Force10 Debuts 16-port 10GigE Card Priced at $3,600/Port

Force10 Networks has increased the 10 Gigabit Ethernet density of the TeraScale E-Series to an industry-leading 224 ports per system. The density is achieved with the introduction of a 16-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet card, which delivers a per port list price of $3,600. The high density 16-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet card for the TeraScale E1200 and E600 will be generally available December 15, 2005, with a U.S. list price of $57,500. The high density 8-port...

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Fabric7 Debuts High Performance Servers for Fabric Computing

Fabric7 Systems, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, debuted its family of high-performance servers designed for fabric computing. Fabric7 has worked with AMD to develop a new approach to enterprise computing. Its servers leverage the AMD Opteron processor and extend its Direct Connect Architecture with networked I/O and application service resources into a dynamic fabric.The architecture provides a highly scalable and hardware partitionable symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) complex that can be configured on demand into a flexible network...

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BT Acquires Total Network Solution for Outsourced LAN Services

BT has acquired Total Network Solutions Limited (TNS), a provider of outsourced, networked IT services to UK corporate, public sector and service provider customers. Financial terms were not disclosed. Based in Oswestry in Shropshire, the company employs 92 people and had revenues for the year ending 31 December 2004 of £13.9 million. The company had gross assets as at 31 December 2004 of £9.1 million. http://www.btplc....

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NDS Reports Increase Subscribers and Middleware Deployments

NDS Group, which supplies open end-to-end digital technology and services to digital pay-television platform operators and content providers, reported an improvement in profitability resulting from growth in middleware and PVR technologies.Quarterly revenue was $144.5 million, up 2% year-over-year. Operating income was $35.7 million, up 41% year-over-year, and operating margin was 24.7%.Some metrics for Q3 compared to a year earlier:Smart card deliveries numbered 5.5 million down from 8.9 millionAuthorized cards additions were 1.8 million, down...

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Qwest Adds 150,000 DSL Subscribers in Q3

Qwest Communications added 150,000 DSL subscribers in Q3 2005, bringing total lines in service to 1.3 million -- a 12.6% increase sequentially and a 40% increase over the year-ago quarter. The company's mass markets data and Internet revenues increased 8% sequentially and 38% year-over-year. Currently, DSL is available to 75% of Qwest households and 96% of qualified households are able to purchase broadband speeds of 1.5 Mbps or greater. Financially, Qwest reported third quarter revenue of $3.5 billion, compared to $3.47 billion in the second...

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Qwest Settles Securities Class Action Suit

Qwest Communications agreed to pay $400 million in cash to settle a securities class action suit. The settlement class will consist of those who purchased Qwest securities between May 24, 1999, and July 28, 2002. http://www.qwest....

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Avaya and SAP Integrate IP in Customer Relationship Management

Avaya has formed a strategic alliance with SAP America to market IP-enabled business applications. The companies will jointly market mySAP Customer Relationship Management with Avaya contact center capabilities. The solution will integrate the multi-channel communications routing and management capabilities of Avaya Interaction Center software with mySAP CRM software. Customer service agents using SAP's market leading CRM solution will have the capability to interact with customers through voice, email, and Web communication through their mySAP...

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AT&T to Provide Managed Hosting Services to Microsoft Game Studios

AT&T was awarded a $9.5 million, three-year managed hosting contract from Microsoft Game Studios (MGS) to support various online experiences and the infrastructure for massively multiplayer online role-playing games. The online games include the latest for both Windows and the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. http://www.att....

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Riverstone Announces Management Changes

Riverstone Networks announced that Roger A. Barnes, its Chief Financial Officer, has been appointed its Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer. Michael Overby, who has been the company's Vice President of Finance, has been appointed interim Chief Financial Officer. http://www.riverstonenet....

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Huawei Offers 40Gbps per Wavelength DWDM

Huawei announced 40 Gbps per wavelength capability for its OptiX BWS 1600G and OptiX BWS 1600A DWDM transmission platforms. The Huawei solutions allows both 10 Gbps and 40 Gbps systems to co-exist on the same platform. The company said its 40 Gbps system are suited for long-haul transport networks of global carriers. http://wwww.huawei....

