July 18, 2008 - Verizon wireline resellers gain access to wholesale wireless

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July 18, 2008 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise Read more at SmartBrief.com News for telecom industry leaders       News of the Day    Verizon wireline resellers gain access to wholesale wireless Verizon Communications is officially rolling out its Verizon Wholesale Mobility Solutions suite, which features voice and broadband services, to its wireline reseller community. "The demand for bundled wireline and wireless services continues to grow across every segment of the communications marketplace," said VPS President Michael Millegan. xchange (7/17) AUTOMATED RE-MARKETING CASE STUDY: Uncover and reach out to lost prospects – before they call the competition! Free download of results, compliments of TARGUSinfo.   Business & Industry Watch  Sprint drops out of NGMN over LTE endorsement Sprint Nextel, a backer of WiMAX technology, has withdrawn from the Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance because of the group's support for Long Term Evolution as the fourth-generation wireless standard, Sprint said. "Sprint was disappointed that NGMN shifted from its original technology-neutral stance," said Sprint spokesman John Polivka. "We respectfully withdrew our membership from the organization due to the change in direction." NGMN counts 18 cell phone operators worldwide as members, some of whom have committed to using LTE. Computerworld (7/17) "Retention marketing" good for the consumer, USTelecom chief says A recent move by the FCC to forbid telecoms from trying to retain customers who are looking to switch to cable goes against "American consumers' market-given right to make a deal," writes USTelecom President and CEO Walter McCormick. "With its adverse impact on everything from market parity to consumer's wallets to free speech, this decision is a stark reversal of the FCC's longstanding efforts to promote regulatory parity among market competitors as a cornerstone of modern communications policy," McCormick wrote. xchange (7/16) AT&T gains Summer Olympics on MediaFlo AT&T will offer mobile access to NBC's Summer Olympics coverage through its obtaining exclusive rights from NBC Universal to a live around-the-clock broadcast TV channel on its MediaFlo service dubbed NBC Olympics 2Go. Verizon Wireless has also gained access to the Olympics on its video and broadband platforms as well. The Washington Post/paidContent.org (7/18) , Silicon Alley Insider (7/17) , mocoNews.net (7/17) Letter: Yahoo! CEO, chairman tell shareholders to be wary of Icahn Saying a takeover by Microsoft as envisioned by Yahoo! investor Carl Icahn would "destroy stockholder value," Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman Roy Bostock, in a letter to shareholders, suggest that Icahn is looking out for his own interests. Icahn has a "strong incentive to strike any deal with Microsoft that enables him to recover his investment and get back his money quickly, even a deal that does not provide full and fair value to you," they write. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (7/18) , Mediaweek (7/17) Other News Analyst Inder Singh comes to Cisco as VP of strategy Light Reading (7/18)   Video Upload  Nielsen says DVR use up to 25% of U.S. homes A quarter of all TV homes in the U.S. now have digital video recorders, according to the latest data from Nielsen. The study also reports that 30% of DVR users have the device hooked up to more than one set in the house and that 53% have cable service. MediaPost Communications (7/17) Google: Content providers should take "anywhere, anytime" approach Rather than fighting video-sharing consumers, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told an entertainment conference audience Thursday that the best attitude for studios and content providers in the digital age is an "'anywhere, anytime' consumer model," which turns piracy into profitability. He also said that while newspapers "are in a world of hurt," entertainment providers will prosper as long as they take cooperative, rather than adversarial, relationships with online companies such as YouTube. Advertising Age (7/17)   Technology Trends  Sony forms consortium on UWB technologies Sony Corp. will be working with 14 other consumer-electronics companies -- including Canon, Kodak, Panasonic and Toshiba -- to advance TransferJet, the set of ultrawideband, short-range technologies that can transmit up to 560 Mbps. The consortium is trying to develop a standard spec for the technology, which Sony said could find its way into CE devices by 2009. EE Times (7/17)   IP Download  Hulu users are few, but happy Only 15% of the country knows about online video site Hulu.com, but those that do rate the NBCU-News Corp. joint venture highly, according to a report by Solutions Research Group. The report also showed that the average age of Hulu users is 32, that their income is 22% higher than the U.S. average and that two-thirds are male. TVWeek.com (7/17) Study: User-generated video a ways off from meaningful revenue User-generated video on the Web may be incredibly popular, but it's not going to be a big source of ad revenue anytime soon, according to this story in Broadcasting & Cable about a new report from TDG. The report predicts that just 4% of online video ad revenue during the next five years will come from user-generated content. 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