April 3, 2008 - Sprint sticking with WiMAX, CEO says

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April 3, 2008 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise Read more at SmartBrief.com News for telecom industry leaders Search recent stories:       News of the Day    Sprint sticking with WiMAX, CEO says Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse gave a spirited defense of his company's embrace of WiMAX wireless technology this week, insisting that "WiMAX is not 'slide-ware,'" the current dismissive jargon for overly touted technology that never comes to be. Hesse surprised analysts by failing to announce completion of joint-venture talks Sprint has been holding with various companies to help finance its plans, but one executive hinted that a deal might be imminent. The carrier also said it planned to delay its Xohm service launch until later in the year. cellular-news (U.K.)/Dow Jones Newswires (4/2) , Los Angeles Times (free registration) (4/2) 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.   Business & Industry Watch  Broadband subs top 1 million in South Africa South Africa has reached the 1-million-subscriber milestone for delivering broadband services, according to Moneyweb South Africa. While Telkom remains the industry leader with 420,000 ADSL customers, Vodacom is gaining fast, having reached 370,000 subscribers using HSDPA technology. TeleGeography Research (4/3) Verizon Business offers new mobile-PBX ware Unified communications are all the rage among enterprise users. And in that spirit, Verizon Business this week introduced a PBX extension designed to allow mobile employees to stay closely linked to their office PBXs for UC services, such as transferring calls from cell phones to office extensions. Dubbed PBX Mobile Extension, the service runs on software from Research in Motion's Ascendent Systems unit and can be deployed on basic off-the-shelf servers in conjunction with a TDM or Internet-based PBX. Telephony Online (4/2) KT, SoftBank earmark $40 million to buy IPTV content A South Korean telecom and a Japanese telecom will put up a total of $40 million for a joint venture to buy exclusive rights for programming for their IPTV service, they said Thursday. Korea's KT and Japan's SoftBank said they expected that investment would expand to $100 million this year, an amount they said would enable them to buy about 19,000 programs for KT's Mega TV service until 2015. The Korea Times (4/3) Transformation, growth and convergence in the telecom operators The telecom industry is one of great transformation. This report from Business Insights profiles the world's largest telecom operators, examining the strategies that have driven growth. Understand how the leading players are expanding their business and achieving higher profitability with this report. USTelecom Spotlight Brought to you by broadband Join USTelecom and NextGenWeb.org at Telecom2008 for a discussion of how access to high-speed Internet delivers better education, advanced health care, a cleaner environment and a stronger economy to communities throughout the U.S. Come hear and see what communities across the nation are doing to improve lives through the innovative use of broadband technologies. Learn more. Learn more about USTelecom -> NXTcomm  |  News  |  Join USTelecom  |  NextGenWeb  |  Webinars   Video Upload  Report: Traditional TV will remain ahead of online broadcasting Web broadcasting will not pose a threat to traditional TV networks in terms of ad-programming revenue for some time, according to a report from Toronto-based Convergence Consulting. "Online is ... another complimentary distribution window for the TV players, which in contrast to traditional TV offers 70% less available advertising minutes/per hour," the report said. The Hollywood Reporter (4/2) AT&T will continue to Dish it out AT&T has teamed up with Dish Network in a deal to sell its satellite-TV service in nine southeastern states through its AT&T Advanced TV unit. AT&T formerly had resale arrangements with both Dish and rival DirecTV, but is now Dish's exclusive partner. The New York Times/Associated Press (4/2)   Technology Trends  Nortel in WiMAX Thai trial, PalTel upgrade pact Nortel Networks announced a pair of deals Wednesday: a trial agreement with Loxley in Thailand to demonstrate broadband services via WiMAX and a reported $10 million follow-up contract from Palestinian telecom provider PalTel to upgrade its broadband and long-distance-calling networks. TMC Internet Telephony (4/2) , Reuters (4/2) Screens of U-verse TV subs will Flickr AT&T will provide Flickr photo-sharing services on its U-Verse IPTV service under a deal with parent Yahoo! Branded AT&T Online Photos from Flickr, the service will bring slide show and photo-browsing features from flickr.com onto U-verse customers' TV screens. OneTRAK (4/2) New VMware tool offers VM control for IT managers VMware is said to be putting to good use the underlying technology for virtual environmental automation that it acquired last fall in its purchase of Dunes Technologies. The company this week began marketing Lifecycle Manager, a tool designed to give IT managers more control in managing the life cycle of virtual machines. Techworld (4/2) Pannaway growth reflected in demand for IP via FTTH Independent telecoms have made installing fiber-to-the-premises technology a top priority in migrating to an all IP-Ethernet infrastructure, according to Mark Carpenter, president of Pannaway Networks, which participates in the market through sales of its MAGNM 20 multimedia access platform. He said that larger independents had shown much stronger interest in converting to all-fiber platforms compared with early 2007. ScreenPlays (3/2008)   IP Download  MindShift expands IT, VoIP ware in buyout MindShift Technologies has agreed to buy Collaboration Online Limited Corp. in a deal that could add muscle to its hosted services and software offerings. Collaboration provides hosted Microsoft Exchange server services and other collaboration software to small and midsize enterprise customers. American City Business Journals/Washington (4/2) VoIP will lead job, wage growth, study says By a large margin, providers of VoIP services lead the list of companies providing the strongest job and wage opportunities in the coming years, business-research firm IBISWorld predicted in a study released this week. IBISWorld said VoIP providers would add jobs at about a 19.4% annualized rate through 2012 and estimated that wages would rise 21.8% in the same period. American City Business Journals/Raleigh/Durham, N.C. 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