Huawei Wins WiMAX 16e Project with Pakistan's Mobilink

Pakistan's Mobilink, the nation's largest GSM operator and a subsidiary of Orascom Telecom, has selected Huawei Technologies, to deploy a commercial WiMAX 16e network. The network will cover central business districts and hot spots in the country' s six major cities, including Islamabad, Karachi, Sialkot, Faisalabad, Lahore and Rawalpindi. Financial terms were not disclosed.Under the terms of the contract, Huawei will provide Mobilink with a complete WiMAX solution including distributed base stations, an access service network-Gateway and a...

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Nortel Names Asia-Pac Execs

Nortel announced the appointments of Jackson Wu and François Lançon as the new leaders of its Greater China and Asia Pacific Regions respectively. Michael Pangia -- formerly President of a combined Asia region -- is returning to North America as senior vice-president, Global Sales Operations and Strategy. Wu, a 15 year Nortel veteran, has led the Greater China team since August 2006. François Lançon is appointed Leader for Asia Pacific, and will assume leadership for customer and market engagements throughout the Asia Pacific region -- encompassing...

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Hokkaido-Sakhalin Cable Activated -- Shortest Fiber Route from Tokyo to Europe

Russia's TransTeleCom and NTT Communications activated commercial service on the Hokkaido-Sakhalin Cable System (HSCS), which directly links the two companies' telecom networks via an undersea cable between Nevelsk, Sakhalin in Russia and Ishikari, Hokkaido, Japan, began commercial operation on July 3.The two companies jointly started to construct the fiber-optic submarine cable HSCS in 2007 and the work was completed in December 2007. HSCS measures...

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Bell Canada Finalizes Financing for Privatization, Sabia Steps Down

BCE announced a final agreement with a company formed by an investor group led by Teachers' Private Capital, the private investment arm of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Providence Equity Partners, Madison Dearborn Partners, and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity. Key terms include:The purchase price will remain $42.75 per common share; The Purchaser and the Lenders have delivered fully negotiated and executed credit documents for the purpose...

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WiMAX Forum Supports European Commission's 2.6 GHz Harmonization

The WiMAX Forum congratulated the European Commission on the completion of new regulation relating to the 2.6 GHz (2500-2690MHz) frequency band, which are key bands for Mobile WiMAX.The 2.6 GHz decision* was unanimously supported in the European Commission's Radio Spectrum Committee, and it affords European Union administrations to make decisions in relation to the technology, services and usage that can be deployed within the band. It also offers...

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ESA Orders first 30 GALILEO Satellites

The European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA) initiated the procurement process for the first 30 dedicated navigation satellites under the GALILEO program. The European Parliament and the Council have allocated a budget of € 3.4 billion for the European satellite navigation programmes EGNOS and Galileo for the period 2007-2013 and provided for an agreement on the governance structure of the programmes. This revised framework provides...

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Deutche Telekom Launches "Life is for Sharing" Branding Campaign

Deutsche Telekom has kicked off a new branding campaign using the slogan "Life is for sharing".Deutsche Telekom said the new slogan expresses a brand philosophy that will complete its changeover to a simplified brand architecture. There are now only three brands under the "T": T Home (services for the home), T Mobile (services for on the move), T Systems (services for business customers).http://www.telekom...

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BT Wins Outsourcing contract with UK's Nationwide Building Society

BT was awarded a seven year outsourcing deal worth £160 million by Nationwide Building Society. As part of the contract, BT will deliver a service transformation programme under which they will consolidate Nationwide's multiple networks onto its industry-leading 21CN Global network which will support both voice and data services on a single converged platform. BT will also deliver enhanced remote access facilities to Nationwide's non-office based...

