Sprint Nextel Terminates Clearwire Deal, Reviews WiMAX Rollout Plans

Sprint Nextel and Clearwire terminated their agreement signed in July 2007 to jointly build a nationwide mobile broadband network using WiMAX technology and to promote the global development of WiMAX-based services. The partnership aimed at reducing the cost of network construction and at accelerating the rollout of a nationwide 4G service. The two companies said they could not resolve complexities associated with the deal and failed to reach final...

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Mformation: Two-thirds of Businesses Would Switch Mobile Operators for MDM

Faced with a growing mobile workforce, a rapidly growing range of feature-phones and smartphones, and an increasing demand for enterprise application mobility, a recent survey of CIOs from top 500 enterprises shows that businesses are looking to their mobile operator partners to provide tools and services to help them control, secure, and manage mobile devices in the same way they manage other IT assets. The survey, which was conducted by Coleman...

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Orange Business Awarded Long Distance License in Russia

Orange Business Services is set to win a long distance phone license in Russia. With this new license, Orange Business Services said it will be well positioned to provide large and medium-sized businesses with international and national long-distance services throughout the country, starting early 2008. Over the past two years, Orange installed its long-distance voice infrastructure in Russia. Over US $200 million (approximately EUR136 million) have been invested to create our next-generation MPLS-based IP backbone network in the country.The final...

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French Carriers and Banks Launch Mobile Payments Trial

Six major French banks (BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole and LCL, Crédit Mutuel-CIC, Groupe Caisse d'Epargne, La Banque Postale and Société Générale) as well as four mobile operators (Bouygues Telecom, NRJ Mobile, Orange and SFR) are launching a major field trial of mobile contactless payment services. The trial initially involves 1,000 customers and 200 sales outlets located in the cities of Caen and Strasbourg.The field trial will serve to evaluate users' interest in this new payment solution and to test the interoperability among solutions provided...

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Verizon Business Awarded GSA Contract for D.C. Area Services

The U.S. General Services Administration awarded Verizon Business a Washington Interagency Telecommunications System (WITS 3) contract under which Washington D.C.-area federal government agencies can obtain a broad array of local telecommunications services and products.The WITS 3 contract, which includes a four-year term with four one-year optional extensions, is valued at as much as $1.8 billion if all extension options are exercised. The WITS...

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Level 3 Awarded GSA Contract for D.C. Area Services

The U. S. General Services Administration (GSA) awarded a Washington Interagency Telecommunications System (WITS 3) contract to provide communications services for all federal agencies and other authorized users in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. The Federal contract allows Level 3 to bid on business issued by all Federal government agencies representing approximately 800,000 federal users. Level 3 said it is one of two companies that were awarded the base four-year contract, with four additional one-year options. This contract gives Level...

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Telecom Argentina Reaches 11.7 million Mobile (+35%), 677K Broadband Subscribers

Telecom Argentina posted net income of P$614 million for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2007. During the first nine months, consolidated net revenues increased 24% (+P$1,273 million vs. 9M06) to P$6,515 million, mainly fueled by the cellular and broadband businesses.During 9M07, revenues from broadband grew 22% vs. 9M06 to P$384 million. Moreover, Telecom's ADSL subscribers reached 677,000 (+302,000 or +81% vs. 9M06). Lines with ADSL now account for approximately 16% of Telecom's lines in service.Telecom Argentina's Cellular Telephony...

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