Boingo Signs WiFi Roaming Deal with China Telecom

Boingo Wireless announced a network roaming agreement with China Telecom, enabling its users to access hotspots all across China.Boingo customers can get online immediately at all China Telecom Wi-Fi hotspots, which include airports, hotels, restaurants and transportation facilities in over 300 major Chinese cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shenyang, Xiamen, Chengdu, Dalian, Kunming, Qingdao, Chongqing and Xi'an. Popular locations...

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NETGEAR to Resell Extreme Networks' BlackDiamond 8800 Switches

Extreme Networks announced an OEM relationship enabling NETGEAR to resell its chassis-based network requirements for midsized business and education markets. NETGEAR will add customized Extreme Networks BlackDiamond® 8800 modular switches to its portfolio of smart networking solutions. The relationship is a multi-year agreement through 2013 and shipments are expected to start early in calendar year 2011. Shane Buckley, SVP and GM of NETGEAR's SMB Business Unit. "NETGEAR's network infrastructure offerings now reach from the network edge to the core,...

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Pace Acquires Latens -- Combining STBs with Conditional Access

Pace, which supplies set top boxes and advanced residential gateways, has acquired Latens Systems, which offers Conditional Access (CA)/DRM solutions. Latens will continue to operate as an independent unit. Latens headquarters are in the UK Belfast, Northern Ireland, with offices in Hyderabad, India and Atlanta, Georgia.Pace is based in Saltaire, West Yorkshire, UK and employs over 1,000 people in locations around the world. http://www.pace.com http://www.latens.comIn October, Pace completed its acquisition of 2Wire, a deal that was valued at...

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John Chambers: High Tax on Repatriated Earnings Discourages Investment

U.S. tax policy on corporate profits earned abroad discourages companies such as Cisco from bringing back these resources and investing them in U.S. jobs or R&D spending, writes Cisco CEO John Chambers. He notes that incremental tax rates for U.S. corporations can be as high as 35% on money made overseas and that this high taxation of repatriated foreign earnings is in marked contrast to the tax practices of almost all of the world's major economies —- Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Australia, Canada, Russia, and the...

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WSJ: Sprint Excludes Huawei and ZTE on Security Concerns

The Wall Street Journal reported that Sprint has decided to exclude Huawei Technologies and ZTE from potentially lucrative supply contracts on national security grounds. The article claims that senior Obama administration officials, including Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Pentagon officials, recently discussed their national security concerns with Sprint CEO Dan Hesse. None of the companies were quoted directly for the article. http://www.wsj.comIn August, a group of eight U.S. senators openly published a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy...

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Windstream Builds Data Center Bulk with Acquisition of Hosted Solutions

Windstream will acquire Hosted Solutions Acquisition, LLC (Hosted Solutions) in an all-cash transaction valued at $310 million. The deal will expand Windstream's business offerings, increasing the scale and scope of its data centers by adding five state-of-the-art SAS 70 Type II certified data centers in Raleigh, N.C.; Charlotte, N.C., and Boston with a total of 68,000 square feet of data center capacity. As a result, Windstream will have a combined...

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DISH Loses 29K Subs in Q3, Ending at 14.3 Million

DISH Network lost approximately 29,000 net subscribers during Q3 2010, ending the quarter with approximately 14.289 million subscribers. The company posted Q3 revenue of $3.21 billion, a 10.9 percent increase compared with $2.89 billion for the corresponding period in 2009. Net income attributable to common shareholders totaled $245 million for the quarter, compared with $81 million during the corresponding period in 2009. http://www.dish....

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Clearwire Reaches 2.84M Users, Cuts Staff, Updates on LTE 2X Trials

During Q3 2010, Clearwire added 1.23 million total net new subscribers, including 150,000 retail additions and 1.1 million wholesale additions. The company ended the quarter with 2.84 million total subscribers, consisting of 1.01 million retail subscribers and 1.83 million wholesale subscribers. This marks the first time the Company's wholesale subscriber base has eclipsed its retail business. Approximately 45% of the company's wholesale subscribers...

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Japan's SoftBank Mobile Earns More from Data Than Voice

Japan's Softbank Mobile now earns more from data than from voice services. Softbank Mobile is upgrading its HSPA radio access network with Ericsson's RBS 6000 radio base station. Junichi Miyakawa, Executive Vice President and CTO of Softbank Mobile, says: "We are the first operator in the world to have higher revenues from data than from voice. Ericsson's solution for this coverage and capacity upgrade will satisfy our data-hungry subscribers. We...

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