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New Zealand marked the official launch of its ultra fast broadband (UFB) rollout with the first fibre laid today at Manaia View School in Whangarei. The announcement follows confirmation of...

In France, Bouygues Telecom and SFR agreed to share the costs of deploying FTTH infrastructure in dense municipalities. The companies will share the passive elements of the GPON network, but...

PAETEC agreed to acquire Formula Telecom Solutions in a $13 million all-cash transaction. FTS' Leap RevChain has been PAETEC's primary billing system since its inception in 1998. Upon the closing...

More than 80 public interest groups published an open letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski that criticizes his Internet government policy statement, which is headed to a vote later this...

Gilles Bouchard resigned his position as Opnext's CEO and President as well as from his seat on the company's Board of Directors. Harry Bosco, currently the non-executive Chairman of Board...

Bahrain-based Batelco has signed a group framework agreement with ZTE for 2G/3G wireless solutions. As of Q3, Batelco serves 7.5 million mobile subscribers and 233,000 broadband customers across Bahrain, Jordan,...

GENBAND opened a new corporate headquarters in Frisco, Texas. The new, 52,000 square foot facility houses GENBAND's senior management, sales, marketing, finance, legal and human resources teams. The company will...

Ericsson has appointed Jan Wäreby as its new head of Sales and Marketing. Wäreby is currently Senior Vice President, head of Business Unit Multimedia and member of Ericsson's Executive Leadership...

BCE announced a 7.7% increase in its annual common share dividend to $1.97 per share for 2011, and plans to accelerate funding of future pension obligations through a voluntary prepayment...

Novatel Wireless filed a lawsuit against Franklin Wireless Corp. and ZTE Corp. citing infringement of five of its patents related to key architecture and functionality of the MiFi family of...

Service Providers worldwide are now converging their IP infrastructure so as to deliver Carrier Ethernet business services, residential broadband services and mobile backhaul over a common network. Worldwide enterprise Wireless...

Picochip and Wavesat completed interoperability testing (IOT) between Picochip's PC960x LTE small cell base station solution and Wavesat's Odyssey 9000 family of UE chipsets. The first Wavesat Odyssey 9000 chipsets...

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