| HP brings NonStop to blade platform
05/11/2008
HP today released a new carrier-grade server platform that for the first time marries the high-availability capabilities of its NonStop line of servers with its more modular, low-power consumption blade platforms. The new HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c-cg Carrier-grade BladeSystem delivers four times the performance in half the physical footprint when compared to an equivalent HP NonStop S-Series... |
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| FCC Votes: Sprint-Clearwire, Alltel-Verizon and white spaces rules pass
04/11/2008
The FCC late this afternoon approved both the Verizon Wireless acquisition of Alltel and Sprint and Clearwire’s merger of WiMAX assets—two deals that could substantially recreate the wireless landscape in the US. It also adopted rules for governing the use of the “white spaces” between existing broadcast television spectrum for use in offering wireless data services.A coalition of companies --... |
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| Clearwire CEO: FCC WiMAX approval would be "good policy"
03/11/2008
Clearwire Chief Executive Officer Ben Wolff is confident that Tuesday’s FCC vote on the merger of Clearwire and Sprint’s WiMAX assets will be a favorable one. Though the two companies plan to create a nationwide 4G network has drawn criticism from other telcos, Wolff said he believes the FCC understands that the new increasing consumer choice for broadband in the US beyond DSL and cable as well... |
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| Sprint had little choice but commit to Nextel
31/10/2008
Sprint is hailing the FCC’s lenience toward Sprint over vacating its Nextel spectrum as an opportunity to rejuvenate its iDen network. Given 18 months to retune the 800-MHz network, Sprint said after careful review of the iDEN business it has decided to reinvest in Nextel and Boost Mobile and has signed a new deal with Motorola to support and upgrade the network. But what Sprint is calling an... |
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| DOJ greenlights VZW-Alltel deal
30/10/2008
Verizon Wireless’s proposed acquisition of Alltel has survived the U.S. Department of Justice’s scrutiny, clearing away all hurdles to the deal except one: the FCC’s approval. The Commission is scheduled to take up the issue next Tuesday along with a host of other hot-button issues. If Verizon-Alltel gets a yea vote, though, Verizon will be free to swallow the privately owned regional operator,... |
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| Comcast: AT&T now bigger threat than Verizon
29/10/2008
Despite a shaky economy, Comcast, the largest cable company in the United States, reported positive third-quarter earnings today, including net income growth of 38% and broadband subscriber growth surpassing that of AT&T and Verizon Communications combined. Yet, along with increasing access-line loss and a changing video landscape, the third quarter also saw a shift in the competitive... |
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| Level 3 boosts Asia-Pac CDN
28/10/2008
Level 3 Communications today announced expansion of its content delivery network into the Asia-Pacific region to include its first coverage in China, and expanded capacity and features in others areas as well.The goal of this expansion is to enable Level 3’s North American and European customers, such as Yahoo, to reach the Asia-Pac audience, said Lisa Guillaume, vice president of product... |
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| RLEC M&A faces tough timing
28/10/2008
The acquisition of Embarq this week by a company half its size illustrates the unpredictable result of the opposing dynamics now dominating the rural local exchange carrier (RLEC) sector: the pressure to participate in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and the turbulence in the financial markets, which make M&A harder. The combination leaves RLECs with the difficult decision of acting now,... |
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| VZW: Who needs the iPhone?
27/10/2008
Verizon Wireless may not have had the iPhone, but it managed to pull off an impressive quarter in terms of subscriber additions. The operator added 1.5 million new post-paid subscribers, while prepaid, wholesale and acquisitions chipped in another 600,000. And like AT&T, much of VZW’s growth was in the high-end smartphone line, where data revenues and high-dollar contracts helped boost... |
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| Plugfests plug along, intercarrier focus up next
27/10/2008
Even as it broadens its charter, the NGN/IMS Forum announced it will continue its Plugfest series of interoperability tests this January, focusing on the real-world interoperability of key IP multimedia subsystem, session initiation protocol and Diameter interfaces.Although service provider IMS deployments have been slow to take off, the forum’s Plugfest events have generally been considered... |
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