March 20, 2008 - CEO: Economy not hurting Verizon

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March 20, 2008 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise Read more at SmartBrief.com News for telecom industry leaders Search recent stories:       News of the Day  CEO: Economy not hurting Verizon Economic woes do not seem to have affected wireline and wireless sales, according to Verizon Communications CEO Ivan Seidenberg. Seidenberg said Wednesday that there had been no change in the momentum of sales volume. CNNMoney.com/Dow Jones Newswires (3/19) Verizon details open-network road map: Verizon Wireless offered the long-awaited details Wednesday on how its new open policy toward unaffiliated devices and content would work. "For Verizon to participate fully in the growth of the wireless industry we need to partner with the inventors and entrepreneurs who are creating these next-generation products and services," said Ivan Seidenberg, chairman and chief executive officer of Verizon Communications. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (3/20)   Business & Industry Watch  Telecom Italia unit draws bidders Numericable is pursuing Alice, the French unit of Telecom Italia. The company has made a bid for Alice, which has attracted interest from other suitors as well. Reuters (3/19) AT&T campaign courts Puerto Rican wireless customers AT&T has launched a major campaign to gain Hispanic wireless customers in eight markets with high Puerto Rican populations. The "Habla Puerto Rico" ads feature sports, television and music stars in 30-second TV spots. Adweek (3/19) Groups, lawmakers demand auction probe on 9/11 spectrum One of the core findings of The 9/11 Commission was the need for a dedicated piece of public radio spectrum for public service agencies, a wish that the FCC expected would be met by the recent wireless-spectrum auction that elicited more than $19 billion in bids. But now a broad array of consumer groups, lawmakers and members of the 9/11 Commission are calling for an investigation after the spectrum dedicated to emergency-response use failed to draw enough interest to allocate the frequencies. The Washington Post (3/20) USTelecom Spotlight AT&T's Stephenson named NXTcomm08 featured keynote AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall L. Stephenson will open NXTcomm08 on June 17 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. "We are honored to have Randall Stephenson return to NXTcomm, the site of his first address in June of 2007 as head of AT&T," NXTcomm Executive Director Wayne Crawford said. "We look forward to hearing him share AT&T's perspective on the future of network-enabled voice, video and data." Read more here.  Learn more about USTelecom -> NXTcomm  |  News  |  Join USTelecom  |  Bookstore  |  Webinars   Video Upload  Telecom, cable companies discover original programming Telecom and cable firms are developing a new way to engage subscribers locally: their own TV shows. Through its FiOS offering, Verizon Communications, for example, is creating "original, hyper-local, human-interest TV programming." Comcast and Time Warner Cable are making similar moves in select markets as well. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (3/20) Singapore Telecom lands major soccer media deal Singapore Telecom has won broad media-distribution rights to a pair of major European soccer championships -- the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Cup -- from 2009 to 2012, the company said today, adding that it will place the games across all of its Internet-based media platforms. Reuters (3/20) On-demand sales will offset lost DVD revenues Screen Digest projects that on-demand media will muffle the effects of declining DVD sales and muster as much as $33 million this year in U.S. and European incremental spending. The on-demand sector should have a value of $1.1 billion by 2012, with $665 million of it in new revenue and the rest replacing DVD sales. The Hollywood Reporter (3/20) The Buzz(CORPORATE ANNOUNCEMENTS) DWDM & CWDM LiteTM Multiplexers, Now 40 Gbps Ready! Simple to install, no configuration, no power connection, no cooling, fully stand alone, compatible with all manufacturer's DWDM & CWDM lasers, transparent to all protocols and rates up to 40 Gbps, 4, 8, 16 or 32 channels, 1 or 2 fibers, MTBF 1300 yrs, great price, interested? www.TelecomEngineering.com 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  Motorola, Swisscom make pact on broadband positioning Motorola's mT2a PowerBroadband system, which uses existing hotel phone wiring to help deliver wired and wireless high-speed Internet, phones and digital and high-def TV services, will be installed in European and North American hotels through Swisscom AG. Swisscom already has set up the system in 10 countries. American City Business Journals/Philadelphia (3/19) Other News Tech Data delivers hosted voice, data connectivity to SMBs ChannelWeb Network (3/19)   IP Download  Spanlink, LiteScape ink unified-communications deal Spanlink Communications has signed on as a reseller of unified-communications solutions offered by LiteScape. Spanlink has operations up and running in the U.S., Canada and Europe. TMC Internet Telephony (3/20) Quebecers take quickly to VoIP Nearly half of all Quebecers subscribe to a VoIP service, according to a study released Wednesday by Leger Marketing. The report said the number of those who embraced VoIP rose from 16% in 2006 to 44% a year ago. 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