12 March 2010
TPG Telecom has finally won control of Australian network Pipe in a deal valued at $373 million More »
Egypt’s National Telecom Regulatory Authority has delayed the deadline for applications for two new licences until April 15 More »
11 March 2010
A group of New Zealand entrepreneurs are planning a cable to increase the country’s capacity to California and Australia More »
Providence Equity Partners, owner of Kabel Deutschland, plans to float 30 million shares at up to €25.50 each More »
PHS operator Fitel has won a WiMax licence from Taiwan’s regulator and plans to start services in the north of the island later in 2010 More »
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The Brazilian government wants Telebrás to manage a programme to build a national fibre network to improve broadband access More »
10 March 2010
Verizon’s capex will be about $17 billion in 2010, with a strong cash flow, mainly from Verizon Wireless, according to CFO John Killian More »
South Korean smartphone maker LG has launched its first Android phone in its home market and is expected to have 10 on offer this year More »
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Ciena, headed by Gary Smith, is to raise $250 million to fund its purchase of Nortel Networks’ metro ethernet unit More »
09 March 2010
Belgium is offering a fourth licence for 3G services and is expected to follow with licences for LTE and WiMax capacity More »
Indian operator Bharti Airtel is negotiating a loan so that it can buy most of Zain’s African businesses More »
Telefónica is talking to independent operators in Mexico about a consortium to bid for the electricity company’s optical fibre network More »
08 March 2010
China Mobile, the world’s largest operator, is setting up a Taiwanese subsidiary, but it will not be allowed to invest in local telecoms operators More »
Private equity company Abry Partners is to buy US cable and broadband operator RCN for $531 million plus $730 million debt More »
05 March 2010
Hans Vestberg has reorganised Ericsson in the few weeks since he took over. He wants the new team to listen to customers
23 February 2010
Truphone’s CEO Geraldine Wilson has announced the first of what she hopes will be 25 MVNO deals with leading global operators
12 February 2010
ISPs are struggling to cope with consumers’ demand for online video. In the UK, BT is responding by launching its own wholesale content network for video.
11 February 2010
One of Canada’s leaders in the media industry is developing broadband services and offering its nationwide fibre to international operators
14 December 2009
Global Telecoms Business reveals the top ten telecoms operator and vendor M&A deals of the year ordered by value.
15 February 2010
India's Bharti Airtel is buying Zain's African operations for $10.7 billion, more than three times what Zain paid for the company in 2005
Carlos Slim has succeeded in bringing together his Mexican fixed and mobile operations, Telmex and América Móvil
17 February 2010
China Unicom has made China;s biggest ever bid for international telecoms expansion with a $2.5 billion offer for Nigeria’s Nitel
13 November 2009
Ted Griggs, the CEO of Ribbit, now owned by BT, has been made CTO of BT Voice
Telekom Austria is considering merging operations of mobile and fixed services
12 November 2009
Chris Gabriel of Zain Africa says the group is not planning to split up and sell its 13 networks
Motorola is discussing selling its equipment side for up to $5 billion, as part of a three-way split
A survey of 15,000 consumers across the world shows that people trust mobile phone companies, but they say that operators are not moving fast enough to provide advanced services
16 February 2010
CDMA operators China Telecom, KDDI and Verizon Wireless plus CDMA vendor Qualcomm have finally joined the GSM Association
19 February 2010
Lars Nilsson is to replace Harri Koponen as CEO of Tele2 after Kopenen left because of differences with the board
18 February 2010
Australia’s minister for broadband, Stephen Conroy, has launched the first construction work on the country’s planned National Broadband Network
Verizon Wireless expects to launch LTE services in 25-30 US cities by the end of 2010
BT Wholesale is launching a content delivery network to allow ISPs to offer guaranteed quality to consumers
Verizon Wireless is to offer Skype-to-Skype and SkypeOut services on nine smartphones from March 2010
Telefónica is launching cloud services for customers in Latin America, using NEC, following a similar service in Spain
ZTE is to supply 12 of Telefónica’s operations in central and South America with a range of customised handsets
12 January 2010
China Unicom, one of China’s three telecoms operators, is integrating its fixed and mobile operations and reorganising its business
03 November 2009
BT is taking names for a beta trial of Ribbit, a web-based system to manage calls and messages
04 February 2010
