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Telecom Gear Market Faces Crash Landing In 2009Open in New Window
Vendors will be scrutinizing their costs this year and next, trying to focus on the most promising technologies, analysts suggest. read more »
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Nokia Siemens Networks Makes Deeper CutsOpen in New Window
Stacy Higginbotham writes about more evidence of the troubled state of the world economy, noting "The troubles in telecom continue as Nokia Siemens Networks plans to cut an additional 1,300 employee read more »
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Telecom Immunity Law Challenged In CourtOpen in New Window
Antone Gonsalves writes on a brief filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco by the Electronic Frontier Foundation claiming that the FISA Amendments Act denies telecom customers their ri read more »
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Japanese telecom partners with EnterpriseDBOpen in New Window
"Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Japan's largest telecommunications company, has formed a "wide-ranging strategic partnership" with EnterpriseDB that includes an undisclosed financial investment in the open source database maker." read more »
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Reports: SK Telecom, Sprint may be looking at a partnershipOpen in New Window
Ed Oswald writes, "The two cellular companies are said to be in talks over a possible partnership to co-develop new services and handsets, media reports indicate." read more »
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Verizon, Telecom Italia, and Brasil Telecom top the botnet charts in Q2 of 2008Open in New Window
Dancho Danchev writes an interesting post on charts representing the ISP's with the largest number of zombies on their network - amongst them is Verizon, Telecom Italia, and Brasil Telecom. read more »
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Proposed EU telecom amendments lack three-strikes provisionOpen in New Window
John Timmer reports, "...the EU is getting ready to impose Internet traffic monitoring fit for a police state, might ban all peer-to-peer software, and is ready to implement a "three strikes and you're off the 'Net" policy for users sharing copyrighted files. Gross exaggerations, of course, but you wouldn't necessarily know that if you'd read the news sections of online rights groups, or even the website of the venerable BBC." read more »
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TeliaSonera Rejects France Telecom $41 Billion OfferOpen in New Window
"The Swedish government is keen to sell its 37.3% stake in TeliaSonera as part of a privatization program, but officials support the company's rejection of the bid as too low..." read more »
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