December 27, 2007 - Qwest settles interactive-voice patent suit

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December 27, 2007 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise Read more at SmartBrief.com News for telecom industry leaders Search recent stories:       News of the Day    Qwest settles interactive-voice patent suit Qwest Communications has settled patent litigation brought by Ronald Katz Technology Licensing over interactive-voice applications, the telecom company said today. Qwest said the settlement called for it to pay for a nonexclusive license to gain access to Katz's patents. BusinessWeek/Associated Press (12/27) From Collaboration to Innovation: Leveraging Web 2.0 to Accelerate New Service Ideas. 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  Verizon brings high-speed wireless to Virginia Verizon Wireless is rolling out mobile-broadband services in southwest Virginia. A new switching center in Roanoke, Va., will enable the carrier to deliver Internet speed between 600 kbps and 1.4 Mbps. The Roanoke Times (Va.) (12/27) Shine will head AT&T's Indian wireless unit AT&T has named Mark Shine president of AT&T Communication Services India Pvt. retroactive to Oct. 1, the company said today. Shine, a former vice president at AT&T Global Sales Operations, will oversee its wireless market in India. CNNMoney.com/Dow Jones Newswires (12/27) , American City Business Journals/San Antonio (12/27) Sogecable, Orange set Spanish triple-play service France Telecom's Orange mobile division will join with Spanish TV broadcaster Sogecable to launch a triple-play bundle in Spain consisting of high-speed Internet, pay-TV and mobile-phone services. The companies said they hoped to launch the service early next year. EasyBourse/Dow Jones Newswires (12/27) 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.   Technology Trends  Cisco seeks to lower power usage along networks Cisco Systems is looking beyond its own routers and switches in trying to reduce power consumption along enterprise data networks. The company wants to create a sort of electricity meter from power-usage information that server and storage vendors collect and share with Cisco's equipment. The New York Times/IDG News Service (12/24) Clearwire offers "pre-WiMAX" in Seattle A Seattle reporter puts to the test Clearwire's "pre-WiMAX" service, in which users plug a wireless card into their PCs at speeds the company says is up to five times greater than 3G services. The company hopes to go live in 2008 with its WiMAX network. MSNBC/Associated Press (12/26) Rivals to mobile nets found 2007 challenging Alternative solutions to traditional mobile services failed to perform up to expectations for the most part as backers of municipal wireless networks, WiMAX and MVNOs learned the challenges of tackling the entrenched mobile players. Still companies hoped to have learned from their lessons of 2007 and forge ahead in the new year. The Washington Post/PC World (12/26) Analysts wonder what Paul Allen has in mind Paul Allen has already accumulated a valuable assemblage of spectrum in the Pacific Northwest, and now wireless-industry observers are wondering what the billionaire would do if his Vulcan Spectrum unit won additional frequencies at the FCC's Jan. 24 auction. Allen snapped up 24 700-megahertz licenses through Vulcan in 2003, according to FCC filings. The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Newswires (subscription required) (12/26)   IP Download  BitBand sees Eastern Europe, VOD as big in 2008 BitBand, which provides technologies and services for IPTV, issued a string of predictions for 2008. The company sees Eastern Europe as a huge new market for IPTV, greater interest in on-demand services, more user-generated Web content and the continued convergence of TV and the Internet. TMC Internet Telephony (12/26)   Regulatory & Legislative  China ministers support wireless-network upgrade China's State Council gave its go-ahead Wednesday on plans to upgrade the country's wireless network, a move that fueled the stocks of telecom companies. But a Chinese minister sought to play down its significance, saying the approval signaled a broad statement of support and not a specific reference to the availability of 3G licenses or the development of a TD-SCDMA network. 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