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Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Deutsche Telekom Posts Contiued Decline in Home Market, Growth Abroad
Deutsche Telekom reported its 2006 results. Two key trends stood out: in Germany, intense competition was met with a major drop in prices; meanwhile, significant growth continued in the company's international business.Overall, net revenue increased by 2.9 percent year-on-year to EUR 61.3 billion. Based on adjusted net profit of EUR 3.9 billion and free cash flow (excluding the investment in Mobile Communications spectrum in the United States) of EUR 5.7 billion, the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board will propose a dividend of EUR...
Deutsche Telekom Renews Focus on Broadband and Mobile Internet
Deutsche Telekom will center is long-term strategy on broadband services and the mobile Internet, said company CEO René Obermann, speaking at a press conference in Bonn. Key points of the strategy include:Simplifying the company's branding. T-Home will offer services for the home and T-Mobile for on the move. The new brand portfolio will be rounded off in Germany with a second brand comprising mobile communications and DSL offerings specifically...
Cisco Teams with NTT DoCoMo Dual-Mode IP Telephony Solution
Cisco will provide a dual-mode IP telephony solution matched to NTT DoCoMo's N902iL FOMA / wireless LAN dual-mode mobile phone and 3G network.The SIP-based solution will leverage the Cisco Unified CallManager and the Cisco Unified Wireless Network to extend rich office IP communications capabilities to NTT DoCoMo dual-mode mobile handset.When connected to the Cisco Unified Wireless Network in the office environment, employees will be able to place, receive, hold and forward calls just as they would from a desktop IP phone. Additionally, employees...
PMC-Sierra Appoints Former Wind River Exec as CFO
PMC-Sierra named Michael W. Zellner as vice president, chief financial officer (CFO). Prior to this appointment, Mr. Zellner was senior vice president of finance and administration and chief financial officer at Wind River Systems, Inc., a device software solutions provider to the electronics industry. Prior to Wind River, Mr. Zellner was senior director of finance at Applied Materials, Inc. where he was responsible for two separate business units with revenues in excess of $1 billion. http://www.pmc-sierra....
Zarlink Releases Single-Chip Gigabit Ethernet Line Card Synchronizer
Zarlink Semiconductor expanded its family of Synchronous Ethernet timing solutions with a new single-chip Gigabit Ethernet line card synchronizer. The new chip provides timing and synchronization for Ethernet line cards in next-generation networking equipment supporting circuit services over IP-based architectures. The device integrates independent analog and digital PLLs, the device synchronizes with standard telecom and Ethernet clocks, and generates an IEEE 802.3 jitter compliant 25 MHz Gigabit Ethernet output clock. "Synchronous Ethernet is...
U.S. Fiber Subscribers to reach 18 million by 2011
The number of U.S. households subscribing to FTTx (fiber connections) will increase from three million in 2007 to 18 million by the end of 2011, according to a new report from Parks Associates."FTTx and BPL: Analysis and Outlook" analyzes the market trends and significant events that will impact FTTx and BPL deployments over the next five years. It also addresses the consumer and competitive pressures that will influence these methods, the economics associated with the deployment of these technologies, and the opportunities FTTx and BPL provides...
Huawei Records 28 New UMTS/HSPA contracts in 2006
Huawei Technologies signed 28 new UMTS/HSPA contracts in 2006, giving it a total of 47 such projects worldwide. The company reckons it is now one of the top three players in this space.http://www.huawei....
FCC Clarifies VoIP-PSTN Interconnection Rules
The FCC granted a petition from Time Warner petition that clarifies rules of how voice traffic can be exchanged between broadband providers and the PSTN. By granting the petition, the FCC affirmed that competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) are entitled to interconnect with incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) pursuant to section 251 of the Telecommunications Act for the purpose of exchanging traffic on behalf of VoIP-based service providers.FCC...
