Infonetics: Recession Accelerates Wireline-to-Mobile Substitution.

The global recession clearly accelerated the pace of wireline-to-mobile substitution, according to a new Fixed and Mobile Subscribers market forecast report from Infonetics Research. Driven by strong growth in China, India, Brazil, Russia and other emerging economies, the number of worldwide mobile subscribers will reach 5.9 billion by 2013.Some other highlights of the report:There were nearly 4 times more mobile subscribers than access line subscribers worldwide in 2008 (3.9 billion vs. 1 billion)The number of mobile subscribers grew 17.4% in...

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Lantiq Begins Operations as Independent Company

Lantiq has begun operations as independent company. The new entity was created throught the sale of Infineon Technologies Wireline business unit to US- based investor Golden Gate Capital. The final purchase price will amount to approximately EUR 243 Million resulting from customary adjustments in the asset purchase agreement with Golden Gate Capital. Infineon is expected to record a book gain of more than Euro 100 Million as a result of this transaction...

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Nortel Cites Recent Govt Wins in Asia-Pacific

Nortel said it has recently won significant public sector deals in several countries across the Asia Pacific region for its Unified Communications (UC), Ethernet Routing Switches, contact center deployments and virtual collaboration solutions. These contracts include:New Zealand Public Service Association, the nation's largest union with more than 57,000 registered members, will migrate to a unified communications network from Nortel, Microsoft and implementation partner Gen-i. Taiwan Post, the largest postal, banking and insurance services provider...

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Alcatel-Lucent and Belgium's ONDD Offer Third Party Financing

Belgium's public export credit insurer (ONDD -- Office National Du Ducroire | Nationale Delcrederedienst) has agreed to provide insurance for third party financing for the purchase of Alcatel-Lucent equipment by service providers worldwide. As a first result of this agreement, Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking has arranged an ONDD-backed loan facility in favour of Turk Telekom, to finance various contracts between Turk Telekom and Alcatel-Lucent for a global amount of EUR 46 million. In line with Organization of Economic Co-operation...

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Motorola and Aruba Settle WLAN Intellectual Property Dispute

Aruba Networks and Motorola -- together with its subsidiaries Symbol Technologies, Wireless Valley Communications, and AirDefense -- announced an agreement that settles all outstanding intellectual property disputes between the two companies. The disputes involved patents owned by both parties, and the settlement includes a cross-licensing agreement. http://www.arubanetworks.com http://www.motorola....

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Ericsson Appoints Exec for Brand Strategy

Ericsson has appointed Cesare Avenia to a new position in the group management team where Avenia will be responsible for driving the implementation of Ericsson's new brand strategy. Cesare Avenia has most recently served as head of the company's South East Europe market unit."We will move from traditional telecom to IP, we see how we move from being a hardware to a software business and we will see an evolution and modernization of the networks rather than the past years vast rollouts of new networks", says in-coming President and CEO Hans Vestberg....

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Optical Internetworking Forum Launches New 100G Project

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has launched a new technical project to define a Module Management Interface for 100G long-haul DWDM transmission. The Management Data Input/Output Interface (MDIO) project, started in the Physical and Link Layer Working Group, will specify the logical architecture and frame structure, module control and host-module signaling theory, and MDIO register set. Work on the 100G Long Haul DWDM Transmission Module...

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AT&T Adds 893,000 Wireless Subscribers Through Centennial Acquisition

AT&T completed its acquisition of Centennial Communications, adding approximately 893,000 wireless subscribers across the Midwest and Southeast United States and in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.AT&T said it will move quickly to rebrand Centennial as AT&T. By late January 2010, AT&T products and services will be available at more than 100 Centennial retail locations. Within the same timeframe, AT&T signage will be...

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DOCOMO to Add Flat-rate Data Service

Starting next month, NTT DOCOMO will reduce the monthly maximum charge for packet communications with a PC or other device under its "Pake-hodai" double flat-rate data service to 5,985 yen, down from 13,650 yen (both figures include tax), at selected Internet access points. The revision is for users of DOCOMO phone-tethered external devices such as PCs and handheld gaming consoles at access speeds of up to 128 Kbps (uplinks of 64 Kbps). Other monthly maximum charges for Pake-hodai double will remain unchanged.http://www.nttdocomo....

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