News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 30, 2007 : Pan-European Ethernet services operator COLT sees its share price leap more than 16 percent on talk of a takeover bid by AT&T, which has been looking to boost its presence on the Old Continent
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (8) November 29, 2007 : British incumbent denies claims that its PBT cost case is unraveling, and says initial deployment issues in Italy are nothing unusual
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 29, 2007 : South African incumbent's valuation takes a whack – as does its fixed-line strategy – as takeover talks with MTN and Vodafone fall through
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 29, 2007 : The Italian incumbent's new owners are set to install a new top management team after the chairman and CEO announced their decisions to step down as of December 3
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (31) November 27, 2007 : Ethernet Expo debate in Warsaw raises questions about the costs of deploying PBT as an alternative to MPLS in metro network rollouts
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (13) November 26, 2007 : Light Reading Insider report sees mobile operator demand for deep packet inspection ramping up in next few years and overtaking fixed operator demand by 2011
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 23, 2007 : Central and Eastern Europe is ripe for Carrier Ethernet-based metro network developments as broadband uptake grows and carriers launch capacity-hungry services such as IPTV, say infrastructure players
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (2) November 23, 2007 : Indian operator's $875M GSM equipment deal could be put back out to tender, or offered to Ericsson or any number of other mobile gear vendors, if its deal with Nokia Siemens isn't concluded soon
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 22, 2007 : Polish operator Telefonia Dialog is about to launch its IPTV service in an effort to snatch broadband customers from incumbent TP, which is taking its own telco TV offering into many more towns and cities
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 22, 2007 : Our sister site Byte & Switch has named its own Top 10 Turkeys of 2007, with the lengthy power-down at data center facilities provider 365 Main among its chief warblers
Eurobites - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 21, 2007 : The Old Continent's big telecom players have an emerging market right on their doorstep: Central and Eastern Europe
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (4) November 20, 2007 : Startup adds PBT support to its network planning and management suite in response to demand from vendors and a Tier 1 carrier, joining Gridpoint and Soapstone in a key carrier Ethernet niche sector
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (16) November 19, 2007 : Alcatel-Lucent's president of IP, Basil Alwan, says deep packet inspection is crucial to the development of next-gen carrier services and that his team is developing integrated DPI capabilities
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 16, 2007 : France Telecom beats off rival carrier bids to take control of loss-making Telkom Kenya in a deal worth $390M, and must now invest in a new mobile network and broadband infrastructure
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (4) November 15, 2007 : Basil Alwan, the man behind Alcatel's impressive surge into the IP equipment market, has been handed a strategic blue-sky role in Alcatel-Lucent's Carrier Business Group
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (11) November 14, 2007 : Nortel has a new PBT-optimized Ethernet switch, codenamed MetroNext, in the works as it tries to rival the MPLS router vendors with multicast capabilities that could support services such as IPTV
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 14, 2007 : As OSS vendors unveil their latest wares, software giant leads the way with an integrated software platform approach that ties inventory management with business processes and CRM
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 13, 2007 : C&W raises its earnings guidance as its restructuring strategy pays off, but its international chief won't be around to reap all the bonus benefits
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 12, 2007 : Spanish giant reports nearly 40 percent rise in Q3 net income to €4B, helped by the sale of Endemol, but IPTV subscriber growth has slowed in the carrier's home market
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (5) November 9, 2007 : Sounds dirty, doesn't it? Well, it may be. BT had to look outside its core group of preferred 21CN vendors and ask Sonus to join the gang
LR Mobile News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) November 9, 2007 : Sprint confirms that WiMax partnership with Clearwire has been scrapped and says it's reviewing its WiMax business plans
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) November 8, 2007 : Tellabs announces a $600 million share buyback program and the resignation of its CEO and president, Krish Prabhu, who will step down on March 1, 2008
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 8, 2007 : Adding Premier League soccer to its content menu has tripled BT Vision's customer base, but restructuring costs hit the carrier's Q2 profits, sending its share price down more than 3%
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (6) November 7, 2007 : A year after commercial launch Swisscom's IPTV service has just 60,000 customers and is still experiencing technical difficulties
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) November 6, 2007 : Mike Zavirovski provides more detail on Nortel's numbers and says annual revenues are set to grow in 2008, helping to send the stock up 12%
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 6, 2007 : Third quarter falls short of expectations, but Nortel still manages a small profit and a gross margin of 43% on sales of $2.7 billion, numbers that send its stock up more than 2% in pre-market trading
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 5, 2007 : Strategic review identifies further cost cuts, but decides against an exit from the service assurance market, as the test vendor gears up for new product launches in 2008
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 5, 2007 : Unisys teams with AppTrigger as it aims to build on its installed base of carrier messaging systems at Tier 1 carriers like AT&T, BT, France Telecom, and Telefónica
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 5, 2007 : Microsoft's long-standing IPTV collaborator Reliance Communications is to launch its TV-over-fiber access services in India early next year, with Microsoft estimating its supply contract to be worth $500M
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) November 2, 2007 : Operators such as France Telecom and TeliaSonera are adding tens of thousands of IPTV subs each quarter as Europe leads the way in telco TV growth
