Telecommunication News

It's the model that needs to change, says Verizon

Japanese telco giant NTT DoCoMo, Inc. has forged an alliance with Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTSL) paying INR130.7

Expansion into emergent countries close to an end?

Initial capacity jump presages future move to 100 Gbps\n\n

Indonesia's second largest telco PT Indosat has withdrawn US$450 million from a syndicated loan due in 2010 and 2012 owing to a significant 'change in control'. One part of the credit facility, organised by ING Bank and DBS Bank, amounting to US$150 million was withdrawn in September 2008 and the balance on 20 November 2008.

14 countries across Europe and Asia-Pacific can now access VPLS service

AT&T is rolling out its own Ethernet VPLS to more international sites, but it appears that IP MPLS capacity wholesaler Tiscali International Network will take the prize in terms of number of major markets worldwide online for its Ethernet portfolio.

Innovation Day presentation highlights continual R&D benefits

A report by Portio Research shows that mobile messaging industry revenues for 2008 came in at more than US$130 billion and predicts that amount to grow to US$224 billion by 2013.

As the Internet and cellular services become further integrated, a battle appears to be brewing with several big players eyeing the money to be made from e-commerce sites and fast developing social networking services in China.

Verizon Business today announced several enhancements to its VoIP portfolio including certification of an additional Nortel IP PBX for Verizon's IP Trunking, availability in Europe of automatic call rerouting for VoIP customers, and a new VoIP Interoperability Lab where business customers can "test drive" products to check compatibility of their premises equipment with Verizon's VoIP or IP Contact Center products.

Users of BT's high speed wireless broadband (Wi-Fi) service clocked up twice the number of minutes online between April and September 2008 than the same period last year.

If you're looking for a narrow snapshot of the overall health of business telecom, you might want to check out a recent research report from Vertical Systems Group.

Researchers at Nokia Siemens Networks' (NSN) Munich facility recently demonstrated relaying technology proposed for its standards-based LTE-Advanced solution, which would resolve coverage issues at the cell edge, where users are farthest from the mobile broadband base station.

Partners again with Sprint for 3G service while moving towards LTE

Privately-held QuickPlay Media Inc plans to deliver full length popular television shows to BlackBerry smartphone screens via Research In Motion's applications store after forging agreements with TV networks, including NBC, CBS Corp and MTV.

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In a very direct way, cutting edge Ethernet technology is even starting to have a huge effect on how we view our economic outlook. The New York Stock Exchange recently tapped Juniper Networks, a large network hardware manufacturer, to upgrade their network.

Today, the router may no longer simply be a piece of network hardware that routes packets of information from one location to another.

The internet and it's unique ability to rapidly share information across the planet has created a sort of 'hot-bed' for the evolution of language. New phrases, words, acronyms and slangs have been given the ability to virally evolve and disseminate to new populations within a matter of days. Definitions are born, morph, and die based on the evolving collective consciousness of humanity.