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09/21/2012
Deals Of The Day 09/21/12
Liberty Global pledged to spend $2.5 billion to buy the remaining 50 percent of Belgian cableco Telenet it doesn’t already own…Cybera Inc. in Tennessee is the newest Vertical Solution Provider (VSP) for Verizon Wireless. The two will deliver network security services coupled with embedded wireless for distributed enterprise locations via Cybera ONE, a cloud-based network-security […]
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09/21/2012
Global Connections 09/21/12
ZTE Germany GmbH and Cologne-based IET Holding will build a $1.3 billion optical network targeting underserved broadband areas in Germany as a result of German/Chinese inter-governmental consultations in late August. Approximately 33 percent of German households have no high-speed network access. Also part of this five-year-long infrastructure project is the upgrade to as many as […]
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09/21/2012
People Watch 09/21/12
Big shakeup at interconnection/interop solutions provider Inteliquent: President/COO Surendra Saboo and CFO Robert M. Junkroski will step down Oct. 1, but will stay on for a month to help with any transition. While the company’s board is looking to hire a new CFO, there are no plans right now to fill Saboo’s shoes…Making it two […]
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09/20/2012
Global Connections 09/20/12
21Vianet Group Inc., reportedly the largest carrier-neutral Internet data center services provider in China, is buying another Chinese company, Internet content delivery network (CDN) services operator Fastweb International Holdings. As part of the deal, Fastweb CEO Edward Liu will join 21Vianet as chief software officer…Globecomm Systems Inc. snagged a$2.7 million contract for a new broadband […]
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09/20/2012
Deals Of The Day 09/20/12
Alaska-based GCI tapped Interop Technologies, a provider of core wireless solutions for advanced messaging, over-the-air handset management and connectivity gateways, to provide multiple wireless solutions, including the Interop Short Message Service Center (SMSC), Multimedia Messaging Service Center (MMSC), Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Gateway, Messaging Personalization and Control (MPAC) solution, and CDMA Interactive Voice Response (IVR) […]
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09/20/2012
Inside The Beltway 09/20/12
Tomorrow, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will hold an open meeting at 9:30 a.m. at its Washington, D.C., HQ to discuss a new program to measure mobile broadband service performance in the United States. The proposed program would develop information on U.S. mobile broadband service performance using the same collaborative model as did its Measuring […]