Tundra Posts Revenues of $21.7 Million, Partners with Enea
Tundra Semiconductor reported revenue $21.7 million for its third quarter of fiscal 2007, a 16% increase over the third quarter in fiscal year 2006, and a 1% decrease from the second quarter of fiscal year 2007. Pro forma earnings of $3.0 million represent a 34% increase compared to the third quarter of fiscal year 2006, and a 26% increase over the second quarter of fiscal year 2007. Pro forma diluted earnings per share of $0.15 were at the top of range of the company's per share earnings guidance for the quarter of $0.11 to $0.15. GAAP earnings...
FOX to Offer On-Demand Downloads via Affiliate Websites
Fox Broadcasting Company (FOX) unveiled a plan to offer its television programming to its affiliate Web sites, enabling more than 200 broadcast network affiliates to offer their local viewers the ability to watch or buy FOX's top shows. Fox will share both transactional and advertising revenues with the local affiliates.Programming will be delivered via "FOX on Demand," the company's leading video distribution platform. To date, "FOX on Demand" has offered an ad-supported, streaming-only platform; now, it will enable visitors to purchase television...
OPNET Awarded Additional NETWARS Contract
OPNET Technologies was awarded a two-year sole-source contract to continue to work as prime contractor on the U.S. Department of Defense's Network Warfare Simulation (NETWARS) program. NETWARS is a software application for analyzing defense-related network communications.OPNET said it was awarded $2.1 million for the first year of the new contract. Since NETWARS program inception, OPNET funding to date has totaled $22.3 million.The NETWARS project is part of the DoD's vision for achieving information superiority by optimizing military communications...
California Approves State-wide Video Franchising
The California Public Utilities Commission unanimously approved rules for the state's new video-franchising process. The new rules, mandated by the California Digital Infrastructure and Cable Competition Act of 2006, streamline the video-franchise process and open the cable TV market to new competitors.The PUC's decision allows video service providers to seek one video franchise for operating in multiple regions.Verizon immediately announced its intent to file its first state-issued video franchise application under California's new law. http:...
Siemens Selects Verizon Business for Global MPLS
Siemens has awarded a global networking services contract to Verizon Business. Financial terms were not disclosed.Under the deal, Verizon will provide Private IP service to support the Siemens corporate network, which carries all of the company's business-critical applications as well as VoIP, SAP and e-mail applications.Verizon Business is one of only three certified providers supporting Siemens' global network and is currently charged with the deployment of network services to several newly opened Siemens enterprise locations in Europe and the...
Arianespace Replaces Sea Launch for Hughes' SPACEWAY 3 Broadband Satellite
Arianespace was selected to launch the SPACEWAY 3 communications satellite for Hughes from the Guiana Space Center in August 2007.Hughes Network Systems will operate the all Ka-band SPACEWAY 3 satellite as part of its new broadband satellite network that will provide multimedia services throughout North America. SPACEWAY 3 will combine on-board switching and spot beams to enable on-demand services. The satellite is being built by Boeing Satellites Systems. http://www.arianespace.comIn December 2005, Hughes Network System (HNS) awarded a launch...
Verizon to Repurchase up to 100 Million Shares
Verizon Communications' Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to 100 million shares of its common stock. The board also determined that no additional shares may be acquired under a previously approved program to repurchase up to 100 million shares. Under the previous program, which was due to end Feb. 28, 2008, approval remained to purchase approximately 43 million shares.Approximately 2.9 billion shares of Verizon common stock are outstanding. http://www.verizon....
Verizon Argues Universal Service Phone Subsidy Too Costly
The Universal Service Phone Subsidy system is broken because it has failed to adapt to the changing marketplace, said Tom Tauke, Verizon executive vice president for public affairs, testifying before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.While the price of basic telecommunications service has gone down, the percentage rate of the surcharge on phone bills has gone up, said Tauke. In the last eight years, he explained, the cost of the program that provides subsidies in parts of the country that are expensive to serve has grown...
Comcast Reaches 2 Millionth Digital Voice Customers
Comcast has surpassed the two million-customer milestone for its Digital Voice home phone service.Comcast said reaching the two million Digital Voice milestone underscores the record growth it continues to experience as it aggressively rolls out its Triple Play package of services. http://www.comcast....
