June 10, 2008 - Verizon, Sprint to stop access to child porn sites

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June 10, 2008 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise Read more at SmartBrief.com News for telecom industry leaders Search recent stories:       News of the Day    Verizon, Sprint to stop access to child porn sites New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced an unprecedented nationwide agreement with Verizon Communications, Sprint Nextel and Time Warner Cable that would prohibit subscribers from accessing online bulletin boards and Web sites that distribute child pornography. "By shutting down offending newsgroups and contributing to funds that will combat child pornography online, we are working to remove this content permanently," said a Verizon representative. Other ISPs may join this effort, Cuomo said. The Wall Street Journal/Associated Press (subscription required) (6/10) , The New York Times (6/10) Feel Free to Evolve Don't just solve the network problem - evolve your network with Transition's complete line of service provider products. Including our MEF 9 and 14 compliant NID's, with features such as bandwidth allocation, loopback, OAM, VLAN and QoS. Transition offers products to evolve your network. Visit www.transition.com for more details.   Business & Industry Watch    Qwest expects economy to weigh on results The nation's economic downturn and heightened competition will depress Qwest Communications' full-year results toward the lower end of expectations, CEO Edward Mueller told analysts Monday. "In the marketplace there's a lot of head-wind, as you know, from the housing downturn, the financial woes of our country right now," he said, adding that cell phone and cable services were luring away Qwest's wireline customers. The Boston Globe/Reuters (6/9) Deutsche Telekom sticks with full-year forecast The head of T-Mobile USA parent Deutsche Telekom said Monday that he would stand behind the company's 2008 forecast despite the prevailing economic conditions. CEO Rene Obermann noted that the U.S. economic slump had not weakened T-Mobile USA in the first quarter. cellular-news (U.K.)/Dow Jones Newswires (6/9) French ISP bids to buy Italia's "Alice" France's Iliad, in a break from past practice of trying to grow organically, has bid $1.26 billion to buy Telecom Italia's French Internet unit -- and its "Alice" brand. If the deal comes to fruition, it would bump Iliad up to the second-largest broadband ISP in France. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (6/10) Justice Department sets Verizon-Rural Cellular conditions Verizon Communications will be required to shed select assets in Vermont and parts of New York and Washington to get the go-ahead to buy Rural Cellular Corp., the U.S. Department of Justice said. Reuters (6/10) AT&T: Why we retooled our iPhone deal AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega said the company was willing to restructure its deal with Apple for its iPhone rights because he felt "in order to drive more volume, and have more penetration of the device, we had to change the model." The new contract has a more traditional industry arrangement between the companies, but AT&T acknowledged Monday that the new pricing will crimp profits over the next two years. The New York Times (6/9) , CNNMoney.com/Dow Jones Newswires (6/9) , Reuters (6/9) USTelecom Spotlight Yankee Group to hold Executive Enterprise Summit at NXTcomm On June 16 at NXTcomm08 in Las Vegas, the Yankee Group will hold "The Executive Enterprise Summit -- The Network as Platform for the Anywhere Enterprise" and review trends such as open networking, the future of on-demand computing, the network as a platform for application delivery and securing the "anywhere enterprise" through leading network-security technologies. Learn more! Wanted: Presentations on disruptive technologies USTelecom's second annual Telecom Executive Business Forum, Oct. 1 to 3, in San Jose, Calif., focuses on "Disruptive Technologies, Demanding Consumers and Your Broadband Future." Proposals for presentations, not product pitches, are being accepted for technology presentations targeted to management and operations executives. Only a handful of presentations will be accepted. Please submit your proposal by June 22 to John Abel at jabel@teamlightbulb.com. Learn more. Learn more about USTelecom -> NXTcomm  |  News  |  Join USTelecom  |  NextGenWeb  |  Webinars   Video Upload    Teens, kids stream more video than adults Young people ages 2 to 11 viewed more streaming video in April than adults, with the 12-to-17 age group averaging 74 streams and 132 minutes of video and the 2-to-11 segment averaging 51 streams and 118 minutes, as opposed to adults, who tallied 44 streams and 99 minutes, according to Nielsen Online's VideoCensus. Mediaweek (6/9) Two-way video ready with merger, Sprint promises Federal regulators should approve the Sprint Nextel-Clearwire merger because a combined entity will be able to deliver speedy wireless Internet access with two-way videoconferencing, the companies said in a petition to the FCC made public Monday. 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Discussion will include cost effective solutions, limitations, compatibility, reliability, and laser selection. For details or to register for the event go to 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    Platform vendors tout Enterprise 2.0 offerings Several companies are making noise in the Enterprise 2.0 sector, including Microsoft, which is expected to unveil 10 vendor deals for its collaboration and content-management platform SharePoint. GroupSwim, Socialcast and Serena Software also plan to add new products or reveal upgrades to their product suites at the Enterprise 2.0 show this week. InfoWorld/IDG News Service (6/9) Microsoft zooms deep into the Web Microsoft's Deep Zoom technology is designed to help users quickly find desired images on the Web and explore the image in part or in its entirety, according to Brian Goldfarb, group product manager, Microsoft Developer Division. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (6/10) CE companies join cable's tru2way efforts Five consumer-electronics companies have signed on to back cable's tru2way initiative, a technology platform to develop two-way, interactive set-top boxes and digital TVs. The five -- Advanced Digital Broadcast, Digeo, Intel, Panasonic and Samsung -- follow a decision by Sony two weeks ago to support tru2way applications. Light Reading (6/9) , PC Magazine (6/9)   IP Download  Benefits overshadow cost of next-gen broadband deployment The Broadband Stakeholder Group, a U.K. government advisory group, believes that nationwide next-generation broadband deployment holds benefits that outstrip concerns over the high price of deployment. The group asserts that commercial providers, government and regulators must work together to overcome any obstacles. Silicon.com (6/9) Rogers to charge heavy Web users systemwide Canada's Rogers Communications will begin implementing a systemwide program in July to charge extra when subscribers go beyond a certain Internet usage limit, according to this article. Here in the U.S., Comcast and Time Warner Cable have expressed interest in similar measures to help ease Web traffic congestion. 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