Ericsson Provides Network Operations for Virgin Mobile France

French mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) holding company Omea Telecom has signed an infrastructure and managed services contract with Ericsson in France. Under the contract, Ericsson will provide managed services supporting some 2 million subscribers belonging to Omea Telecom's MVNO Virgin Mobile France.Ericsson will supply the operator with the full range of telecommunications infrastructure needed for complete customer management. These include databases of subscriber details (Home Location Register), service platforms, and traffic management...

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Vodafone Italia Outsources to Ericsson

Vodafone Italy awarded a five-year contract to Ericsson to manage the field operations of its fixed and mobile access and transmission networks, as well as for fixed core network nodes. As part of the five year agreement, about 300 Vodafone Italy employees joined Ericsson on July 1, 2011. Financial terms were not disclosed.Ericsson said it will take over the operation and continue the current services activities while ensuring a smooth transition...

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Telstra Restructures for Better Market Focus

Telstra Chief Executive Officer David Thodey announced a series of appointments and major initiatives that sharpen the company's focus on customers and position Telstra for industry changes including the National Broadband Network. "These appointments and initiatives are consistent with our long-term strategy to improve service, win customers, simplify processes and build new growth businesses," Mr Thodey said. "They create a single retail sales...

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Skype + Facebook Promise "Effortless Video Calling"

Facebook and Skype announced deep integration providing "the easiest one-click way to get connected via video with friends and colleagues." The companies said their partnership will make video calling widely pervasive and easily accessible for billions of people.Group video chat is not initially supported, although Facebook is also announcing a text-based group chat. Development was carried out by joint teams. Skype-out services will be offered...

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Equinix Seeks $500 Million in Public Offering

Equinix intends to offer, subject to market and other conditions, $500 million aggregate principal amount of its senior notes due 2021 under an automatically effective shelf registration statement on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company said it intends to use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, which may include capital expenditures, repayment of its 2.50% convertible subordinated notes due 2012 upon maturity, working capital and potential acquisitions. http://www.equinix....

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Valens Raises $14 Million for HDBaseT Chips

Valens Semiconductor, a start-up based in Israel, raised $14 million in Series B funding for its HDBaseT technology.Valens' HDBaseT technology is a consumer electronic (CE) connectivity technology optimized for whole-home and commercial multimedia distribution. HDBaseT uses a single, long-reach LAN cable with RJ45 connectors to connect entertainment devices. HDBaseT can deliver uncompressed video/audio up to 10.2 Gbps over Cat5e/6 LAN cables of up...

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GSA: 24 LTE Networks Have Launched

There are now 24 commercial LTE networks in service and 166 firm commercial LTE network deployments in progress or planned in 62 countries, according to the latest report from The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA). The report covers both LTE FDD and LTE TDD systems. A further 52 operators in 19 additional countries are engaged in LTE technology trials, tests or studies.Alan Hadden, President, GSA said: "LTE is the fastest developing mobile...

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Anite Offers LTE Device Performance Test

Anite, which specializes in wireless device testing, announced a new test solution that will include carrier based scripts for LTE data throughput performance for evaluation LTE devices.Aite's unique LTE data performance solution is based on SAS (Anite's network simulator for device interoperability testing), the Anite 9000 Mobile Test Accelerator platform, and Azimuth Systems ACE MX advanced channel emulator . The ACE MX is architected to meet the needs of OFDM and MIMO based wireless systems in addition to the emulation requirements of 2G/3G...

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China Unicom Deploy 40 Gbps Optical Backbone with NSN

China Unicom is upgrading its optical backbone with Nokia Siemens Networks' 40 Gbps optical transmission platform.The 5000 kilometer, 40 Gbps DWDM network paves the way for upgrades to 100Gbps across seven provinces: Chongqing, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu, Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi.Specifically, Nokia Siemens Networks is providing its hiT 7300 DWDM system with 40G transponder technology that allows continued use of installed fiber infrastructure. The...

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