AT&T + BellSouth Deal Closes, Following Last Minute Concessions
The FCC voted 4-to-0 to approve AT&T's acquisition of BellSouth, concluding that the largest telecom merger in U.S. history would ...
Year: 2006
BT Ready to Get Telecom Licenses in India
The Government of India, Department of Telecommunications (DoT), issued Letters of Intent (LoI) to BT for the award of licences ...
Level 3 to Acquire SAVVIS CDN — 7th Acquisition in 2006
Level 3 Communications agreed to acquire the Content Delivery Network (CDN) services business of SAVVIS, for $135 million in cash. ...
Microsoft, SOFTBANK and Japan Telecom Team on Services
Microsoft, SOFTBANK BB, and Japan Telecom are developing a security-enhanced, integrated communications service that combines VoIP, e-mail, Internet access, groupware, ...
AT&T Launches U-verse TV in SF Bay Area
AT&T announced the initial launch of its U-verse TV service in parts of the San Francisco Bay area, including parts ...
UTStarcom's CTO Resigns to Take Post at China Mobile
UTStarcom announced the resignation of Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Bill Huang, who will take a senior executive ...
Seagate to Acquire EVault for Online Backup Service
Seagate Technology agreed to acquire privately-held EVault, which provides online backup services, as part of its effort to extend the ...
Motorola To Acquire Tut Systems for $39 Million
Motorola agreed to acquire Tut Systems for $1.15 per share in cash, giving the transaction a value of approximately $39 ...
DIRECTV Awards Data Networking Contract Extension to AT&T
DIRECTV will continue its current contract with AT&T for OneNet services for an additional year at a value of $33 ...
Juniper Plans $900 Million in Charges for Past Stock-Compensation Probems
Juniper Networks announced that its internal Audit Committee has concluded that numerous stock option grants issued in the past differ ...
Sprint Invests $7 Billion in Network Upgrades in 2006
Sprint spent almost $7 billion in 2006 for network upgrades, most of which has gone to enhance its wireless and ...
Siemens Achieves 107 Gbps over a Single Fiber Channel
Researchers at Siemens, working in cooperation with Micram, the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications (Heinrich-Hertz-Institut) and Eindhoven Technical University, achieved an ...
Ericsson to Acquire Redback for $2.1 Billion
Ericsson agreed to acquire Redback Networks for $2.1 billion, or $25 dollars per Redback share. The acquisition is expected to ...
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