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 30, 2007 : Pan-European Ethernet services operator COLT sees its share price leap more than 16 percent on talk of a takeover bid by AT&T, which has been looking to boost its presence on the Old Continent
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (8) November 29, 2007 : British incumbent denies claims that its PBT cost case is unraveling, and says initial deployment issues in Italy are nothing unusual
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 29, 2007 : South African incumbent's valuation takes a whack – as does its fixed-line strategy – as takeover talks with MTN and Vodafone fall through
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 29, 2007 : The Italian incumbent's new owners are set to install a new top management team after the chairman and CEO announced their decisions to step down as of December 3
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (31) November 27, 2007 : Ethernet Expo debate in Warsaw raises questions about the costs of deploying PBT as an alternative to MPLS in metro network rollouts
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (13) November 26, 2007 : Light Reading Insider report sees mobile operator demand for deep packet inspection ramping up in next few years and overtaking fixed operator demand by 2011
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 23, 2007 : Central and Eastern Europe is ripe for Carrier Ethernet-based metro network developments as broadband uptake grows and carriers launch capacity-hungry services such as IPTV, say infrastructure players
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (2) November 23, 2007 : Indian operator's $875M GSM equipment deal could be put back out to tender, or offered to Ericsson or any number of other mobile gear vendors, if its deal with Nokia Siemens isn't concluded soon
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 22, 2007 : Polish operator Telefonia Dialog is about to launch its IPTV service in an effort to snatch broadband customers from incumbent TP, which is taking its own telco TV offering into many more towns and cities
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 22, 2007 : Our sister site Byte & Switch has named its own Top 10 Turkeys of 2007, with the lengthy power-down at data center facilities provider 365 Main among its chief warblers
Eurobites - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 21, 2007 : The Old Continent's big telecom players have an emerging market right on their doorstep: Central and Eastern Europe
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (4) November 20, 2007 : Startup adds PBT support to its network planning and management suite in response to demand from vendors and a Tier 1 carrier, joining Gridpoint and Soapstone in a key carrier Ethernet niche sector
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (16) November 19, 2007 : Alcatel-Lucent's president of IP, Basil Alwan, says deep packet inspection is crucial to the development of next-gen carrier services and that his team is developing integrated DPI capabilities
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 16, 2007 : France Telecom beats off rival carrier bids to take control of loss-making Telkom Kenya in a deal worth $390M, and must now invest in a new mobile network and broadband infrastructure
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (4) November 15, 2007 : Basil Alwan, the man behind Alcatel's impressive surge into the IP equipment market, has been handed a strategic blue-sky role in Alcatel-Lucent's Carrier Business Group
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (11) November 14, 2007 : Nortel has a new PBT-optimized Ethernet switch, codenamed MetroNext, in the works as it tries to rival the MPLS router vendors with multicast capabilities that could support services such as IPTV
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 14, 2007 : As OSS vendors unveil their latest wares, software giant leads the way with an integrated software platform approach that ties inventory management with business processes and CRM
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 13, 2007 : C&W raises its earnings guidance as its restructuring strategy pays off, but its international chief won't be around to reap all the bonus benefits
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 12, 2007 : Spanish giant reports nearly 40 percent rise in Q3 net income to €4B, helped by the sale of Endemol, but IPTV subscriber growth has slowed in the carrier's home market
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (5) November 9, 2007 : Sounds dirty, doesn't it? Well, it may be. BT had to look outside its core group of preferred 21CN vendors and ask Sonus to join the gang
LR Mobile News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) November 9, 2007 : Sprint confirms that WiMax partnership with Clearwire has been scrapped and says it's reviewing its WiMax business plans
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) November 8, 2007 : Tellabs announces a $600 million share buyback program and the resignation of its CEO and president, Krish Prabhu, who will step down on March 1, 2008
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 8, 2007 : Adding Premier League soccer to its content menu has tripled BT Vision's customer base, but restructuring costs hit the carrier's Q2 profits, sending its share price down more than 3%
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (6) November 7, 2007 : A year after commercial launch Swisscom's IPTV service has just 60,000 customers and is still experiencing technical difficulties
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) November 6, 2007 : Mike Zavirovski provides more detail on Nortel's numbers and says annual revenues are set to grow in 2008, helping to send the stock up 12%
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 6, 2007 : Third quarter falls short of expectations, but Nortel still manages a small profit and a gross margin of 43% on sales of $2.7 billion, numbers that send its stock up more than 2% in pre-market trading
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 5, 2007 : Strategic review identifies further cost cuts, but decides against an exit from the service assurance market, as the test vendor gears up for new product launches in 2008
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 5, 2007 : Unisys teams with AppTrigger as it aims to build on its installed base of carrier messaging systems at Tier 1 carriers like AT&T, BT, France Telecom, and Telefónica
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment November 5, 2007 : Microsoft's long-standing IPTV collaborator Reliance Communications is to launch its TV-over-fiber access services in India early next year, with Microsoft estimating its supply contract to be worth $500M
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) November 2, 2007 : Operators such as France Telecom and TeliaSonera are adding tens of thousands of IPTV subs each quarter as Europe leads the way in telco TV growth
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