August 7, 2008 - DT makes IPTV progress, posts broadband gains

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August 7, 2008 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise Read more at SmartBrief.com News for telecom industry leaders       News of the Day    DT makes IPTV progress, posts broadband gains Deutsche Telekom's latest earnings statement revealed that T-Home, the company's IPTV unit, outpaced expectations in the second quarter and made 46,000 IPTV connections. Also, DT's domestic broadband customer totals increased 24% to 9.9 million. Forbes/Thomson Financial News (8/7) , Light Reading (8/7) Enjoy crunching numbers? Then click here to check out the GolfQuest - a cool way to find the perfect course. And, if you like that, just imagine what QlikView can do for your business. 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Financial Times (8/7) , Reuters (8/6) BCE reports strong wireless growth, though profit dipped Canada's BCE added 111,000 postpaid wireless subscribers in the latest quarter, its best results in terms of growth in more than two years after a pickup of just 43,000 customers a year earlier, said the company, which will soon be taken private. Profit fell because of a one-time asset sale recorded a year earlier, but wireless revenue climbed 11% as Web-surfing phones proved a popular item, though the company added that new competition could crimp future sales. Reuters (8/6) , Bloomberg (8/6) USTelecom Spotlight USTelecom Webinar: Investing Your Marketing Dollars With Confidence Tuesday, Aug. 12 -- 1 p.m. Eastern time Register for this free webinar to learn how to maximize your marketing dollars by investing them with confidence. Learn how to use market research to quantify customer demand and forecast sales. Based on more than a decade of IOC research and benchmarking, Cronin Communications provides the information and confidence you need to eliminate the guesswork often associated with marketing. Learn more. Learn more about USTelecom -> NXTcomm  |  News  |  Join USTelecom  |  NextGenWeb  |  Webinars   Video Upload  FiOS TV one step closer to D.C. availability Verizon Communications has forged an agreement "in principle" with the Washington telecom authorities that will likely pave the way for Verizon to roll out FiOS video services in the district. The Examiner/Associated Press (8/7) TV viewing just got social Integra5 is touting its MediaFriends TV Chat, a service that blends TV watching with social networking, allowing viewers to communicate with each other in on-screen conversations as they watch the same shows. CED Magazine.com (8/6) Time Warner Cable sides with Cablevision in DVR case Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt said that if an appellate court ruling that allows Cablevision to develop a network DVR stands, his company will deploy the same thing. "We've said for a long time that a centralized network DVR is a better engineering solution than having hard drives all over everybody's home," he said. "If this particular court case is upheld, we will deploy that." Multichannel News (8/6) , Light Reading (8/6)   Technology Trends    Moscow telecom taps Nortel for WiMAX build With WiMAX technology rapidly gaining favor in Russia, the country's Comstar-United TeleSystems has awarded Nortel a contract for supplying its Moscow network. Nortel said it would install its WiMAX BTS 5020 equipment, Access Services Network Gateway 5100 as well as other supporting equipment and platforms that will, in the first stage of the project, support Comstar's deployment of more than 160 mobile WiMAX base stations. cellular-news (U.K.) (8/7) Juniper lands two-year service deal Juniper has signed on to deliver infrastructure that will improve T-Mobile USA's next-generation wireless-technology efforts. Juniper expects to see about $165,000 in revenue a year from the deal. TMC Internet Telephony (8/6) Building the Web 2.0 Enterprise: McKinsey Global Survey Results Companies are using more Web 2.0 tools and technologies than they were last year, sometimes for more complex business purposes, according to McKinsey's second annual survey on Web 2.0. Companies that are satisfied with their use of these tools are starting to see changes throughout the enterprise. The McKinsey Quarterly (free registration for SmartBrief readers) (7/1) Whitepaper: Migration Strategies for Success Given the slow adoption rate of IMS, how should carriers consider transforming their networks in order to support SIP, VoIP and multimedia services? This paper, jointly prepared with Frost & Sullivan, provides an overview of industry trends and issues impacting the evolution of wireless and wireline networks. Tekelec Whitepaper   IP Download  Study: Wireless-broadband subs set to double Wireless-broadband subscriptions will more than double from 2007 to 2011, according to a study from Infonetics Research. Global mobile subscriptions will reach 5.2 billion by 2011, driven largely by double-digit growth in GSM deployments in such emerging markets as Brazil, China, India and Russia, Infonetics also predicted. cellular-news (U.K.) (8/7) FCC to test unlicensed devices at FedEx Field, Broadway theater The FCC has announced it will hold sports- and theater-venue field tests of unlicensed mobile devices during the Aug. 9 preseason contest at FedEx Field in Landover, Md., between the Washington Redskins and the Buffalo Bills, and during the week of Aug. 11, at an undisclosed Broadway show. Sports and theater producers share a concern that the use of unlicensed devices in the broadcast spectrum will disrupt their wireless microphones, according to this article. 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