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Teleste and Ikusi have signed a collaboration agreement for the Spanish and Latin American markets

Teleste | January 25, 2011 | Press Release The agreement focuses on business solutions for cable and telecom operators Teleste is an international technology group specialising in broadband video and data communication systems and services. Teleste and the Spanish company Ikusi have reached a collaboration agreement for the Spanish and...

Complaints look set to delay 3G auction – Thailand

Bangkok Post | January 24, 2011 | Komsan Tortermvasana TOT Plc may have to postpone its planned auction for its nationwide third-generation (3G) wireless broadband expansion in the wake of allegations by some bidders of unfair treatment and poor transparency. Chuti Krairiksh, the Information and Communications...

Vivendi's Levy targets Lady Gaga fans in Brazil to boost Universal growth

Bloomberg | January 23, 2011 | Kristen Schweizer Vivendi SA’s Universal Music Group, home to artists such as Lady Gaga and Mariah Carey, is targeting broadband users in emerging markets like Brazil by signing deals with phone providers there to carry online music services. “We are...

Vivendi’s Levy targets Lady Gaga fans in Brazil to boost Universal growth

Bloomberg | January 23, 2011 | Kristen Schweizer Vivendi SA’s Universal Music Group, home to artists such as Lady Gaga and Mariah Carey, is targeting broadband users in emerging markets like Brazil by signing deals with phone providers there to carry online music services. “We are...

Anatel authorises Telebras to operate last mile broadband service

TeleGeography | January 24, 2011 State-owned telecoms company Telebras has been given the green light by the telecoms regulator Anatel to operate broadband internet services in the last mile. The decision to issue a Multimedia Communication Service (SCM) licence, published on 20 January, allows Telebras...

RFMicron rides rising Wireless Tracking market in Austin

AUSTIN, Texas--A new wireless tracking trend may soon become a large part of mobile broadband applications. Locally, investment in the industry is starting to heat up. As the brainchild of RFMicron, Shariar Rokshaz graduated from the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) in July 2010 with...

SK Telecom opens cloud data center

Korea IT Times | January 17, 2011 Opens a data center for cloud computing service at SK Broadband’s Internet Data Center to support 1,500 virtual servers SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) announced today that it opened Cloud Data Center, a cloud computing data center, to offer innovative cloud-based...

Corning Cable Systems Awarded Passive Solutions for Australian NBN Fiber to the Home Deployment

Corning | January 16, 2011 | Press Release MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Corning Cable Systems Pty. Ltd., part of Corning Incorporated’s (NYSE: GLW) Telecommunications segment, today announced that Corning has been selected as a primary NBN ...

P1 to invest MYR200 million in network development in 2011

TeleGeography | January 14, 2011 Malaysian WiMAX provider Packet One (P1) has revealed that in a bid to enhance capacity and increase its coverage to 52% in West Malaysia it will invest a further MYR200 million (USD65.4 million) in its operations this year, Bernama reports....

Brazil To Pay Power Companies For Use Of Fiber Optics – Report

Wall Street Journal | January 7, 2011 | Gerald Jeffris BRASILIA (Dow Jones)--Brazil's government will pay public and private energy companies for access to their fiber optics networks under its plans to expand broadband services to the public, Communications Minister Paulo Bernardo was quoted Friday...

3G coverage overtakes fixed broadband in Brazil

Xinhua Net News | January 14, 2011 | Tang Danlu BRASILIA, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- The number of 3G users in Brazil reached 20.6 million in 2010, approximately 50 percent higher than that of fixed broadband Internet users, according to a new survey. The 3G network,...

Minimum broadband speed to violate NTC rules: service providers

Business World Online | January 14, 2011 | Aura Marie P. Dagcutan BROADBAND SERVICE providers have said that setting minimum speed on broadband access will contradict rules of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) which deregulated value-added services. In separate position papers submitted to the regulator, the...

