Alcatel-Lucent Appoints Vice-President of EMEA

Alcatel-Lucent announced the appointment of Alan Mottram as EMEA Vice-President Solutions & Marketing, replacing Dirk Van den Berghen, who will pursue new opportunities in Alcatel-Lucent. Prior to his new appointment, Alan Mottram was the Leader of the North Europe Customer Unit (UK, Ireland and Nordics) and the British Telecom Global Account. He has been with the company since 1991 where he held a number of Managing Director roles. http://www.alcatel-lucent....

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Orange Business Services Enhances its Telepresence Services

Orange Business Services has enhanced its Telepresence offer with two new services: Personalized Concierge System and Telepresence Community.To improve the Telepresence solution, Orange Business Services offers a new 24/7 personalized concierge help-desk service. Businesses and their employees have a personal assistant in charge of reservations, the technical setup and management of the service.To allow businesses to visually communicate with external entities, Orange Business Services offers Telepresence Community. This solution is compatible...

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Inmarsat Completes Investment in Canada's SkyWave Mobile

Inmarsat completed its previously announced strategic investment, long term global distribution agreement and new product development agreement with SkyWave Mobile Communications Inc. of Ottawa, Canada.Concurrent with this investment, SkyWave has acquired assets relating to the GlobalWave satellite low data rate (SLDR) products and services business from TransCore and entered into a sales distribution relationship with TransCore focusing on the North American trucking and rail segments of the SLDR market, designed to leverage TransCore's substantial...

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GSMA: 177.8 Million AWS Subscribers by 2014 in Americas

The licensing of the Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) band will put the Americas on a par with Asia and Europe in terms of 3G reach according to new research conducted by Global View Partners, a US-based research firm, in partnership with the GSMA, which represents the interests of the worldwide mobile communications industry. AWS auctions have already occurred in the U.S. and Canada, with many Latin America markets planning to license the spectrum throughout 2009. The research found that prices paid for AWS spectrum in the US and Canada revealed...

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