QUALCOMM Announces WCDMA Testing with NTT DoCoMo

QUALCOMM will work with NTT DoCoMo to promote the global deployment of WCDMA. The companies began interoperability testing in June 2004 using QUALCOMM's TM6250 test mobile solution. Field trials are now slated to begin on DoCoMo's live FOMA. Several handset manufacturers are currently in discussion with QUALCOMM to develop FOMA i-mode handsets using the company's MSM6250 single-chip solution and its BREW client software. http://www.qualcomm.comhttp://www.nttdocomo....

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Siemens to Integrate Flarion's FLASH-OFDM

Siemens Communications has agreed to integrate Flarion Technologies' FLASH-OFDM technology into its portfolio of mobile broadband solutions. The companies have also signed a memorandum of understanding under which Flarion will develop basic 450 MHz-band equipment according to Siemens specifications. The companies noted that the 450 MHz frequency band in many countries had been occupied by analog mobile telephony, and is now available due to the migration to digital mobile networks. In particular, mobile operators in Eastern Europe who do not...

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8x8 Signs Nine Resellers for its Virtual Office PBX

8x8 announced nine more master distributors for its Packet8 Virtual Office service aimed at small businesses. The list of resellers includes VARs in markets across the U.S.: Unwired Technology, Chicago, IL; Smart-Com, Eastern ID; Straight Shooting Computing, Santa Fe and Albuquerque, NM; Peninsula Communications, South San Francisco Bay Area, CA; Envisions Communications, Wenatchee, WA; CWS, West TX; DB Communications - Austin and San Antonio, TX; Zial Networks, Boise & Spokane, WA; and Smedia, Madison and Milwaukee, WI. http://www.packet...

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AT&T Restructuring Continues

Citing sustained pricing pressure, regulatory changes and its decision to stop marketing traditional residential services, AT&T announced a series of restructuring actions. These include:further job cuts that significantly exceed its previously estimated workforce-reduction target of 8% in 2004. The company now expects to reduce total headcount by more than 20% in 2004. Approximately three quarters of the employees affected in 2004 have already been notified or departed earlier this year. As a result of ongoing workforce reductions, the company...

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Orca Interactive Announces IPO

Orca Interactive, a middleware software provider for the IPTV market, will list its shares on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange (AIM). The company also announced that it has raised GBP 14 million ($25 million) a private placement with UK institutions. Orca Interactive is a subsidiary of Emblaze Ltd.. Emblaze has not sold any shares and retains approximately 60% of Orca. Orca said it has strong relationships with a number of large incumbent telcos and IPTV prime contractors. In addition, unlike many of its competitors,...

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Cramer's OSS Selected for BT's 21CN

Cramer was awarded a multi-million pound contract to supply its OSS for BT's groundbreaking 21st Century Network (21CN) initiative, which will transform BT's entire circuit-switched infrastructure into a single "converged" IP core network. Cramer will provide its full suite of telecom operations and network management software. The agreement affirms Cramer as one of BT's strategic enterprise application OSS partners alongside Amdocs/Clarify, Siebel, BEA, Oracle and Geneva. Cramer software will support both BT's domestic and global network operations,...

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HP Develops AdvancedTCA Platforms for Telecom

HP outlined its plans for an Advanced Open Telecom Platform (AOTP) that leverages modular, standards-based technologies for commercial and carrier-grade platforms (rack-mount, blade and custom) for the heart of voice, data and media networks. HP AOTP is a comprehensive framework that incorporates a portfolio of operating systems including carrier-grade Linux, telecom network software such as HP OpenCall and OpenView, and SAF-compliant management software. It also includes platform testing and validation, consulting and integration services, global...

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AboveNet Opens Access to Its Optical Network

AboveNet announced an "Open Optics Initiative" to provide telecom carriers with access to its optical infrastructure and thereby bypass the local loop. These links will be available for Fast Ethernet, DS3 and OC-n interfaces. AboveNet said its open network approach provides carriers with access to key markets through on-network buildings. http://www.above....

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TELUS Selects Atreus for Hosted Telephony Services

TELUS has selected Atreus Systems; xAuthority to enable IP Centrex and Messaging as part of the TELUS IP-One hosted telephony business service. xAuthority is a service fulfillment OSS solution. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.atreus-systems....

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QUALCOMM Licenses RADVISION SIP Toolkit

QUALCOMM has licensed RADVISION's SIP developers toolkit for use in its Qvideophone videoconferencing solution, which is integrated into select QUALCOMM Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chipsets and will initially target the CDMA2000 1x-EV-DO-based mobile market. The RADVISION SIP Developer Platform is a service creation platform that provides developers with an open, object-oriented architecture (coded in ANSI C) for building SIP-based communications products for the wireline, wireless, and mobile worlds. The platform features RADVISION's standards-based...

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SUPERCOMM to Become GLOBALCOMM in 2006

The Telecommunications Industry Association, which has been a co-sponsor of the annual SUPERCOMM tradeshow along with the USTA, will host an expanded GLOBALCOMM event on June 5-8, 2006, at Chicago's McCormick Place. TIA will continue to sponsor SUPERCOMM 2005 with its co-owner, the United States Telecom Association, whose contractual relationship with TIA ends following the 2005 show in Chicago. TIA reports that already 88% of the exhibitor space for SUPERCOMM 2005 has been filled. http://www.tiaonline.orgEarlier this week, USTA, which jointly...

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Qwest and DIRECTV Announce Partnership

Qwest Communications and DIRECTV formed a strategic marketing alliance that will allow Qwest to offer DIRECTV digital satellite television services to residential customers across the western U.S. Beginning in Q1 2005, Qwest will market and provide front-line customer support for the DIRECTV service and incorporate it as part of its full suite of bundled services. Customers will have one point of contact for service and a single bill for all telecommunications and television services. The companies said they are also developing a plan to market...

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