News of the Day

• Broadcom buys digital-TV business
  Broadcom is purchasing the digital-TV business from AMD, in a deal valued at $192.8 million. Broadcom says the purchase will help it better serve the full range of this market, from low to high end. Los Angeles Times (8/26) , The Wall Street Journal (8/26)

Business & Industry Watch

• Embarq aims to trim expenses
  Embarq has announced plans to trim its work force 3% to 4% to bring down expenses. "Our rationale is that to ensure the continued success of our enterprise we are constantly evaluating the size and placement of our work force, including the ways we staff and prioritize work," said Embarq spokesman Charles Fleckenstein. "This action allows us to rationalize the size of our work force relative to the size of our customer base." The Wall Street Journal/Associated Press (8/25)

• Clearwire shareholders to get stock in Sprint joint venture
  Clearwire has outlined plans for its shareholders to get an estimated $1.62 billion in shares in the Sprint Nextel joint venture in exchange for their existing Clearwire shares. Clearwire has said it expects $17.5 billion in revenue to be raised by the joint venture by 2017. Reuters (8/22)

• Verizon gives "Refer-A-Friend" program a voice
  Verizon Communications is expanding the scope of its "Refer-A-Friend" to include new voice customers that are brought to the telecom via referrals. The offer gives $50 per product to the customer doing the referring. Multichannel News (8/24)

• Analysis: New Vodafone chief may take alternative path
  Reports indicate that Vodafone's recently appointed chief executive officer, Vittorio Colao, is considering a management shake-up that could include the appointment of two senior executives to oversee the telecom's expanding Asia and Africa businesses. If a move comes to fruition, it would be a different path than that carved out by Colao's predecessor, Arun Sarin, who consolidated management jobs. TelecomTiger.com (8/25) , Telegraph (London) (8/24)

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Hot Topics

Top five news stories selected by USTelecom dailyLead readers in the past week.

• AT&T expands scope of tech-support services (Google)

• XO feels the need for more Ethernet speed (xchange)

• AT&T sells downtown tower in Dallas, will lease space (The Dallas Morning News)

• Clearwire expects investment deal to close by year-end (Unstrung.com)

• AT&T offers incentives to new broadband customers (CED Magazine)

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Video Upload

• Nick hooks up AT&T with "iCarly" audience
  Nickelodeon has inked a multiplatform-marketing agreement with AT&T that will, beginning next week, play out on the network's tween-appealing "iCarly" show. For Nick, the AT&T deal represents another level of success in cultivating relationships with nonendemic advertisers, an initiative that already has included automotive companies and consumer-electronics makers. Mediaweek (8/25)

• FiOS grows international lineup
  Verizon Communications is adding 14 new international channels to its FiOS TV offering. The new content will be rolled out market by market. OneTRAK (8/25)

Technology Trends

• Virginia Tech installs emergency-notification system
  Virginia Tech, which was the site of a lone gunman attack in April 2007 that took 32 lives, is starting its school year out with an installed mass-emergency-notification system, which includes 220 text-message displays in the school's general-purpose classrooms and large lecture halls. The system is being supplied by Inova Solutions. Consulting-Specifying Engineer (8/21) , Computerworld (8/20)

• Opinion: Devices not good for broadcast's big picture
  Although some parts of the unused broadcast spectrum are earmarked for use by the military, TV stations and the police, its commercial use for unlicensed devices is considered highly problematic by broadcasters, who believe the devices will disrupt TV service. "The prototype tests up to this point have consistently shown failure," said a spokesman for an industry group representing broadcasters. The Washington Post (8/25)

IP Download

• Online viewing wins gold at Beijing Olympics
  More than 1.2 billion pages and 72 million video streams were viewed through Saturday on NBCOlympics.com, which more than doubles the combined Internet viewing audience of both the 2004 and 2006 Games. The New York Times (8/24)

• Study: VoIP helps propel IMS
  According to a study by Infonetics Research, 75% of service providers worldwide plan to offer voice-over-IP service through an IP Multimedia Subsystem. Although originally designed to deliver multimedia applications, VoIP deployments for IMS have proved more economical. Telephony Online (8/22)

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