January 21, 2008 - Saudi Telecom expands with Oger deal

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January 21, 2008 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise Read more at SmartBrief.com News for telecom industry leaders Search recent stories:       News of the Day    Saudi Telecom expands with Oger deal Saudi Telecom plans to pay $2.6 billion for a 35% stake in Oger Telecom, which operates in five countries, including Turkey and South Africa. Saudi Telecom, which announced the deal Sunday, made its initial foreign purchase a year ago, when it bought 25% of Malaysia's Maxis in a $3 billion deal designed to give Saudi Telecom access to India and Indonesia. Forbes/AFX News Limited/Thomson Financial (1/21) , Reuters (1/20)   Business & Industry Watch  FairPoint taps Occam FairPoint Communications plans to use access equipment from Occam Networks to upgrade its network once it closes its purchase of Verizon Communications' wireline assets in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, the company said. Occam's broadband access solutions will enable FairPoint to deliver high-speed services over copper and fiber to residential and enterprise subscribers. TMC Internet Telephony (1/18) Vodafone earmarks $2 billion a year for India expansion Vodafone will spend $6 billion over three years on improving the scope and quality of its Indian network, said CEO Arun Sarin, who also disclosed that Vodafone would introduce new services, but declined to offer further details. Sarin tagged the company's goal as reaching 100 million subscribers, from 40 million, and said he hoped the spectrum allocation issue would be resolved soon. cellular-news (U.K.) (1/21) AT&T will provide "All the News" via wireless AT&T's wireless customers will be able to download content from The New York Times at no added cost under a new deal with the newspaper, the carrier said. Users will be able to pull up a range of news, sports and entertainment items from the Times' mobile Web site. American City Business Journals/Atlanta (1/21) China Telecom posts first full-year subscriber dip Fierce price competition from wireless carriers hit China Telecom in 2007 as the fixed-line carrier lost 1.48 million customers in December, the fifth month that it had suffered a decline, and, for the first time, reported a drop in users for the year. Separately, China Mobile said it added 6.6 million subscribers in December. Bloomberg (1/21)   Hot Topics  Top five news stories selected by USTelecom dailyLead readers in the past week. Analysis: Rural telecoms and the economy (CNNMoney.com) In video, Qwest looks to power of the Web (ipTVnews) AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Google among qualified spectrum bidders (Reuters) Embarq accelerates data highway to 10 Mbps (BroadbandReports.com) Brazil deal may bring $1 billion to Alcatel-Lucent (Forbes) Results based on number of times each story was clicked by readers.   Video Upload  HBO to put content online for subscribers Time Warner's HBO this week will unveil an online service that will enable its subscribers to download films and original programming to their Windows PCs. HBO on Broadband will be tested in the Green Bay and Milwaukee, Wis., markets before being gradually rolled out to the rest of the U.S. The New York Times (1/21) YouNewsTV signs 50th station partner WLNE-TV in Providence, R.I., recently became the 50th affiliate of YouNewsTV, a social-networking and user-generated community news-gathering service from Broadcast Interactive Media. In the coming weeks, BIM will debut a content-exchange feature on the platform to allow outlets to share video, according to this article. Broadcasting & Cable (1/21) The Buzz(CORPORATE ANNOUNCEMENTS) Innovative Installation Techniques for Fiber Drop Terminals As fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) deployments increase, innovative methodologies are being developed to make the installer's life easier. Better products are helping to streamline the process of offering triple-play services to the consumer. 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.   Technology Trends  NTT DoCoMo dissolves WiMAX pact Having lost their bid last month to acquire a wireless-broadband license based on 2.5GHz WiMAX technology, Japan's NTT DoCoMo and a pair of ACCA divisions have ended their five-month-old partnership. TeleGeography Research (1/21) IBM lands deal with Indian telecom giant IBM will provide software and other IT services to India's Bharti Airtel's non-mobile divisions, which include IPTV and broadband businesses, under a six-year deal that includes a revenue-sharing component. "It's a landmark deal because, so far, IBM was looking at us as a mobile company," said a Bharti Airtel official. The Economic Times (India) (1/21) Cisco sets $1.6 billion UAE investment Cisco Systems will spend about $1.58 billion over five years in the United Arab Emirates, the company said today, adding that it might eventually establish a financial-services unit in the region. Reuters (1/21)   IP Download  Businesses learn perks of new VoIP technology Companies are figuring out how to put their growing number of Internet telephony platforms to use in even more ways than originally intended, especially in customer-management applications, according to this article. One such service is interactive chat, which companies can combine with VoIP technology to help online customers who might be having trouble navigating their Web sites. CRM Buyer (1/21) China ready to pass U.S. on info-highway The number of Chinese who can access the Internet has reached 210 million people and will likely surpass the U.S. this year, according to the official China Internet Network Information Center. CNNIC said its online population grew 53% last year, and the government's Xinhua news agency reported that China stands only 5 million behind the U.S., although the country still lags in the percentage of its population that is online. 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