BT Openreach Expands Fibre Rollout to 178 More Exchanges

BT Openreach is expanding its fibre rollout to a further 178 exchanges -- the majority of which will be enabled in 2012 -- covering more than 1.8 million homes and businesses. “We continue to make tremendous strides with our fibre programme. Super-fast broadband is already within reach of more than six million premises today and we are on track to pass ten million premises next year.," stated Olivia Garfield, CEO of Openreach. “Our ambitions do...

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American Tower to Buy 2,500 Towers in Mexico for $500 million

American Tower, which own and operates approximately 40,000 communications sites in the United States, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ghana, India, Mexico, Peru and South Africa, agreed to acquire approximately 2,500 towers from Telefonica's Mexican subsidiary, Pegaso PCS, for approximately $500 million, excluding value added tax. James Taiclet, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of American Tower, said: "We continue to strengthen our relationship...

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VSS Monitoring Releases Packet De-duplication for Analytic Tools

VSS Monitoring introduced a packet de-duplication feature that improves the efficiency and effectiveness of existing monitoring solutions by eliminating redundant data packets, which reduces the processing load on the tools and false event alarming.It is compatible with both IPv4 and IPv6.VSS Monitoring's architecture optimizes and scales connectivity between network switching and the intelligence ecosystem of network analytical, inline security and WAN acceleration tools. "To achieve unprecedented results in times when resources are constrained...

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Rogers Expands LTE around Toronto and Vancouver

Rogers Communications has expanded its LTE network in more cities in the Greater Toronto Area and surrounding Vancouver. Rogers was first to launch a LTE network this summer in Ottawa followed by Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver."Today more Rogers customers from the east and west can experience the future of fast as we continue to expand the gold standard wireless network technology, the Rogers LTE network to more Canadian cities surrounding Toronto...

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Ericsson's CTO Heads to Australia

Ericsson's CTO, Håkan Eriksson, who is currently based in Silicon Valley, will take on a new role as head of Ericsson's business in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. The company expects to appoint a new CTO shortly.Eriksson, whose wife is Australian, said "I have spent the last 25 years in Ericsson within the research & development organization and the last nine of those as CTO. When I took the job as CTO, the debate was whether 3G would ever appeal to the mass market... Although the CTO role has always meant staying very close to our customers,...

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Oracle Releases Connected Digital Lifestyle Solution

Oracle released its Connected Digital Lifestyle Solution, a unified platform for service exposure, content management and delivery, and advertising to enable new revenue streams and increase customer loyalty. Key elements include:End-to-end digital content retailing platform that enables Service Providers to increase revenue and customer loyalty by deploying compelling, cross platform mobile device and web storefrontsContent lifecycle management...

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Colombia Will Have 10 Mobile Operators in 2012

The Colombian government plans to license two new mobile operators next year, bringing the number of mobile operators in the country to ten, including MVNOs, according to El Tiempo. Current operators include Comcel, Movistar, Tigo, Avantel, Uff Móvil, UNE, ETB, Virgin Mobile. Mobile penetration already exceeds 103%.http://bit.ly/s1n...

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AT&T Evaluates Options with T-Mobile USA Bid

AT&T and Deutsche Telekom filed a court motion seeking to stay further proceedings regarding its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA until January 18, 2012, to allow the two companies time to evaluate all options. The U.S. Department of Justice joined in the filing.“AT&T is committed to working with Deutsche Telekom to find a solution that is in the best interests of our respective customers, shareholders and employees. We are actively considering whether and how to revise our current transaction to achieve the necessary regulatory approvals...

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VimpelCom Completes USD 1 Billion Financing

VimpelCom completed a committed revolving credit facility of approximately USD 500 million for VimpelCom Amsterdam B.V. and a separate committed revolving credit facility of approximately USD 475 million for OJSC Vimpel-Communications ("OJSC VimpelCom"). http://www.vimpelcom....

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Motorola Mobility Signs Licensing Deal with VTech

Motorola Mobility has expanded its business relationship with VTech Telecommunications Ltd. regarding patent licensing, trademark licensing and technology licensing. Motorola Mobility and VTech have updated the companies' existing intellectual property licensing arrangement covering Motorola Mobility's Wi-Fi, video and cordless phone patent portfolios. The terms of the agreement are confidential. http://www.motorola....

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BT Openreach Expands Fibre Rollout to 178 More Exchanges

BT Openreach is expanding its fibre rollout to a further 178 exchanges -- the majority of which will be enabled in 2012 -- covering more than 1.8 million homes and businesses. “We continue to make tremendous strides with our fibre programme. Super-fast broadband is already within reach of more than six million premises today and we are on track to pass ten million premises next year.," stated Olivia Garfield, CEO of Openreach. “Our ambitions do...

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American Tower to Buy 2,500 Towers in Mexico for $500 million

American Tower, which own and operates approximately 40,000 communications sites in the United States, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ghana, India, Mexico, Peru and South Africa, agreed to acquire approximately 2,500 towers from Telefonica's Mexican subsidiary, Pegaso PCS, for approximately $500 million, excluding value added tax. James Taiclet, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of American Tower, said: "We continue to strengthen our relationship...

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VSS Monitoring Releases Packet De-duplication for Analytic Tools

VSS Monitoring introduced a packet de-duplication feature that improves the efficiency and effectiveness of existing monitoring solutions by eliminating redundant data packets, which reduces the processing load on the tools and false event alarming.It is compatible with both IPv4 and IPv6.VSS Monitoring's architecture optimizes and scales connectivity between network switching and the intelligence ecosystem of network analytical, inline security and WAN acceleration tools. "To achieve unprecedented results in times when resources are constrained...

