Alcatel-Lucent | August 11, 2011 | Press Release
Cairo, Egypt and Paris, France, August 11, 2011 — Telecom Egypt (TE) (Ticker: ETEL.CA; TEEG.LN), Egypt’s primary telecommunications services provider, and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU), have announced that the TE-NORTH Cable System, provisioned with 40 Gigabit...
Nokia Siemens | July 28, 2011 | Press Release
Cable Bahamas, the leading cable and broadband service provider in the Bahamas, will soon be the first in the islands to offer high-quality, attractively priced IP telephony service over cable networks. The company has selected Nokia...
When the Vietnamese state owned telco Viettel officially became the majority owner of Haitian national telecommunication company TELECO, it likely had no idea what kind of trouble it was in for.
Technicolor | May 26, 2011 | Press Release
Paris (France), 26 May 2011 - Technicolor (Euronext Paris: TCH) has won a contract to supply a Cirpack softswitch to Cablemás, one of the leading providers of cable television in Mexico for almost 40 years, and now...
Pacnet | April 7, 2011 | Press Release
Plans Underway for a New US$120 Million High-Speed Network Directly Connecting Chennai to Los Angeles
NEW DELHI, INDIA–(Marketwire – April 7, 2011) - Pacnet today announced that it has signed agreements with Bharti Airtel Limited to deliver a new...
Pacnet | April 7, 2011 | Press Release
Plans Underway for a New US$120 Million High-Speed Network Directly Connecting Chennai to Los Angeles
NEW DELHI, INDIA--(Marketwire - April 7, 2011) - Pacnet today announced that it has signed agreements with Bharti Airtel Limited to deliver a new...
Pacific Fibre | April 6, 2011 | Lance Wiggs, Press Release
Pacific Fibre announced today that its Invitation To Tender was released to selected vendors for the Pacific Fibre Cable System connecting Australia to New Zealand and the US. The 5.12 Tbit/sec two fibre pair...
TeleGeography | April 4, 2011
Mexican media giant Grupo Televisa has revealed that it will buy the remaining shares it does not hold in local triple-play provider Cablemas for approximately MXN4.7 billion (USD397 million), according to the Wall Street Journal. Televisa has said that it...
Living in Peru | March 28, 2011
According to a new technical study done by Peru’s nacional statistics agency, “Information and Communication Technology in Homes, October-December 2010,” 27.1 percent of the country’s homes have cable television service, representing a 2.3 percentage point increase since 2009.
By...
GlobeNet | March 24, 2011 | Press Release
Delivering the Lowest Latency International Capacity Between the Americas
BOCA RATON, FL--(Marketwire - March 24, 2011) - GlobeNet, an international wholesale provider of submarine capacity, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Oi (BOVESPA: TNLP3) (BOVESPA: TNLP4) (BOVESPA: TMAR3)...
GlobeNet | March 24, 2011 | Press Release
Delivering the Lowest Latency International Capacity Between the Americas
BOCA RATON, FL--(Marketwire - March 24, 2011) - GlobeNet, an international wholesale provider of submarine capacity, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Oi (BOVESPA: TNLP3) (BOVESPA: TNLP4) (BOVESPA: TMAR3)...
BNAmericas | March 23, 2011 | Patrick Nixon
Latin American telcos will help ensure that satellite surpasses cable by 2015 in terms of high definition pay TV subscribers, but the long-term migration path for telcos is still IPTV, Carlos Blanco, analyst with Argentine telecoms consultancy...
Vietnam Net Bridge | March 10, 2011
Vietnamese users were disconnected from international Internet Tuesday when Asia-America Gateway, an international undersea cable system that links to the southern coastal Vung Tau province somehow was cut off.
FPT Telecom, Viettel Telecom and VDC, Vietnam’s service providers which...
Huawei | March 4, 2011 | Press Release
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 4 March, 2011: Huawei Marine Networks Co. Ltd. ("Huawei Marine") announced today that it has won the bidding for the BDM (Batam-Dumai-Melaka) submarine cable project and will provide the end-to-end turnkey submarine system solution.
The...
TeleGeography | February 28, 2011
Pacnet, which was formed from the operational merger of Asia Netcom and Pacific Internet and which describes itself as Asia’s leading independent telecommunications service provider, has selected NEC Corporation to carry out a multi-million upgrade to its 9,620km EAC Pacific...
Jamaica Observer | February 16, 2011 | Alesia Edwards?
OCHO RIOS, St Ann — Telecommunication between Jamaica, Venezuela and Cuba is soon to be strengthened due to the arrival of a new undersea fibre optic cable as part of an agreement between LIME's parent company...
Wall Street Journal | February 11, 2011 | Kejal Vyas
CARACAS (Dow Jones)--Venezuela's state-run telecommunications operator, Compania Anonima Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela, or Cantv, said Friday it has finished connecting a fiber-optic cable that links the southern part of the country to northern Brazil.
Venezuelan officials,...
Business News Americas | February 10, 2011 | Patrick Nixon
Luxembourg-based mobile operator Millicom International Cellular (Nasdaq: MICC) has forecast capex of US$800mn for 2011, which does not include potential investments in spectrum or potential expenditure in Greenfield assets in Latin America, company CFO Francois-Xavier Roger...
BBC | February 9, 2011
Cuba has welcomed the arrival of an undersea fibre-optic cable linking it to Venezuela as a blow to the US economic embargo.
The cable will transform communications in Cuba, which has among the slowest internet speeds in the world.
The new connection...
The Gleaner Jamaica | February 6, 2011
Cable and Wireless (C&W), the telecoms company that trades in the Caribbean as LIME, says it has completed the buildout of the US$35 million undersea cable connecting Jamaica, the British Virgin Islands, and the Dominican Republic....
AUSTIN-Cypress Industries, an Austin-based electronics manufacturing company, recently doubled its square-footage by moving to a new 30,000 square foot facility at 8027 Exchange Drive. The move was largely due to rapid growth in its U.S. manufacturing business.
"In 2010, we saw tremendous migration back to...
Wall Street Journal | February 2, 2011 | Taos Turner
BUENOS AIRES (Dow Jones)--Argentina's government plans to force multimedia company Grupo Clarin SA (GCLA.BA) to roll back a recent price hike on more than 3 million of its cable television customers.
The move comes just hours...
Alcatel- Lucent | February 1, 2011 | Press Release
Alcatel-Lucent and Ciena selected as the contractors for the network upgrade
Paris and Linthicum, Md., USA – February 1, 2011 – The South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) co-owners have selected Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris...
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...
