Eurobites - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 29, 2007 : Some of Europe's governments have embarked on pre-summer sales, cashing in on their holdings in national operators. Plus plenty more M&A and legal action on the Old Continent
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) June 29, 2007 : Industry sources say France Telecom is set to announce an IMS vendor shortlist of four major vendors, kicking off what will be a long and complex process
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (2) June 28, 2007 : The FTTH Council Europe has a new strategy to help promote fiber-to-the-home deployments in Europe, but analysts believe its target of 8 million homes connected by the end of 2012 seems conservative
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (2) June 27, 2007 : Ten European network operators have teamed up in a bid to take on Europe's major wholesale and enterprise-focused carriers
LR Cable News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) June 27, 2007 : For the second time in a year CommScope plans to buy Andrew Corp., but this time the price tag is 50% higher at $2.6 billion and it's nearly all in cash
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (5) June 26, 2007 : AT&T has a large team prepping a document to define how it will create, manage, and deliver services for its fixed and wireless networks in the future – but it's more than just IMS
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 26, 2007 : Saudi Arabia's national operator is investing $3.05 billion in the Maxis Group to give it a foothold in Malaysia, Indonesia, and India as competitive pressures grow in its home market
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (13) June 25, 2007 : Turn a corner at last week's NXTcomm show and carrier Ethernet technology PBT was lying in wait, ready to mug the next carrier executive who walked by…
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (4) June 25, 2007 : Optical vendor adds to its customer list in Europe, where existing users talk highly of the company's technology. Now BT reportedly has visibility into how Infinera's platform works in the field
NXTcomm News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 22, 2007 : 3GPP and European standards outfit ETSI are taking convergence to yet another level by pooling their IMS standards efforts
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 22, 2007 : Huawei lands a monster GSM deal with China Mobile, says its Asia/Pacific sales are growing (but at a slower pace), and strikes video system and OSS reseller deals
NXTcomm News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (3) June 22, 2007 : Spirent COO says test system vendor isn't lining itself up for an acquisition, but rumors flew on the NXTcomm show floor
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (2) June 21, 2007 : Canada's second operator is in talks to buy the country's national incumbent in an effort to create a single, national, fixed-and-wireless operator with revenues of more than $24 billion
NXTcomm News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (47) June 20, 2007 : Verizon is about to issue a major optical/packet platform RFP into the vendor community, and it could include a requirement for supporting PBT, say sources
NXTcomm News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 20, 2007 : Announcing a new partnership and an assault on the MSO and SDV market, CEO says an IPO is on the roadmap PDQ, as video test system vendor's customer list grows beyond 300
NXTcomm News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (2) June 19, 2007 : IMS isn't enough for carriers' next generation service creation plans – they need to adopt the power of Web 2.0 too, major operator CTOs tell NXTcomm audience
NXTcomm News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (2) June 17, 2007 : ECI Telecom is in talks about a potential $1.2 billion takeover by a group of investment firms led by Swarth Investments, which is controlled by the chairman of Brazilian carrier GVT
NXTcomm News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (3) June 15, 2007 : Alcatel's former Golden Boy has disappeared from view since the merger with Lucent – the vendor is keeping him hidden away. Some believe he's waiting in the wings for a triumphant return
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (18) June 15, 2007 : Carriers and regulators are looking to create separate business divisions to house incumbent fixed-access networks. Finding common ground between operators and authorities seems to be the tricky bit
Eurobites - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (3) June 14, 2007 : Service creation is the key to telecom success, and in the telecom world, the OSS sector is at the heart of those developments, as we found out on a recent visit to the annual TeleManagement World event in Nice
NXTcomm News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 14, 2007 : With service delivery platforms set to be one of NXTcomm's hot topics, BEA sets its booth out early with enhancements to the Weblogic platform that some major SDP vendors rely upon
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (5) June 13, 2007 : Alcatel-Lucent CEO Pat Russo is looking for new ways to bump up the top line, and according to industry sources she's looking for untapped $$$ in the company's patent portfolio
LR Cable News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (3) June 13, 2007 : UK cable operator says a small investment in new domain name server (DNS) equipment will make its broadband service seem a lot more responsive and its network more secure
