Aviat Networks Cites Component Shortages

Aviat Networks updated its revenue guidance for the fiscal fourth quarter ending July 2, 2010, saying it now expects revenue to be in the range of $115 - $120 million. The company attributed the revenue shortfall from previous expectations primarily to component shortages and unexpected delays during the transition from in-house to contract manufacturing.


Chuck Kissner, Chairman and CEO of Aviat Networks, commented, "The Board of Directors and I are not satisfied with the Company's operational and financial performance in recent quarters. Since being appointed as CEO two weeks ago, I have initiated a comprehensive review of our business in order to develop a focused strategic and operational plan. With this in place, we plan to move promptly and decisively to put Aviat Networks on track to restore profitability and establish a platform to drive sustainable revenue growth."http://www.aviatnetworks.com

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BT Announces Union Agreement

BT announced an agreement with the CWU labour union specifying a new pay package for team members. This package, which has been agreed by the union's executive, will now be recommended to union members in a consultative ballot. This ballot will take place within the next few weeks.


Having failed to reach agreement on a one or two year deal, the two sides have instead agreed on an unprecedented thirty nine month deal that will take both sides through until March 2013. This deal will provide BT with wage stability for several years.


The agreement will see team members receive pensionable pay rises worth 3 per cent each financial year from April 2010 to March 2013 with the rise being backdated to January 2010. The union had previously demanded a 5 per cent rise for 2010/11 alone.


BT had previously offered a 2 per cent pensionable pay rise from April 2010 and a 3 per cent rise from January 2011. The company had also offered lump sum payments worth up to £500 for each team member but these have now been removed given the revised terms over thirty nine months.
http://www.btplc.com

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Broadvox Partner with Grandstream on SMB IP Communications

Broadvox, which delivers SIP Trunking, SIP origination and termination services, and hosted communications for SMBs, is now supporting Grandstream Networks' new GXV3140 IP Multimedia CPE device with its Broadvox GO! SIP Trunking service.


This enables Small to Medium Businesses (SMBs) and enterprises to easily add video and telepresence throughout their organization. With a 4.3" digital color LCD screen, the "always-on" GXV3140 has an integrated web browser which gives convenient, one-touch
access to personalized RSS feeds of real-time online information services (news updates, stock updates, weather forecasts, directory searches, etc.), and thousands of Internet radio stations. This device also lets the user IM with Yahoo, MSN, and Google, and gives access Yahoo Flicker web photo albums. It comes equipped with an alarm clock, calendar, games, and music ringtones.
http://www.Broadvox.com
http://www.grandstream.com

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Japan's OKI Develops GPS+Twitter Emergency Response Network Service

OKI Consulting Solutions has launched a "TweetLine@saigai" an application and service for the Japanese market intended for use during disasters (Saigai means "disaster" in Japanese). The application provides timely disaster and evacuation information to residents and disaster victims based on a smartphone's GPS data and Twitter.


To use the service, residents download the TweetLine@saigai application from the application stores for compatible smartphones. They can then confirm disaster information on their smartphones using the timeline and take various other actions, including sending images of the area affected by the disaster.


TweetLine@saigai runs on the cloud-based TweetLine platform, a disaster information management database that stores information on hazards provided by local governments, including evacuation areas and geographical information. Compatible with TweetLine, OKI's USB Safario allows local government staff to operate the disaster information management database from remote areas.
Moreover, OKI's FSE (Face Sensing Engine) makes it possible to acquire information on disaster victims, including gender and age group, to make aid requirements as specific as possible.


TweetLine@saigai currently runs on Google's Android and Apple's iPhone. The application will be sold to Japanese local governments as an ASP service. Moving forward, OKI will work to expand compatibility with smartphones from other manufactures.
http://www.oki.com

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Ericsson: 5 Billion Mobile Subscriptions, +2M per Day

There are now more than 5 billion mobile subscriptions in service and the world is adding about 2 million new mobile users per day, according to the latest market analysis from Ericsson.


According to Ericsson estimates based on industry information, the 5 billionth subscription was added Thursday, July 8.


Some other notes:

• In the year 2000, about 720 million people had mobile subscriptions, less than the amount of users China alone has today.



• Mobile broadband subscriptions are growing at similar pace and are expected to amount to more than 3.4 billion by 2015 (from 360 million in 2009). Studies show that soon 80 percent of all people accessing the internet will be doing so using their mobile device.



• In December 2009, Ericsson calculated that the amount of data traffic carried over mobile networks exceeded the amount of traffic generated from voice calls for the first time.

http://www.ericsson.com

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Main One Cable Goes Live with Terabit Capacity for W. Africa

Main One Cable has activated commercial service on its new 7,000 km undersea cable connecting West Africa to Europe. The terabit capacity cable has landing stations in Nigeria and Ghana and branching units in Morocco, Canary Islands, Senegal and Ivory Coast. The company, which is wholly African, calculates that its cable offer more than ten times the bandwidth of what was previously available. Tyco Electronics Subsea Communications (SubCom) was the lead contractor on the project.http://mainonecable.com

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