Global - News
Tellabs seeks ‘pockets of optimism’ overseas
By: By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs vowed to push harder into overseas markets Tuesday as weakness in North America weighed on its second-quarter results....
NSN: Infrastructure market to stay flat
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia’s earnings results led to a big sigh of relief in the industry as it reported numbers in line with expectations and projected a rosy forecast for the rest of 2008 for its handset business....
Verizon makes global billing simpler
By: By Carol Wilson
In direct response to requests from its multinational customers, Verizon Business has created a Global Billing Report that enables top executives to see their total global telecom spending via an online tool that is provided at no additional charge. ...
Intel releases laptop WiMAX platform (without the WiMAX)
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Intel today took the wraps off of its long-anticipated Centrino 2 processor technology, the new laptop platform based on its Core 2 Duo chipset...
Adtran navigates ‘constrained,’ ‘sluggish’ spending
By: By Ed Gubbins
While reporting solid second-quarter results today, equipment vendor Adtran acknowledged a tight spending environment in both the carrier and enterprise sectors....
FTTH out of steam?
By: By Carol Wilson
A fiber-to-the-home architecture has long been regarded as the endgame for telecom service providers — the one sure way of future-proofing networks for whatever services develop going forward....
Alcatel-Lucent seeks US telemedicine partner
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel-Lucent is searching for a US service provider partner to help deliver a new telemedicine application it developed with Canadian carrier SaskTel....
Yankee: Carriers likely to acquire CDNs
By: By Carol Wilson
While Akamai currently dominates the world of content delivery networks (CDN), a leading analyst firm believes service providers such as AT&T, British Telecom and Verizon will soon be playing in that sandbox...
Nortel gains ground in managed telepresence push
By: By Sarah Reedy
Nortel Global Services, the telepresence arm of Nortel Networks, today inked a deal with professional services firm Deloitte to provide telepresence, video conferencing and associated multimedia services to the global organization’s 130 member firms. ...
What happened in Vegas
By: By Carol Wilson
NXTcomm08 had hoped to establish itself as the telecom industry's premiere event, replacing Supercomm and its successor shows. Under a very hot Las Vegas...
Nokia pulls a Google
By: By Kevin Fitchard
If Nokia has its way, Linux won’t be the only mobile software associated with the term “open.”...
Stephenson: Telecom set to drive global growth
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--The telecom industry is poised to “drive growth and prosperity on a global scale,” AT&T Chairman, President and CEO Randall Stephenson said in Tuesday’s NXTcomm08 keynote speech, and service providers and their vendors all have “an important role to play in making that happen.”...
It’s official: First certified WiMAX gear arrives
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The WiMAX Forum today officially released the names of the first WiMAX base stations and subscriber modules to pass certification muster, marking the first time that fully standardized Mobile WiMAX products have been available to the global marketplace...
NXTcomm08: NEC to sell Genband femto gateway
By: By Kevin Fitchard
NEC has selected Genband’s G9 Converged Media Gateway for its femtocell portfolio, giving Genband key exposure to NEC’s customers Asia and South America. ...
Embarq outsources NOCs to NSN
By: By Carol Wilson
In a major move that could be the start of a North American trend, Nokia Siemens Networks today announced that as of the fourth quarter of 2008, it is assuming ownership of the Embarq voice network operations center (NOC) and will provide that functionality to Embarq on an outsourced, managed services basis...
Nortel to resell Alvarion WiMAX gear, refocuses on LTE
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel is abandoning its WiMAX radio access platform, choosing instead to focus its 4G expertise on the burgeoning Long Term Evolution market....
Moto targets US, Europe for LTE
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola said today it plans to initially build its Long Term Evolution platform for the 700-MHz and 2.6-GHz frequencies, targeting spectrum held by major US and European cellular operators....
Apple launches iPhone 2.0
By: By Sarah Reedy
Following a year of speculation, iPhone 3G was officially launched today at half the price and with a slew of new applications and features. ...
Verizon sets energy efficiency standard
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon today announced what it says are the global telecom industry’s first energy-efficiency standards, designed to reduce by 20% the power consumed by new telecom-related equipment starting Jan. 1, 2009...
NextWave wins first MXtv trial
By: By Kevin Fitchard
NextWave Wireless has received its first bite on its new WiMAX TV platform, announcing Tuesday that Taiwan’s Global Mobile will deploy NextWave’s V5 base station and accompanying MXtv platform in the capital city...
BT plans global carbon reduction push
By: By Carol Wilson
BT today announced plans to reduce its global carbon emissions by 80% over the next 12 years at a pace of about 10% a year...
Why Sorrento is acquiring RBN
By: By Ed Gubbins
Newly reincarnated optical equipment vendor Sorrento Networks is bulking up its product portfolio and customer base by acquiring Australian-born optical vendor Redfern Broadband Networks (a.k.a. RBN) for an undisclosed sum...
ComScore buys M:Metrics
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Digital media measurer ComScore has purchased M:Metrics for $44.3 million, adding the Seattle-based mobile trend tracking capabilities to its extensive online portfolio...
Truphone intercepts global mobile calls
By: By Rich Karpinski
Alternative mobile service provider Truphone launched a service today that automatically “re-routes” international calls that begin on incumbent operator networks and delivers them via the Internet and the Truphone network...
Zeugma aims to redefine edge
By: By Carol Wilson
A Canadian start-up company with a Greek name is introducing a new approach to delivering broadband services designed to streamline delivery and pump up revenues for service providers...