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 12, 2007 : Scandinavian carrier pulls no punches as its chairman says it needs a more visionary leadership. Analysts believe frustrations over international assets sealed the fate of current chief, Anders Igel
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 11, 2007 : Session border controller vendor Newport Networks has deals and a partnership, Nokia Siemens lands an IMS deal, Thomson shows off its VOIP and IPTV prowess, plus other news from Europe's IP firms
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 11, 2007 : Cisco invests in P2P equipment vendor Oversi, which is targeting the content delivery network sector with its traffic management servers. Cisco says investment not linked to any one customer
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 8, 2007 : Swedish giant buys its way into the out-of-the-box service delivery platform (SDP) market with the acquisition of mobile specialist Drutt, edging it further ahead of its main SDP rivals
NXTcomm News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 8, 2007 : Nortel is facing a fine of less than $100 million over its accounting scandal, according to a Bloomberg report citing multiple sources. Nortel was expecting a bigger fine, according to an insider
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 7, 2007 : France Telecom buys Deutsche Telekom's Spanish broadband unit Ya.Com for €320 million, and it is in discussions to sell its Dutch mobile and broadband business to the German giant
LR Mobile News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 6, 2007 : Good news for IPO hopefuls – wireless data router vendor, Starent Networks, sees its stock jump 16 percent in the first few hours of trading
NXTcomm News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 6, 2007 : Avaya must pay its private equity suitors up to $250 million if it kills the agreed $8.2 billion takeover deal. Analysts are divided over whether other bidders could emerge
LR Mobile News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 6, 2007 : Mobile carriers love the economics of Ethernet backhaul, but pitfalls abound on the road from TDM to Ethernet, finds a Heavy Reading report
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 5, 2007 : Ericsson's spending spree continues with a €310 million bid for billing specialist LHS, a move that beefs up its business systems offering and which could unsettle the software team at Alcatel-Lucent
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 5, 2007 : Service delivery platform vendors Aepona and Appium are merging to increase their chances of survival as IT and telecom big guns swarm the market. The move makes sense, says analyst
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) June 5, 2007 : Private equity firms Silver Lake and TPG strike $17.50 per share cash deal to buy enterprise PBX vendor Avaya, but the door is still open to rival bids
Eurobites - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 29, 2007 : Some of Europe's governments have embarked on pre-summer sales, cashing in on their holdings in national operators. Plus plenty more M&A and legal action on the Old Continent
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) June 29, 2007 : Industry sources say France Telecom is set to announce an IMS vendor shortlist of four major vendors, kicking off what will be a long and complex process
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (2) June 28, 2007 : The FTTH Council Europe has a new strategy to help promote fiber-to-the-home deployments in Europe, but analysts believe its target of 8 million homes connected by the end of 2012 seems conservative
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (2) June 27, 2007 : Ten European network operators have teamed up in a bid to take on Europe's major wholesale and enterprise-focused carriers
LR Cable News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) June 27, 2007 : For the second time in a year CommScope plans to buy Andrew Corp., but this time the price tag is 50% higher at $2.6 billion and it's nearly all in cash
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (5) June 26, 2007 : AT&T has a large team prepping a document to define how it will create, manage, and deliver services for its fixed and wireless networks in the future – but it's more than just IMS
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 26, 2007 : Saudi Arabia's national operator is investing $3.05 billion in the Maxis Group to give it a foothold in Malaysia, Indonesia, and India as competitive pressures grow in its home market
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (13) June 25, 2007 : Turn a corner at last week's NXTcomm show and carrier Ethernet technology PBT was lying in wait, ready to mug the next carrier executive who walked by…
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (4) June 25, 2007 : Optical vendor adds to its customer list in Europe, where existing users talk highly of the company's technology. Now BT reportedly has visibility into how Infinera's platform works in the field
NXTcomm News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 22, 2007 : 3GPP and European standards outfit ETSI are taking convergence to yet another level by pooling their IMS standards efforts
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 22, 2007 : Huawei lands a monster GSM deal with China Mobile, says its Asia/Pacific sales are growing (but at a slower pace), and strikes video system and OSS reseller deals
NXTcomm News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (3) June 22, 2007 : Spirent COO says test system vendor isn't lining itself up for an acquisition, but rumors flew on the NXTcomm show floor
