February 21, 2008 - T-Mobile USA plans home-phone service trial

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February 21, 2008 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise Read more at SmartBrief.com News for telecom industry leaders Search recent stories:       News of the Day    T-Mobile USA plans home-phone service trial T-Mobile USA has launched a home-phone service as a $10-a-month add-on to its wireless offering in Dallas and Seattle. To gain access to the unlimited local and long-distance domestic-calling plan, customers must be a T-Mobile wireless subscriber and buy a $50 Internet router. Bloomberg (2/21) , The Wall Street Journal (free content) (2/21) 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.   Business & Industry Watch  Feds' scrutiny kills 3Com sale to Chinese company 3Com Corp.'s proposed $2.2 billion sale has fallen through after signals from a U.S. oversight panel that it would have rejected the deal in which China-based Huawei Co. was a co-buyer, along with U.S. private-equity firm Bain Capital. The political pressure against the sale raises questions about how much Chinese buyers can help inject life into a slumping deal market. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (2/22) AT&T expands online aid for small businesses AT&T is putting more resources into its free Onward Small Business portal, with its major upgrade a feature that allows Web site visitors to use text-to-speech technology to listen to such content as news, customer stories and case studies. Another enhancement gives users the ability to share, tag and review news stories and other information on the site. American City Business Journals/San Antonio (2/20) Knology: Triple-play bundle ups retention Rural telecom-services provider Knology said that its database showed the annual December downturn in subscribers was limited to its cable-only customers and that the company would focus increasingly on striking the right balance in marketing its triple-play bundles between competitive pricing and maximizing average revenue per user. For the first time, the number of double-play and triple-play customers represented 80% of its total subscriber base. Telephony Online (2/20) Telstra sees growth in broadband Australian telecom operator Telstra Corp. reached a 48% market share of the broadband business in the latest quarter, which ended Dec. 31. Broadband revenue grew 65% in the six-month period, and CEO Sol Trujillo said his firm's broadband business had grown at a faster rate than the fixed-line unit had declined. The Sydney Morning Herald (2/21) 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.   Video Upload  Virginia city grants 15-year deal for FiOS TV Verizon Communications will have access to all 81,000 households in Chesapeake, Va., after the City Council's approval of a 15-year franchise for the company's FiOS TV service. The approval requires Verizon to pass at least 65% of the homes within seven years. Verizon's service already passes 6,400 homes there under a state law that allowed it to begin marketing FiOS in December. The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk-Portsmouth-Virginia Beach-Chesapeake) (2/21) French TV net will carry videos from Dailymotion Web site France's Neuf Cegetel will televise exclusive footage from Dailymotion on its Neuf HD TV outlet, marking the first time a television network will show content from a video-sharing Internet site -- at least in France. Dailymotion will make more than 30,000 videos available to Neuf subscribers via "MotionMaker" software encoded specifically for Neuf. The Hollywood Reporter (2/21) BET develops an English accent Viacom's BET will debut in the United Kingdom next Thursday with carriage from BSkyB into nearly 9 million homes. BET's British invasion grows the black-centric channel's global footprint, currently at about 87 million homes in the U.S., Canada and Caribbean. Yahoo!/Reuters (2/20)   Technology Trends  Weather balloons may help bring broadband to rural U.K. An Arizona company wants to provide wireless mobile and broadband services to people in rural Great Britain by using weather balloons in the outer reaches of Earth's atmosphere. Space Data, which attaches small masts to the balloons, said it had already successfully used the technology with military and commercial clients and was seeking telecom and broadband partners to join it for a residential service. The Times (London) (2/21) Cisco teams up with cities on energy-saving trials Cisco Systems is experimenting with new energy-efficient networking technologies by linking up with cities around the globe with the aim of marketing the successful ones. In San Francisco, in a move to encourage use of mass transit, Cisco is providing wireless access to passengers on a city bus for a service that provides updates on bus and train schedules as well as the usual array of Internet-based applications. CNET (2/20)   IP Download  Alcatel-Lucent wins global VoIP build The Italian Trade Commission has tapped Alcatel-Lucent to build a far-flung data VoIP network that would connect more than 80 sites around the globe by combining fixed-line telephone networks with IP and multimedia communications. The deployment would support advanced services such as unified communications and collaborated services, as well as instant messaging and mobility services, the company said. TMC Internet Telephony (2/20) Software brings online learning to remote Ontario Internet-access areas at 90 remote northern Ontario sites are providing online education and training via technology from Saba Software using a solution that supports both high- and low-bandwidth connections -- sometimes as tenuous as a single telephone link. Use of the Saba software allows Contact North/Contact Nord, northern Ontario's only distance-education and training network, to also provide a literacy program that has connected local students to those in Australia so that they can interact in real time. 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