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| U.S. VoIP Market to Grow 14% Annually for Next Five Years: Pike & Fischer
30/10/2008
Demand for VoIP services in the United States will continue to see significant growth over the next two years, with 8.5 million more Americans expected to sign-up for IP phone offerings within that time frame, according to a recent report by Pike & Fischer’s Broadband Advisory Service.The report, entitled “Residential VoIP Market Outlook,” projects a 14% growth rate for the... |
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| CRTC Considers Tweaking Canada’s Do-Not-Call List
21/10/2008
Canada’s telecom regulator said yesterday that it is considering a number of minor changes to its recently-implemented national do-not-call registry.One issue on the CRTC’s agenda is fairness to independent political candidates, who are not members of registered political parties granted an exemption from the list. Expanding the exemption to independent politicians is especially... |
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| Los Angeles County Extends Telecom Contract with AT&T
17/10/2008
AT&T announced on Wednesday that it has extended its contract to provide telecommunications services to the County of Los Angeles, for an additional five years, in a deal worth $223 million.AT&T already provides the county with telephone and data service, and will provide advanced features such as VoIP under the new contract.Los Angeles has the option to extend the deal for up to 12... |
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| Verizon CEO Remains Optimistic, Despite Economic Crisis
16/10/2008
American telecom giant, Verizon Communications, is well positioned to endure the ongoing global financial crisis, according to the company’s CEO, Ivan Seidenberg, speaking at this week’s Media & Money Conference, a joint production of Dow Jones and Nielsen.“We expect some impact, but our view is that we will weather this,” Seidenberg said predicting that... |
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| British Bank Bailout Could Threaten Private Equity Buyout of BCE Inc.
10/10/2008
The long-delayed acquisition of Canada’s biggest telecom carrier, BCE Inc., by the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan and other private equity investors, is on the rocks yet again, as the Royal Bank of Scotland (a major financial backer of the deal) faces political pressure on its ability to lend.The British government’s proposal to buy shares in a number of major UK financial... |
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| Verizon and Comcast Agree to Intellectual Property Cease-Fire
08/10/2008
Verizon Communications and Comcast, two fierce competitors in the increasingly overlapping telecom and cable markets, have signed an agreement to refrain from suing one another over intellectual property for the next five years.The deal, which covers thousands of telephone, data, and television patents held by the two companies, is not equivalent to a licensing agreement, according to executives... |
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| Israeli Communications Ministry Grants Wi-Fi VoIP License to NSR Ltd.
07/10/2008
Israel’s Communications Ministry has granted a special license to NSR Ltd. to conduct a “marketing experiment” regarding the provision of VoIP telephone services over Wi-Fi hotspots.The experiment will present Wi-Fi VoIP as an alternative, of sorts, to cell phone services, in specific locations such as airports, hotels, malls, and coffee shops, where wireless hotspots are... |
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| AT&T Shuffles Executives to Meet Triple-Play Cable Challenge
03/10/2008
The CEO of AT&T’s wireless division, Ralph de la Vega, has taken lead of the telecom giant’s fixed-line telephone operations as part of a company-wide management shuffle.The reorganization is intended to make it easier for AT&T to coordinate its mobile and fixed-line businesses, while responding to the competitive threat of triple-play cable companies.Ronald Spears, who has... |
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| AT&T Expands U-verse Triple-Play Availability in Michigan
01/10/2008
America’s leading telecom operator, AT&T Inc., has launched its triple-play (i.e. voice, video, and broadband) U-verse service in about two dozen additional Michigan communities, including Flint, Midland, and Saginaw.AT&T initially launched its U-verse TV offering in the Detroit area in May 2007, and has expanded it to parts of southeast and western Michigan in the time since... |
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| PhoneSpamFilter.com Offers Free Software to Block Telemarketing Calls
25/09/2008
For a number of years now, there have been simple and easy tools to collaboratively blacklist email addresses that are known for sending unsolicited commercial messages. In fact, such features are available on most free, web-based email platforms, including GMail, Hotmail, and Yahoo Mail. Now, a web-based company called PhoneSpamFilter.com is applying the same concept to uninvited... |
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