Huawei Supplies EPON in Shanghai

Huawei has supplied its EPON OLTs in Shanghai's Jiading Industrial Park. The equipment is being used for delivering broadband dedicated lines and high-speed Internet services to subscribers in the park. The OLT is located in the operator's existing equipment room and optical splitters are place throughout the industrial park. Huawei's OLT provides up to 1:64 branching ratio to access 3,584 subscribers simultaneously. An MPLS kernel supports multiple services, including voice, IPTV, CATV and data. Huawei said it plans to increase the EPON capacity...

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NTT DoCoMo Expands 3G Roaming and Videophone Services

NTT DoCoMo announced the European and Asian expansion of its FOMA 3G international roaming and videophone services. DoCoMo has added the following operators to its roaming partners in the countries where DoCoMo is already providing roaming services.3G Voice Communications and SMSKTF (Korea)Smartone (Hong Kong)Sonera (Finland)TIM (Italy)3G Packet Communication ServiceKTF (Korea)Smartone (Hong Kong)Sonera (Finland)TIM (Italy)3G Videophone ServiceSmartone (Hong Kong)T-Mobile Deutschland (Germany)TIM (Italy)The roaming services are available for users...

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Ericsson Acquires Teleca OSS

Ericsson has acquired Teleca OSS, a Swedish company specializing in systems integration in the area of telecom management. Teleca OSS, which is a subsidiary to the Swedish company Teleca, provides service assurance, network management and operator charging solutions to large network operators in the Nordic and Baltic region. The company has around 40 employees. Ericsson said the acquisition would strengthen its services business. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.ericsson....

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BT Selects Cardiff as First Site for 21CN

BT selected the city of Cardiff as the first deployment site for its 21st Century Network (21CN). The migration of customer lines to the new infrastructure is expected to begin during the second half of 2006. BT plans to migrate around 350,000 customer lines in the area, including many served by other telephone and internet service providers and mobile operators. The deployment will require the replacement of equipment in more than 50 local exchanges and the implementation of new IT systems to underpin the delivery of services to customers. Three...

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Digital Mobile TV (DVB-H) Pilot Planned in Spain

Abertis Telecom, Nokia and Telefónica Móviles España are starting a mobile TV pilot using Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) technology. The pilot, which will take place in Madrid and Barcelona between September 2005 and February 2006, will deliver content from major regional and local channels to Nokia 7710 smartphones equipped with a special accessory to receive mobile TV broadcasts. The mobile phones feature a wide color touch-screen (640 x 320 pixels) and stereo music player, enabling users to take part in program related interactive...

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Alcatel Supplies DSL in Poland

Alcatel was awarded a contract to supply its 7301 Advanced Services Access Manager (ASAM)TELEKOMUNIKACJA POLSKA (TP), Poland's incumbent telecommunications provider. The value of the contract is EUR 6 million and the equipment should be operational by the end of 2005. http://www.alcatel.com http://www.telekomunikacja...

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