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Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Deutsche Telekom Chases International Growth
Deutsche Telekom reported significant revenue growth in its international markets during the first half of 2007 and said that cost cutting measures within Germany are taking effect. Deutsche Telekom now generates over half of its revenue outside Germany. Some highlights:Overall, net revenue increased by 3.5 percent year-on-year to EUR 31 billion in the first six months of the year. At EUR 2.3 billion, free cash flow in the first half of the year...
T-Systems Invests in LiteScape for Unified Communications
T-Systems Venture Fund has invested in LiteScape Technologies, a developer of Unified Communications applications. LiteScape's flagship product, OnCast, provides voice, conferencing, broadcasting, collaboration capabilities between IP phones, PCs and mobile devices. It integrates IP telephony systems with business applications from leading vendors including Cisco, WebEx, Asterisk, Avaya, IBM/Lotus, Microsoft, Polycom and Salesforce.com.The funding round was led by Vedanta Capital. LiteScape's existing investors - Softbank Capital, TeleSoft Partners,...
DirecTV US Reaches 16.3 Million, ARPU at $76.43
The DIRECTV Group reported Q2 revenue of $4.14 billion, up 17% year over year, operating profit of $740 million, and net income of $448 million. Earnings per share were $0.37 compared with $0.36 in the same period last year. Some highlights:There was nearly 7% increase in ARPU to $76.43 due in large part to approximately 50% more high definition (HD) and digital video recorder (DVR) customers in the quarter. Gross subscriber additions were 900,000 and net subscriber additions were 128,000 for DIRECTV U.S. The monthly churn rate for DIRECTV U.S....
Limelight Posts Q2, Stock Tumbles
Limelight Networks, a leading content delivery network, reported GAAP revenue of $21.2 million and non-GAAP revenue of $24.7 million, representing growth of 43% and 67%, respectively, over the $14.8 million of revenue the company reported in second quarter of 2006. The company reported a second quarter GAAP loss per diluted share of $(0.23) and non-GAAP earnings per diluted share of $0.00. Limelight note that it has increased total network egress to a capacity of approximately 1.4 terabits per second.On Thursday, shares in Limelight fell $5.81...
Vodafone Joins the WiMAX Forum
Vodafone has become a principal member of the WiMAX Forum."Our membership of the WiMAX Forum will complement our existing memberships of other key industry bodies such as the GSMA, 3GPP and the Next Generation Mobile Network initiative," said Steve Pusey, Global Chief Technology Officer, Vodafone. http://www.wimaxforum....
RCN to Use deltathree's Hosted Consumer VoIP
deltathree announced a contract to provide RCN with a private-label consumer VoIP solution, enabling RCN to significantly expand its phone service beyond RCN's current serviceable areas within New York, Boston, Chicago, Eastern Pennsylvania and metro Washington, D.C.Specifically, RCN will offer a VoIP phone service implemented via deltathree's Hosted Consumer VoIP solution to supplement its current high-quality, switched-based domestic and international phone services. In addition to providing RCN customers with a comprehensive array of service...
Global Crossing Records Q2 Revenue of $547 million, up 19% YoY
Global Crossing reported $547 million of consolidated revenue, $266 million of adjusted gross margin and $8 million of adjusted cash EBITDA for the second quarter. "Through continued sales success and management's actions in the second quarter, our business is gaining momentum, as reflected in our improved financial performance worldwide," said John Legere, Global Crossing's chief executive officer. "The acquisitions of Impsat and Fibernet contributed as we anticipated during the quarter, giving us a glimpse into the full-blown synergies we'll...
Intune Raises US$17.75 Million
Intune Networks, a start-up based in Dublin, Ireland, raised US$17.75 million. The company designs, develops and manufactures networking equipment for the global telecommunications industry. Intune has been shipping products based on its core tunable laser technology since 1999 into a variety of industries.The new funding from a consortium of international investors consisting of Amadeus Capital Partners, Balderton Capital (formerly known as Benchmark Capital Europe) and Spark Capital. http://www.intunenetworks.c...
Motorola Supplies 26-Channel MPEG-4 AVC Encoding for HBO
Motorola will implement a 26-channel, high-definition (HD) MPEG-4 AVC encoding system for Home Box Office (HBO). The system compresses, encrypts, modulates, and receives the HD signals within a single integrated transmission system to allow HBO to expand its HD offerings to subscribers. Motorola said its new multi-format Integrated Receiver/Decoder (IRD) will deliver HD channels in both MPEG-4/AVC and MPEG-2 formats. Financial terms were not disclosed."HBO has a long history of delivering great programming in the highest quality and just as we...
Amdocs Announces $400 Million Share Repurchase Plan
Amdocs' board of directors has authorized a share repurchase plan allowing the repurchase of up to $400 million of its outstanding ordinary shares in open market or privately negotiated transactions at times and prices considered appropriate by the company. http://www.amdocs....
XO Posts Q2 Revenue $352.9 Million, up 1%
XO Holdings reported Q2 revenue of $352.9 million, $21.8 million of adjusted EBITDA and a net loss of $36.8 million. XOH operates two business segments, XO Communications, its nationwide wireline telecommunications business, and Nextlink Wireless, its wireless business. Some highlights:At XO Communications, data and IP Services revenue grew 18% compared to same period last year and 6% compared to previous quarter.Revenue from XOptions Flex, XO Communications'...
Sonus Announces Changes to VP of Sales
Sonus Networks announced the appointment of Mohammed Shanableh as interim vice president, worldwide sales, replacing Jim Collier. Shanableh was previously the company's vice president, worldwide sales engineering.http://www.sonusnet.c...
Blockbuster Acquires Movielink, Content Agreements With Major Studios
Blockbuster has acquired Movielink, a leading movie download service backed by major Hollywood studios, for an undisclosed sum. Movielink was founded in 2002 as a joint venture of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. Studios. The acquisition of Movielink, which has VOD and EST license agreements with the five founding studios, as well as more than 30 other studios,...
