July 3, 2008 - Vodafone buys $900 million stake in Ghana Telecom

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July 3, 2008 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise Read more at SmartBrief.com News for telecom industry leaders Search recent stories:       News of the Day    Vodafone buys $900 million stake in Ghana Telecom Eyeing growth opportunities in Africa, Vodafone is paying $900 million for a controlling stake in Ghana Telecom, a national telecom operator. Vodafone says Ghana is posting annual subscriber growth of 55%. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (7/3) , The New York Times (registration required)/IDG News Service (7/3) Free Download from TARGUSInfo! Learn how to optimize existing marketing investments to help sales and marketing staff qualify and target the most lucrative SMBs in real time. Click here to download the free TARGUSinfo white paper.   Business & Industry Watch  China Telecom makes plans after China Unicom buy China Telecom plans to create a company specifically for procuring and customizing CDMA handsets after taking over China Unicom's CDMA business, according to the Beijing Times. Forbes/Thomson Financial News (7/2) Reliance, MTN appear close to agreement on merger After weeks of wrangling -- much of it internally at one of the parties -- South Africa's MTN Group and India's Reliance Communications appear close to a merger deal, even though it still faces threats of legal action to block the deal, say people close to the matter. R-Com has been in close talks with MTN for more than a month about forming a telecom empire that would stretch from Africa to India, but the rivalry between the two brothers who control parent company Reliance Group has delayed the deal's completion. The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Newswires (subscription required) (7/3) Analysis: Will DirecTV benefit from AT&T's Dish departure? DirecTV may replace Dish Network as AT&T's direct-broadcast satellite partner in the wake of a 8-K filing Tuesday by Dish that indicated AT&T was terminating its contract, said Craig Moffett, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein. "A six-month notice of termination was required under the contract in order to reopen renegotiations between Dish and AT&T, and presumably, DirecTV and AT&T as well," Moffett said. Light Reading (7/2) Other News Alcatel-Lucent among network-contract winners in India Forbes/Thomson Financial News (7/3) Tata narrows list of possible WiMAX vendors Unstrung (7/2) USTelecom Spotlight New technologies shaping the way services are delivered Don't miss USTelecom's Third Annual Engineering Summit in Washington, July 23 and 24, sponsored by ADTRAN. Learn about new technologies to optimize your network and get ideas for new service opportunities. Presentation topics will cover SIP security, server virtualization, IP Network Simulation, New Web Advertising paradigms, Metro Ethernet Technologies, IP-PBX extension over mobile networks, and much, much more. Telecom service providers only. Learn more. Learn more about USTelecom -> NXTcomm  |  News  |  Join USTelecom  |  NextGenWeb  |  Webinars   Video Upload  Verizon adds new FiOS territory in Massachusetts Stoughton, Mass., has become the latest community to grant Verizon Communications a video franchise for its FiOS TV service. The decision brings to 76 the number of Massachusetts towns that either have or will soon have the video service. The Boston Globe (7/2) Cablevision adds 15 networks to its growing HD menu Cablevision Systems said it would add 15 free high-definition channels to its offerings, a move that will bring the Bethpage, N.Y., company's HD roster to 60. The new channels include Discovery, Nickelodeon, The Weather Channel, FX, AMC and Fox News. Yahoo!/Reuters (7/2) The Buzz(CORPORATE ANNOUNCEMENTS) Integrated Technologies – Global Solutions, a Volt Telecom Group division, (ITGS) delivers products and comprehensive, design, engineering and installation services to improve the security of public, private and government facilities nationwide. Contact us today for a FREE brochure on our turnkey voice, data, security, access and video systems. salesinfo@volt-telecom.com. 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  The future of IMS in an IPTV world The growth of IPTV is likely to encourage providers to significantly adopt new IMS technologies in the future, according to a new report from MRG. And, according to this analysis, a number of major firms already are initiating IMS projects. Telephony Online (6/30) Nokia settles U.K. patent suits with InterDigital Nokia and U.S.-based InterDigital, a developer of wireless technology, have settled their patent disputes pending in the U.K., after a series of suits and countersuits between the companies dating to 2005. Litigation between the companies is still ongoing in the U.S. The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Newswires (subscription required) (7/3) Other News Yahoo! looks for new alliances The Wall Street Journal (7/3)   IP Download  VoIP and the need for security The emergence of hackers in VoIP systems just means robust security measures are needed, industry experts say. "If you apply traditional network security logic to VoIP you can make it as secure as any other protocol," said Barrie Dempster of Next Generation Security Software. PCWorld/Network World (7/3)   Editor's Note  The dailyLead will not publish Friday The dailyLead will not be published Friday, July 4. 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