June 24, 2008 - AT&T puts millions in content-delivery network

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June 24, 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 puts millions in content-delivery network AT&T -- looking to offer a "one-stop shopping and simplified network-based solutions to encode, deliver, manage and support video and multimedia files" -- will invest $70 million this year in its content-delivery network. The telecom also is partnering with ExtendMedia, Qumu and Stratacache to further its CDN initiative. xchange (6/24)   Business & Industry Watch  Banks push for new concessions on BCE deal With the $34 billion sale of Canada's BCE back on track, banks are pushing aggressively for concessions in the terms of financing the deal because of significant changes in the credit markets since it was originally negotiated. On Friday, Canada's Supreme Court threw out a bondholders lawsuit aimed at disabling BCE's sale to a group headed by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. Financial Times (6/24) , The New York Times/Reuters (6/23) Report: Thus looks for alternatives to C&W acquisition U.K. telecom Thus Group has held preliminary discussions with potential suitors Global Crossing in the U.S. and Colt Telecom in Britain, according to this report. Thus is reportedly trying to avoid a takeover by Cable & Wireless, the U.K.'s second-largest telecommunications company, which approached Thus in May. MarketWatch (6/23) Vodafone opens landmark Indian tax trial Vodafone made its opening remarks Monday at its trial in India over whether the carrier should have claimed $2 billion in capital gains taxes after its acquisition of the Indian assets of Hong Kong-based operator Hutchison Essar. The case could have far-reaching implications for the country's mergers-and-acquisition market as Vodafone is arguing for an exemption from withholding taxes because the exchange of the companies' assets took place outside of India. 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Learn more about USTelecom -> NXTcomm  |  News  |  Join USTelecom  |  NextGenWeb  |  Webinars   Video Upload    Report shows rapid consumer uptake for IPTV services Internet Protocol TV subscribers increased 257% -- to 1.8 million -- in North and South America during 2007, according to a report from research outfit iSuppli Corp. Most of that growth came from the U.S., where Verizon Communications and AT&T alone accounted for 1.2 million IPTV viewers by the end of that year. TMC Internet Telephony (6/23) Comcast looks to MPEG-4 for VOD growth Comcast, possibly as early as the fourth quarter, will begin offering MPEG-4 content via video on demand. The video-compression technology will be available through the provider's Comcast Media Center, which is working to finalize a VOD deal with SES Americom. Light Reading (6/23) LightGAIN is Optelian's complete DWDM, CWDM and hybrid solution, supporting 1 to 40 wavelengths of 10Mbps to 10Gbps traffic, SNMP managed and path protected. SFP and XFP transponders, tunable optics, and in-house manufacturing provide customers with short lead times, low cost, and customized solutions to fit their exact requirements.   Technology Trends  Health care industry to see telecom growth On the heels of a prediction by Insight Research that the health care sector could represent a $11.3 billion market in 2013, AT&T, Covisint and Microsoft have announced a partnership to better serve this marketplace. As part of the agreement, the companies will join forces to deliver an information exchange for patients and practitioners nationwide. xchange (6/24) Cisco forecasts network growth, unveils Cisco Learning Network Cisco Systems has created a new community for future IT professionals dubbed the Cisco Learning Network in an effort to help advance the network through the sharing of ideas. "As networks continue to drive economic growth, collaboration and human interaction, the need for networking talent will grow in importance. To address the growing global demand for networking talent, we estimate that we will need to double or even triple our certified individuals over approximately the next 5 years," said Milind Gurjar, director of Learning@Cisco. CXOToday.com (6/24) Nokia makes Symbian offer; backers to create single open platform Nokia will buy up the outstanding shares of U.K.-based Symbian for about $411 million and contribute the Symbian and S60 software to a new industrywide nonprofit operating-system foundation that will create a single open mobile-software platform. Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DoCoMo joined Nokia in announcing the uniting of the Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP software as AT&T, LG, Samsung, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone also joined the foundation. ClipSyndicate/Bloomberg (6/24) , The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (6/24) , iTWire (Australia) (6/24) , Pocket-lint.co.uk (6/24) Redline inks WiMAX deal in France Nomotech has selected Redline's RedMAX products to help fuel an expansion of a broadband-wireless network valued at $5 million. The network will extend to blanket more than 1,000 regions and municipalities in Brittany and Pyrenees. cellular-news (U.K.) (6/23)   IP Download  Jaxtr takes VoIP calling out of network Online VoIP service provider Jaxtr is looking to expand its reach with the launch of out-of-network calling capabilities. To support its efforts, Jaxtr has raised $10 million in Series B funding. The Washington Post/TechCrunch.com (6/24)   LeadQuote  First, I prepare. 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