February 12, 2008 - AT&T brings VoIP to U-verse in Connecticut

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February 12, 2008 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise Read more at SmartBrief.com News for telecom industry leaders Search recent stories:       News of the Day    AT&T brings VoIP to U-verse in Connecticut AT&T will introduce digital-telephone service to accompany its U-verse network in Connecticut today, only the second market where it has combined video and voice services. AT&T's VoIP customers can integrate land-line phones with high-speed Internet, cell phone and their U-verse services. The Hartford Courant (Conn.) (2/12) Deliver Ethernet in the first mile, with our MEF-certified 10/100 and 10/100/1000 - NID/CPE products. With features such as link monitoring, OAM, loopback, bandwidth allocation, VLAN/QoS management, and segment redundancy; Transition's NID and switching products offer complete management capabilities from the CO to the CPE. 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Techworld/Network World (2/12) Post buyout, Iowa Telecom likely to keep rating Iowa Telecommunications Services' $44 million acquisition of Bishop Communications will not likely change the buyer's credit profile, according to Moody's Investors Service. CNNMoney.com/Thomson Financial News Limited (2/11) NEC: We'll do more with Alcatel-Lucent NEC President Kaoru Yano has said that his company will likely expand its collaboration with Alcatel-Lucent in the coming months. Yano spoke at a news conference where the companies announced a joint venture for the fourth-generation wireless technology known as Long Term Evolution. CNNMoney.com/Thomson Financial News (2/12) LightGAIN is Optelian's complete DWDM, CWDM and hybrid solution, supporting 1 to 40 wavelengths of 10Mbps to 10Gbps traffic, SNMP managed and path protected. 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The report showed 34% of the sample named TV as their most-wanted new feature on a cell phone with photo and video messaging also receiving strong responses. cellular-news (U.K.) (2/12) Cablevision discovers VOD expansion Cablevision Systems has struck a deal with Discovery Communications that will bulk up the cable company's video-on-demand menu by more than 100 titles. The Discovery shows, which will be offered for free, include Discovery Channel's "Man Vs. Wild," TLC's "Trading Spaces" and Animal Planet's "Orangutan Island." Multichannel News (2/11) The Buzz(CORPORATE ANNOUNCEMENTS) Using Metro Ethernet to Control Costs? Let Juniper Networks put you on the path to "zero-touch" provisioning! By combining intelligent routing and script automation, MPLS Plug-and-Play from Juniper Networks gives your network the ability to proactively adapt to changes, detect potential problems, and even initiate corrective actions. Learn more >> Interested in learning more about advertising in the USTelecom dailyLead? Contact Eric Hoffman at 773-549-3868 or ehoffman@smartbrief.com.   Technology Trends    Author: EarthLink exit will not kill muni Wi-Fi An expert on municipal Wi-Fi networks asserts that EarthLink's departure from the business and its decision to sell its assets will not spell doom for the industry. "Any city going down that path was not considering EarthLink to be a supplier," said analyst Craig Settles, author of a new book, "After Muni Wireless Comes to Town." Telephony Online (2/11) Location is everything in Nokia, Google's mobile rivalry Nokia has unveiled four new handsets that take advantage of GPS technology to provide Web services like mapping, driving direction and "geotagging" of photos and videos. The move is seen as an effort by Nokia to compete with Google in the "location-based services" space. BusinessWeek (2/11) Telecom switches emphasis: Preliminary analysis of the 2007 Telecom Industry Survey. To remain competitive as industry boundaries blur, telecom providers will require new sets of capabilities beyond the traditional strengths that telecom executives continue to emphasize. Learn more by downloading this IBM white paper.   IP Download  Svanberg sees rapid rise of mobile broadband The 3G/HSPA mobile networks will expand into Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Russia and India this year, said Carl-Henric Svanberg, the president and CEO of equipment-maker Ericsson, who noted that 3G data traffic now exceeds voice in the European areas his company monitors. Svanberg also said that mobile-broadband services have the capacity to help reduce travel and carbon-dioxide emissions that cause global warming. ZDNet/Silicon.com (2/12) Starbucks brews Wi-Fi deal with AT&T Starbucks has signed a new Wi-Fi service deal with AT&T that will give its Starbucks card customers two hours of free Internet access each day and its more than 100,000 employees free wireless accounts. The agreement replaces Starbucks' six-year-old Wi-Fi deal with T-Mobile. Seattle Post-Intelligencer/Associated Press (2/11)   LeadQuote  Patience? Who wants to hear that word? 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