networks to provide increased productivity, user control, and cost savingsAvaya solution gives CNIPA staff a single mobile device for their complete enterprise communications ...
Turk Telekom upgrades core network [Juniper Networks].
Oct 03, 2007 ... Byline: Juniper Networks Turkey's incumbent operator scales with T-series to drive aggressive growth plans and enable a seamless migration path to multi-terabit capacity SUNNYVALE, Calif., October 3rd., 2007 -- Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in ...
Contact centre complexity spurs outsourcing [Altitude Software].
Oct 03, 2007 ... Byline: Altitude Software Brussels, Belgium, October 3rd, 2007 -- Operating Contact Centres is an increasingly specialized and complex business, feeding the growing trend towards outsourcing this corporate function. A number of leading worldwide and regional CRM service ...
UK gets commercial WiMAX service.
Oct 04, 2007 ... Byline: Mary Lennighan, Total Telecom The U.K.'s first commercial WiMAX service will come to market before the end of the year, it emerged Thursday. The announcement was made by the company formerly known as Pipex Wireless, which simultaneously revealed that from now ...
HDTV should be free to air [NEC UK].
Oct 04, 2007 ... Byline: NEC UK European belief in the merits and success of Digital Switch Over is widespread but more education needed 1 October 2007, London -- An NEC survey of over 100 attendees at the IBC 2007 conference, which took place in Amsterdam last month, has revealed ...
Alcatel-Lucent Brazil Telecom WiMax contract [Alcatel-Lucent].
Oct 04, 2007 ... Byline: Alcatel-Lucent Franco-American communications technology group Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) said Thursday it has been selected by Brasil Telecom (BTM), one of the biggest mobile and fixed telephony operators in Brazil, to deploy the first commercial WiMAX networks SA[pounds ...
Nokia Siemens MGTS broadband deal [Nokia Siemens Networks].
Oct 04, 2007 ... Byline: Nokia Siemens Networks Nokia Siemens Networks Thursday said it and Moscow City Telephone Network (MGTS) have signed a contract for delivery of broadband access equipment (DSLAM) to expand MGTS packet transmission network. Under the contract Nokia Siemens ...
Ericsson HSPA network To TeliaSonera, Tele2 [Ericsson].
Oct 04, 2007 ... Byline: Ericsson Sweden's L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co.(ERIC) and Svenska UMTS Naet AB, which is jointly owned by TeliaSonera AB (TLSN.SK) and Tele2 AB (TEL2-B.SK), have signed a contract for a nationwide rollout of mobile broadband in Sweden. Ericcson said TeliaSonera ...
BT celebrates 10,000thTBCM50 sale [BT].
Oct 04, 2007 ... Byline: BT - Milestone marked by free Unified Contact BCM50 for customer buying 10,000th system - BT today announced that it has achieved its 10,000th sale of the Nortel Business Communications Manager (BCM) 50 communication system in the UK. To mark this milestone ...
MCP uses LGC Wireless for ships [LGC Wireless].
Oct 04, 2007 ... Byline: LGC Wireless SAN JOSE, CA, October 1, 2007--LGC Wireless, the leading supplier of In-Building Wireless solutions and specialized Network Systems to the Fortune 500, has announced that the Norwegian passenger and cruise ship cellular communications company MCP has ...
Gemalto, Far EasTone partner on NFC [Gemalto].
Oct 04, 2007 ... Byline: Gemalto Amsterdam -- Taiwan, October 4 2007 - Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, today announces a partnership with Taiwan's Far EasTone Telecommunications Ltd. to implement Asia's first mobile contactless SIM-based NFC (Near Field ...
Garmin launches Sat-Nav for phone [Garmin].
Oct 04, 2007 ... Byline: Garmin The satellite navigation company, Garmin has launched a unique, all-in-one software solution that turns selected smartphones with internal GPS into high-end navigators. Garmin Mobile XT is a mobile phone software application that seamlessly pairs the phone's ...
