June 26, 2008 - Clearwire eyes European partnerships

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June 26, 2008 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise Read more at SmartBrief.com News for telecom industry leaders Search recent stories:       News of the Day  Clearwire eyes European partnerships Clearwire is talking to European companies in hopes of forging partnerships similar to the ones it made in the U.S. to help construct Wi-Fi networks, according to CEO Ben Wolff. The company owns licenses in seven countries that cover 200 million people across Europe. Unstrung (6/26)   Business & Industry Watch  AT&T brings triple play to Fresno area For the second time in as many weeks, AT&T has unveiled a U-verse triple-play service at the time of launch in a new market. The latest launch comes in the Fresno, Calif., area and follows a similar move last week in Reno, Nev. OneTRAK (6/25) MTN to acquire Verizon South Africa MTN Group, the largest mobile-phone operator in Africa, has announced that it will acquire Verizon South Africa, a provider of Internet service with customers in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Kenya. Seventy percent of Verizon South Africa currently is owned by Verizon corporate entities, and 30% is controlled by Jay & Jayendra Pty. The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Newswires (subscription required) (6/25) XO extends Ethernet reach via resellers XO Communications has started working with a growing number of resellers to broaden its Ethernet-over-copper services. Case in point: Best Buy unit Speakeasy recently announced that it would use XO's Ethernet-over-copper setup to offer 10 Mbps symmetrical data services in 30 markets across the country. Telephony Online (6/25) Samsung's embattled Lee Kun-hee announces retirement Former Samsung Chairman and CEO Lee Kun-hee has announced that he will retire Tuesday, a move he promised to make after his indictments on charges of tax evasion and breach of trust. Lee is still employed by the company even though he stepped down from the key leadership positions in April; he remains Samsung's largest individual shareholder. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (6/26) USTelecom Spotlight How Interviewing, Hiring & Orientation Contribute to Employee Retention Tuesday, July 1, 1 p.m. Eastern time Participate in this webinar to learn how your peers are maximizing their recruitment and selection process to identify a targeted applicant pool. Explore how employee-assimilation processes are being used to maximize retention. Low national unemployment rates and an aging employment population are why you need to focus on hiring and retaining top talent. Get an overview of the evolution of best practices as they apply to the initiation of the employee life cycle. Register today. Learn more about USTelecom -> NXTcomm  |  News  |  Join USTelecom  |  NextGenWeb  |  Webinars   Video Upload  AT&T, Verizon look to "three screen" ad sales First, telecommunications companies offered consumers packages bundling wireless, Internet connectivity and FiOS. Now, they're asking advertisers to come along for the ride. AT&T and Verizon are touting ad packages that reach across all three screens -- mobile, PC and TV. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (6/26) HBO to expand broadband video with friends first Robert Zitter, HBO's chief technology officer, says the company will be more likely to expand its HBO on Broadband video service on the high-speed networks of providers with which it already has carriage agreements. OneTRAK (6/25) The Buzz(CORPORATE ANNOUNCEMENTS) Register to win a free MPLS book by Juniper experts By combining intelligent routing and script automation, MPLS Plug-and-Play from Juniper Networks gives you the ability to proactively adapt to changes, detect potential problems, and take corrective action. Learn more about MPLS-enabled applications and register to win a free book >> 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  Vodafone executive sees femtocells spread across cities Vodafone says it believes that femtocells could help spread the development of wireless hot spots across urban areas. The head of new technologies and innovation for the cell phone carrier has proposed building a "metrozone" of the small base stations at bus stops, lampposts or buildings as a way of creating femto access points. Unstrung (6/25) Compton deploys Motorola's GPON solution Canadian cable firm Compton Communications will be the first North American provider to deploy Motorola's Gigabit Passive Optical Networking solution. The all-fiber system offers ultrafast broadband service, and Compton will use it to target business customers. Cartt News Service (subscription only) (6/25)   IP Download  Internet naming conventions to expand beyond dot-com The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is preparing to approve a broader variety of domain name suffixes that move beyond the conventional .com and .org to better define and categorize sites. The group gave the go-ahead for an unlimited number of top-level domain names that would allow companies, cities and organizations to use a brand name, acronym or topic in their domain names -- such as ".ebay," ".nyc" or ".news." The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (6/26) Streaming video, browsing catching up to P2P usage Peer-to-peer Internet traffic by a relatively small number of users takes up the vast majority of online bandwidth, but streaming video and Web browsing are gaining ground, according to research from deep packet inspection company Sandvine. 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