T-Mobile Chooses Nortel for Content-Based Billing

T-Mobile International will deploy an intelligent packet core from Nortel Networks to support flexible billing options for subscribers based on the content they have accessed, time spent downloading, or volume of data downloaded. T-Mobile plans to use these billing features for personalized mobile data services initially across the United Kingdom, with the potential to expand across other T-Mobile European networks. In addition to enabling content-based billing, the Nortel Networks solution will deliver an optimized IP-based architecture. http://www.nortelnetworks.comNortel...

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Starbucks Cites T-Mobile Hotspot Usage

The Starbucks Coffee Company continues to expand its T-Mobile Wi-Fi hotspot service. Wi-Fi connectvity is now offered at 3,100 Starbucks locations across the U.S. The company's research indicates that T-Mobile HotSpot subscribers visit Starbucks more often -- an average of eight times per month -- and spend more time in the stores -- the average connection lasts approximately one hour. Nearly 90 percent of T-Mobile HotSpot accesses are during off-peak store hours, which are after 9 a.m. Actual subscription numbers were not disclosed. htt...

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Occam Gains RUS Listing for Broadband Loop Carrier

Occam Networks' BLC 6000 Broadband Loop Carrier is now available on the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) List of Materials. The BLC 6000 "triple play" broadband loop carrier received acceptance from the RUS committee at the conclusion of a successful field trial with Virginia-based Citizens Telephone Cooperative. The RUS listing enables qualified rural telephone companies like Citizens to purchase products such as the BLC 6000 with long-term, low-interest loans from the U.S. government with the goal of providing...

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AT&T and McLeodUSA Reach Local Line Deal

AT&T and McLeodUSA reached a long-term agreement in principle whereby AT&T would begin an orderly transition of lines off the Bells' UNE-P platform in selected states and onto McLeodUSA's UNE-L network. The companies said finalization of the agreement requires regulatory clarity in support of facilities-based competition. The companies are jointly proposing to the FCC a set of principles to meet their concerns. McLeodUSA is a facilities-based telecommunications provider active in 25 Western, mid-Western and Rocky Mountain states. It has...

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Cranite and Vivato Partner on FIPS-certified WiFi

Cranite Systems and Vivato announced a strategic partnership to provide their customers with government-certified secure wireless network solutions. The partnership combines Cranite's FIPS 140-2-compliant wireless local area network (LAN) security and strong authentication with Vivato's long range Wi-Fi base stations. http://www.cranite.com/http://www.vivato....

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Covad Launches Dedicated-Loop ADSL

Covad Communications named Speakeasy as its first broadband partner to offer new dedicated-loop ADSL services to consumers and very small businesses on a nationwide basis. Before the introduction of dedicated-loop ADSL (a.k.a. "dry loop DSL"), many customers were required to possess voice services from a local telephone provider in order to layer on broadband capabilities to the telephone line. Dedicated-loop ADSL is expected to appeal to customers who rely on broadband VoIP and cell phone service. Covad's partner Speakeasy is charging $55.95 per...

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BellSouth Deploys Cisco 7600 Routers for Premium Metro Ethernet Services

BellSouth has begun deployment of Cisco 7600 series routers to support its newly launched Metro Ethernet Premium Services. The Cisco 7600 Series routers are equipped with Cisco's Supervisor Engine 720 modules with switching capacities of 720 Gbps. The QoS and high availability capabilities of the Supervisor 720 enable BellSouth to offer SLA commitments to its Premium Service customers in the areas of network latency, availability and time-to-repair. The modules allows Premium Service traffic to receive priority treatment. This helps enable differentiated...

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Siemens and Juniper Networks Start BT's 21CN Trial

BT's 21CN trials will include Siemens' SURPASS hiG 1200 Trunk Gateway, a carrier grade VoIP trunk media gateway, which provides mediation between the core IP infrastructure of a next generation network and the existing circuit-switched network. Siemens will also supply Juniper Networks' T640 core router platform for the IP/MPLS backbone. http://www.siemens.comhttp://www.juniper....

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Atheros Licenses Cores From ARM

Atheros Communications has licensed the ARM926EJ-S processor and the ARM946E-S processor for use in its wireless LAN chipsets. The companies expect wireless LANs to become the basis for many applications such as voice communications, home audio/visual entertainment, and other networking areas where additional processing will be required. http://www.arm....

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Avaya Repurchases $131.6M of Senior Secured Notes

Avaya completed cash repurchases of $131.6 million in principal amount of its 11 1/8% senior secured notes during its third fiscal quarter. As a result of the repurchase, the company expects to record a one-time, pre-tax loss of $21.0 million for the third quarter. "These repurchases are consistent with Avaya's objectives of reducing our long-term debt and de-leveraging our balance sheet," said Garry McGuire, chief financial officer, Avaya. http://www.avaya....

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iPass Reaches 10,000 Active Hotspots

iPass now offers access to 11,179 WiFi hotspots in 33 countries. The company said that reaching 10,000 hotspots is a landmark for the industry that took 27 months to achieve and required negotiating agreements with well over 100 network providers. In addition to Wi-Fi, iPass also operates one of the largest footprints of wired broadband (Ethernet) service at more than 1,500 hotels worldwide, as well as dial-up Internet, ISDN, GSM and PHS (a 2.5 G service in Asia). http://www.ipass.comIn December 2003, T-Mobile USA and iPass announced a distribution...

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BT Selects Alcatel IP Service Routing Solution for 21CN Trial

BT has selected Alcatel's routing and management solution to provide IP/Ethernet switching as part of its 21st Century Network (21CN) PSTN transformation trial, which will pilot voice services over a dedicated IP network. Specifically, the trial will use the Alcatel 7750 Service Router (7750 SR) and the Alcatel 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM). The announcement follows a series of contracts in 2004 between Alcatel and BT. Recently Alcatel's Open Service Platform provided a scalable and intelligent solution, which BT uses to develop customized applications...

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OnFiber Secures $12 Million in New Funding

OnFiber Communications, which operates metro networks across the U.S, completed a $12 million Series C round of private equity financing. The funding was raised entirely from current investors, including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Bear Stearns Merchant Banking and Telesoft Partners. These funds will be used to support the company's growth strategy through targeted asset acquisitions and network expansion related to the continued deployment of "AdaptiveBuild" custom network infrastructure solutions. http://www.onfiber.comOnFiber was...

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