France Telecom Reaches 8.5 Million DSL Users, 306,000 IPTV Customers

Citing very rapid growth in consumer DSL services, France Telecom Group reported revenue of EUR 25.86 billion to 30-June-2006, representing a growth of 9.3% on an historical basis and 1.4% on a comparable basis. The gross operating margin was 9.47 billion EURs. Some highlights:The total number of customers served by France Telecom companies reached 88.7 million, up by 32.8% year-over-year on a historical basis and 14.8% on a comparable basis.Traditional fixed line services and narrowband services continue to decline. Total revenue from fixed...

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Alcatel Post Q2 Revenue of EUR 3.4 Billion, up 7.6%

Alcatel reported Q2 revenue of EUR 3,384 million, up 7.6% year-over-year. Operating profit was EUR 263 million, a 7.8% operating marginand net income (group share) was EUR 180 million, representing earnings per share or EUR 0.13.Some highlights:During Q2, Alcatel shipped a record 6.7 million DSL linesQ2 gross margin was 33.6%, down from 35.6% a year earlier.The IP data business once again recorded significant growth, with new contract wins in the...

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RadiSys to Acquire Convedia

RadiSys agreed to acquire privately-held Convedia Corporation, a leader in IP media processing technologies and IP Media Server products, for $105 million in cash, subject to certain adjustments, plus an earnout of up to $10 million if Convedia achieves certain profitability goals over the next year.Convedia claims over 200 customers worldwide, including 25 of the top 50 global telecommunication service providers, and many Fortune 500 and enterprise customers. Convedia's family of media servers enable fixed, mobile and cable service providers...

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Time Warner Telecom to Acquire Xspedius for Metro Fiber in 75 Markets

Time Warner Telecom agreed to acquire Xspedius Communications, a privately held company which provides telecommunications services to businesses across the U.S., $531.5 million, consisting of $212.5 million in cash and $319 million in shares of Time Warner Telecom's Class A Common Stock.Xspedius is a metro fiber-based provider of integrated communications services primarily to enterprise businesses as well as carrier customers. Its services include metro Ethernet, local and long distance voice, data and dedicated Internet access services, in 43...

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InterCall to Deploy Convedia Media Servers

InterCall, a subsidiary of West Corporation and a leading provider of outsourced communication solutions, will deploy Convedia's CMS-6000 and CMS-1000 Media Servers. West Corporation is an established leader in customer contact services and offers a suite of integrated communication services to Fortune 1000 companies.Advanced reservationless conferencing and collaboration services developed by West Corporation's application development teams will use Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Media Server Markup Language (MSML) protocols to integrate...

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Conexant Posts Revenue of $251.6 million, up 27%

Conexant Systems reported revenues of $251.6 million for its third fiscal quarter of 2006, which ended 30-June-2006. up 3.7 percent from second quarter fiscal 2006 revenues of $242.6 million, in line with prior expectations of a 3 to 5 percent sequential increase and up 27.4 percent from $197.5 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2005. Core gross margins in the third quarter of fiscal 2006 increased to 45.2 percent of revenues, up 170 basis points from 43.5 percent in the immediate-prior quarter and above prior expectations of approximately...

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Tellabs Reports Revenue of $549 million, up 19%

Tellabs reported Q2 revenue of $549 million, up 19% from $463 million in the second quarter of 2005. On a GAAP basis, Tellabs earned $54 million or 12 cents per share in the second quarter of 2006, up 30% from $41 million or 9 cents per share in the second quarter of 2005.Broadband -- Revenue from the broadband segment totaled $298 million, up 20% from $248 million in the second quarter of 2005. Within the broadband segment, access revenue rose 32% to a record $190 million from $143 million in the second quarter of 2005. Managed access revenue...

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Comcast Reports Surging Demand for Digital Services

Comcast reported record quarterly results, driven by surging consumer demand for new digital features including ON DEMAND, digital video recorders (DVR) and HDTV programming.Some highlights:Comcast added 305,000 high-speed Internet subscribers during the quarter. High-Speed Internet revenues increased 22% to $1.2 billion in the second quarter of 2006, reflecting a 1.6 million or 20% increase in subscribers from the prior year and stable average monthly revenue per subscriber. Comcast ended the second quarter of 2006 with 9.3 million high-speed...

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Nokia Launches Public UMA Pilot in Finland

Nokia has launched a public Unlicensed Mobile Access pilot over Wireless LAN in the city of Oulu, Finland. The trial, which is slated to last at least two months, tracks 50 families that have been supplied with Nokia 6136 mobile devices with UMA capabilities. UMA technology makes it possible for users to seamlessly roam and handover between local area networks and wide area networks using the same dual-mode device. Instead of constantly communicating with a base station, UMA allows the phone to also make calls through WLAN internet networks....

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BellSouth to Market TiVo DVRs to DSL Customers

BellSouth will co-market the stand-alone TiVo Series2 box and service in conjunction with BellSouth FastAccess DSL.Through the agreement with TiVo, select BellSouth FastAccess DSL subscribers will receive special pricing on the TiVo box and service. These customers can further enhance their already reliable, high-speed Internet service with TiVo's broadband applications, including online scheduling, TiVoToGo transfers, TiVo Guru Guide recommendations, streaming radio, movie browsing, and TiVo's easy-to-use Home Media features.http://www.bellso...

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BT Reaches 8.7 Million Broadband Users

BT reported quarterly revenue of 4,864 million pounds Sterling, up 3 percent, a profit of 639 million pounds, up 24 percent, and earnings per share 5.8 pence, up 26 percent over last year, before special items. Revenue has now increased for ten consecutive quarters. Some highlights from the quarter:BT had 8.7 million wholesale broadband connections at June 30, 2006, including 580,000 local loop unbundled lines, an increase of 2.9 million connections year on year and 535,000 connections in the quarter. The definition of broadband connections has...

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NETGEAR to Acquire SkipJam for Home Entertainment and Control

NETGEAR agreed to acquire SkipJam Corp., a developer of software for home entertainment and control, for $9 million in cash.SkipJam was founded in 2002 and is based in Port Chester, New York. Upon close of the acquisition, SkipJam's engineering team will be integrated into the NETGEAR engineering organization with Michael Spilo, CEO of SkipJam, becoming NETGEAR's VP of Engineering for Multimedia Products. SkipJam's technology will form the basis of future NETGEAR multimedia products, including media centers, media players, and audio players, builds...

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NEC, Matsushita and TI form Joint Venture for 3G/3.5G

NEC, NEC Electronics Corp., Matsushita, Panasonic Mobile Communications and Texas Instruments will establish a new joint venture company to conduct global development, design, and technology licensing for a hardware and software communications platform to manage the core communications functions for mobile handsets for 3G/3.5G and beyond.The new company, Adcore-Tech, will be based in Yokosuka, Japan and have 180 employees initially. The five companies will jointly invest 12.0 billion yen in the new joint venture, with approximately 44 percent...

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XM Satellite Radio Surpasses 7 Million Subscribers

XM Satellite Radio has passed the 7 million subscriber mark.http://www.xmradio....

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Verizon Selects Alcatel, Motorola and Tellabs for GPON

Verizon has selected Alcatel, Motorola and Tellabs as GPON suppliers for its FTTP network. Later this year, Verizon will begin deploying the Alcatel equipment first, to be followed by Motorola and Tellabs. This is subject to finalizing definitive agreements.Both Motorola and Tellabs are currently supplying BPON equipment for Verizon's rollout in 16 states."G-PON is the next step in the evolution of the all-fiber-access network," said Paul Lacouture,...

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