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Posted in February 2008

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Nortel Aims for Ethernet Profits


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February 27, 2008 : Nortel's reaching for profitability in its Metro Ethernet business unit and a possible 20% carrier Ethernet market share in three to four years

Nortel: Don't Say M&A


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February 27, 2008 : NOON -- Nortel didn't want to talk about inorganic growth today

O2 Faces 3G Sanction


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February 27, 2008 : UK regulator Ofcom threatens O2 with a penalty equivalent to $80M if it does not meet its 3G coverage requirements by June of this year

Nortel Slashes 2,100 Jobs


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February 27, 2008 : In a move that will save about $300M, Nortel said it will cut 2,100 jobs this year and move another 1,000 positions to less expensive regions, as it reported full-year financial results

Google Rules


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February 27, 2008 : 7:00 AM -- Search giant named top UK business brand

Showdown in Brussels


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February 26, 2008 : 3:55 PM -- European Commission and national regulators square up in Brussels

Google Builds Undersea Cable


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February 26, 2008 : Google's quest for world domination knows no bounds as it confirms plans to build a $300 million undersea cable system linking the US and Japan through a six-member consortium of operators

Tellabs Appoints Robert Pullen CEO


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February 26, 2008 : Tellabs announced it has appointed company veteran Robert Pullen as its new CEO and president who will take up his new position on March 1

UK Operators Brace for Spectrum Struggle


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February 25, 2008 : UK operators are ready to battle regulator Ofcom over its plans for spectrum refarming, which would open the 900 MHz frequency to 3G services

Flat-Rate Day


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February 20, 2008 : Everybody offers flat rates on Tuesday

Ofcom Denies Spectrum Bundling


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February 20, 2008 : Ofcom denies talk of deferring the already-late 2.6 GHz auction further so that refarmed 900 MHz spectrum can be bundled as a package

Mobile Booms in China


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February 20, 2008 : 9:00 AM -- China Mobile subscriber growth soars in January

Network Sharing Rethink


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February 19, 2008 : 12:25 PM -- Vodafone, Orange revise UK network sharing plans

Vodafone, Orange Revamp Network Share Deal


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February 19, 2008 : Vodafone and Orange are expected to scrap plans for a network sharing joint venture and announce a revised sharing strategy that involves 2G and 3G site sharing

Wind Exits WiMax Auction


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February 18, 2008 : 12:30 PM -- Italians WiMax bids total $106 million so far

Finns Bump Customers Off Fixed Net


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February 18, 2008 : TeliaSonera Finland will migrate rural users from fixed to mobile networks and dish up broadband using Flash-OFDM - but there's no room for WiMax

China's Illicit iPhones


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February 18, 2008 : 9:00 AM -- Missing iPhones found in China

Femtocells Go Big Time in Barcelona


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February 14, 2008 : Femtocells are hot at MWC as operators announce major trials while home base station device vendors partner for new applications and service delivery

Telecom Italia Hives Off Access Network


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February 13, 2008 : Telecom Italia separates its access network into a new business unit called Open Access in a move intended to increase access network competition in the country

MusicStation's New Groove


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February 13, 2008 : 11:12 AM -- Omnifone now does music phones

Bridging the WiMax Divide


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February 13, 2008 : 9:40 AM -- Happy together – dual-mode EDGE/WiMax

China Mobile Joins LTE Threesome


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February 13, 2008 : China Mobile joins Verizon Wireless and Vodafone in a three-way trial of 4G mobile broadband standard LTE that will test the potential to establish global, interoperable, mobile broadband networks

Vodafone Pumps Up HSPA


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February 12, 2008 : Vodafone will test evolved HSPA and upgrade some of its 3G network to 14.4 Mbit/s, but it's still got its eye on 4G's long-term evolution (LTE)

T-Mob Preps Android Launch


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February 12, 2008 : 11:35 AM -- Operator plans to launch Android device this year

700 MHz Auctions, Round 58


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February 12, 2008 : 11:00 AM -- Mobile broadband auction totals $19.3 billion

VZB in the LAN


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February 12, 2008 : 10:00 AM -- Verizon Biz launches managed LAN service

Android in Sight


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February 12, 2008 : 9:15 AM -- T-Mobile wants to launch Google Android phone in Q4

T-Mob Cuts Data Roaming


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February 12, 2008 : 8:50 AM -- German operator heeds Reding's warning

Nokia vs Google: Together at Last?


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February 12, 2008 : Nokia and Google called a truce in the battle for the mobile Internet as the phone maker announced it will integrate Google's search engine into its new multimedia handsets

Nokia Gets Google


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February 12, 2008 : 5:30 AM -- Keep your enemies closer

700 MHz Auctions, Round 55


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February 11, 2008 : 3:55 PM -- IFCC to look into D block failure

Vodafone, O2 Test Femtocells


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February 11, 2008 : Vodafone and Telefonica O2 Europe announce femtocell trials in Spain and the UK

Reding Guns for Data Roaming Cuts


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February 11, 2008 : European commissioner Vivian Reding threatens mobile operators with another regulated price cut if they don't reduce data roaming charges by July 1

MWC Preview: LTE in the Limelight


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February 7, 2008 : Next-generation mobile broadband standard LTE is set to steal the spotlight at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week

Netgear Gateway Goes Femto


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February 6, 2008 : Netgear unveils the first home gateway with an integrated 3G femtocell from Ubiquisys and will demonstrate it at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week

AT&T 's Road to 4G


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February 6, 2008 : 12:32 PM -- AT&T prepares for LTE

Fujitsu Teams Up to Tackle Mobile WiMax


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February 6, 2008 : Fujitsu enters the mobile WiMax base-station market with partner Airspan and unveils first new products that, it hopes, will help it land a major deal with Japanese operator KDDI

Vodafone Plans LTE Powwow


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February 6, 2008 : Vodafone will host a meeting with vendors to discuss plans for next-generation mobile broadband standard LTE during next week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Unstrung has learned

LTE Hits 300 Mbit/s


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February 6, 2008 : The LTE/SAE Trial Initiative has released its first lab trial results of early 4G LTE systems, boasting of a 300-Mbit/s downlink

Fringsters Get New Fring


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February 5, 2008 : 1:00 PM -- Fring launches new version of mobile VOIP service

O2, 3 Merge Video Services


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February 5, 2008 : 9:25 AM -- O2, 3 combine user-generated mobile video services

PicoChip Unveils LTE Reference Design


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February 4, 2008 : picoChip unveils LTE reference design that runs on same platform as its WiMax reference designs and will demonstrate the end-to-end system at the Mobile World Congress next week

WiMax Edges Closer to LTE


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February 4, 2008 : The FDD version of mobile WiMax takes a significant step toward approval at the WiMAX Forum, which makes it a strong contender to compete with LTE