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Rogers Expands LTE around Toronto and Vancouver

Rogers Communications has expanded its LTE network in more cities in the Greater Toronto Area and surrounding Vancouver. Rogers was first to launch a LTE network this summer in Ottawa followed by Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver."Today more Rogers customers from the east and west can experience the future of fast as we continue to expand the gold standard wireless network technology, the Rogers LTE network to more Canadian cities surrounding Toronto...

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Ericsson's CTO Heads to Australia

Ericsson's CTO, Håkan Eriksson, who is currently based in Silicon Valley, will take on a new role as head of Ericsson's business in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. The company expects to appoint a new CTO shortly.Eriksson, whose wife is Australian, said "I have spent the last 25 years in Ericsson within the research & development organization and the last nine of those as CTO. When I took the job as CTO, the debate was whether 3G would ever appeal to the mass market... Although the CTO role has always meant staying very close to our customers,...

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Oracle Releases Connected Digital Lifestyle Solution

Oracle released its Connected Digital Lifestyle Solution, a unified platform for service exposure, content management and delivery, and advertising to enable new revenue streams and increase customer loyalty. Key elements include:End-to-end digital content retailing platform that enables Service Providers to increase revenue and customer loyalty by deploying compelling, cross platform mobile device and web storefrontsContent lifecycle management...

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AT&T Evaluates Options with T-Mobile USA Bid

AT&T and Deutsche Telekom filed a court motion seeking to stay further proceedings regarding its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA until January 18, 2012, to allow the two companies time to evaluate all options. The U.S. Department of Justice joined in the filing.“AT&T is committed to working with Deutsche Telekom to find a solution that is in the best interests of our respective customers, shareholders and employees. We are actively considering whether and how to revise our current transaction to achieve the necessary regulatory approvals...

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VimpelCom Completes USD 1 Billion Financing

VimpelCom completed a committed revolving credit facility of approximately USD 500 million for VimpelCom Amsterdam B.V. and a separate committed revolving credit facility of approximately USD 475 million for OJSC Vimpel-Communications ("OJSC VimpelCom"). http://www.vimpelcom....

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Motorola Mobility Signs Licensing Deal with VTech

Motorola Mobility has expanded its business relationship with VTech Telecommunications Ltd. regarding patent licensing, trademark licensing and technology licensing. Motorola Mobility and VTech have updated the companies' existing intellectual property licensing arrangement covering Motorola Mobility's Wi-Fi, video and cordless phone patent portfolios. The terms of the agreement are confidential. http://www.motorola....

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ip.access Secures $15 Million for Small Cells

ip.access, a privately-held company based in Cambridge, UK, raised $15 million in new funding from its current investors and from a major new backer. ip.access is the leading supplier of picocells. Its nanoGSM and nano3G picocell solutions provide 2G and 3G coverage and capacity for offices, shops and (using satellite backhaul) passenger aircraft, ships and remote rural areas. nanoGSM is currently deployed in live installations in more than 50 networks...

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ADTRAN to Acquire Nokia Siemens Networks Fixed Line Broadband Access Business

ADTRAN will acquire Nokia Siemens Networks' fixed line Broadband Access business (BBA), and associated professional services and network management solutions, for an undisclosed sum. Approximately 400 people, including engineering, R&D, sales and professional services employees, are expected to transfer to ADTRAN globally. ADTRAN expects the acquired business will be neutral to diluted earnings per share for the first full year and accretive...

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SandForce Develops SSD Processor for Clouds

SandForce introduced an SSD Processor optimized for cloud computing environments. The SF-2481 SSD Processor features a number of innovations including increasing the endurance of SSDs built with standard MLC flash by incorporating nearly twice the normal error correction strength. SandForce also adds Predictive Failure Analysis capabilities including a new Media Health Test to ensure the highest reliability over the life of the storage solution....

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SOASTA Raises $12 Million for Cloud-based Testing

SOASTA, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, raised $12 million for its cloud-based performance testing.SOASTA’s CloudTest Platform is designed for testing the performance of web and mobile applications at scale. The platform leverages the resources of the cloud for load and performance testing. It simulates traffic hitting a website or application from outside or inside the firewall, testing both lab and production environments.The round...

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ZTE Wins 50% of China Telecom's Metro and Aggregation Project

ZTE confirmed that it has won 50 percent of China Telecom’s 2011 Comprehensive Metro Aggregation and Access Network Project, which will aggregate traffic from CDMA base stations, deliver customer services and provide softswitching in multiple cities. ZTE will build 6 local networks in six core cities: Guangzhou, Nanjing, Ningbo, Shanghai, Quanzhou and Wenzhou. Financial terms were not disclosed.ZTE is supplying IP RAN (IP/MPLS) solutions, which...

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Sea Fibre Networks to Build CeltixConnect Cable Linking Ireland-UK

Sea Fibre Networks is commencing construction of a new CeltixConnect linking Ireland and UK. The company said its $15 million project is the first new fiber along this route for the past eleven years,By choosing the most direct route, the cable is expected to reduce latency. CeltixConnect will uniquely land directly in the heart of Dublin’s business district at East Point Business Park and the Irish Financial Services Centre (IFSC), connecting...

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