SIP Trunking Installations to Nearly Triple by 2013, Fueled by SMB Growth
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Despite lingering questions about overall quality of service, enterprises are becoming more comfortable with the use of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunking as a low-cost alternative to legacy telecom services, a change that will result in a growth in deployment from 8.5 million SIP trunks in 2009 to 24.3 million trunks in 2013, according [...]
Va. Beach Drops Phone-Lines Suit Against Verizon
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A lawsuit was filed. Names were called. But in the end, it proved to be a case of faulty communication. The city withdrew its lawsuit against Verizon Communications Inc. on Tuesday after discovering that the lines it was suing over didn’t exist.
Topics: United States, telecom, Verizon
Communities To Lose Free Intranet
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The communities of Bath, Copley and Richfield have never had to pay for the so-called I-Net service — a fiber-optic connection — that linked computers and phones inside various schools and government buildings. The intranet connections were free thanks to franchise agreements penned with cable services in the 1980s.
Topics: voip, broadband, United States, [...]
North Carolina: Cable TV, ATT Cellphone Users Caught Up In Widespread Outages
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Time Warner Cable and AT&T customers in the area may have found their high-tech communications offline Wednesday as the two companies reported unrelated service problems here.
Topics: outage, telecom, cellular, cellphone, AT&T, Time Warner, United States, North Carolina
MainOne Fibre Optic Cable Launched
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Chairman of the of the company, Mr. Fola Adeola, said the submarine cables were laid from Portugal to Lagos covering a distance of about 7,200 kilometres. Adeola, who is the former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, added that the firm currently has a solid base in London, South [...]
Union OKs Contract With Frontier
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According to a summary sheet provided by the union, the new contract includes: –General wage increases of 2.75 percent in August 2011 and 2.5 percent in August 2012 –A pledge by Frontier to not go below 1,600 full-time jobs in the business it acquired from Verizon in West Virginia during the life of the [...]
Telco Chiefs In Pakistan to Face Action Over User Verification
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The home ministry has threatened action against the heads of telecom service providers operating in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) if their firms issue mobile phone connections without properly verifying the identity of the users.
Topics: Airtel, telecom, cellular, Bharti, United States
Seacom Pushes Back Repair Deadline
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SEACOM, the broadband cable operator, said yesterday that a major fault in its cable north of Kenya would be fixed only around July 22, more than a week later than first hoped.
Topics: undersea cable, United States, telecom, Africa, broadband
Tyco Electric Buys ADC Communications For $1.24B
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Tyco Electronics Ltd. says it’s acquiring ADC Communications in a deal valued at $1.24 billion. Tyco says the acquisition will help it provide broadband access to networks around the world. The deal is expected to boost Tyco’s per-share profit by 14 cents in the first full year. That figure excludes acquisition costs.
Topics: broadband, [...]
Business As Usual for Alltel Customers
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Customers of one Upstate cellular provider will do business as usual despite the company changing hands. Alltel customers in 13 counties in northwest South Carolina — including Union County — will see no change in their service or who provides their cellular coverage even though the Alltel assets in those counties have been sold [...]
Windstream Adding Jobs, Staying in Little Rock
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Windstream Corp. announced Tuesday that it will keep its headquarters in Little Rock and add more than 200 positions, an important announcement for a city that lost a major telecommunications headquarters when Alltel Corp. was bought out by Verizon.
Topics: landline, broadband, telecom, voip, United States, Windstream
Qwest to Hold Special Shareholder Meeting
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Qwest Communications (NYSE: Q) today announced it will hold a special shareholder meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010, at the Denver Marriott City Center. Shareholders will vote on a proposal to adopt the merger agreement with CenturyLink, Inc.
Topics: telecom, United States, Qwest
Rural Broadband Efforts Yield Some Hits, Many Misses
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The latest bids to bring high-speed Internet service to rural Wisconsin, using federal stimulus money, have struck gold in a couple of areas while other communities are striking out.
Topics: broadband, telecom, United States
Sprint to Launch Its Version of 4G Network Today
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Sprint launches its version of 4G service to customers in the Richmond area today, promising download speeds up to 10 times faster than the current 3G network.
Topics: 4G, Sprint, United States
Verizon Seeks Bill’s Demise: Sponsors Looking to Protect Consumers, In The Event Of A Sale
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Verizon Communications Inc. is working hard at the Capitol in Albany to kill legislation that would require it to share the proceeds from the sale of its telephone lines with its customers.
Topics: Verizon, telecom, United States, voip
