February 13, 2008 - Mueller: Qwest looking for ally in broadband wireless

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February 13, 2008 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise Read more at SmartBrief.com News for telecom industry leaders Search recent stories:       News of the Day    Mueller: Qwest looking for ally in broadband wireless Qwest Communications CEO Ed Mueller told analysts Tuesday that the company was seeking a partner for its broadband-wireless business. "Our wireless offerings need to be state of the art, need to be right up front with everybody else. We need partners for wireless in business. We are working hard on the partnerships and it's a big deal on our partnerships," he said. Telephony Online (2/12) Broadband helps drive Qwest's quarterly profit: Helped by continued growth in broadband subscribers, Qwest Communications reported an 89% increase in profit for the fourth quarter. The profit notched 14 cents a share, excluding an income tax benefit. The company reported an increase of 95,000 broadband customers and an 8.7% rise in revenue from data, Internet and video sources. The New York Times/Reuters (2/13)   Business & Industry Watch    Forecast: Fiber-to-the-home to grow 30% a year Fiber-to-the-home connections will increase 30% a year through 2012 and grow from their current level of 20 million homes to 89 million globally, according to a report. Asia will likely lead the charge with a total of 54 million, the study predicted. Connected Home News (2/11) New Sprint director wants shake-up, perhaps sale, source says A director voted onto Sprint Nextel's board this week will seek major changes in the company's structure, including a possible sale of its Nextel network or the company itself, if it cannot reverse recent setbacks, a source close to the director, Ralph Whitworth, said. Sprint declined to comment on Whitworth, an activist investor. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (2/13) Verizon: FCC will set conditions to Rural deal The FCC will set similar conditions for Verizon Communications' proposed purchase of Rural Cellular Corp. as it did for other recent buyouts of regional wireless carriers, Tom Tauke, an executive vice president at Verizon, predicted. In recent deals involving Alltel and AT&T, the FCC required the companies to accept a backdated cap on allocations they receive from the Universal Service Fund. CNNMoney.com/Dow Jones Newswires (2/11) Cisco taps Calderoni as new CFO Cisco Systems has named Frank Calderoni, a four-year veteran of the networking company, as its new chief financial officer. He succeeds Dennis Powell, who is retiring, the company announced Tuesday. American City Business Journals/Raleigh/Durham, N.C. (2/12) 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.   Video Upload  Yahoo! buys Maven Networks for $160 million Yahoo! has made a $160 million deal to acquire Maven Networks, which supplies online video ad management systems to major media companies, including The Financial Times, Gannett, Hearst, CBS Sports and Fox News. Yahoo! intends to use Maven's technology to offer Flash overlay ads similar to those seen on Google's YouTube, among other enhancements to its video ad sales and distribution. 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"We're using IP-based protocols to do what we call 'network-layer bonding.'" Telephony Online (2/12) Vodafone's Sarin attacks glut of mobile OS There are too many mobile-phone operating systems for developers to build applications that will attract customers, Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin said Tuesday, adding that the 30 to 40 operating systems working now should be reduced to a maximum of five -- as long as one company did not have a stranglehold on the market. "There's no way that developers of cool applications can develop for that many operating systems," Sarin said. Yahoo!/PCWorld/IDG News Service (2/12) Premium Company Profile AT&T Inc. The recent acquisition of Bellsouth has made AT&T one of the largest wireless service providers in the US. The company is poised for growth through assimilation of merger synergies. Access the most important information about the company; understand its strengths and weaknesses and review AT&T's five year adjusted financial data with this report.   IP Download  Google ties Apps suite to unified communications Google has introduced technology that ties the company's Google Apps suite with unified communications systems. UCN Vmerge enables users to access voice, fax and e-mail messages directly from their Gmail accounts and synchronize all messages across all of their devices so that, for example, a user who checks e-mails on a mobile phone will see those messages shown as "read" in their Gmail boxes. TMC Internet Telephony (2/13) Study: Web-linked computers increase energy savings The U.S. is saving 10 kilowatt-hours of electricity for each 1 kilowatt-hour that Internet-linked computers consume, according to a study from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. "Acceleration of information and computer technology across the U.S. landscape post 1995 is driving much of the nation's energy-productivity gain," said the ACEEE's John Laitner and a co-author of the study. 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