Pacific Crossing Selects Fujitsu to Upgrade Cable

Pacific Crossing Limited (PCL) has awarded a contract to Fujitsu to increase the transmission capacity of its trans-Pacific submarine cable network (PC-1 Network). The PC-1 network is PCL's 21,000 km fiber optic system which links the U.S. and Japan. Fujitsu will upgrade the PC-1 network adding an additional 200 Gbps of capacity on each of the four segments of the trans-Pacific network. Fujitsu said the turn-key deal carries an option for an additional...

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MTC Kuwait Selects Nokia Siemens Networks

MTC Kuwait, a leading mobile operators in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, selected Nokia Siemens Networks for a new Charge@Once Select platform. This will be the first deployment worldwide, scheduled to be installed by Q4 2007. Financial terms were not disclosed.Additionally, Nokia Siemens Networks has been appointed to modernize MTC Kuwait's core network with its mobile soft switching technology for 2G and 3G, by Q2 2008. Mobile soft switches bring considerable savings in operating expenditure for voice and enable new advanced services...

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Illiad Offers 100/50 Mbps Service in Paris for EUR 30

Beginning in mid-September, The Illiad Group's "Free" network will begin its FTTH service to eligible homes in Paris. The EUR 29.99 per month package includes:Internet access at 100 Mbps downstream and 50 Mbps upstreamFree access to a landlineUnlimited calling to 49 destinations, including mainland France, except special numbersAccess to more than 100 audio and video channels, including HDProvision of two optical Freebox units for these video services....

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BT Retail Reaches Four Million Broadband Lines

BT Retail now serves four million broadband lines, making it the most popular broadband supplier in the UK. The last million customers have been added in ten months.BT noted that more than 99.8 percent of UK homes can access broadband and more than half of these homes have now taken up the service. There are more than 15 million connections in the UK with approximately 11.5m of those running over BT's DSL network. The rest are carried viacable networks....

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