February 5, 2008 - FTTH providers find partnerships pay off

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February 5, 2008 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise Read more at SmartBrief.com News for telecom industry leaders Search recent stories:       News of the Day    FTTH providers find partnerships pay off Companies that install fiber-to-the-home are increasingly teaming up with home-technology service providers -- also known as integrators -- to maximize efficiencies that they say are benefiting builders, developers and consumers. Connexion's recent deal with Magnolia Audio Video, a Best Buy-owned retailer, is the latest such development. CE Pro (2/4)   Business & Industry Watch    AT&T makes DSL price adjustments AT&T will increase the price in March of some of its DSL services by $5 a month in an effort to "better reflect the value of broadband service and the market conditions," a company spokesman said. Customers who opt for special promotional packages will not be affected by the price increase, according to the company. The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Newswires (subscription required) (2/4) , Google/Associated Press (2/4) Asian handset makers show little interest in Motorola Restructuring of the struggling mobile-phone maker Motorola could be so costly and time-consuming that the major Asian manufacturers have professed little interest so far in buying the U.S. company's mobile-phone unit. The Asian outfits may be reluctant after Taiwan electronics group BenQ's 2005 buyout of Siemens, a move that eventually sent BenQ into bankruptcy. BusinessWeek (2/4) FCC OKs AT&T deal for Aloha's wireless spectrum The FCC has given a thumbs up for AT&T's $2.5 billion purchase of wireless spectrum from the closely held Aloha Partners, the agency announced Monday, saying the buyout would serve the public's interest. The licenses could cover as many as 196 million customers in 281 U.S. markets, including many in the top 100, according to AT&T. Reuters (2/5) USTelecom Spotlight Measuring and Managing Service Delivery Partnerships Tomorrow, Feb. 6, 1 p.m. (EST) Register today for this free webinar from Vertek that explores service-delivery partnerships as a critical component to life-cycle and financial management. Hear how 100% visibility into all aspects of partnership performance can easily be attained, consolidated, presented and monitored repeatedly. Learn how to use this actionable intelligence to maintain positive relationships, improve margins and significantly reduce financial risk. Register today. Learn more about USTelecom -> NXTcomm  |  News  |  Join USTelecom  |  Bookstore  |  Webinars   Video Upload  Verizon gained 66K new FiOS subs in Massachusetts in 2007 Verizon Communications more than quintupled its customer base for its FiOS television service in Massachusetts last year and has surpassed RCN Corp., another rival to cabler Comcast. Verizon added 66,000 subscribers to reach a total of more than 78,000, according to estimates filed with the state. The Boston Globe (2/5) Survey: 80M Americans watched TV programming online in '07 An estimated 80 million Americans, or 43% of the country's online population, screened a prime-time TV show on the Web last year, according to a study by Solutions Research Group. Among the most-watched online programs are "Heroes," "Grey's Anatomy," "Dancing With the Stars," "Ugly Betty," "Chuck" and "CSI." The Hollywood Reporter (2/5) Verizon joins MTV "Crew" for Randy Jackson series MTV Networks has inked a deal with Verizon Communications that will give the telecom full episodes of its "Randy Jackson Presents: America's Best Dance Crew," which premieres Thursday at 10 p.m. Under the exclusive on-demand arrangement, Verizon's FiOS TV can run episodes for free 24 hours after they appear on MTV. Mediaweek (2/4) 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 "Customers Connect with Network/Telcom Products Like Never Before." Innovation on the Islands – Learn how IT&E optimized its tandem network and brought real voice competition to Guam through white label offering to island's cable provider. Download a free case study from MetaSwitch. Technicians' Best Practices: Handling Reduced Bend Radius Some monumental breakthroughs have taken place in optical fiber cables and their ability to bend around sharp corners without increasing attenuation. Despite these new developments, perceiving the new fibers as being virtually indestructible is a dangerous misperception. 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  Analysis: Rim will face issues deploying faster DSL chip Rim Semiconductor will need to convince the telecom industry of the need to change its DSL technology standards if it wants to deploy its new, faster DSL chip that the company claims can move traffic at 40 Mbps over 5,500 feet of copper wire. That's because Rim's approach changes the allocation of upstream and downstream bandwidth to time-division duplexing and uses "rapid bi-directional switching" for faster transitioning of upstream-downstream transport. Telephony Online (2/4) Microsoft-Yahoo! would challenge Google's Android A Microsoft merger with Yahoo! would make the new combination a formidable threat to Google's open-source operating platform for mobile devices, largely because Google has to play considerable catch-up in bringing its system to deployment, according to some analysts. Observers say Microsoft could provide the needed distribution for Yahoo!'s mobile applications, while Yahoo! could give Microsoft the content and services that it lacks to retain users. CNNMoney.com/Fortune (2/4) SingTel finds Asian expansion getting tougher Telecom buyouts have become increasingly challenging in Asia because the fast-growing market is gaining an ever-greater number of players, according to Singapore Telecommunications. In an interview, CEO Chua Sock Koong said competition -- not lack of capital -- remained the major issue in limiting opportunities to expand the company's reach as the world's largest players flood the market. Bloomberg (2/5)   IP Download  Skuku stick enables cheap mobile calls via PC Israel's EIM Telecom has released Skuku, a USB device that lets cell phone users make VoIP calls and send IM texts to any location via their PC, meaning that users pay only local connection charges. The GSM-compatible device requires mobile customers only to insert a SIM-card to make and receive calls. TMC Internet Telephony (2/4) Sony lets gamers peek at newest PS3 build Gaming observers got a chance to see under the hood of Sony's much-hyped new PlayStation 3 build at a recent technology conference in Monte Carlo. The console includes a social-network community "Home" and features a redesign aimed at making Home easy to navigate. 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