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Ditech Launches Voice Quality Evaluation Program

Ditech Communications has launched a Voice Quality Evaluation Program that enables carriers to identify and remedy network impairments that affect the sound quality of mobile calls to ensure their subscribers are receiving optimal voice quality. Ditech's Voice Quality Evaluation Program continually monitors selected areas of a live mobile network to measure acoustic and hybrid echo. Ditech's voice quality experts then work with customer engineering teams to compile a detailed assessment that pinpoints problem areas and make recommendations for...

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Microsoft Outlines Windows Live and Office Live Web Services

Microsoft previewed two new Internet-based software initiatives --"Windows Live" and "Microsoft Office Live " -- that will use technologies such as RSS and Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) to deliver personalized services online.Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, and Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief technical officer, demonstrated these offerings, along with Xbox Live, saying online services represent a powerful way of enabling customers to more quickly access and benefit from software innovation. "These new offerings...

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NTT DoCoMo FOMA Handsets Powered by TI's OMAP

NTT DoCoMo's FOMA 902i series 3G handsets will use Texas Instruments' OMAP2420 application processor. Expected to launch later this year, these handsets will represent the first OMAP 2-based mobile devices on the market. NTT DoCoMo's new FOMA series will use TI's OMAP 2 "All-in-One" entertainment architecture to deliver the latest in 3G mobile entertainment applications, such as 3D gaming, 3+-megapixel cameras, digital camcorders and TV output.TI's OMAP2420 stand-alone application processor is the first device in the marketplace to leverage the...

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Dr. William O. Baker, 1915 - 2005, Led Bell Labs through Golden Age

Lucent Technologies' announced that Dr. William O. Baker, Bell Labs president from 1973 to 1979, died yesterday in Chatham, New Jersey. He was 90.After receiving his doctorate in chemistry from Princeton University in the summer of 1938 Dr. Baker joined Bell Labs the following May as a member of technical staff. He became Head of the Polymer Research and Development Department at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1948. From 1951 to 1955, he was Assistant Director of Chemical and Metallurgical Research. Dr. Baker became Vice President of Research in...

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RadioShack to Market Comcast Services, $20 HSD Intro Offer

Comcast will begin marketing its services through more than 1,800 RadioShack retail locations. Until December 31, customers who sign up for Comcast High-Speed Internet through RadioShack will receive the flagship 6Mbps Internet service for $19.99 for the first six months. They will also receive a free self-install kit, with a mail-in rebate and a free cable modem. Customers http://www.comcast.com http://www.radioshack....

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Friendster and Grouper Target P2P Personal Media File Sharing

Friendster, a leading online community site, and Grouper Networks, a new venture launched by the founders of Spinner (now AOL Radio), announced a partnership that will allow Friendster users to share unlimited personal media files with each other using Grouper's personal sharing network.Grouper, which leverages a distributed computing platform, enables people to share personally-created media like video and photos to the audience of their choice -- friends, family or the general public.Friendster, the leading social networking site, provides users...

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Telefónica Bids $31.5 Billion to Acquire O2

Telefónica announced plans to acquire O2 Plc, the largest mobile-phone operator in the UK, for GBP 17.7 billion ($31.5 billion). The bid represented a 22% premium over Friday's closing prices.O2 plc has 100% ownership of mobile network operators in three countries - the UK, Germany and Ireland - as well as a leading mobile Internet portal business.O2 UK has over 15 million mobile subscribers; O2 Germany has 8.38 million mobile subscribers; and O2 Ireland has 1.53 million mobile subscribers.In addition, O2is a founding member of Starmap Mobile...

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Sprint Launches EVDO "Power Vision" Network

Sprint announced the official launch of its EV-DO (Evolution Data Optimized) "Power Vision" nationwide network, featuring wireless data speeds averaging 400 to 700 Kbps with peak rates up to 2.0 Mbps. Sprint now offers Mobile Broadband in more than 75 markets nationwide. By year-end Sprint will be in over 100 major markets encompassing more than 200 strategic urban and suburban markets--covering over 150 million customers. The service is also available in major airports across the U.S.Sprint is offering a free EV-DO capable Sprint PCS Connection...

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Siemens' IPTV Deployed by 75 U.S. Regional Operators

Siemens Communications provided an update on its SURPASS Home Entertainment portfolio of broadcast server provider solutions, which has now been deployed by more than 75 U.S. regional operators as well as many more worldwide. Siemens claims the most IPTV deployments in the United States to date, with two-thirds of its customers making IP television solutions commercially available to subscribers. Globally, Siemens IPTV contracts now cover more than 38 million broadband lines.Siemens said its initial goal has been to quickly enable service providers...

