China Unicom Selects ZTE for HSPA++PTN in 7 Cities

China Unicom has awarded an exclusive contract to ZTE for an HSPA+ network upgrade in seven key cities, including Changchun, Ningbo and Wuhan.China Unicom will use ZTE's packet transport network equipment and IP RAN gear. The construction of this PTN network has also officially started the transition of China Unicom's Delivery network, laying a solid foundation to facilitate China Unicom's 3G and 4G strategies in the future. http://www.zte.com...

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Bamboom Targets Cloud-based TV Antenna, DVR, Social Interface

Bamboom, a start-up based in New York, raised $4.5 million in seed funding to develop new concept in digital TV distribution. The company promises to develop a TV service over broadband IP connections but using content from free, over-the-air broadcasts. The subscriber would buy a miniaturized TV antenna that would actually be deployed in a centralized location by Bamboom. This antenna would gather the over-the-air content and then transmit...

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Russia's Vimpelcom Moves into Group of Top Mobile Operators

Russia's Vimpel-Communications completed its previously announced deal with Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris to acquire Weather Investments S.p.A, which owns 51.7% of Orascom Telecom (Egypt) and 100% of Wind Telecomunicazioni (Italy). The US$1.495 billion cash deal, which was first announced in October 2010, was financed from Vimpelcom's existing cash balances and new debt facilities.Vimpelcom said the acquisition will make it the world's sixth...

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AT&T Sells its 49% Stake in Mexico's Alestra

ALFA has agreed to buy out AT&T's 49% stake in Mexico's Alestra, giving ALFA 100% control of the firm. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal is expected to close in Q2."Mexico is a critical market for AT&T, and we are committed to offering multinational enterprise customers operating in Mexico a wide range of advanced communications solutions," said Mary Livingston, AT&T's vice president for the Canada, Caribbean and Latin America...

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Cox Hires Clearwire Exec to Serve as CTO

Cox Communicationsnamed Kevin Hart as its new chief technology officer (CTO), effective April 25. In this role, he will be responsible for providing overall leadership, strategic and operational direction to the planning and development of an integrated technological platform. Hart most recently served as Chief Information Officer at Clearwire Corporation. During Hart's 20 year career, he has also served as CIO at Level 3 and held leadership...

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LG-Ericsson Enters U.S. Voice Market

LG-Ericsson USA, which is a joint venture between LG-Ericsson and Accton Technology, launched its full-featured, business communications systems -- the iPECS-LIK -- in North America. iPECS-LIK delivers all of the functionality of a traditional PBX with the addition of productivity-enhancing features like Unified Communications for conferencing voice and video data collaboration, remote and roaming user support and scalability. iPECS-LIK scales from a small 10-user office to a 1000-user corporation. Its complement of applications includes soft-phones...

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NBN Co Picks SPATIALinfo's Network Inventory Software

SPATIALinfo has won a 2-year, multi-million dollar contract to supply its physical network inventory software provider for Australia's national broadband initiative. As part of this initial contract, SPATIALinfo is providing its integrated product suite that includes spatialNET, spatialWEB, spatialOFFLINE, ADDRESSmanager, MAPupdater, and spatialWEBSERVICES. SPATIALinfo's products are designed for end-to-end physical network design and management...

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European Union Cyber Security Agency Calls for More Drills

To ensure its cyber security, Europe should continue to hold exercises in Critical Information Infrastructure Protection, according to ENISA, the European Union cyber security agency. This is the conclusion of ENISA's final report on "Cyber Europe 2010," which was conducted on the 4th of November, 2010. Its objective was to trigger communication and collaboration between countries in the event of large-scale cyber-attacks. Over 70 experts from the...

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