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- Report: Global outlook strong for telecom
There's good news for telecom companies, according to a new report that forecasts unabated growth across the globe for the sector over the next five years, at a compounded rate of more than 10% by 2013, according to Insight Research. "Telecom is as necessary to development as roads and bridges, so we expect it to fare much better than other economic segments that may take longer to return to normalcy," said Insight President Robert Rosenberg. xchange
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- Buyer's remorse threatens BCE buyout
The troubled $27.3 billion buyout of Canadian telecom giant BCE appeared to move onto shakier ground Thursday when the private-equity firms who agreed to buy 84% of the company changed tack and lowered their investment to an undisclosed minority stake, according to reports. Providence Equity Partners and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan have reportedly said they hoped to save the deal by taking a smaller stake rather than drop out altogether, but close observers of the deal said the investors' wanted to protect themselves from legal action. Financial Times (free content)
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- SingTel, Cisco among Singapore network bidders
The Singapore government's proposal to build a broadband network across the city-state island has drawn four groups as bidders including Singapore Telecommunications and a consortium that includes Cisco Systems and Axia NetMedia, the government said today. Singapore's two smaller telecoms were the other entrants to build a network that will supposedly provide speeds of up to 1 gigabyte per second. Reuters
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- U.K. agency offers BT wholesale-rate rise
BT Group objects to the U.K. telecom regulator Ofcom's proposed increase in the wholesale rate the telecom can charge other companies to use its network. Ofcom said its plan would ensure fair competition, but BT said the increase would fall short of covering the rate of inflation since the company's 2006 creation of its Openreach business. Reuters
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- Verizon sees FiOS net reaching 100 Mbps next year
Fresh off successful trials, Verizon Communications said it would introduce new services next year that will support 100-megabyte-per-second speeds along its GPON-based FiOS network, the company said Thursday. "A lot of these different TVs will have inordinate demand on the bandwidth that's required on the network in order to support them," said Vincent O'Byrne, Verizon's technology director, adding that a number of electronics devices will spur increased demand from customers. Telephony Online
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- Survey shows appeal of home entertainment in tough economic times
More than half of adults, citing the economic downturn, plan to spend more time at home with their TVs as entertainment, according to a new poll commissioned by Verizon. The survey also found 62% have an HDTV, and that 16% of those with HD sets are considering buying a second one by the end of 2008. TVWeek.com
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- Study: DVR penetration to hit 44% by 2014
Magna's On-Demand Quarterly report indicates that 44% of U.S. television households will have some kind of digital video recorder by 2014, which will increase total viewing, but erode viewing impressions across the board. "While DVRs will continue to disproportionately impact younger target audiences and network prime time, the aging of our society and the gradually eroding importance of network prime time will likely render such targets incrementally less important in the years ahead," said Brian Wieser, director of industry analysis for Magna. TVWeek.com
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- Analysis: Gloomy economy will bring more to the cloud
The doom and gloom of today's global economy will lead more enterprises to open-source and software-as-a-service solutions for their IT needs, according to this analysis by Rafael Laguna de la Vera, chief executive officer of Open-Xchange. "As budgets constrict, as head counts lower, demands on IT will not decrease; they will almost certainly increase," he said. "Open source and Software as a Service will bring IT staff -- and end users -- the abilities and cost savings they need and the innovation they want." SYS-CON
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- Report: Ethernet should be sole technology for data centers
All network data centers eventually will transition to Ethernet technology, according to a report from Current Analysis. "For there to be truly agile, cost optimized, and efficient data centers, the network must be transitioned to a single technology," said Steven Schuchart, principal analyst at Current Analysis. "That technology is Ethernet." eChannelLine USA Daily News
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