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Restructured Spirent posts strong Q1 numbers
Spirent Communications has undergone heavy restructuring and recently hired a new CEO, and the test vendor's first-quarter earnings report suggests its is now heading in the right direction. Spirent Read more...
France Telecom stays on IPTV growth track
France Telecom said in its first-quarter earnings report that it had added 167,000 IPTV customers during the quarter, for a total of 1.41 million IPTV customers across all of its markets. Most of Read more...
DT posts earnings boost, landlines decline 6.3%
Germany's Deutsche Telekom reported first quarter earnings growth of 33.2 percent to $1.16 billion, though some of the increase came from the sale of a media business. The company saw revenue decline Read more...
Could international telcos unite against Skype?
Speaking of mega-ventures, could a dozen or so incumbent telcos from around the world team up to launch a free international calling service that would challenge Skype? ThinkPanmure analyst Anton Read more...
Telcos pursue $700 million Europe-India cable
AT&T and Verizon Communications were among the 16 network operators to join the Europe-India Gateway consortium this week as the EIG unveiled a plan to construct a 15,000 km., $700 million Read more...
Why European telcos are looking to make deals
News yesterday that Deutsche Telekom was giving Sprint the once over shouldn't come as any surprise. European telcos-battling tough competition and getting hammered by landline losses-have been Read more...
BT to launch telepresence service in September
U.K. telco giant BT is set to bring Cisco Systems' telepresence to market as part of a unified communications offering this September. BT's service commitment comes shortly after AT&T said it was Read more...
Alca-Lu loss trend, exchange woes continue
Quarterly losses continue to haunt mega-vendor Alcatel-Lucent, as the company reported it lost $282 million in the first quarter. It is the fifth straight quarterly loss for the company, and trends Read more...
Telefonica will invest $400 million in Ecuador
Spain's Telefonica is looking east to Ecuador as it plans new business expansion, reports Dow Jones. The company-which has invested more than $1.2 billion in the country since 2004--said it will Read more...
BT eyes service launches, avoids PBT talk
BT has been hounded by perceptions that its 21st Century Network project was staggering a bit, but in a keynote speech at Light Reading's Ethernet Expo in London, Karl Penaluna, director of IP and Read more...