PNG Searching for Acquisitions in 2010
Phone+ News, USA
Following its January restructuring to focus on commercial business, PowerNet Global (PNG), a privately-held service provider based in Cincinnati, announced Thursday that it plans to acquire complementary businesses in 2010 with a goal of sustained annual growth of 25 percent.
Topics: PNG, PowerNet Global, telecom, USA, telecommunications
Tariam To Offer Feather Weight Satellite Phone
Global Satellite Broadband ISP Tariam has announced that its new ultra lightweight global satellite phone will be launched in June.
Related Topics: broadband, phone, satellite, satellite phone, Tariam, telecom
TRAI Mulls Committee to Handle Consumer Grievances
Business Standard
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is in the process of constituting a committee to address consumer grievances for pre-paid mobile connections. Sources from the telecom regulator say the committee will be set up in the next few days.
Topics: consumer, telecommunications, regulation, telecom, pre-paid, India, 4G
Egypt’s Orascom Telecom Loses Algeria Tax Appeal
BusinessWeek
Egyptian mobile phone giant Orascom Telecom says Algerian authorities have rejected its initial appeal of a $597 million tax bill levied against its subsidiary in that North African nation. In a statement issued Sunday evening, Orascom, which operates Mobinil, Egypt’s largest mobile phone service provider by subscribers, said it paid the required 20 percent of the tax bill to appeal the rejection, which was filed in December.
Topics: Middle East News, Telegeography, Egypt, Middle East, Algeria, phone, Mobinil, Orascom, Africa, France
India May Delay Mobile Number Portability Again
PC World
The roll-out in India of mobile number portability (MNP) is likely to delay beyond a March 31 deadline, because operators have not yet upgraded their infrastructure, the country’s minister of state for communications and IT, Gurudas Kamat, said on Thursday. MNP will give mobile subscribers the option to retain their mobile numbers even if they change service providers. India had 545 million mobile subscribers at the end of January, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
Topics: telecommunications, regulation, telecom, India, number portability
NaviSite Cuts Losses, Continues Shuttering Colocation-Only Data Centres
Datacenter Dynamics
Data center service provider NaviSite has shrunk its losses, as it shifts focus further away from colocation and closer toward hosting, its main revenue source, managed services and cloud computing. The company will launch its new fully managed cloud services offering in April and the full-production release is expected in May.
Topics: data center, launch, telecom, colocation
Taiwan’s WiMAX Providers Set to Launch Services This Year
The Taiwan Economic News
With First International Telecom Co., Ltd. recently awarded a franchise license to offer worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) mobile service, Taiwan`s six WiMAX providers officially enter into the stage of launching the service.
Topics: WiMax, launch, telecom, Taiwan, Hong Kong, LTE, telecommunications
Verizon, Network Vendors Transmit at 100 Gbps Over 1,500 km of Fiber
Datacenter Dynamics
Following Verizon’s announcement of deployment of 100 Gbps technology on a part of its network in Europe, the company announced this week a successful optical fiber transmission of real traffic in a field trial of 100 Gb in collaboration with Juniper and two other firms. Data was transmitted over a 1,520 km section of Verizon’s network in Dallas. The test applied standards-based optics end-to-end and used the latest 100 Gb native router interfaces. In a statement, Verizon said the multi-vendor demonstration validated the standard’s maturity.
Topics: data center, telecom, Verizon
U.S. Regulators Propose New Co-Location Rules
Reuters
U.S. regulators will propose a rule, aimed at high-frequency traders, to ensure all market participants have equal access to market data, the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said on Thursday. “We are doing a proposed rule on co-location to best promote … open access,” CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler told reporters on the sidelines of the Futures Industry Association annual conference.
Topics: telecom, co-location
Vodafone Says “No Network Outage”
New Zealand Herald
Vodafone mobile users have reported trouble connecting in Wellington yesterday and Taupo today. Vodafone spokesman Paul Brislen said there had been no network outage, just a lot of pressure on the network from growing data usage.
Topics: Internet, New Zealand, New Zealand Telecom, outage, telecom, USA, Vodafone, Wellington
Cloud Computing to be a Springboard for Asian Data Centers
ZDNet, Asia
Cloud computing will help drive demand for datacenter hosting in the Asia-Pacific region in several years, observers say, but traditional services will still be key.
Topics: Asia, data center, telecom, datacenter
SingTel to be Part of Funding For Bharti/Zain Deal
Economic Times
Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) may help with the funding for Bharti Airtel’s $9 billion acquisition of Zain’s African assets, a senior SingTel executive said on Friday.
Topics: Asia, Australia, Bharti, SingTel, telecom, telecoms
PIPE Shareholders Vote to Accept TPG Offer
The Australian
SHAREHOLDERS in PIPE Networks have voted to accept a $373.09 million takeover by TPG Telecom. PIPE, a telecommunications network infrastructure owner, held a meeting today to consider the bid, which was for $6.30 per share.
Topics: Australia, broadband, Pipe Networks, telecom, telecommunications, TPG Telecom
Internode To Boost Southern Cross Capacity
ZDNet, Australia
Internet service provider Internode has signed up for 2.5 gigabits per second more international capacity from Southern Cross Cable’s Network and says it has plans to buy another 12.5 gigabits.
Topics: 3G, Australia, Exetel, Internode, ISP, Optus, Pipe Networks, Southern Cross Cable
AT&T Looks to Dump Wi-Fi Network
Esme Vos writes at MuniWireless.com about the current state of the Riverside, Calif., network operated by AT&T. The network was the first and only bid by AT&T with MetroFi, which was unable to complete that network along with many others, and which shut down in 2008.
Topics: AT&T, Nokia, WiMax, HSPA, networking, wireless, Wi-Fi, telecom
Quigley Says NBN Will Deliver 1Gbps
ZDNet, Australia
Moments after shadow Minister for Communications Tony Smith criticised the government and NBN Co for proceeding without a business plan, NBN Co chief outlined his plan for business: ubiquitous 1Gbps services.
Topics: ATUG, Australia, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, broadband, government, NBN, Sydney, telecom, telecommunications
T-Mobile Lowering 3G Rates On Non-Subsidized Phones
Wi-Fi Net News
It’s long been an irritation of cellular customers that even when they pay the full price of a phone or 3G modem, the monthly data charge remains the same as people who get a subsidized version. That’s changing, with T-Mobile in the lead. T-Mobile cut its unsubsidized monthly fee for 3G service by $10 per month for its 200 MB and 5 GB plans.
Topics: 3G, wireless, WiMax, cellular, HSPA, networking, T-Mobile, telecom, Wi-Fi, carrier
FCC Releases Wireless Apps For The Public
Looking for real-time data of its own, the FCC (yes, the regulatory body in Washington, D.C.) has released a mobile app for iPhone and Android. Don’t worry, the feds aren’t interested in listening to your phone conversations, rather they say the purpose of the app is to provide “Americans with additional information about heir mobile data connection and to create awareness about the importance of mobile broadband connection quality.”
Topics: 3G, Android, carrier, T-Mobile, broadband, Verizon, telecom, Satio, iPhone, wireless
Sprint Taking Some Hits on Wholesale VoIP Service
At one point in early 2009, cable companies using Sprint’s wholesale IP voice service passed 31 million homes, servicing 4.5 million of them with VoIP service.
3G Hopes For India
Voice & Data Online
3G service will attract huge investments in wireless product, infrastructure, IP backhaul, terminal, and VAS. Industry experts say that the Indian market will be driven by two things-continuous expansion of GSM and the advent of 3G-over the next two years.