A US-based private equity company is to invest $300 million in an Indian operator of mobile phone towers
The biggest shareholder in Egypt-based Orascom is to lend the company $225 million free of interest
01 February 2010
Essar, the company that owns 33% of Vodafone’s Indian operation, is planning to invest $2 billion in up to seven African mobile businesses
08 February 2010
Reports from the UK suggest BT is considering plans to open up its cable ducts to rival operators
17 December 2009
Carriers must shore up their infrastructure and re-orient their portfolios to accommodate new applications
28 February 2010
Joe Weinman looks ahead to assess what the coming decade will bring in the communications sector. Co-sponsored feature: AT&T
27 February 2010
After so long promoting high-speed mobile services, it seems surprising that operators could have been caught out by the surge in demand
The era of international TDM is nearing its end, hastened by forums that are setting standards and providing exchanges where the new traffic can be interconnected
IP interoperability enables a seamless platform for users of next generation communication applications. Co-sponsored feature: BT Global Services
Open access opens the market to new entrants, providing more choices to the end customer. Co-sponsored feature: ECI Telecom
Wholesale operators are adding gateways, session border controllers, submarine cables and points of presence to their investment burden
A survey of 15,000 consumers across the world shows that people trust mobile operators, but operators are not moving fast enough to provide advanced services
In-building coverage, data offload and the need for secure backhaul are stimulating demand for femtocells. Co-sponsored feature: Genband
The difference between HD voice and legacy telephony is abundantly clear. Will it become mainstream, asks Jon Doyle. Co-sponsored feature: CommuniGate Systems
Partnership options range from a fully outsourced turnkey solution from the back office to branding, provisioning, or marketing. Sponsored by Sprint
01 December 2009
LTE will fundamentally change the mobility ecosystem
Operators are poised to roll-out LTE services
10 December 2009
DoCoMo's LTE Advanced promises gigabit speeds
The hurdles mobile operators need to overcome in order to capitalise on the untapped SMB market
Carrier-grade packet switched solutions can now provide the quality required by operators
When service providers can make it simple and seamless, they will unlock opportunities for their business
New business models are needed between service providers and third parties if the new market is to make sense
11 December 2009
Cloud service providers and technology suppliers are joining with users on a comprehensive programme
02 October 2009
Beyond the traditional definition of outsourced IT
Content, disaster recovery and business continuity
Strategies to move from uncertainty to recovery
From distributed to centralised computing and storage
Sustainable business models for VoIP and VA services
Operators need help in transforming their models
Productivity gains and a smaller carbon footprint
Managed services are facing a new kid on the block
The unified applications business users need
Monetising access for smartphones and 3G
Questions the industry will have to answer
Mobile banking is taking off in the developing world
New types of international products
20 August 2009
Growth of mobile voice is giving a late boost to TDM
Nationwide high-bandwidth network with SIP gateways
Select, specialist products for the wholesale market
New cable links African countries to the internet
30 June 2009
Service providers are the only players in the value chain
Altering culture, society and business
What’s all the buzz about the cloud?
Entering new markets and building new capacity
28 June 2009
Priority is being placed on customer service excellence
Operators can concentrate on optimising costs
What makes a country attractive for outsourcing?
Telecoms executives expect to increase outsourcing
26 June 2009
Operators can implement new services for subscribers
19 June 2009
Funding cutting-edge communications businesses
A comparison between WiMax 802.16d and 802.16e TDD technologies
Introducing the Nokia Siemens Networks SON Suite – an efficient, future-proof platform for SON
Wireless operators, public agencies, and enterprises can now adopt the latest WiMax technology without securing licensed spectrum
The industry is gearing up for the next step of the DSL evolution: VDSL
20 November 2009
Scaling the new service provider network at the edge
20 October 2009
Research from the GSM Association's Development Fund
16 October 2009
DSL, PONs, FTTP, WiMax and LTE in the last mile
15 October 2009
How to deliver more attractive broadband services
China Telecom Americas' commitment to partners
Overview of BroadbandSuite 3.0 for GPON
IEEE 802.3av 10Gbit/s ethernet PON (10G EPON)
FTTC, FTTB, FTTO and FTTH
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