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SkyStream Report 10 New Telco Customers for its IP Video Delivery

Privately-held SkyStream announced that more than 10 telephone companies in the U.S., Europe and mainland China selected its Mediaplex and iPlex video headend systems for MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC deployments in the third quarter, and existing telco customers purchased additional headend equipment. Shipments of zBand software in July also exceeded the company's expectations--more than 30 customers have now purchased SkyStream's content delivery platform for offering PUSH video on demand services, movies-on-demand, distance learning, distributed storage,...

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Freescale's Communications Processor Shipments Top 200 Million

Freescale Semiconductor has reached the milestone of more than 200 million integrated communications processors shipped to date, a semiconductor device category the company pioneered 16 years ago.In June during the annual Freescale Technology Forum, Freescale marked the 10-year anniversary of the PowerQUICC processor family based on PowerPC cores. Freescale's PowerQUICC processor family has more than 5,000 communications and networking system designs. PowerQUICC processors are used in such applications as voice-enabled VPN routers, residential...

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SBC Trims Introductory Price of its 3.0 Mbps DSL Service

SBC Communications trimmed the price of its SBC Yahoo! DSL Pro (1.5 -3.0 Mbps) service to $21.99 a month for six months (other monthly charges apply) for new residential subscribers. Following the six-month term, the ongoing price will be $34.99 a month for month-to-month service - a 41% decrease from the previous month-to-month pricing for SBC Yahoo! DSL Pro service.The lower speed tier, SBC Yahoo! DSL Express (384 Kbps - 1.5 Mbps), is available for $16.99 a month (other monthly charges apply) with a six-month term for new residential subscribers...

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Taiwan's Seednet Selects Redback SmartEdge Service Gateway

Seednet, Taiwan's second largest Internet service provider, has deployed Redback Networks' SmartEdge Service Gateway platform for its next generation converged broadband service network, which will provide video, voice and advanced data services throughout Taiwan. Financial terms were not disclosed.Seednet will offer IPTV, VoIP, and high speed Internet services for both consumers and businesses. The IPTV service, Digital Family Center (DFC), includes over 200 channels and combines both analog and digital video programming. In addition to traditional...

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Level 3 To Acquire WilTel for $680 Million

Level 3 Communications agreed to acquire WilTel Communications in a cash and stock deal valued at $680 million. Both companies own major fiber routes across the United States. The companies expect to close the deal in Q1 2006, pending state and federal regulatory approvals.WilTel, which is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is currently owned by Leucadia National Corporation. WilTel's fiber network extends coast-to-coast and has direct access in more than 700 locations.The Level 3 network spans 23,000 route miles in the U.S. and Europe.The deal also...

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Lucent Supplies VoIP for KT

Lucent will supply its "Accelerate" VoIP products to KT to support IP-based services for enterprise customers. The contract follows September's announcement of Lucent's VoIP agreement with Hanaro Telecom, the second largest wireline and broadband service provider in Korea.The solution for KT includes the Lucent Feature Server, the platform delivering applications such as Hosted PBX, IP Centrex and Voice VPN. In addition, the call recording server, presence server, proxy server, and location-based server developed by Lucent's local business partners...

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Motorola and Nortel Settle Zafirovski Lawsuit

Motorola and Nortel reached a settlement in the case of Mike Zafirovskim Motorola's former president and chief operating officer, who recently was named Nortel president and CEO. In a lawsuit, Motorola alleged that Zafirovski's move to Nortel threatened an unlawful misappropriation of Motorola trade secrets and a breach of multiple non-compete, confidentiality and no solicitation agreements Zafirovski signed with Motorola. The terms of the settlement reaffirms Zafirovski's obligations to protect Motorola's trade secrets and confidential information...

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FCC Sets Conditions for SBC/AT&T and Verizon/MCI Mergers

The FCC voted to approve the acquisition of AT&T by SBC Communications and of MCI by Verizon Communications, concluding that consumers will benefit and that these mergers will create stable, reliable U.S.-owned companies that will provide improved service to government customers and benefit national defense and homeland security. Significantly, the FCC imposed a set of conditions aimed at alleviating anticompetitive concerns. These include the following:The applicants committed not to seek an increase in state-approved rates for unbundled...

