Cable & Wireless Implements MetaSolv for OSS Upgrade

Cable & Wireless has selected MetaSolv for its IP and next-generation OSS transformation. The multi-million dollar agreement provides Cable & Wireless with an integrated next-generation platform for activation, provisioning and configuration management across all service domains. Financial terms were not disclosed.The agreement includes MetaSolv Activation 5, a next generation activation platform that provides activation across all service domains, and MetaSolv Provisioning 5, a next generation back office provisioning platform that manages...

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Riverbed Rises 57% in IPO

Riverbed Technology completed its initial public offering (IPO), floating 8.7 million shares of its common stock at a price of $9.75 per share. In its opening day, the Riverbed shares (Nasdaq:RVBD) rose 57% to close at $15.30.Goldman, Sachs & Co. acted as sole book-running manager, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank Securities acted as joint lead managers, and Thomas Weisel Partners LLC acted as co-manager for the offering.http://www.riverbed.comLast...

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WiMAX Spectrum Owners Alliance Sets Charter

A newly formed WiMAX Spectrum Owners Alliance (WiSOA) held its inaugural meeting in Paris and announced its intention to sign the first international WiMAX roaming agreement in December. This roaming agreement will cover all WiMAX services and operate in all WiMAX frequency ranges. The agreement will act as the backbone of a future global WiMAX network and adheres to the 802.16e standards. The importance of global roaming has been proven with GSM. Today there are 25,000 roaming agreements worldwide generating over $25 billion in revenue every year.The...

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AT&T To Bring 2,000 Outsourced DSL Tech Support Jobs In-House

AT&T announced plans to add approximately 2,000 previously outsourced technical support jobs to the AT&T payroll. The jobs - which have been outsourced both domestically and overseas - are related to supporting AT&T's DSL customers who self-install their service or have other basic questions about the service.The company is currently assessing where to locate the jobs, which will be added to the AT&T payroll by the end of 2008.The DSL jobs are the second group of jobs that the company and theunion have agreed to create in recent...

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Cablevision's Monthly ARPU at $109.01

Cablevision's net revenue for the second quarter of 2006 grew 15.6% to more than $1.4 billion compared to the prior year period, while operating income grew 75.1% to $166.5 million and adjusted operating cash flow increased 17.5% to $469.9 million. Some operational highlights include:Quarterly Revenue Generating Unit (RGU) growth of more than 385,000 new video, high-speed data and voice units; the Company's highest second quarter RGU gain everNinth consecutive quarter of basic video subscriber gainsCable Television net revenue growth of 17.9%...

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Neuf Cegetel to Acquire AOL France for EUR 288 Million

Neuf Cegetel agreed to acquire AOL's French Internet access business, including 500,000 broadband customers, and its AMSE operation, which manages AOL France's customer service operations (500 people), for EUR 288 million. Under the deal, AOL will provide audience services and manage the online advertising sales for Neuf Cegetel's Internet portal audience on www.neufportail.fr and www.cegetelportail.fr as well as www.aol.fr, which together total...

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Alcatel OmniPCX to Support Nokia Eseries Business Devices

Alcatel and Nokia announced a collaboration which extends Alcatel's business telephony offering to the mobile workforce by way of the Nokia Eseries, a range of business class devices. The Intellisync Call Connect for Alcatel, is a Nokia offering designed to integrate Nokia Eseries devices into the Alcatel IP Communication server. With the solution, popular desk phone functionalities are available to the mobile user. For example, employees manage just one business number, and control where and when and on which device they receive their calls. Additionally,...

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Nokia Embeds Microsoft's Live Search Services Into Mobile Search Platform

Nokia plans to integrate Microsoft's Live Search capabilities into its Mobile Search platform, thus enabling consumers access to Live Search directly from their Nokia Nseries multimedia computers and other compatible Nokia S60 devices. Live Search will provide advanced web search results in 14 languages to enable on-the-go access to the information and content consumers want most.Specifically, the Mobile Search application is expected to be available in select markets in the standard sales packs of the Nokia N80 Internet Edition, Nokia N73, Nokia...

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JDSU Announces 1-for-8 Reverse Stock Split

The Board of Directors of JDSU approved a 1-for-8 reverse split of its common stock, following approval by the company's stockholders on December 1, 2005. The reverse stock split will be effective at on Monday, October 16, 2006. JDSU's common stock will begin trading on the NASDAQ on a split adjusted basis when the market opens on Tuesday, October 17, 2006, under the temporary trading symbol "JDSUD". The trading symbol will revert to "JDSU" after approximately twenty trading days.JDSU said the reverse stock split is intended to enhance investors'...

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TI to Repurchase Additional $5 Billion in Stock, Increase Dividend

The Board of Directors of Texas Instruments (TI) has authorized the company to repurchase an additional $5 billion of its common stock. TI plans to repurchase shares at times and prices considered appropriate by the company. When combined with other previously announced buyback plans, the total outstanding share repurchase authorization is now $6.8 billion. Including today's announcement, the Board has authorized the repurchase of $15 billion of stock since September 2004. Over this period, the company has reduced the number of its shares outstanding...

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Mobile Phone Companies Commit to Environmental Action Plan

A group of mobile manufacturers, network operators, suppliers, recyclers, consumer and environmental organisations, led by Nokia, has committed to improve the environmental performance of mobile phones and to do more to raise consumer awareness and participation in take-back and recycling. Key points of the initiative include:Reducing energy consumption of mobile phones. One idea is to equip phones with reminders to unplug chargers once the battery is recharged. Nokia plans to have these alerts in new phones by the middle of next year.Eliminating...

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Ikanos Debuts VDSL2 Residential Gateway

Ikanos Communications introduced a fully integrated VDSL2 residential gateway reference platform for universal customer premises equipment (CPE) to support triple play applications. The VDSL2 residential gateway design integrates the Ikanos' Fusiv processor with its Fx100100S-5 chipset into a single solution that delivers 100 Mbps symmetrical throughput. Capabilities include VDSL2, ADSL2+, VoIP, Wireless Local Area Networking (WLAN), Ethernet switching,...

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Verizon Marks One Year Anniversary of FiOS TV

Verizon marked the first anniversary of its fiber-optic FiOS TV service this week. The service was launched Keller, Texas, on Sept. 22, 2005, and now serves more than 80 communities in North Texas, California, Florida, Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts and New York. Verizon expects to begin providing FiOS TV service in Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey in the coming months, and it will expand deployment in the states where FiOS TV already is available. Verizon this week also announced it will offer FiOS TV in Fort Wayne, Ind., in 2007.FiOS...

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Iridium Satellite Names ex-Telcordia Exec as CEO

Iridium Satellite named Matthew J. Desch, 48, as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company, replacing Dan Colussy. Desch was most recently CEO of New Jersey-based Telcordia Technologies, Inc., a supplier of software and services to the telecommunications industry. Desch was instrumental in moving Telcordia into new wireless and international markets, and spinning off the company to private equity from SAIC, Inc. Prior to Telcordia, Desch spent 13 years at Nortel Networks, leaving in 2000 as President, Global Service Providers and...

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