March 12, 2008 - AT&T to seek more U-verse bundling

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March 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 to seek more U-verse bundling AT&T wants to provide a seamless experience for customers of its U-verse IP services so that users could share video across mobile, PC and TV platforms or pay for all their AT&T services -- including wireless -- on a single bill. "From all of our research, we've found consumers want seamlessness across all services; they don't want separate capabilities," Michael Antieri, AT&T's senior vice president of consumer marketing, said at an investors conference Tuesday. Light Reading (3/11) , OneTRAK (3/11) Integrated Technologies - Global Solutions (ITGS), a division of Volt Telecom Group, is your single-source solution for Data, Security and Voice Systems. 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CNNMoney.com/Fortune (3/10) AT&T part of team that lands Qatar deal AT&T, Qtel and NavLink have signed a memorandum of understanding to provide networking, data and voice telecommunications for an integrated energy and business center in Qatar. Under the deal with Energy City Qatar, that company will build the underpinnings for a carrier class Internet data center and a network operations center that AT&T and Qtel will use to serve the tenants. American City Business Journals/San Antonio (3/11) EU approves Google's DoubleClick acquisition European regulators cleared the way Tuesday for Google's $3.1 billion acquisition of interactive-advertising firm DoubleClick, shortly after which, Google announced it had concluded the deal. The combined company will enhance Google's ability to serve, target and track banner and rich-media advertising. The New York Times (3/12) , The Washington Post (3/12) Enjoy crunching numbers and spotting trends? Then click here to check out the QlikView MusiQ Tracker - a cool way to explore radio data. And, if you like that, just imagine what QlikView can do for your business. We specialize in helping companies analyze massive amounts of data and display it in intuitive dashboards which put information at your fingertips.   Video Upload  NEC bets on IMS for piece of IPTV market NEC Corp. introduced its end-to-end IPTV solution Tuesday in London, saying it can reap nearly $500 million by 2010. The company is pinning its hopes on IMS technology, believing that telecom carriers will want to add advanced services that are best provided through an IMS infrastructure. Light Reading (3/12) U-verse TV debuts in Atlanta area AT&T has begun introducing its U-verse TV service to parts of the Atlanta area, and the company received a statewide franchise Feb. 14. "We believe video is truly a game changer for AT&T," an AT&T spokesman said. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (free registration) (3/11) Cisco invests in Web-video startup Cisco Systems says it is "premature" to discuss what may emanate from the company's investment in GridNetworks, a startup that develops software for providing video across the Internet. "Over time, with help from our friends at Cisco, our technology will be embedded into consumer network devices and edge devices," including potentially Cisco's set-top boxes and home wireless routers, said GridNetworks President and CEO Tony Naughtin. Multichannel News (3/11) Other News Invidi receives Motorola funding Mediaweek (3/12) The Buzz(CORPORATE ANNOUNCEMENTS) Making the Switch -- TDM to Softswitch that is Switch migrations require extraordinary attention to detail, and can easily go wrong. Learn how One Communications did it right -- and reduced operating expense and while delivering new applications at the same time. Download a free case study from MetaSwitch. Emerson Communications Conference '08… will spotlight Intel's Kevin Bross' discussion of escalating power densities and increased utility costs that are leading datacenter administrators to consider alternate power architectures like DC in the data center. Join us April 23 to 24 in Dallas at the Omni Hotel at Park West to learn more. Interested in learning more about advertising in the USTelecom dailyLead? Contact Amy Abbey at 202-737-5500 ext 250 or aabbey@smartbrief.com.   Technology Trends    Microsoft, Nortel team up for unified-comms products Nortel and Microsoft have released four new joint products under their partnership in the unified-communications market. Nortel is combining its infrastructure products with Microsoft's Office Communications Server 2007, the companies said. Techworld/InfoWorld (3/12) Nortel employs RF encoding for moves to 40G, 100G links: Nortel Networks unveiled new cards for its OME 6500 optical-networking platform Tuesday that use wireless technology to allow carriers to migrate from 10 GBps links to 40 GBps and eventually 100 GBps. The equipment does this while maintaining key characteristics of the existing network. Telephony Online (3/11) 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  Radio links Aussie outback to IP voice network An Australian has effectively brought VoIP to his isolated outback region by using amateur radio frequencies to link up with each other while the Internet -- working as a bridge -- keeps them in touch. 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