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Apple's iTunes Store Sells One Millionth Video

Apple's iTunes Music Store has sold more than one million videos since the service debuted on October 12. Customers can choose from over 2,000 music videos, Pixar short films and hit TV shows for just $1.99. Top downloads include music videos from Michael Jackson, Fatboy Slim and Kanye West; Pixar's "For the Birds" and "Boundin'"; and episodes of ABC's hit TV shows "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives.""Selling one million videos in less than 20 days strongly suggests there is a market for legal video downloads," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "Our...

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PMC-Sierra to Acquire Agilent's Former Storage Semiconductor Group

PMC-Sierra agreed to acquire Agilent's Semiconductor Products Group, which is currently being acquired by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Silver Lake Partners as part of a larger deal, for approximately $425 million in cash.In August 2005, Agilent Technologies confirmed plans to sell its entire Semiconductor Products division to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and Silver Lake Partners for $2.66 billion.The storage semiconductor business of Agilent's Semiconductor Products Group (SPG) is a long-term technology leader in Fibre Channel...

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Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom Reaches 3.5 Million ADSL Users

Chunghwa Telecom. the incumbent operator in Taiwan, added 175,000 ADSL subscribers in Q3, giving it a total of 3.5 million, a 21% YoY increase. The total number of Internet subscribers was about 4mn as of 30-Sep-2005, a 7.6% YoY increase. Internet and data revenue for first nine months increased by 5.6% YoY.Chunghwa's total fixed line subscriber base stood at approximately 13.3mn as of 30-Sep-2005, a 0.4% YoY increase. As for mobile subscribers, as 30-Sep-2005 Chunghwa Telecom was 8.1 million, a 2.1% YoY decrease was primarily due to clean-up...

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MIT and Nokia Open R&D Lab

MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Nokia Research Center will establish a new research facility near the MIT campus to advance the state of the art in mobile computing and communications technologies.The collaborative work of the Nokia Research Center Cambridge will center on a view of the future where small handheld devices such as mobile phones will become parts of an "ecosystem" of information, services, peripherals, sensors and other devices. Research will address new user interfaces that incorporate speech...

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CloudShield Raises $10 Million for Deep Packet Inspection Platform

CloudShield Technologies, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, raised $$10 Million in additional funding for its multigigabit, open network services platform for security, VoIP, and traffic management applications.CloudShield's CS-2000 platform is designed to help service providers develop custom packet processing applications for emerging content-based services. The company also sees an opportunity with federal government agencies that need to harden their network security.The additional funding came from current investors TPG Ventures,...

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Japan Telecom Market Share Report - Oct 2005

Telecom Market Share Report from  Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications  October 2005 Fixed Communications NTT East 48.7%  NTT West 49.1% Others 2.2% IP Telephony SOFTBANK  43.4% NTT Communications,  24.5%  KDDI,  13.4% Others 18.7% Mobile communications ...

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Netrion

Major industry shift as IBM embraces 10 Gigabit Ethernet in standard based xSeries server lineLeverage IBM's mainframe-inherited technologies Leadership in I/O performance with X3 architecture and PCI-X 2.0IBM first in the industry with:Line-rate 10 Gigabit/sec throughput (PCI-X 2.0)Cross-platform support (Windows, Linux,VMware)Highest bandwidth to customers while preserving Customers investments in EthernetPCI-X 2.0 has more than enough bandwidth to support even the most cutting-edge technologies including 10 Gigabit EthernetFull Hardware Backward...

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Motorola Settles Telsim Issue for $500 Million

Motorola has reached an agreement to settle financial and legal claims against Turkish cellular phone operator Telsim Mobil Telekomunikasyon (Telsim), and the Turkish Savings and Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF).Motorola has settled its claims for a cash payment of $500 million which the company received today plus the right to receive 20% of the proceeds from the sale of Telsim assets over $2.5 billion. Motorola has further agreed to dismiss its litigation against Telsim as well as Motorola's pending demand for arbitration against the Government...

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Vodafone Acquires 10% of India's Bharti

Vodafone will acquire, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, an economic interest of 10% in Bharti Tele-Ventures Limited (BTVL) for a cash consideration equivalent to Rs.66.56 billion (GBP 0.82 billion or US$1.5 billion). The purchase price represents a 7.4% premium to the 5-day average share price of BTVL on 27 October 2005. BTVL is the leading national mobile operator in India, with 14.1 million mobile customers as of 30-Sept-2005, equivalent to a 21.8% customer market share.Vodafone said the deal provides it with a means to expand its footprint...

