April 21, 2008 - AT&T executive: World must invest in Internet infrastructure

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April 21, 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 executive: World must invest in Internet infrastructure The growing amounts of video and user-generated content hitting the Internet will clog the current network to capacity by 2010 without infrastructure investments being made, an AT&T executive said. Jim Cicconi, AT&T's vice president for legislative affairs, said that it would cost $55 billion over the next three years in the U.S. alone to build enough infrastructure to support the traffic. The global investment figure is about $130 billion. The New York Times/CNET (4/18)   Business & Industry Watch    Qwest tech chief opines on wireless issues Qwest Communications may not have its own wireless operation, but Chief Technology Officer Pieter Poll offers his view in this interview of the leading industry issues, such as femtocells, open access, fixed-mobile convergence and wireless broadband. Telephony Online (4/18) Verizon: Demand will dictate GPON switches Demand for bandwidth in multiuser homes will largely determine how quickly Verizon Communications deploys GPON. "I'd hazard a guess that the number of these growth jobs is going to significantly outnumber the new ones by the end of the year as we start reinforcing our capacity in a lot of our existing offices," said Michael Daigle, vice president of network planning. Light Reading (4/18) AT&T invests in growth areas In a move to emphasize its growing telecom businesses, AT&T will lay off 4,600 employees as part of an overhaul of its landline phone business, but intends to hire about the same number of people to fill jobs related to wireless, television and broadband services, the company said. The company's total headcount of roughly 310,000 is not expected to change. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (4/19) Broadband surge fuels Euro Web use More than three-quarters of Europeans who regularly access the Internet do so via a broadband connections, according to the European Commission's latest i2010 report, which also showed the number of businesses with broadband has risen from 62% of the market in 2005 to 77% today. More than 250 million Europeans use the Internet regularly, the EC study said. 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Contact Amy Abbey at 202-737-5500 ext 250 or aabbey@smartbrief.com.   Technology Trends  Combo of AT&T, Cisco boosts high-end videoconferencing AT&T and Cisco Systems will team up this year to sell a high-end videoconferencing system aimed at multinational corporations, the companies announced today, saying they will begin selling to 23 countries in the second half of 2008. Analysts expect the partnership to expand usage of Cisco's TelPresence system to multiple corporate customers instead of today's exclusive intra-company usage. Reuters (4/21) BroadSoft expands focus with mobile, Web in mind BroadSoft, maker of VoIP application software, has signaled its confidence in the future of both mobile telecommunications as well as the need to integrate core communications features with a full pack of Web and enterprise applications. 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Network World (4/21) China's Web use grows; U.S.' penetration rate still higher The number of Chinese people who are online reached 220 million in February, surpassing the U.S., according to estimates from Beijing-based research group BDA China and Nielsen/NetRatings, which reported 216 million U.S. Internet users for the same period. The U.S., however, still far outpaces the country in the percentage of the population using the Web, with 71% of Americans online compared with 17% of the people in China. USA TODAY (4/20) Skype introduces first unlimited-overseas-call plan Users of Internet-based phone service Skype will be able to make unlimited calls to international landline phones in 34 countries for $9.95 a month, under a new plan the company is introducing today. The package will include all domestic calls as well as those to mobile phones in Canada, China, Hong Kong and Singapore. 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