May 24, 2013
Telecom Lead India: Tata Communications has signed a voice sourcing deal with OTT provider Vonage Holdings. The five-year deal will allow Tata Communications to provide Vonage with access to its global network and on-going investments in systems, tools and processes to improve voice call ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Presence of Chinese telecom equipment vendors and security issues have taken a center seat in the fight between the U.S.-based Dish Network and Japanese SoftBank for Sprint. Better cash to shareholders of Sprint seems to have taken the secondary position in the entire ...
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Telecom Lead Europe: Portugal Telecom’s Capex (capital expenditure) increased 10.7 percent to €287 million in Q1 2013. The Capex of $287 million is equivalent to 18.5% of revenues. Out of the total Capex, investment in Portugal telecom business was €115 million, registering a decline of 13.7 ...
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Telecom Lead America: Genband is helping Zain Group to support the launch of its IP eXchange (IPX) interconnect and wholesale voice operation. Earlier this year BT also chose Genband’s Smart Edge IP Exchange solution to expand the reach of its Global IP Interconnect (GIPX) services to ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Cisco has supplied ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router and coherent DWDM line cards to Zhejiang Wasu Cable TV Network for its 100G IP+DWDM backbone network. The 100G network that relies on the Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Router and coherent DWDM line cards on the ...
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Telecom Lead India: Nokia Siemens has signed a deal with chip major Intel to improve mobile broadband experience to end customers. Both Nokia Siemens Networks and Intel, as part of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), will work on developing Liquid Applications that accelerate delivery of ...
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Telecom Lead India: Reliance Communications on Thursday revealed that it is ready to offer Aadhar authentication process. The mobile operator has already conducted testing of the services in both company owned and non company owned retail outlets. Aadhar online authentication process is a ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Sony cut its sales targets for smartphones, tablets and digital cameras by 13-17 percent for the year to end-March 2015. Sony’s cut in sales target is happening at a time when its rival Samsung surpassing 10 million units mark with Galaxy S4 smartphone. Launched globally on ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Reliance Jio Infocomm, the 4G service provider and a part of Reliance Industries (RIL), has firmed up its plans to launch TD-LTE services in four key cities — Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Jamnagar – during the current fiscal. With this announcement, Reliance Jio ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Vodafone India MD and CEO Marten Pieters says mobile data revenue – primarily powered by 3G — will drive the mobile operator’s India growth. There are strong supporting factors that will ensure substantial growth in the Indian telecom market for Vodafone. Vodafone India ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Nominum, a provider of network-based service delivery platform for mobile operators, is set to expand in India. Nominum’s newly appointed country manager Umesh Jamwal says its expansion is in line with the growth in Indian telecom market. Excerpts of the online interview: On ...
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Telecom Lead India: 66 percent CIOs in Indian enterprises encourages employees to bring their own device (BYOD) to work and 44 percent allow employees to select and use a specific set of personally owned devices. According to a Cisco and the Data Security Council of India (DSCI) study, 72 ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Sony Ericsson and LG veteran Sudhin Mathur has joined Lenovo India as smartphone business head. Lenovo’s main aim is set to increase focus on smartphone business. Phone business is becoming a life line for Lenovo because its PC business is facing challenges due to shift to ...
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Telecom Lead India: 3G services generated one third of the total mobile data in India in 2012, according to Nokia Siemens Networks’ MBit Index study. The 3G tariff reduction by operators in mid 2012 led to the significant growth in 3G data consumption. Operators such as Reliance Communications, ...
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Telecom Lead America: Apple CEO Tim Cook is confident to solve the current tax troubles in the U.S. because several big companies are following similar tax structures. Plus, U.S. authorities are not saying that Apple is following an illegal route. On Tuesday, Apple CEO tried to defend Apple ...
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Telecom Lead America: Ericsson will deploy small cells at Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network this year. Small cell will enhance the capacity in Verizon’s 4G LTE network, enabling it to continue providing high quality and reliable mobile broadband service to its customers. “Small cells will ...
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