December 19, 2007 - Verizon Business facilitates VoIP switchovers

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Learn how telecoms can harness Web 2.0 technologies to help visualize, develop and roll out new services. Get IBM's point of view on how to leverage the power of collaboration in a Web 2.0 environment now!   Business & Industry Watch    Sprint's Hesse likes to cut the clutter Dan Hesse brings a simple, no-nonsense style to his new post as CEO of Sprint Nextel. "He's all about the one-page summary," said Dan Alcazar, who worked under Hesse at Embarq. Hesse brings that same streamlined style to his strategic choices as well, having been the first in the wireless industry to champion a flat-rate plan at the old AT&T Wireless. Bloomberg/ClipSyndicate (12/18) , The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Newswires (subscription required) (12/18) AT&T adds U-verse features to Wis. subs AT&T has added customizable local information to its U-verse video service in Wisconsin as part of its AT&T U-bar interactive feature. The free upgrade also provides subscribers with access to Yellowpages.com TV and online games from Yahoo! American City Business Journals/San Antonio (12/18) Small Massachusetts town welcomes Verizon's FiOS TV The town of Rowley, Mass., has awarded a video franchise to Verizon Communications' FiOS TV service, giving the company access to 1,800 households in an area cabled by Comcast. The vote brings Verizon's franchise total in the state to 63, covering more than 500,000 homes. Multichannel News (12/18) T-Mobile, 3 U.K. agree on network sharing U.K.'s T-Mobile and 3 U.K. agreed Tuesday to combine their 3G networks in the country to reduce costs. Unlike some other failed network-sharing pacts, T-Mobile and 3 U.K. have incentives to make it work as neither offers a fixed-line broadband service and 3 U.K. suffered a pretax loss last year, according to this article. Financial Times (subscription required) (12/18) Report: Japan's NTT DoCoMo eyes iPhone deal Apple is reportedly talking to NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile-phone provider, about launching the iPhone in the country. The deal, however, is said to have stalled over how much money Apple would receive from Japanese sales. BBC (12/19) Optelian specializes in carrier grade optical transport systems for Networks that include: WDM, CWDM, DWDM, Amplification, Reach Extension, Path Protection Switching, 1xN Splitters, FWDM, Connectivity and Test and Turn up tools. Our portfolio supports up to 10Gbps and 40 Channel DWDM. Optelian can support your optical transport requirements.   Technology Trends  Two years after deal, NetCracker gets French nod NetCracker Technologies has earned the certification it needs to fulfill a contract it signed with France Telecom in 2005 to provide resource management and software solutions for the telecom company's New Experience in Telecom services (NExT) transformation initiative. The carrier certified NetCracker's technology as the de facto standard for all of its properties. Telephony Online (12/18) Developers struggle with Google's mobile-phone app Some programmers are reporting difficulties in developing applications using Google's mobile-phone software, Android. Google released Android to developers in an effort to get suggestions on how to improve the software. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (12/19) Complete package! The USTELECOM dailyLead offers a complete package: detailed campaign reporting, limits on advertisers in each issue, and your message in front of thousands of key decision makers in the telecommunications industry. Be a part of the premier place for B2B advertising. Click here to learn how.   IP Download  Q-and-A: Omniture CEO on the Web's new role in bolstering TV success Josh James, CEO of Web analytics firm Omniture, talks to AdAge's MediaWorks about the link between a TV show's success and its DVD sales and digital downloads and the potential for major marketers to increase their Net budgets in the near term. Advertising Age (12/18) Skype: a VoIP case study Voice over Internet Protocol is eating away at traditional telco revenues. Examine the business strategy for VoIP industry leader Skype to understand how success in this industry can be replicated or challenged by new and existing competitors.   Regulatory & Legislative  U.K. regulator offers more wireless spectrum Ofcom will broaden the amount of spectrum it will release to cover new mobile and advanced wireless service, the U.K. communications regulatory agency said, adding that the move was aimed at giving providers more flexibility in how they use the frequencies. 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