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Metro Ethernet Forum Issues Asia Pacific Service Provider Awards

Hong Kong's PCCW received the Metro Ethernet Forum's "Best in Business" award and Japan's KVH received the "Outstanding Innovation" award at a ceremony in Beijing at this week's "Ethernet World" event. http://www.MetroEthernetForum....

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Tdsoft and VocalTec to Merge

Tdsoft and VocalTec, both suppliers of VoIP gateways and other packet voice equipment, agreed to merge. Tdsoft's shareholders will be issued VocalTec shares in exchange for all of the share capital of Tdsoft. Following completion of the transaction, the shareholders of Tdsoft will own 75% of the outstanding share capital of VocalTec and the current shareholders of VocalTec will own the remaining 25%. VocalTec will remain a publicly-held company and Tdsoft will become a wholly-owned subsidiary thereof.Following completion of the transaction, Cisco...

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Comcast Launches Amnesty Program in Wash. DC Area

Comcast will implement a cable amnesty program from November 1-14, allowing anyone who is receiving unauthorized cable service in the certain Washington D.C. area communities to turn themselves in and become authorized, paying customers with no questions asked. In 2003, the last time Comcast executed this campaign, the company received more than 8,000 calls and thousands of leads.As part of the amnesty program, residents currently receiving unauthorized cable services may choose to become paying customers over the phone or have the unauthorized...

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MCI Enhances its International Private IP Service

MCI's MPLS-based Private IP service is now available directly from MCI in Kuwait, South Africa, and Turkey and through additional partner agreements in Brazil, China, India and Mexico. Additionally, the service now features Ethernet Access in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK; and adds access via MCI's IP network across Europe, as well as new application awareness features and WAN analysis reporting.Ethernet Access into the MCI MPLS network gives customers additional access flexibility and the adaptability...

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Level 3 and Cogent Reach Peering Agreement

Level 3 Communications and Cogent Communications have agreed on terms to continue to exchange Internet traffic under a modified version of their original peering agreement. The companies said their modified peering arrangement allows for the continued exchange of traffic between their two networks, and includes commitments from each party with respect to the characteristics and volume of traffic to be exchanged. Under the terms of the agreement, the companies have agreed to the settlement-free exchange of traffic subject to specific payments if...

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QUALCOMM Competitors File Anticompetitive Complaints to European Commission

Broadcom, Ericsson, NEC, Nokia, Panasonic Mobile Communications and Texas Instruments have each filed complaints to the European Commission requesting that it investigate anti-competitive conduct by Qualcomm in the licensing of essential patents for 3G mobile technology.The companies state that QUALCOMM is violating EU competition law and failing to meet the commitments Qualcomm made to international standard bodies around the world that it would license its technology on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. Absent these commitments,...

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Stanford Researchers Develop Silicon Germanium Modulator

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a solid-state optical modulator made of silicon and germanium described as a major breakthrough in optoelectronics. The discovery promises a small, low-cost means of converting light beams into data streams on chip at high rates.Conventional wisdom held that a germanium-based modulator was impossible. The key to the discovery was in understanding how the "Stark" effect, which occurs when a strong electric field causes an atom to change a wavelength of light, can be made to work in materials compatible...

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Telecom Italia Readies "Superphone" and IPTV Launch

Telecom Italia and TIM announced plans to launch fixed-line to mobile video-calling and image transfer services beginning in December. Under the "fixed/mobile" packages, Telecom Italia fixed-line videophones and TIM UMTS phones can video call one another.The companies' videophone plus UMTS phone package will be available at rates starting from EUR 199. Starting in November, the companies will also allow customers to make calls at reduced prices between their home phone and three cellphone numbers of their choice and vice versa (Teleconomy Famiglia...

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QUALCOMM Completes CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev A Call

QUALCOMM reached a milestone in the development of CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A networks and handsets -- the completion of an end-to-end call. The Rev. A standard represents the next evolution of the EV-DO technologies that support the 3.1 Mbps forward and 1.8 Mbps reverse link data rates and higher system capacity required for next-generation wireless multimedia. QUALCOMM completed the test calls using equipment based on its Cell Site Modem (CSM) CSM6800 chipset for base stations and the Mobile Station Modem (MSM) MSM6800 chipset for mobile handsets....