Friday Review: Road trip.
Oct 05, 2007 ... Byline: Mary Lennighan, Total Telecom A predicted 7,500 visitors will converge on Berlin's Estrel Convention Centre next week to immerse themselves in the world of broadband, and Total Telecom will be joining them. The 2007 Broadband World Forum Europe opens on Monday ...
Sigma propels OSS/J standard [Sigma Systems ].
Oct 05, 2007 ... Byline: Sigma Systems Order management API specification will ease BSS-OSS integration for service providers TORONTO, ON -- October 5, 2007 -- Sigma Systems (www.sigma-systems.com), a leader in the design, development and deployment of OSS service management ...
Home networking threat to telco profitability - Enure.
Oct 08, 2007 ... Byline: Mary Lennighan, Total Telecom, in Berlin Telecoms operators are increasingly looking to home networking as they seek to draw customers to their television and triple-play services, but the cost of supporting these networks can eat into ARPU. "The cost of ...
Telecom Italia, Italtel bring Second Life to life.
Oct 08, 2007 ... Byline: Mary Lennighan, Total Telecom, in Berlin As consumers increasingly choose the Internet over the TV for entertainment, there is a role for telecoms operators to play in the world of Web 2.0. Telecom Italia, for example, is embracing Second Life by enabling ...
IPTV infrastructure in place, success hinges on content - Tellabs.
Oct 08, 2007 ... Byline: Nick Wood , Total Telecom, in Berlin Tellabs Monday said the success of IPTV will cause an exponential rise in the amount of bandwidth being consumed, an issue that's driving the need to effectively manage the data moving through networks. "New services are ...
IPTV subs up 179% on last year - DSL Forum.
Oct 08, 2007 ... Byline: Nick Wood, Total Telecom, in Berlin Global IPTV subscriptions have grown by 179% in the past year, bringing the total number to 8.2 million, the DSL Forum announced at Broadband World Forum Europe on Monday. "A year ago people were still asking if IPTV was ...
Lower power kit key to ZTE's European push.
Oct 08, 2007 ... Byline: Mary Lennighan, Total Telecom, in Berlin Europe is becoming increasingly important for China's ZTE, and the equipment vendor has a few tricks up its sleeve that it believes will help give it the edge over rivals longer established in the market. Key amongst ...
New applications 'tremendous scaling challenge' - Nokia Siemens.
Oct 08, 2007 ... Byline: Nick Wood, Total Telecom, in Berlin Nokia Siemens Networks Monday said that while the drivers of data traffic growth are encouraging investments in new networks, they also represent a tremendous scaling challenge. "The key drivers for traffic growth are ...
Video key to broadband growth.
Oct 08, 2007 ... Byline: Mary Lennighan, Total Telecom, in Berlin Video will drive significant broadband revenue growth over the next five years, but there are no guarantees that the industry's existing fixed-line players will be best-placed to benefit, according to Deutsche Telekom. ...
BBWF 2007: Day One.
Oct 08, 2007 ... A daily news service brought to you in association with:Video key to broadband growth Deutsche Telekom opens this year's Broadband World Forum Europe with carrier perspective on next-generation networks. <full story> IPTV subs up 179% on last year - DSL Forum Europe 'more suited' to ...
Nokia completes Enpocket acquisition [Nokia].
Oct 08, 2007 ... Byline: Nokia Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Enpocket, a global leader in mobile advertising providing technology and services that allow brands to plan, create, execute, measure and optimize mobile advertising campaigns around ...
Tele2 Q3 impairment charge [Tele2].
Oct 08, 2007 ... Byline: Tele2 Tele2 Monday announced that it has conducted an evaluation of goodwill, mainly related to the purchase of SEC in 2000, and other assets, resulting in an impairment loss of approximately SEK3.5 billion, which will be recorded in Q3 2007. The goodwill ...
