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Allstream (formerly AT&T Canada) has further extended its Master Services Agreement with AT&T Corp. until June 30, 2011. The deal provides continuity for certain Allstream voice services and features built on AT&T capabilities and technology. The deal also will enable the two companies to offer customers cross-border routing, a capability used by many Contact Centres […]
Motorola reached an agreement with Nextel Communications to extend its iDEN infrastructure and iDEN subscriber supply agreements for a period of three years from January 1, 2005 through December 31, 2007. The contract covers base station equipment, core network equipment, plus software and hardware maintenance and support services necessary to expand, upgrade and support Nextel’s […]
Equant introduced a global LAN utility service that is seamlessly integrated with its Cisco-based IP VPN service. The new Equant LAN VPN service is a fully managed LAN service for a monthly fee per site or per port. Equant is offering wired and wireless LANs built with Cisco equipment. The service also provides Web-based views […]
TenXc Wireless, a start-up based in Ottawa, Canada, raised US$13.9 million in Series A funding for its development of intelligent radio frequency solutions. TenXc is working on solutions for improved spectral efficiency and signal quality that address capacity, quality, and coverage constraints for in wireless networks. The company said its technologies are based on research […]
LG Electronics has chosen Texas Instruments’ VoIP products for its access gateway platforms and next- generation trunking gateways. TI silicon and software currently power LGE’s Compact Access Module (CAM), Total Access Module (TAM) and trunking gateways and are intended to replace existing toll telecom exchange systems. http://www.ti.com
The Communications Workers of America, a union that represents about 3,400 Sprint employees who work for Sprint’s local telephone companies, calling on federal and state regulators to carefully address the critical issues raised in the proposed deal by Sprint Corp. to acquire Nextel Communications. The CWA is concerned that the spinoff of Sprint’s local telephone […]
Avaya acquired substantially all of the assets of RouteScience Technologies, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, that developed a “route controller” platform for optimizing a company’s multiple ISP links. Financial terms were not disclosed. RouteScience offers adaptive networking software (ANS) for enterprises and service providers. ANS monitors, assesses and automatically adjusts the network environment […]
Verizon has signed the Discovery Network as a content partner for its upcoming “FiOS ” FTTP TV service. Under the agreement, Verizon’s programming lineup will include Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Travel Channel, Discovery Health Channel, Discovery Kids Channel, Discovery Times Channel, The Science Channel, Discovery Home Channel, Military Channel, Discovery en Espanol, FitTV, BBC […]
Covad Communications and Verizon signed a commercial agreement enabling Covad to continue to provide line-sharing services to DSL subscribers throughout Verizon territory for a four-year period. Line-sharing allows communications providers like Covad to deploy DSL on the same line customers use for their voice phone services. Covad said that while the specific terms of the […]
HP and Cisco Systems agreed to deliver co-branded support services – via a single point of contact – to help customers maintain their enterprise networks on a global scale. The agreement is part of Cisco’s Global Services Alliance program, which was established by Cisco in June 2004. HP has been selected by Cisco for this […]
Telecom Italia and Cisco Systems agreed to collaborate on VoIP solutions targeted at midsize and large businesses. The companies said that in addition to offering VoIP services, the integration of Cisco IP solutions on the Telecom Italia platform, would help customers adopt advanced services and solutions, including multimedia messaging, videoconferencing, file and document sharing and […]
At its annual Business Review Conference, Bell Canada said it is making significant progress in migrating to next generation services. Currently 60% of Bell Canada’s revenues come from its legacy services, such as local and long distance, while 40% come from new, high- growth services – such as wireless, video, high-speed Internet, IP and Value-Added […]
QUALCOMM opened a BREW Developer Lab in Mumbai, India. The new lab, one of nine BREW developer labs worldwide, will provide Indian application developers access to the latest BREW-enabled handsets, software and testing tools. In addition, the lab provides developers access to hands-on technical support from QUALCOMM. Developers will also be able to attend a […]