List of All Telecom News
| Deutsche Telekom CEO Refuses to Entertain T-Mobile Sale Suggestions
14/06/2007
Deutsche Telekom’s Chief Executive, Rene Obermann, has dismissed suggestions that T-Mobile USA should be sold off, stating that the American wireless business is crucial to his company’s long-term success strategy.Obermann said that selling T-Mobile would be shortsighted and detrimental to the European telecom giant’s future prospects. When asked if Deutsche Telekom would expand... |
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| SureWest Selects Mirapoint’s Email and Email Security Solutions
13/06/2007
SureWest Communications — the incumbent telephone provider serving Sacramento, California will deploy Mirapoint Inc.’s messaging systems in the delivery of hosted email and security services, the two companies announced on Monday.Mirapoint’s technology is being integrated with SureWest’s IMAP, POP, and HTTP email solutions, and will be used to power content filtering,... |
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| Embarq Keeps an Eye Out for Rural Telecom Acquisition Targets
12/06/2007
Regional telephone provider, Embarq Corp., is positioning itself to acquire smaller competitors in the months and years to come, as the telecommunications sector continues to consolidate.Buying up small rural phone carriers would help Embarq to slash costs and increase efficiency, said the company’s CEO, Daniel Hesse, in an interview late last week.“Today you have roughly 800 local... |
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| British Columbia to Require 10-Digit Local Dialing
09/06/2007
In September 2008, British Columbia is set to become the first Canadian province to require 10-digit telephone dialing for all local calls, the CRTC announced on Thursday.The 250 area code, which covers all of BC but the Lower Mainland, is running out of numbers, and the nation’s telecom regulator has decided to extend the 788 prefix, already used in and around Vancouver, into other parts... |
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| CRTC Rejects Bell-Telus Plan to Waive Telephone Connection Fees
05/06/2007
CRTC regulators have rejected a plan by Canada’s top telecom providers that would have done away with connection fees for new and returning customers, while increasing local phone rates by $0.58 to $1.00 per month to compensate for the lost revenue.The country’s two biggest telephone operators, Bell Canada and Telus Corp., were behind the proposal, which met significant opposition... |
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| Embarq Logistics and Wave7 Deploy Fiber-Optic Network in Nebraska
25/05/2007
Embarq’s telecom equipment division, Embarq Logistics, has teamed up with fiber-optic networking supplier, Wave7, to deploy a FTTP (fiber-to-the-premises) network for Long Lines customers in South Sioux City, Nebraska.The new network will allow Long Lines an independent telephone and internet provider serving parts of Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota to offer a complete triple-play bundle... |
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| Verizon to Offer Quadruple-Play Telecom Services
21/05/2007
Verizon Communications announced plans last week to offer quadruple play telecom services that is voice, broadband, internet, and wireless in a single package.“The quadruple play is something we’re planning to offer later this year. You’ll see that roll out where we do have a contiguous wireline and wireless footprint,” said Verizon’s Chief Operating Officer, Denny... |
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| Vonage Struggles to Keep Up with Comcast in American VoIP Market
14/05/2007
Broadband phone provider, Vonage, announced a good increase in first-quarter revenue last week, and revealed that it had further narrowed its losses for the period. Subscriber growth, however, continued to spiral downwards, painting a bleak long-term picture for the VoIP pioneer.Vonage added just 166,000 new customers in its most recent quarter, a decline of almost 50% from Q1/2006, when it was... |
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| Canadian Telecom Companies Can Expect Slow but Ongoing Growth
11/05/2007
Canada’s telecommunications industry is set for another year of record profits in 2007, but growth will remain slow and measured, according to the Conference Board’s Canadian Industrial Outlook - Sprint 2007 report.“Despite modest sales growth and minimal price increases, industry profits reached a record high in 2006, thanks to weak growth in material and capital costs,”... |
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| Telenor Buys Tele2’s Danish Operations for $151 Million
10/05/2007
Swedish telecom carrier, Tele2, announced yesterday that it would be selling its Danish operations to Norway-based Telenor, for 1.03 billion Crowns, the cash equivalent of US$151.4 million.Tele2 noted that, in Denmark, there is a need for a more infrastructure based approach, both when it comes to broadband and mobile services.Hence, Tele2 has decided to exit Denmark and continue with the... |
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