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (2) June 21, 2007 : Canada's second operator is in talks to buy the country's national incumbent in an effort to create a single, national, fixed-and-wireless operator with revenues of more than $24 billion
NXTcomm News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (47) June 20, 2007 : Verizon is about to issue a major optical/packet platform RFP into the vendor community, and it could include a requirement for supporting PBT, say sources
NXTcomm News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 20, 2007 : Announcing a new partnership and an assault on the MSO and SDV market, CEO says an IPO is on the roadmap PDQ, as video test system vendor's customer list grows beyond 300
NXTcomm News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (2) June 19, 2007 : IMS isn't enough for carriers' next generation service creation plans – they need to adopt the power of Web 2.0 too, major operator CTOs tell NXTcomm audience
NXTcomm News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (2) June 17, 2007 : ECI Telecom is in talks about a potential $1.2 billion takeover by a group of investment firms led by Swarth Investments, which is controlled by the chairman of Brazilian carrier GVT
NXTcomm News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (3) June 15, 2007 : Alcatel's former Golden Boy has disappeared from view since the merger with Lucent – the vendor is keeping him hidden away. Some believe he's waiting in the wings for a triumphant return
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (18) June 15, 2007 : Carriers and regulators are looking to create separate business divisions to house incumbent fixed-access networks. Finding common ground between operators and authorities seems to be the tricky bit
Eurobites - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (3) June 14, 2007 : Service creation is the key to telecom success, and in the telecom world, the OSS sector is at the heart of those developments, as we found out on a recent visit to the annual TeleManagement World event in Nice
NXTcomm News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 14, 2007 : With service delivery platforms set to be one of NXTcomm's hot topics, BEA sets its booth out early with enhancements to the Weblogic platform that some major SDP vendors rely upon
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (5) June 13, 2007 : Alcatel-Lucent CEO Pat Russo is looking for new ways to bump up the top line, and according to industry sources she's looking for untapped $$$ in the company's patent portfolio
LR Cable News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (3) June 13, 2007 : UK cable operator says a small investment in new domain name server (DNS) equipment will make its broadband service seem a lot more responsive and its network more secure
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 12, 2007 : Scandinavian carrier pulls no punches as its chairman says it needs a more visionary leadership. Analysts believe frustrations over international assets sealed the fate of current chief, Anders Igel
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 11, 2007 : Session border controller vendor Newport Networks has deals and a partnership, Nokia Siemens lands an IMS deal, Thomson shows off its VOIP and IPTV prowess, plus other news from Europe's IP firms
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 11, 2007 : Cisco invests in P2P equipment vendor Oversi, which is targeting the content delivery network sector with its traffic management servers. Cisco says investment not linked to any one customer
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 8, 2007 : Swedish giant buys its way into the out-of-the-box service delivery platform (SDP) market with the acquisition of mobile specialist Drutt, edging it further ahead of its main SDP rivals
NXTcomm News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 8, 2007 : Nortel is facing a fine of less than $100 million over its accounting scandal, according to a Bloomberg report citing multiple sources. Nortel was expecting a bigger fine, according to an insider
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 7, 2007 : France Telecom buys Deutsche Telekom's Spanish broadband unit Ya.Com for €320 million, and it is in discussions to sell its Dutch mobile and broadband business to the German giant
LR Mobile News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 6, 2007 : Good news for IPO hopefuls – wireless data router vendor, Starent Networks, sees its stock jump 16 percent in the first few hours of trading
NXTcomm News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 6, 2007 : Avaya must pay its private equity suitors up to $250 million if it kills the agreed $8.2 billion takeover deal. Analysts are divided over whether other bidders could emerge
LR Mobile News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 6, 2007 : Mobile carriers love the economics of Ethernet backhaul, but pitfalls abound on the road from TDM to Ethernet, finds a Heavy Reading report
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 5, 2007 : Ericsson's spending spree continues with a €310 million bid for billing specialist LHS, a move that beefs up its business systems offering and which could unsettle the software team at Alcatel-Lucent
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment June 5, 2007 : Service delivery platform vendors Aepona and Appium are merging to increase their chances of survival as IT and telecom big guns swarm the market. The move makes sense, says analyst
News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1) June 5, 2007 : Private equity firms Silver Lake and TPG strike $17.50 per share cash deal to buy enterprise PBX vendor Avaya, but the door is still open to rival bids
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