Verizon Business Readies for Networx Universal

Verizon Business has officially unveiled a suite of services and capabilities available to federal government agencies under the multibillion-dollar Networx Universal contract awarded by the U.S. General Services Administration on March 29. Last week Verizon Business met with representatives from federal agencies that soon will begin submitting orders under Networx Universal.Networx Universal is the first of two Networx contracts awarded by the GSA to modernize federal government communications with seamless, secure and interoperable services...

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Alcatel-Lucent Revenues Decline 8% Year over Year

Alcatel-Lucent's Q1 2007 revenues were down 8% year over year at constant EUR/USD exchange rate at EUR 3.882 billion. The reported gross profit was Euro 1,127 million and reported operating loss was EUR (582) million, including the impact from purchase price allocation entries of EUR (338) million. For the quarter, reported net income (group share) was EUR (8) million or EUR 0.00 per diluted share (USD (0.01) per ADS).Alcatel-Lucent cited lower sales volumes in wireless and core networks, but noted good momentum building in its order flow resulting...

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BT Kicks Off National IPTV Campaign

BT launched a multi-million pound campaign to promote its digital TV service under the theme "TV on your terms". The TV slots are supported by a nationwide BT Vision poster campaign across billboards and bus sides, including a specially created execution for the Clapham Colossus at Clapham Junction -- at 200ft, the largest backlit poster site in Europe.BT Vision is enabled by the V-box, an HD-ready television set-top box which connects to BT Broadband...

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NTT Reaches 6 Million Optical Access Subscribers

NTT continues to aggressively add B-FLETs optical access lines while ADSL and narrowband lines continue to decline. As of 31-Mar-2007, NTT East was serving 3.4 million optical access lines and NTT West was serving 2.7 million optical access lines, giving a combined total of over 6 million B-FLETs lines in service, up from 3.4 million a year earlier. NTT expects to add another 3.4 million optical lines in the next year, by which time the number...

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