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Siemens Invests in GlooLabs for Remote Access to Home Media

Siemens Acceleration in Communications has made an equity investmnet in GlooLabs, a start-up offering software for remote access to multimedia content. GlooLabs' GlooNetT is a Java-based platform that allows digital media stored on a home computer to be accessed remotely through any Internet-enabled computer, mobile phone, or PDA. The funding will allow GlooLabs to expand its product portfolio and ramp-up operations for large scale customer deployments. Siemens said seamless access to personal media and other data has become considerably important...

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BT Outlines IPTV Plans Combining Broadband with Digital Terrestrial

BT outlined its vision for nationwide next generation TV delivered over broadband and incorporating digital terrestrial channels. BT, which previously disclosed plans to use Microsoft TV IPTV Edition, announced its selection of Philips to supply set top boxes. Every set top box will include a personal video recorder (PVR) capable of storing up to 80 hours of programming and capable of delivering High Definition content. BT said its service will be a world first combining access to digital terrestrial channels, an extensive video on demand library,...

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Verizon Adds 389,000 BB Customers, Cites Initial Take-up at FiOS

Verizon Communications reported Q3 oerating revenues of $19.0 billion, up 5.4% on a comparable basis from $18.1 billion last year. Q3 revenues at Verizon Wireless increased 14.2%, or $1.0 billion, to $8.4 billion, year-over-year. Q3 revenues on a comparable basis at Domestic Telecom were $9.4 billion, a 0.7% decrease compared with the third quarter 2004. Domestic Telecom revenues in the third quarter 2005 were flat with the second quarter 2005 on a comparable basis. Some highlights:Wireless:1.9 million net customer additions, up 14.6 percent;...

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Alvarion Cites Growing WiMAX CPE Shipments

Alvarion shipped 5,000 BreezeMAX PRO subscriber units, out of 10,000 ordered, since the WiMAX-compliant device became available in September 2005. Alvarion said the BreezeMAN PRO CPE was designed to 802.16-2004 specs, and that it intends to seek certification from the WiMAX Forum as quickly as possible. http://www.alvarion....

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OPNET Launches WiMAX Model Development Consortium

OPNET Technologies is forming model development consortium focused on WiMAX (802.16). "The purpose of our WiMAX model development consortium is to establish a framework that is shared by leading industry and government organizations," stated Taylor Salman, Director of Business Development for OPNET. "The result will be a powerful simulation modeling suite for WiMAX network planning and design." The consortium is led by OPNET and includes representatives from several leading technology companies, with Motorola participating as a Founding Member....

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DOJ Approves SBC/AT&T and Verizon Mergers with Conditions

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) cleared the pending mergers of SBC/AT&T and Verizon/MCI with a short list of conditions. These include divesting connections to about 350 commercials buildings where each of the telecom giants would have monopolistic control. The Department of Justice said it coordinated with the FCC to investigate objections to the mergers. The DOJ noted that Verizon, Verizon and MCI are the only two firms that own or control a direct wireline connection to hundreds of buildings in the metropolitan areas of Washington-Baltimore;...

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France Telecom Reaches 6.9 Million DSL, 142,000 MaLigne TV, 484,000 VoIP

France Telecom reported Q3 2005 revenues of EUR 12.26 billion, up 3.8% compared to EUR 11.82 billion on an actual basis in Q3 2004. However, the revenue growth was offset by a fall in earnings at TP and on a 7.4% decline in business services, prompting the carrier to cut its outlook for the rest of the year. Some highlights:ADSL: As of 30-Sep-2005, there were 4.0 million customers in France (+61.2% year-on-year) and 2.9 million ADSL customers...

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Alcatel Revenues Rise to EUR 3.289 Billion

Alcatel reported Q3 2005 revenue of EUR 3.289 billion, an increase of 8.8% over the same period last year at a current EUR/USD exchange rate. Operating profit was EUR 278 million, an 8.5% operating margin. Net income (group share) was EUR 266 million, with EPS at EUR 0.19, including EUR 0.07 of net one-time capital gains. However, citing higher investment costs in its mobile division and weaker sales in China, Alcatel trimmed its margin target for the year.Serge Tchuruk, Chairman and CEO, said: "We were particularly pleased to see our fixed communication...

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