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BT appointed Gavin Patterson as chief executive, replacing Ian Livingston, who will take up a role in government as Minister of State for Trade and Investment. The change will occur...

NEC was selected to upgrade APCN2 (Asia Pacific Cable Network 2) to 100G wavelengths.  The contract was signed by the purchasing consortium of 13 major telecom operators involved with APCN2....

Russia's Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) selected Ericsson to deploy its LTE network in four regions covering more than half of Russia, thus becoming MTS's main vendor. Financial terms were not disclosed....

Pacnet, which operates submarine cable systems with over 46,000 km of fiber and connectivity to interconnected data centers across 16 cities in Asia-Pac, has signed Master Service Agreements (MSAs) with...

Sprint increased its bid to acquire the approximately 50 percent of Clearwire it does not currently own (the “minority stake”) by $5.00 per share, valuing Clearwire at approximately $14 billion,...

Symmetricom announced a strategic restructuring plan and updated financial guidance for its fiscal fourth quarter ending June 30, 2013. The restructuring plan includes the realignment and consolidation of several organizations,...

Orange officially launched its joyn rich communications services in mainland France. joyn enables Orange mobile customers equipped with a compatible phone to start a video chat, share pictures, or use...

Alcatel-Lucent outlined a "Shift Plan" aimed at transforming the company from a generalist supplier of networking solution into a specialist provider of IP Networking and Ultra-Broadband Access.  The company is...

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF)completed its third semi-annual PlugFest designed to drive interoperability, deployment, and commercialization of SDN and the OpenFlow protocol. The event, which was hosted earlier this month...

Cumulus Networks, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, emerged from stealth to unveil its Linux operating system for data center networking. Cumulus Linux, which is already in large-scale commercial deployment...

Motorola Mobility’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group announced a collaboration agreement with eight top U.S. research universities to streamline new joint research projects and the development of fundamental new...

RAD introduced distributed Grandmaster functionality in its Service Assured Access solution for mobile backhaul networks. The company said distributed GM is an elegant solution for LTE compared to existing solutions...

Tektronix Communications has begun offering professional consulting services to help carriers optimize the rollout of LTE networks. Tektronix said LTE rollouts are complex due to the increase in traffic and...