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January 8, 2008 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise Read more at SmartBrief.com News for telecom industry leaders Search recent stories:       News of the Day    Samsung bullish on femtocells for 2008 Despite a lack of standards, femtocell technology will begin to roll out nationally in 2008, a Samsung Americas executive said, referring to the wireless system for home base stations. Tom Jasny, a Samsung vice president, said Monday that "a number" of carriers were in the midst of or have completed femtocell trials. Telephony Online (1/7) Avoiding the One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Bundled Pricing Communications providers' bundled pricing offerings are becoming commoditized - so how do you differentiate? To learn more about segment-based pricing that can improve incremental operating income and provide greater value to the customer, read Accenture's point of view, "Innovative Approaches to Win the US Bundled Pricing Game".   Business & Industry Watch    Consumer magazine gives high marks to FiOS Consumer Reports has given a superior grade to Verizon Communications' FiOS service for providing telecom services to the home. The magazine gave VoIP phone service high scores for overall satisfaction, but said land-line connections remained more reliable. TMC Internet Telephony (1/7) Telecom Italia may shed French broadband division Telecom Italia wants to rid itself of a French broadband division, known as Alice, according to sources. The company declined to comment on a possible sale, but sources indicate an announcement could be made at a March analysts address. Reuters (1/7) , Google/Agence France-Presse (1/7) AT&T will build network for Visalia schools AT&T will wire the entire Visalia, Calif., school district, about 34 buildings that house 27,000 students and administrators, on a common technology platform under a new five-year contract. The network will support voice, video and data services throughout the San Joaquin Valley district. American City Business Journals/San Antonio (1/7) Federal judge cites six Qualcomm lawyers A federal magistrate on Monday ordered that the State Bar of California investigate six Qualcomm attorneys for failing to turn over relevant documents during its recent patent lawsuit against Broadcom. Qualcomm denied any "intentional misconduct" and may appeal the ruling. 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TechNewsWorld/IDG News Service (1/8) Yahoo! will aim wide in developing mobile content Yahoo! will reach for a broad variety of mobile-phone platforms, including Google's open-source software and Apple's iPhone, in developing wireless Web content, its mobile chief Marco Boerries said Monday. He said the company believed it could reach many more customers by working with existing services rather than going it alone. Canada.com (CanWest News Service)/Reuters (1/8) The Web in your hands, but bigger than a phone Several of the world's largest technology companies are trying to build a device to meet the public's perceived demand for an Internet-access gadget that is bigger than a cell phone but not as bulky as a laptop. Sony, Intel and Qualcomm are demonstrating a pocket-size Web-enabled device that has a larger screen than a cell phone's and a more powerful processor. But hurdles remain for introducing the gadget commercially, according to this article. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (1/7) The Buzz(CORPORATE ANNOUNCEMENTS) Telecom Products Go Digital -- Web, Events & Sales Laptops. Products for events and sales meetings have become expensive to acquire, demonstrate, provision, package, ship, power, maintain, and manage. Therefore, realistic virtual products are replacing those that get shipped out to tradeshows and sales meetings. >>FREE White Paper "Interactive Solutions that Engage & Excite" Interested in learning more about advertising in the USTelecom dailyLead? Contact Eric Hoffman at 773-549-3868 or ehoffman@smartbrief.com.   IP Download  BT taps Motorola for next-gen set-tops Motorola will be the lead set-top supplier for BT Vision's planned digital-TV service, the companies said. The HD-ready "V-Box," which BT plans to deploy in 2009, will include such features as a digital-TV recorder, on-demand access to a large library of content and interactive applications. Converge! Network Digest (1/7) CallWave teams with JaJah on mobile apps CallWave, a provider of voice applications, is partnering with JaJah, a VoIP-technology outfit, to develop what they term "a unified communications solution for the mobile professional." The first application, they said, will involve global call capability and managing messages from a single place. TelecomWeb (1/7)   Regulatory & Legislative  Mobile carriers decry techs' "white spaces" bid Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA have sided with the broadcast industry in attacking a petition from tech-company giants to allow them to make use of lightly used "white spaces" spectrum to deliver mobile Internet services, even if they don't actually own the frequencies. In a letter to the FCC, the cell phone providers argue for limiting the spectrum for licensed use. 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