June 16, 2008 - Verizon makes bundling more flexible -- no wireline required

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June 16, 2008 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise Read more at SmartBrief.com News for telecom industry leaders Search recent stories:       News of the Day    Verizon makes bundling more flexible -- no wireline required Verizon Communications will begin offering price breaks to customers of its wireless unit who lack wireline phones but subscribe to its broadband or FiOS TV service, the company said. In the move, a response to the trend of people dropping their wireline phones at home, Verizon will provide monthly discounts in the $8-to-$12 range. Yahoo!/Associated Press (6/13) , OneTRAK (6/13)   NXTcomm 2008 News    Firms team up for 100-gigabit network demonstration at NXTcomm Avago Technologies, Infinera and Ixia will demonstrate this week a 100-gigabit Ethernet network. The signal will travel from Infinera's NXTcomm booth in Las Vegas to Los Angeles and back again at a rate about 10 times faster than standard Ethernet. CED Magazine (6/2008) Vendors aim to blaze new paths for service providers Vendors plan to showcase their wares at NXTcomm 2008 in an effort to help broadband providers offer a more customized user experience that can be successfully monetized. "Broadband service providers find themselves in an economically challenging position," said Kevin Walsh, vice president of marketing at new supplier Zeugma Systems. "The only way out of it, in our view, is for them to materially improve the subscriber experience so the subscriber is willing to pay for it. That means service providers need to identify and monitor and manage [sessions], from a QoS standpoint." xchange (6/16) Other News Verimatrix extends IPTV-based content security tech to mobile TV Telecommunications (6/16) GPON to make a splash at NXTcomm Light Reading (6/13) Telecom switches emphasis: Preliminary analysis of the 2007 Telecom Executive Survey. To remain competitive as industry boundaries blur, telecom providers recognize the need for new business models and other capabilities beyond their traditional strengths. Learn more by downloading this IBM white paper.   Business & Industry Watch  SK Telecom eyes larger China Telecom stake South Korea's SK Telecom would like to raise its stake in China Telecom after the latter's pending merger with China Unicom, the company's president said Sunday. "We would be very interested if the circumstances were right," So Jin Woo said in an interview. The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Newswires (subscription required) (6/15) Army OKs a private TeliaSonera The Swedish army says it believes TeliaSonera AB can go private without jeopardizing the country's telecom infrastructure. "The Swedish armed forces believe that a change in ownership of TeliaSonera AB is possible from a security point of view -- provided that necessary measures are taken to ensure the security of the Swedish armed forces and other authorities," a Swedish armed forces report said, which may help make it easier for France Telecom to acquire TeliaSonera. Financial Times (6/14) Sibling rivalry threatens Reliance-MTN deal The Ambani brothers, who control India's Reliance Communications and Reliance Industries, are feuding over whether Mukesh Ambani has the right to veto a merger between Reliance Communications and South Africa's MTN. Mukesh, the owner of Reliance Industries, is threatening to sue MTN and Reliance Communications -- spun out of an earlier iteration of Reliance Industries and run by his younger brother, Anil -- if the deal proceeds over Mukesh's objections. Financial Times (6/15) Japan's NTT DoCoMo buys 30% of Bangladeshi carrier The leading Japanese mobile operator has signed a deal to take a 30% stake in TM International, a Bangladeshi mobile carrier that was spun off from Telekom Malaysia in April. NTT DoCoMo will enter a market that analysts say offers better prospects than Japan because only about 25% of its 131 million inhabitants own mobile phones. Bloomberg (6/16) , Google/Agence France-Presse (6/16) Other News Taiwanese government abandons planned share sale in Chunghwa Telecom cellular-news (U.K.)/Dow Jones Newswires (6/15) USTelecom Spotlight Tomorrow at NXTcomm: Randall Stephenson keynotes; show floor opens AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall L. Stephenson provides the featured keynote address at NXTcomm08 tomorrow, June 17, in Las Vegas. The show floor for the one event capturing the entire ecosystem of network-enabled voice, video and data officially opens, and NXTcomm Original Conference Programming and programming by NXTcomm Conference Partners ATIS and IEC begins. NXTcomm08 is co-locating with InfoComm 08. Learn more at www.NXTcommShow.com Learn more about USTelecom -> NXTcomm  |  News  |  Join USTelecom  |  NextGenWeb  |  Webinars   Hot Topics    Top five news stories selected by USTelecom dailyLead readers in the past week. Verizon introduces unlimited wireless plan for businesses (Reuters) AT&T: Why we retooled our iPhone deal (The New York Times) Verizon, Sprint to stop access to child porn sites (The Wall Street Journal) Pioneer McCaw's plans for underdog Clearwire (Portfolio.com) Existing wiring might not provide best HD picture (TheRetailBRIDGE.com) Results based on number of times each story was clicked by readers. Join Henkels & McCoy at NXTComm 2008! 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Scheduled to debut in early 2009, Sony will release 10 eight-minute episodes online after which it will produce a DVD with new content that ties them together like a movie. The Wall Street Journal (free content) (6/16) Interactive TV is more than a remote possibility A new system from Boston-based Backchannel Media allows TV stations to air content with an interactive component, allowing viewers to essentially bookmark ads using their remote control. Currently, a handful of stations are experimenting with the Backchannel offering, including Hearst-Argyle Television stations WCVB in Boston and WMUR in Manchester, N.H., along with Media General station WJAR in Providence, R.I. The New York Times (6/16) The Buzz(CORPORATE ANNOUNCEMENTS) Addressing High Density Fiber Management Issues Manufacturers are scrambling to develop higher-density equipment and systems that can accommodate higher and higher numbers of terminations in smaller and smaller areas. 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Contact Amy Abbey at 202-737-5500 ext 250 or aabbey@smartbrief.com.   Technology Trends    Nortel takes aggressive approach to new customer wins In an aggressive campaign for new customers, office communications provider Nortel Networks is using an online "energy efficiency calculator" to depict equipment from rival Cisco as being more expensive to operate because of higher energy consumption. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (6/16) Vodafone presses mobile Web use with U.K. campaign Vodafone is starting an aggressive campaign in London today to convince mobile Web subscribers they are not taking proper advantage of e-mail and other online applications. The company's reps are fanning out across transportation outlets, shopping centers and at special events throughout the summer to show mobile-phone users how ostensibly easy it is to use those features. EyeforTravel (6/16) Hatteras Networks is redefining how Mobile Operators deliver 7x more bandwidth capacity with Ethernet Backhaul. Service Providers can upgrade their existing T1/E1 copper facilities with Mid-Band Ethernet solutions to get 7x more bandwidth, greater reliability and significantly reduce their cost. To learn more about Mid-Band Ethernet, visit www.hatterasnetworks.com.   IP Download  AT&T: Charge for heavy Internet use "inevitable" AT&T may eventually institute a surcharge for heavy Internet users, although the company sees this group as a small percentage of its customer base. "A form of usage-based pricing for those customers who have abnormally high usage patterns is inevitable," an AT&T representative said. 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