Telekom Austria's domestic subsidiary, A1, is claiming a world first with the deployment of Alcatel-Lucent's VDSL2 vectoring technology for commercial services. Adding vectoring to VDSL2 can, in theory, boost the speed of a copper broadband connection to 100 Mbit/s downstream, compared with the current maximum VDSL2 speeds of 40-50 Mbit/s. (See T Austria Does Vectoring With AlcaLu, AlcaLu Launches VDSL2 Vectoring and AlcaLu Speeds Up Its VDSL2.)
Ericsson has appointed a new CTO in the shape of Ulf Ewaldsson, the vendor's current head of Product Area Radio. He replaces HÃ¥kan Eriksson, who stepped down in December. Ewaldsson, however, will not be the Head of Ericsson Silicon Valley, a role his predecessor also held. (See Ericsson Appoints New CTO, Analyst Acclaims New Ericsson CTO and Euronews: Ericsson's CTO Steps Down.)
Vodafone Group plc has won its $2.2 billion tax battle with the authorities in India, giving its share price a 1.7 percent boost to 177.45 pence in morning trading on the London Stock Exchange. For more details, see this Light Reading India article.
Netgem, the French set-top box company, saw its 2011 full-year revenues dip 37 percent year-on-year to €84.6 million (US$109.2 million), though this decline was largely attributable to the massive one-time set-top box hardware order placed by triple play service provider SFR during 2010. In markets outside France, Netgem's revenue was actually up 20 percent year-on-year. (See Netgem Reports International Growth.)
Vodafone's Qatar unit made a loss of 122 million riyals ($33.5 million) in its fiscal third quarter ending December 2011, reports Reuters, though this was an improvement on the same period a year ago. It added 15,000 subscribers in the quarter to take its total to 797,000 customers.
— Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, Light Reading
Currently we allow the following HTML tags in comments:
Single tags
These tags can be used alone and don't need an ending tag.
<br> Defines a single line break
<hr> Defines a horizontal line
Matching tags
These require an ending tag - e.g. <i>italic text</i>
<a> Defines an anchor
<b> Defines bold text
<big> Defines big text
<blockquote> Defines a long quotation
<caption> Defines a table caption
<cite> Defines a citation
<code> Defines computer code text
<em> Defines emphasized text
<fieldset> Defines a border around elements in a form
<h1> This is heading 1
<h2> This is heading 2
<h3> This is heading 3
<h4> This is heading 4
<h5> This is heading 5
<h6> This is heading 6
<i> Defines italic text
<p> Defines a paragraph
<pre> Defines preformatted text
<q> Defines a short quotation
<samp> Defines sample computer code text
<small> Defines small text
<span> Defines a section in a document
<s> Defines strikethrough text
<strike> Defines strikethrough text
<strong> Defines strong text
<sub> Defines subscripted text
<sup> Defines superscripted text
<u> Defines underlined text
Network Computing encourages readers to engage
in spirited, healthy debate, including taking us to task.
However, Network Computing moderates all comments posted to our site,
and reserves the right to modify or remove any content that it determines to be derogatory,
offensive, inflammatory, vulgar, irrelevant/off-topic, racist or obvious marketing/SPAM.
Network Computing further reserves the right to disable the profile of any commenter participating
in said activities.
