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January 22, 2007 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise Read more at dailyLead.com News for telecom industry leaders   News of the Day    Technology sector experiences M&A boom in 2006 Mergers and acquisitions among technology companies surpassed $130 billion in 2006. The Alcatel and Lucent Technologies union topped the list of 18 mega deals announced last year. Financial Times (free content) (1/22) Free 802.3ah White Paper and Webinar available in our Carrier Ethernet Resource Center. With features such as link monitoring, OAM, loopback, bandwidth allocation, VLAN/QoS management, and segment redundancy, Transition's media conversion and switching products offer complete management capabilities from the CO to the CPE. Get Free White Paper and Webinar.   Business & Industry Watch    Area code depletion not a major concern for telecoms Demand for phone numbers is up, but new regulations have quelled worries about exhausting area codes. The demand for U.S. phone numbers was up 6% year-over-year in June, with 585 million numbers in use, according to the FCC. MSNBC/Associated Press (1/22) Ads on mobiles set to gain traction MVNOs Virgin Mobile USA and Amp'd Mobile are working to make advertising on cell phones more acceptable with subscribers by offering bill discounts for viewing advertisements on their devices. Top carriers Cingular Wireless, Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel also are helping to drive the technology by committing to testing. Chicago Tribune/The New York Times News Service (1/22) NBC's "Heroes" stretches across multiple platforms NBC is unveiling a new "Heroes" Web site designed to extend the reach of the television series, via the launch of interactive online and mobile content. Content will include streamed episodes and cast commentaries. Reuters/The Hollywood Reporter (1/21) Future looks bright for Comcast, cable industry Comcast, and the entire cable industry, are in the midst of a recovery, making them well positioned to compete for telephone, data and content services, The New York Times reports. NYTimes.com (1/21) Engin delivers VoIP services to mobiles Engin is making its VoIP service available on the Nokia N80 Internet Edition handset for its Australian customer base. The service's connectivity will be delivered via Wi-Fi hot spots. The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) (1/22) Veoh to create Web channel with Us Weekly magazine Veoh.com, the video-sharing site that boasts ex-Disney boss Michael D. Eisner as an investor, is teaming with Us Weekly magazine to create a celebrity-entertainment channel on Veoh. The move fits well with Veoh's strategy of focusing on women in their 20s and 30s, rather than competing head-on with YouTube. NYTimes.com (1/22) China Mobile makes a buy in Pakistan China Mobile Communications is buying an 88.9% stake in Paktel from Millicom International Cellular. China Mobile has more than 300 million wireless customers in China, but it is looking to expand internationally. The Wall Street Journal (tiered subscription model) (1/22) The Buzz(CORPORATE ANNOUNCEMENTS) Now with lower prices for 2007, CANUX Learning Services is the best value for GR-1275-CORE, GR-1502-CORE and GR-295-CORE training and certification. For information about our training, employee assessments and certification testing, call us at 1-877-MYCANUX (1-877-692-2689). Interested in learning more about advertising in the USTelecom dailyLead? Contact Mark Lasser at 202-737-5500 x317 or mark.lasser@smartbrief.com.     Technology Trends  Generation We takes control of their media Cell phones, the Internet and YouTube are changing the way children under 11, dubbed Generation We, consume content. "You've got a generation of kids who've had an unprecedented amount of control of their media and they're not going to give it up," a researcher at Iconoculture said. CNET (1/22) Wind readies IPTV launch Wind Telecomunicazioni is finalizing content deals to enable the company to launch an IPTV service in Italy within the next few weeks. The company also expects to unveil a cell-phone payment system before the close of 2007. Forbes/AFX News Limited (1/22) U.S. embraces ringback tones, study finds Personalization is driving ringback tone purchases, according to M:Metrics, which found that ringback tone purchases increased 225% from January to November last year. In November, 19.7% of mobile users in Spain had created their own ringtone. Cellular-News.com (U.K.) (1/22)   Exhibiting at NXTcomm 2007? NXTcomm attendees are also USTelecom dailyLead subscribers. Drive readers to your booth by taking advantage of pre-show advertising opportunities. 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