October 2, 2007 - Verizon announces landline, cellular pricing bundle

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October 2, 2007 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise Read more at SmartBrief.com News for telecom industry leaders Search recent stories:       News of the Day    Verizon announces landline, cellular pricing bundle Verizon Communications has introduced a $60 pricing bundle that combines its landline and cellular services. The plan includes unlimited local and long distance calls from the landline, plus 200 cellular minutes. It also includes free in-network calls and calls from home to the customer's mobile. The Boston Globe (10/2)   Business & Industry Watch    AT&T to bundle Internet telephony AT&T plans to bring Internet telephony into its bundling fold in part to reduce network operating costs by replacing standard phone service with VoIP. CNNMoney.com/Investor's Business Daily (10/1) Telecom Italia offers quad play Telecom Italia has unveiled Unica, a quad-play bundling involving converged fixed-mobile phone, landline, ADSL and the IPTV service Alice Home TV. Telecompaper (The Netherlands) (10/1) Bharti Airtel passes 50 million mark Bharti Airtel now has more than 50 million subscribers, making it the first telecom operator in India to hit such a milestone, according to this article. "Our next 50 million will largely come from rural India ...," said company President and CEO Manoj Kohli. Business Standard (India) (10/2) USTelecom Spotlight Explore the IPTV universe with telecom guru Steven Shepard IPTV and next-gen services are critical to your business, but what, when, where, why and how? Spend Thursday, Oct. 25, in New York City at the Telecom Crash Course learning from Steven Shepard, a leading author and telecommunications expert. Whether you are a telecom veteran, new to the industry, a financial analyst or investor, or supplier, this course will prove to be a great investment. Register today! Learn more about USTelecom -> NXTcomm  |  News  |  Join USTelecom  |  Bookstore  |  Webinars   Technology Trends  Alcatel-Lucent looks beyond GPON Alcatel-Lucent is looking at what is next after gigabit passive optical networking gear. According to one company representative, there are three possibilities: a next-generation version of GPON, a much higher speed wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) PON or a hybrid that involves the first two technologies. Telephony Online (10/1) The future is high-def Analysts see the future of television being high definition and say telecom, cable and satellite companies must respond. SureWest Broadband is among the many companies in agreement with these analysts. "We want to be poised to capitalize on that, to be on the cutting edge," said Pete Drozdoff, the company's vice president of marketing. The Sacramento Bee (Calif.) (free registration) (9/30) Yahoo! in cellular search deal with Telefonica Yahoo! announced a deal to bring its search engine to mobile portals operated by Telefonica in 15 countries. Yahoo! will power searches and sell advertising based on search results. The New York Times (10/1) British bank drops plan to deposit ads via Bluetooth After a trial technology run, the U.K.'s HSBC bank has dropped its plans to use Bluetooth to send mobile-phone ads to people walking past its branch offices. HSBC said the test proved the ads were not "commercially viable." BusinessWeek/Silicon.com (10/1) The Buzz(CORPORATE ANNOUNCEMENTS) Plug and Play Splitter Architectures Drive Operational Savings Providers must decide how to connect the F1 optical feeder cable inputs to the FDH splitters. Selecting the best technique will provide benefits in many other areas. Register for ADC's Next Gen white paper series. Interested in learning more about advertising in the USTelecom dailyLead? Contact Eric Hoffman at 773-549-3868 or ehoffman@smartbrief.com.   IP Download  Skype reportedly in deal with 3 Skype and mobile-phone operator 3 are reportedly in talks to bring a low-priced handset to market that will feature free calls over the mobile Internet. "The move ... will also close the gap between Internet communications and mobile calling," a 3 representative said, without revealing if the two companies were actually working together. The Guardian (London) (10/2) Make USTelecom dailyLead part of your 2008 marketing plan! USTelecom dailyLead is a cost-effective way to reach over 45,000 telecommunications industry executives. 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