June 9, 2008 - Verizon's Airfone sold to JetBlue's LiveTV

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June 9, 2008 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise Read more at SmartBrief.com News for telecom industry leaders Search recent stories:       News of the Day    Verizon's Airfone sold to JetBlue's LiveTV JetBlue's LiveTV unit is looking to beef up its in-flight services by purchasing Verizon Communications' Airfone network for an undisclosed sum. The purchase will enable LiveTV to offer passengers e-mail and Internet service options while in the air. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (6/9) , The Washington Post/Reuters (6/9) , mocoNews.net (6/9)   Business & Industry Watch    Tech giants to create WiMAX licensing alliance In a bid to minimize the royalty rates that could discourage companies from building WiMAX wireless products, six large technology companies have formed a pool to license WiMAX patents, according to reports that say the group will announce its plans today. WiMAX proponents are concerned that the prospect of high or uncertain royalty fees could discourage hardware companies from making WiMAX-compatible handsets. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (6/9) Court tosses out DT suit filed by Vivendi Deutsche Telekom was on the winning end of a ruling from the U.S. District Court in Seattle that rejected a suit filed by Vivendi that DT stole a stake in Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa, a wireless carrier in Poland. Vivendi is gearing up for an appeal. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (6/7) Pioneer McCaw's plans for underdog Clearwire Craig McCaw, who helped build the cell phone industry from the ground up, is betting on the future of WiMAX wireless technology in his next role as the power behind Clearwire, Sprint Nextel's partner, which must battle the rival fourth-generation technology LTE backed by Verizon Wireless and AT&T. But McCaw, who made more than $8 billion in building and then selling Nextel, has a record in the industry of overcoming the odds. Portfolio.com (6/7) The Yahoo! brain trust talks about the future Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang and President Sue Decker discuss the Web portal's plans for its service, a possible Microsoft deal and why co-founder Yang returned to lead the company day-to-day as CEO. The interview was conducted by technology columnist Walt Mossberg as part of the All Things Digital conference. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (6/9) Other News Qtel buys largest stake in Indonesia's PT Indosat International Herald Tribune/Reuters (6/9) USTelecom Spotlight Telephony & The Independent to hold summit for ILECs at NXTcomm08 Independent telcos looking for new revenue, service opportunities and greater insight into their own industry should register for "INSIGHTS for Next-Generation ILECs," scheduled for Monday, June 16, during NXTcomm08 in Las Vegas. Sponsored and organized by Telephony and The Independent, the event will also explore what's next for the Independents in delivering converged services, business services, video services and wireless services. Learn more! 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 heads to No. 1 with $28.1 billion Alltel agreement (The New York Times) Microsoft foretells the end of phone numbers (TMC Internet Telephony) Mexico's Telmex spinning off international operations (Reuters) Verizon seeks 20% cut in power on telecom wares (Telephony Online) For Sprint and U.S. Cellular, now what? (The Wall Street Journal) Results based on number of times each story was clicked by readers. Now you can test drive the ZyXEL solution risk free for 30 days. Click here to choose from ZyXEL's extensive portfolio of complete xDSL access solution, MxU / MDU package or digital home solutions. Come see us at NXTComm Booth# SU7104 for a live demonstration of our xDSL access and digital home solution.   Video Upload  TV viewers driven by convenience to watch shows online The need to "time-shift" motivates the majority of TV viewers to seek out network shows online, according to this article by Mike Vorhaus, senior vice president and managing director of new media and strategy for Frank N. Magid Associates. Vorhaus' research also shows roughly four in 10 viewers consider ads in Web videos to be "just as acceptable" as those aired during TV shows, another 8% believe they're more acceptable, 19% find online ads less acceptable than TV spots, and 29% are undecided. Advertising Age (6/9) Digital TV subchannels in need of viewers, advertisers The jury's still out on whether hundreds of specialty digital broadcast TV subchannels will find viewers or support from advertisers. One major obstacle to their success is cable carriage -- FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is backing a must-carry rule for all broadcast digital feeds, but the cable industry wants the market to determine which channels are carried on which systems. The New York Times (6/9) Other News Verizon overbuilds in Dallas suburbs OneTRAK (6/9) 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. The key to the future is flexibility— Register for ADC's Next Gen white paper series. 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They can overbuild with current technologies, restrict the bandwidth usage of individual customers, or evolve their metro networks to be more efficient and flexible," said Jim Arseneault, CEO of Gridpoint Systems. xchange (6/9) Verizon Business portal manages wireline, wireless accounts Verizon Business is looking to shore up wireline and wireless account management for its enterprise customers with the launch of Verizon Enterprise Center. The portal enables customers, from a single point of entry, to place orders, view and pay bills, enter trouble tickets and monitor a host of both wired and wireless services. Telephony Online (6/9) Motorola Internet-to-TV device in the works Motorola is developing a system that will allow users to stream video and photos from the Internet directly to their TVs. The company has not set a release timeline for the so-called "Internet end run" system. OneTRAK (6/7) Other News LTE has big backers, yet its 4G tech is two years off PCWorld/Network World (6/7) FEMA will oversee U.S. EAS texting service cellular-news (U.K.) (6/8) Ethernet Mobile Backhaul Scores a Perfect 10 – 10x the bandwidth at 1/10th the cost. Service providers worldwide are tapping into a better way to backhaul the rising tide of mobile data with resilient, reliable and flexible Ethernet backhaul solutions from Hatteras Networks. Don't settle for less than perfect, visit www.hatterasnetworks.com.   IP Download  AT&T expands U-verse voice reach, hits milestone in San Diego AT&T has launched VoIP services via its U-verse voice offering in Oklahoma City. The telecom also announced its U-verse TV service is now available to more than 250,000 homes in San Diego. OneTRAK (6/9) , RTT News (6/9) Virtual PBX taps Radware Hosted PBX provider Virtual PBX has turned to Radware's AppDirector to "scale its [VoIP] infrastructure and build a fault tolerant [SIP} proxy servers," the company said. 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