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©2011 Telcordia Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. The greater the challenge, the greater the need to Balancing your need for revenue with your customers’ demand for new services isn’t easy. Fortunately, Telcordia has been solving the world’s toughest communications challenges for nearly three decades. We’ll help you get it right as you deliver innovative new services, operate more efficiently, and drive revenue. Because when you’re backed by our expertise, you’re positioned to soar. www.telcordia.com
Business Mobile payments ventures Mobile payment developments moved on apace as the uk’s three largest mobile operators— everything everywhere, o2 and Vodafone—said they will form a mobile payments joint venture; in denmark operators Telia, Tdc, Telenor and 3 joined forces to develop a single system for nfc m-payments; ericsson launched an m-payments service across seven european countries; and Visa acquired south Africa-based mobile payments company fundamo for us$110 million. Vodafone gets control of Essar Vodafone bought partner essar’s 33% stake in their mobile joint venture in india for us$5.46, taking its interest to 74%. Vodafone entered the indian market when it bought a 67% stake in hutchison essar for $11.2 billion in 2007. Polkomtel sale agreed polish businessman Zygmunt solorz-Zak won the bidding to buy polish mobile operator polkomtel for 15.1 billion zlotys (roughly E4.5 billion), beating off Telenor and Apax partners. Vodafone will receive approximately E920 million for its 24.4% stake in polkomtel. EC sets new roaming caps The european commission is imposing new price caps for voice and data roaming within the eu. retail price caps for making voice calls will be reduced from E0.35 a minute now to E0.32 from 1 July 2012, E0.28 in 2013 and E0.24 in A roundup of the major stories in telecoms in the past month, as reported in our daily news service www.totaltele.com 2014. data charges will decrease from E0.90 per megabyte next July to E0.70/Mb in 2013 and to E0.50/Mb in 2014. Text messages and incoming calls will be capped at E0.10 from next July. operators will also have to open up their networks so customers can take a separate contract to use other providers for overseas roaming. Nortel patents sold off A consortium of companies won the auction to buy the patent portfolio of nortel networks for us$4.5 billion, beating off google which had bid $900 million. Apple, eMc, ericsson, Microsoft, research in Motion and sony will now receive more than 6,000 patents. News Corp gives up on BSkyB news corp shelved plans to buy the remainder of pay-TV company bskyb, after bowing to political pressure in the wake of a phone-hacking scandal involving news international newspaper the news of the world. Ericsson buys Telcordia ericsson bought us oss/bss company Telcordia for us$1.15 billion. The deal means around 2,600 Telcordia staff will move to ericsson including president and ceo Mark greenquist. Netherlands net neutrality first The netherlands became the first country in the eu to mandate net neutrality when it passed a law to ensure that isps cannot differentiate between different types of online traffic. News Corp sells Myspace news corp agreed to sell the Myspace social network to specific Media, a digital media and marketing company, for $35 million. news corp bought the site in 2005 for $580 million. Telepresence deals orange business services and Telefonica struck a deal to provide telepresence interoperability across their networks; a similar partnership MPLS VPN / Ethernet VPLS providers in selected cities Number of service providers 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 n VPN n VPLS Tokyo New York London Moscow Mumbai São Paulo Source: TeleGeography TeleGeography research shows Ethernet deployments lag far behind MPLS VPN deployments, both by service provider and by geographic market. The availability of IP VPN and Ethernet VPN services also differs by region. TeleGeography identified 39 IP VPN providers in Europe, 34 in Asia, 31 in the US & Canada, and 19 in Africa and Latin America. Ethernet VPN services are less widely available in all of these regions, but the difference is particularly great in emerging markets. tImelIne was agreed between Verizon and Tata communications. And Telmex signed a deal with cisco to provide telepresence services in Mexico. Amdocs buys Bridgewater Amdocs agreed to buy bridgewater systems in a deal valuing the company at about us$214.2 million. ICANN to extend Net domains icAnn approved a plan to increase the number of internet address endings, or generic toplevel domains (gTlds), from the current 22. M2M joint venture expands Teliasonera joined the machine-to-machine (M2M) communications alliance set up by orange and deutsche Telekom earlier this year. The agreement will extend operations to scandinavian and baltic countries. UK spectrum trading begins ofcom gave clearance for uk mobile operators to start trading spectrum in the 900-Mhz, 1800- Mhz and 2100-Mhz bands. Facebook integrates Skype facebook signed an agreement to integrate skype calling into its social network, a week after google announced video calling in its google plus service. Tata increases Neotel share indian operator Tata communications increased its stake in south African fixed line operator neotel from 49% to 61.5% by acquiring <strong>Telecom</strong> namibia’s share. July/August 2011 www.totaltele.com 3
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