March 13, 2008 - Verizon raising speeds for DSL

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March 13, 2008 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise Read more at SmartBrief.com News for telecom industry leaders Search recent stories:       News of the Day    Verizon raising speeds for DSL Verizon Communications will beef up its DSL service in 12 Northeast and Middle Atlantic states, plus Washington, by the end of the year, the company announced. Verizon will make the 7-Mbps service available to those who live within 8,000 feet of a company central-office facility. Telephony Online (3/12) , OneTRAK (3/12)   Business & Industry Watch    Cincinnati Bell expands Dayton operations Cincinnati Bell has bought CenturyTel's assets in Dayton, Ohio, for $1.5 million, the company announced, saying the fiber network and customers represent a good fit with its current Dayton operation. The acquisition also includes access lines servicing small and medium-size businesses. The Cincinnati Enquirer (3/13) , American City Business Journals/Cincinnati (3/12) AT&T sets sights on Asia-Pacific growth AT&T will devote a good chunk of its planned $1 billion global investment this year in its fast-growing Asia-Pacific region, especially China and India, the company said at a media round table Tuesday. AT&T executives said revenue in the area grew 22% last year and exceeded the company's expectations. BusinessWeek/ZDNet Asia (3/12) Motorola draws attention from Asian telecoms A number of Asian manufacturers of handsets and other telecom equipment have expressed interest in forming a partnership with Motorola even after the same companies rejected a straight deal to buy the mobile assets of the Schaumburg, Ill., outfit, sources told the mergermarket news service. Such a deal, if it comes off, is likely to be a complex one, possibly on the order of arrangements that led to the formation of Nokia Siemens Networks or Sony Ericsson, sources said. Reuters (3/12) , Financial Times (free content)/mergermarket (3/11) Mobile Security Webinar: Malicious attacks are just around the corner. Are you protected? Mobile SMS spam, spoofing and other SMS-related scams are a global problem. Operators are demanding spam control and anti-spoofing capabilities to protect their SMS network and subscribers. Learn more by registering for Tekelec's Mobile Security Webinar.   Video Upload    TiVo to offer YouTube videos on TV TiVo and YouTube have signed a deal to make the online network's videos available to subscribers equipped with a broadband connection and one of the new line of TiVo set-top boxes. "TiVo's strategy is to bridge the gap between Web video and television and make as much content available as possible for our subscribers," said Tara Maitra, vice president and general manager for content services at TiVo. The New York Times (3/13) , The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (3/12) Verizon FiOS eyes Seattle expansion Verizon Communications is in talks to bring its FiOS TV service to the east side of Seattle by the end of the year. The company already covers the area with its fiber-optic-based Internet service. The Seattle Times (3/13) DirecTV tests the waters of VOD distribution DirecTV will begin offering a video-on-demand service in the second quarter that pipes shows and movies to subscribers' DVRs via their broadband connection. But one analyst fears that the system may not be sufficiently sophisticated: "They are just trying to push people with whatever blunt instrument they have to connect their set-top boxes to the Internet and become broadband-connected customers," said Forrester Research's James McQuivey. "Without that, they are dead in the water." The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (3/13) 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.   Technology Trends  Nokia Siemens lands Brasil Telecom contract Nokia Siemens Networks will build the optical-networking backbone for Brasil Telecom GlobeNet's aggressive expansion plans across North America, with the Brazilian company's using Nokia's SURPASS hiT 7300 Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing platform. Eventually, NSN will connect South Florida to Brasil Telecom's underwater fiber-optic network that now stretches from the U.S. East Coast to Bermuda, Brazil and Venezuela. TMC Internet Telephony (3/12) Rival sets up shop vs. Telecom New Zealand New Zealand's Orcon launched a broadband service in five Auckland suburbs today and plans to eventually expand coverage to include all of the country. Orcon CEO Scott Bartlett said its data traveled three times faster. TVNZ (New Zealand) (3/13) 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. Interested in learning more about advertising in the USTelecom dailyLead? Contact Amy Abbey at 202-737-5500 ext 250 or aabbey@smartbrief.com.   IP Download  BT, U.S. software maker ally on IP-based phone system The U.K.'s BT Group and U.S.-based RingCentral have joined forces to market a VoIP system to small and medium-size businesses. Like other IP-based phone setups, the system is designed to save on hardware costs while providing enterprise users with professional-level services. InfoWorld/IDG News Service (3/12) Next up: Mashing VoIP with Web 2.0 services As VoIP becomes a mainstream product, developers are exploring novel ways of marrying the increasingly commoditized service with new, interactive applications from Web 2.0. "The voice network may feel old and stodgy, but it works very well," said Ifbyphone CEO Irv Shapiro, whose company has introduced a system for accessing Web-based services via any phone-equipped device. 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