Bell Canada Launches 21 Mbps HSPA

Bell Canada launched HSPA service offering mobile speeds as high as 21 Mbps. The new network covers 1.2 million square kilometers, reaching approximately20,000 Canadian towns and cities and 93% of the population. The new network also supports international roaming in more than 200 countries around theglobe and across the United States too, thanks to a roaming agreement with AT&T.Nokia Siemens Networks supplied its HSPA solution for the network upgrade. The deployment included some of NSN's most advanced solutions to enable HSPA through an...

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NSN Launches Energy Solutions for Telecom Operators

Nokia Siemens Networks launched a range of Energy Solutions for telecoms operators. The are six elements to this portfolio:Energy Modernization; Off-Grid Site Solution; Bad-Grid Site Solution; Energy Efficiency Consulting; Green Energy Control and Energy OPEX Management. Each element targets a specific area of telecoms network energy consumption, management or sourcing. Among the key technologies within the elements of the portfolio are an intelligent...

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One Voice Initiative Targets Voice-over-LTE using IMS

Leading global telecom players have formed a "One Voice" initiative to push for a standards-based solution for voice and SMS over LTE networks. The companies have jointly developed a technical profile for LTE voice and SMS services. This profile defines an optimal set of existing 3GPP-specified functionalities that all industry stakeholders, including network vendors, service providers and handset manufacturers, can use to offer compatible LTE voice...

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Verizon Business to Build IT Platform for Medical Transcription

Verizon Business has been selected by a newly-formed Medical Transcription Service Consortium (MTSC) to build a new IT platform for the secure exchange of digitized transcriptions of physician-dictated patient notes.The MTSC - of which Verizon is a founding member - will develop a common framework for the digitization of transcribed dictated records, including interoperability standards for the seamless and secure exchange of data among health care providers. The new IT platform is a key part of this initiative. The platform, which is expected...

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Qualcomm Reports Quarterly Revenue of $2.69 Billion

Qualcomm reported quarterly revenue of $2.69 billion, down 19 percent year-over-year and 2 percent sequentially. Net income (GAAP) was $803 million, down 9 percent year-over-year and up 9 percent sequentially. For its full fiscal 2009, revenues were $10.42 billion, down 7 percent year-over-year Net income was $1.59 billion, down 50 percent year-over-year. Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities totaled approximately $17.7 billion at the end of the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009, compared to $15.7 billion at the end of the third quarter...

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Cisco Sees Improving Financial Trends

Reporting "strong sequential growth trends that meet or exceed expectations", Cisco posted quarterly sales of $9.0 billion, down 13% compared to the same period last year, and net income (GAAP) of $1.8 billion or $0.30 per share, and non-GAAP net income of $2.1 billion or $0.36 per share. The period marked Cisco's second sequential quarter of revenue growth. Cash flows from operations were $1.5 billion for the first quarter of fiscal 2010, compared...

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Altair Semiconductor Releases LTE USB ExpressCard

Altair Semiconductor announced the immediate availability of its FourGee LTE USB ExpressCard UE (User Equipment). The early availability of the product gives carriers, system vendors, and terminal manufacturers the unique opportunity to use small form UEs for FourGee product trials and development. The company's ExpressCard launch comes on the heels of the commercial availability of Altair's recently announced LTE baseband processor and LTE RF transceiver.Altair's FourGee LTE USB ExpressCard UE features include:Category 3 speeds of 100Mbps download...

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Amdocs Reports Quarterly Revenue Up Sequentially and Above Guidance

Amdocs reported that for its fiscal fourth quarter ended September 30, 2009, revenue was $707.4 million, a decrease of 14.3% from last year's fourth quarter and up 2.5% sequentially. Net income on a non-GAAP basis was $109.2 million, or $0.53 per diluted share, compared to non-GAAP net income of $117.2 million, or $0.54 per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008.The revenue figure was above the $670-$690 million guidance range provided by the company."After experiencing a challenging fiscal year, we are pleased that our fourth quarter...

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ng Connect Partners Develop LTE Connected Car Concept

Alcatel-Lucent, in partnership with Toyota, QNX and other members of the ng Connect Program, unveiled an LTE Connected Car designed to demonstrate the potential of mobile broadband.The LTE Connected Car is a virtual "smartphone on wheels." Alcatel-Lucent combined an LTE broadband radio link - which brings cloud-based multimedia services into the car - with an in-vehicle WiFi environment to support integration with traditional home-based services....

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AT&T Announces 2010 Developer Summit

An AT&T Developer Summit has been scheduled for January 6 in conjunction with the 2010 Consumer Electronics. This full-day technical and business event will provide developers the opportunity to learn how to build and monetize their applications for AT&T's 81.6 million wireless customers. http://www.attdevsummit.c...

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