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CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update - January 04, 2007


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PricewaterhouseCoopers Presents
The CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update
For January 04, 2007
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Six Rivals to Compete for TP's ADSL Customers
http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/21890?11228

Poland's telecoms market regulator, the UKE, has confirmed that
the country's fixed-line incumbent Telekomunikacja Polska (TP)
has so far signed agreements with a total of six telcos, Netia,
GTS Energis, Telefonia Dialog, Exatel, eTel and e-Telko, for the
delivery of wholesale ADSL access. Poland's leading alternative
telco, ...

Nokia, Samsung, and Panasonic Sued over Bluetooth Patent Infringement
http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/130/21887?11228

The Washington Research Foundation (WRF), a non-profit technology
marketing division of the University of Washington is suing a
number of suppliers of Bluetooth devices including Nokia,
Samsung, Matsushita and Panasonic claiming that their products
infringe at least one patent owned by the organisation. Reuters
reports that the companies ...

Managing the Right Tension
http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/21881?11228

Of all the competing objectives every company faces, three pairs
stand out: profitability versus growth, the short term versus the
long term, and the whole organization versus the units. In each
case, progress on one front usually comes at the expense of
progress on the other. The authors researched the performance of
more than 1,000 ...

Hitting the Road With Mobile Apps
http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/21880?11228

Here's a field that's growing legs: mobile enterprise
applications. International Data Corp., a Framingham,
Mass.-based technology research firm, forecasts that the mobile
enterprise application market will grow from $1.2 billion in 2005
to $3.5 billion in 2010. That means we're about to see a lot more
people running ...

Sprint Unveils 1 GB Memory Phone
http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/21874?11228

Sprint Nextel is rolling out a new handset from Sanyo that sports
1 GB of internal memory. Separately, the wireless carrier has
officially launched N, its nighttime mobile TV network for teens.
The Sprint Power Vision M1 by Sanyo was designed with music and
entertainment fans in mind, according to the carrier. The phone
features ...

Speculators Bet On Sonae's PT Bid Sweetener
http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/21872?11228

Shares in Portugal Telecom (PT) were trading a touch higher than
$13 yesterday, leaving speculators scratching their heads over
just what Sonae may have up its sleeve as its next trick in a now
year-long $14.8 billion hostile attempt to take over Portugal's
dominant carrier. Sonae finally formally submitted its
tender-offer ...

Cingular: The Call of the WiFi
http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/140/21870?11228

Competition for an early slice of the fixed/mobile convergence
(FMC) pie in the U.S. could be heating up now that AT&T
Inc. has taken full control of the Cingular Wireless LLC
joint venture following the completion of its $86 billion
acquisition of BellSouth Corp. over the new year. Cingular's
convergence plans ...

Cingular: The Call of the WiFi
http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/100/21868?11228

Competition for an early slice of the fixed/mobile convergence
(FMC) pie in the U.S. could be heating up now that AT&T Inc. has
taken full control of the Cingular Wireless LLC joint venture
following the completion of its $86 billion acquisition of
BellSouth Corp. over the new year. Cingular's convergence
plans ...

AT&T Merger: The Storage Angle
http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/21867?11228

With the FCC's long-awaited approval of AT&T's merger with
BellSouth finally in place, the companies face the formidable
task of converging their customers, products, and services --
including storage ones. But the largest telecom merger in U.S.
history, a deal valued at about $85 billion, may not produce
much ...

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