Grameenphone to pay BDT1.68bn to govt [Telenor].
Oct 08, 2007 ... Byline: Telenor Grameenphone said Monday it has agreed to make a one-time payment of BDT1.68 billion to the Government as compensation for revenues lost due to the use of Grameenphone subscriptions by some customers to illegally transfer international calls. ...
Tele2 sells Austrian mobile ops [Tele2].
Oct 08, 2007 ... Byline: Tele2 Tele2 Monday announced that it has sold its Austrian MVNO operations to Telekom Austria Group. Telekom Austria Group will pay in cash approximately SEK65 million (approximately EUR7 million) on a cash and debt free basis. At the end of June 2007, Tele2 ...
Deutsche Telekom expands cooperation with Israel [Deutsche Telekom].
Oct 08, 2007 ... Byline: Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom AG (DT) has signed an agreement with representatives of the Israeli government in Jerusalem to expand cooperation in the future with Israeli high-tech and start-up companies in the information and communication technology area, the ...
Ericsson launches 2.6GHz HSPA [Ericsson].
Oct 08, 2007 ... Byline: Ericsson Ericsson Monday announced the launch of infrastructure and device platforms for WCDMA/HSPA in the 2.6GHz frequency band. The move is triggered by strong market interest and supports the growth of mobile broadband worldwide. The launch of ...
France Telecom selects Telcordia [Telcordia].
Oct 08, 2007 ... Byline: Telcordia France Telecom Selects Telcordia for Service Quality Analysis Orange UK is First France Telecom Network to Deploy Telcordia Solution to Enhance the End-User Experience for Customers London, UK -- October 8, 2007 -- With more than 100 ...
Red Cross chooses PageOne [PageOne].
Oct 08, 2007 ... Byline: PageOne London 8th October 2007 -- PageOne, the UK's leading provider of wireless messaging solutions to the public and enterprise sectors, has been chosen by the British Red Cross Society in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and the Channel Islands to help streamline ...
ASC partners with Wave Telecom [ASC ].
Oct 08, 2007 ... Byline: ASC Wave Becomes Partner to Distribute ASC's Quality Monitoring and Communications Recording Solutions Hoesbach/Germany, October 8, 2007 -- ASC (www.asctelecom.com), a leading global provider of innovative solutions to record, analyze and evaluate ...
MobileLocators.com announces mobile tracking [MobileLocators.com ].
Oct 08, 2007 ... Byline: MobileLocators.com MobileLocators.com - one of the UK's leading mobile phone tracking services has now added extra security features to its website service. All new online applications will now receive a password security letter sent to their home address. This is in ...
Syniverse wins Saudi contract [Syniverse].
Oct 08, 2007 ... Byline: Syniverse Syniverse Wins Saudi Telecom Anti-Fraud Contract Mobile operator first in Saudi Arabia to adopt new GSMA NRTRDE initiative Syniverse Technologies (NYSE: SVR), a leading provider of technology and business solutions for the global ...
NEC launches SCI platform [NEC].
Oct 08, 2007 ... Byline: NEC - Convergence of Voice and Multimedia Services - NEC Corporation today announced the worldwide release of a new converged multimedia and SIP voice solution, "Service Convergence Integrated Platform" (hereafter SCI Platform). The SCI Platform enables VoIP ...
Italtel presents VoIP management solution [Italtel].
Oct 08, 2007 ... Byline: Italtel The new telecom management system designed and implemented by Italtel will enable Service Providers to offer Managed VoIP Services, on Cisco's IP Unified Communications platform, that are more competitive in terms of both costs and performance. ...
79% of Britons throw away identities [APACS].
Oct 08, 2007 ... Byline: APACS - Unprecedented support received for the UK's third National Identity Fraud Prevention Week - LONDON,-- The UK's third National Identity Fraud Prevention Week - a major awareness drive, warning of the dangers of identity fraud -- begins today. ...