PM calls for cheaper broadband across Asean

The Star Online | January 13, 2011 Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak says Asean telecommunications ministers should focus on making broadband bandwidth cheaper for consumers across the Asean region. Video via The Star Online

Telefonica to Invest $700 Million in Chile in 2011, Diario Says

Bloomberg | January 7, 2011 | Eduardo Thomson Telefonica Chile SA, Chile’s largest telephone company, plans to invest $700 million this year, Diario Financiero said. The company plans to invest a significant portion of that amount in broadband and fiber optic assets, the Santiago-based newspaper said,...

Broadband Subscription Reached 509 Million Lines Worldwide as IPTV Passes 40 Million Subscriber Milestone

The Broadband Forum | January 6, 2011 | Press Release China and India report second best quarters ever and developing broadband markets show over 20% growth 3Q2010 ATLANTA, Jan. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Year on year growth rates of 6.7% have taken broadband subscription to 508,761,837...

Telstra still in negotiations with NBN

Sydney Morning Herald | January 7, 2011 | AAP The head of the government funded company charged with responsibility for building the national broadband network says discussions with Telstra are continuing. NBN co chief executive Mike Quigley said the company is still in talks with Telstra...

Research and Markets: Paraguays Mobile Data Service Store is Anticipated to Present 19.2% Of Total Revenue By 2015, Compared

Trading Markets | January 7, 2011 | Press Release Dublin, Jan 07, 2011 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Research and Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/993177/paraguay_governme) has announced the addition of the "Paraguay: Government Decree Improves Competitive Landscape for Mobile Services" report to their offering. Paraguay has an underdeveloped fixed market that...

Austin's bullish tech economy to be featured on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric

Report to highlight $3.6 billion expansion of Samsung Austin Semiconductor AUSTIN, Texas--The old adage of everything being bigger in Texas is often true, and the boastful economic figures reported by the Austin Chamber of Commerce are making a solid impression that the capital of the Lone...

Austin’s bullish tech economy to be featured on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric

Report to highlight $3.6 billion expansion of Samsung Austin Semiconductor AUSTIN, Texas--The old adage of everything being bigger in Texas is often true, and the boastful economic figures reported by the Austin Chamber of Commerce are making a solid impression that the capital of the Lone...

4G network in all local universities by this year- Malaysia

Bernama | January 5, 2011 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 5 (Bernama) -- Yes, the fastest mobile Internet service with voice, aims to bring its campus-wide 4G network, Yes 4G, to all public universities and selected private institutions of higher learning in Malaysia this year. The network has...

Mincom backing optical communications to increase broadband speeds – Brazil

Business News Americas | January 4, 2011 Brazil's communications ministry (Minicom) has thrown its support behind the development of optical communication systems that aim to reach broadband transmission rates of 100 Gbps. Brazilian research and development institute CPqD launched the project in 2010 and the ministry's...

Incoming minister to get tough on broadband pricing

TeleGeography | January 5, 2010 Brazil's newly appointed communications minister, Paulo Bernardo, used his acceptance speech to announce his intention to reduce the cost of broadband access in the country. Telecompaper quotes Bernardo as saying that state-owned telco Telebras will be tasked with providing internet...

T-Mobile USA’s Neville Ray to Serve as 4G Americas’ Chairperson

4G Americas | January 5, 2011 | Press Release BELLEVUE, Wash. – 4G Americas, a wireless industry trade association representing the 3GPP family of technologies, today announced that Neville Ray, Chief Technology Officer for T-Mobile USA, has been re-elected to serve as 2011 Chairperson of the...

Brazil telecoms, Telebras may share broadband Plan, Folha says

Bloomberg | December 29, 2010 | Andre Soliani Brazilian telecommunications companies will be invited to share with state-owned Telecomunicacoes Brasileiras SA leadership of the government’s plan to extend broadband Internet services to all homes, incoming Communications Minister Paulo Bernardo told Folha de S. Paulo newspaper. The...