April 24, 2008 - Level 3 sees growth ahead

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April 24, 2008 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise Read more at SmartBrief.com News for telecom industry leaders Search recent stories:       News of the Day    Level 3 sees growth ahead Level 3 Communications said Wednesday that the company had been working successfully to unclog the bottlenecks that plagued its service-activation processes last year and was expanding its sales staff to prevent the problem from happening again. "We now have sufficient installation capacity to increase sales to match the demonstrated demand for our services." said CEO James Crowe. Telephony Online (4/23) , xchange (4/23) , Light Reading (4/23)   Business & Industry Watch  Motorola's market share for handsets falls to 9.5% Motorola executives blamed continuing gaps in the mobile-handset division's product lineup for many of its woes as the company's losses widened in the first quarter and its global market share for handsets fell to 9.5%, compared with 17.5% a year earlier. Sales of mobile handsets slipped 40% to 27.4 million during the quarter. CEO Greg Brown said the company would release a broader portfolio of phones as Motorola prepared to split its mobile-handset unit into a separate company. ClipSyndicate/Bloomberg (4/24) , The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Newswires (subscription required) (4/24) , USA TODAY (4/23) Cable firms distance themselves from Pivot joint venture Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Cox Communications have pulled out of a joint venture with Sprint Nextel to develop a quadruple play of voice, video, Internet and wireless services under the banner Pivot, according to this article. "We remain committed to bringing a wireless component to our portfolio of services, but we don't believe Pivot was the best option," said Jill Ullman, a spokeswoman at Cox. MSNBC/Associated Press (4/23) Microsoft CEO: No deal on Yahoo! if price isn't right If terms can't be reached on a Yahoo! acquisition, Microsoft will move on without the portal, according to CEO Steve Ballmer. "We think the best way to move forward quickly [and gain critical mass against Google] is to come together with Yahoo!," Ballmer said at a technology conference in Italy. "Hopefully that works. But if it doesn't, we go forward." Yahoo!/Reuters (4/23) USTelecom Spotlight NXTcomm has replaced SUPERCOMM The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and the United States Telecom Association (USTelecom), the two organizations that owned and produced SUPERCOMM for 18 years, have joined forces again to produce NXTcomm, which replaces SUPERCOMM as the one event delivering the entire ecosystem of network-enabled voice, video and data. NXTcomm08 comes to Las Vegas June 16 to 19; dailyLead readers can receive complimentary registration with the code "USTE8" -- register today! Learn more about USTelecom -> NXTcomm  |  News  |  Join USTelecom  |  NextGenWeb  |  Webinars   Video Upload  AT&T expands U-verse in Wis., details La. plans AT&T has broadened access to its U-verse TV and Internet service in southeastern Wisconsin, saying it now passes 200,000 homes in the Milwaukee, Racine and Sheboygan areas more than a year after it introduced U-verse in the state. The company also detailed its plans to pump $400 million into Louisiana over the next few years to expand its fiber network even as state lawmakers consider legislation that could give AT&T a statewide video franchise. OneTRAK (4/23) , CED Magazine (4/23) The Buzz(CORPORATE ANNOUNCEMENTS) Webinar - Fiber Characterization for High Speed Transmissions and DWDM / CWDM Networks This webinar will inform attendees about fiber characterization measurements and the results needed to support high speed (greater than 1 Gbps) transmissions and DWDM / CWDM networks. 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    SureWest deploys Alcatel for advanced VoIP services SureWest Communications has chosen Alcatel-Lucent's VoIP for Consumers product in the telecom operator's northern California market as its network evolves from a Class 5 switch-based backbone to an IP-based network that includes IP Multimedia Subsystem. SureWest will use Alcatel-Lucent's solution to support the company's Digital Phone brand. CED Magazine (4/23) Qwest Wholesale expands data/IP-networking service Qwest Communications' Wholesale division will add data-networking services and customer-premises equipment to its data/IP-networking lineup, the telecom carrier said Wednesday. The unit provides voice, data and Internet products to distributors that include cable companies, CLECs and resellers. xchange (4/23) O2 turns to Huawei, NSN in Germany O2 Germany has announced plans to use equipment from Huawei Technologies and Nokia Siemens Networks, which will replace existing Nortel Networks base stations, as it works to expand its network and build greenfield sites. Unstrung (4/23) ENUM Whitepaper: Routing Information for VOIP & Other Next-Gen Services ENUM was originally devised to translate telephone numbers into DNS-reachable URIs. This whitepaper looks beyond ENUM to discuss the requirements for a source of authoritative routing information to enable the intelligent and secure delivery of VoIP and other next-generation services. Tekelec ENUM Whitepaper   IP Download  IBM touts greener, more powerful Web 2.0 server IBM said Wednesday that it had packed more computing power into a new rack-mount server that uses 40% less power by rotating the equipment sideways and combining its two racks. Designed for heavily trafficked Web 2.0 sites, such as social-networking destinations, the iDataPlex will compete with the current practice of linking thousands of so-called "white-box" PCs together to support busy sites. Network World/IDG News Service (4/23) Telecoms bring access-fee concerns to Congress Carriers might be losing billions of dollars because of calls that cross their network that lack the identification needed for them to charge access fees, a problem that has had a particularly adverse impact on rural telecom companies, executives testified at a U.S. Senate hearing Wednesday. InfoWorld/IDG News Service (4/23) NXTcomm08 is coming... Advertise in the USTelecom dailyLead while subscribers set their sights on Las Vegas. With 49,000 highly engaged subscribers, USTelecom dailyLead offers the perfect opportunity to reach telecom industry decision-makers. 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