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Panasonic Mobile and NTT DATA Reach Agreement

Panasonic Mobile Communications and NTT DATA Corporation reached a basic agreement on a capital and business alliance on Panasonic Mobile & System Engineering Co., Ltd. (PMSE). , a wholly- owned subsidiary of Panasonic Mobile. Under the deal, NTT DATA will take over 60 percent of the shares issued of PMSE.Panasonic Mobile will employ NTT DATA Group's technologies and know-how of system development and experience to enhance its mobile software business. This partnership will enable Panasonic Mobile to strengthen its development capabilities...

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VMware Acquires B-hive Networks for Application Performance Mgt.

VMware has acquired B-hive Networks, a start-up specializing in application performance management software. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. B-hive is based in San Mateo, California, and principal R&D facilities in Herzliya, Israel. VMware said the B-hive team and technology will enhance its portfolio of application and infrastructure management products by offering proactive performance management and service level reporting for applications running within virtual machines. B-hive technology brings insight into the performance...

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Southern Cross Cables Selects Nortel 40G

Southern Cross Cables has selected Nortel's 40G optical technology for its Southern Cross network, which provides the major link for Internet traffic from Australia, New Zealand and Fiji to the US, as well as linking Hawaii to the US mainland. Specifically, Southern Cross is upgrading its terrestrial optical network in the USA from its current 10G technology to 40G to give its customers the means to serve bandwidth-intensive applications like high-definition...

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Cisco Targets Venture Investments on Russia and CIS

Cisco will make an anchor investment in a venture capital fund that will focus on Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). In collaboration with Almaz Capital Partners, Cisco has made the anchor investment in Almaz Capital Russia Fund, which has initially closed at $60 million.Almaz Capital Partners will seek investment opportunities and manage the fund's investments. The target companies for the fund primarily include high-growth small and medium-sized companies in the technology, media, and telecommunications sectors. Cisco will...

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RAD Data Communications Names President of US Subsidiary

RAD Data Communications has named Uri Zilberman as president of its U.S. subsidiary. Zilberman has been instrumental in driving RAD's U.S. sales for the past decade. He began his career at RAD's international headquarters as a product manager in the mid-1990s and continued with a similar assignment at RAD Data Communications, Inc. In 2000, he became president of RADirect, RAD's North American online sales branch.http://www.radusa....

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Orange Business Services Launches "Unik" Corporate FMC

Orange Business Services is launching its "Unik" fixed-mobile convergence service for corporate customers. The service seamlessly integrates mobile and office phones. Employees can be reached anywhere by dialing one number, which rings their office and mobile phones at the same time. Voice messages go to one mailbox.In addition, international calls from employees' mobile phones can be routed through their IP PBX to their Business Talk Global voice...

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Nimbuzz Raises $15 Million for Mobile VoIP and IM

Nimbuzz, a start-up based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Nimbuzz, raised $15 million in second round funding for its mobile VoIP and IM for social networks.Nimbuzz offers a social interaction service combining presence, IM, and VoIP. The free application is available on the mobile phone, PC and Web, for (group) calling, instant messaging, (group) chat, file sharing across popular IM communities, including Skype, MSN, GTalk, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, plus...

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AboveNet Installs 1,000th Private Customer Optical Network Node

AboveNet Communications has installed its 1,000th network node.These nodes support a broad spectrum of protocols such as packet based protocols like high-bandwidth Ethernet, digital video transmission, storage and mainframe specific protocols such as Fibre Channel/ Escon/ Ficon, and traditional SONET/SDH transmission. The company said its 1,000 node milestone is a significant vote of confidence from its customers for the world class provider of private wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) solutions.http://www.above.n...

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AT&T Terminates Marketing Deal with DISH Networks

On June 30, 2008, DISH Network received a notice of termination from AT&T concerning a reseller agreement under which AT&T markets the DISH Network programming services. As a result of the notice from AT&T, the commercial agreement will terminate on December 31, 2008. The deal has been in effect since July 2008.Echostar confirmed the news in an SEC filing. Neither company commented further.http://www.echostar.comhttp://www.att....

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