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Avaya agrees to USD 8.2 bln buy-out offer

  • June 5th, 2007
  • 9:45 am

IP telephony equipment provider Avaya has agreed to a buy-out offer worth USD 8.2 billion from Silver Lake Partners and Texas Pacific Group. The bid from the private equity firms values Avaya at USD 17.50 per share, a premium of 28 percent over the company’s share price on 25 May, when news of a possible takeover first broke. The transaction is expected to be completed in the autumn of 2007, subject to shareholder and regulatory approval. Equity and debt financing commitments for the merger consideration have been received.

   

TOT unit severs IP deal with Milcom

  • June 4th, 2007
  • 7:02 am

Thailand’s TOT will soon scrap an IP-enabled service and marketing contract between its Thai Mobile cellular venture and Milcom Systems after detecting irregularities and revenue leakage of more than 100 million baht ($3.03 million) per month.

A TOT board committee that has been investigating past deals made by the state telecom enterprise said the Milcom deal was among the factors that resulted in Thai Mobile president Vasukree Klapairee being removed and TOT president Somkhuan Bhruminhent being transferred to an “inactive” position.

Djit Laowattana, a TOT director and member of the committee, said it had obtained documents on the deal and would recommend that the TOT board scrap the contract next week.

The committee would also press charges against any TOT executives found to have knowledge of the alleged fraud, he said, adding that a final investigation would take one more month. Milcom Systems obtained the two-year contract from Thai Mobile in March last year.

Its IP-enabled services includes voice calls using broadband Internet connections from PC to phone, phone-to-phone, VoIP, teleconferencing, Wi-Fi mobile hand phone, international and domestic VoIP calling service.

   

 

 

RTX Offers a Standalone Wireless IP Network System

  • June 2nd, 2007
  • 8:04 am

RTX has launched a standalone wireless IP Network System and a full range of accessory products (cordless handsets, repeaters, wireless adapter for analog telephones, fax machines and modems), featuring VoIP telephony via DECT/SIP and data access via 802.11g.

The standalone wireless IP Network system brings with it the promise of helping areas with low teledensity, clusters of immigrants or generally price-conscious consumers to establish an organized telecommunication infrastructure which provides complete wireless voice and broadband data connectivity and mobility within a building or small community. The wireless IP Network system includes all the devices required to connect end user terminals to public telephony and broadband services.

The standalone wireless IP network system is configurable with any SIP based telephony provider or more traditional PSTN interfaces like E1 CCS. The system comes with an integrated Asterisk(R) IP softswitch solution.

   

 

China Unicom raises IP long-distance call charges

  • May 29th, 2007
  • 7:14 am

China Unicom plans to raise the charges on international IP long-distance calls between China and 23 countries and regions, including Belgium, New Zealand and Switzerland, on June 1, following similar charging adjustment by China Telecom and China Netcom.

Although the company said the upward adjustment, said to top 200%, is lawful, many consumers say they cannot accept the high charges.

According to related regulations of the Ministry of Information Industry, operators can set prices for their IP long-distance call services by themselves.

China Unicom attributed its charge rise to the imbalance between revenue and expense. It said the adjustment by China Telecom and China Netcom increased the traffic volume of its IP long-distance call service sharply, which made its revenue from this service lower than the settlement expenses.

   

 

ArmenTel to give up ‘monopoly’ on IP telephony by end-2007

  • May 26th, 2007
  • 9:52 am

Armenian national PTO ArmenTel is to relinquish its official monopoly on the provision of IP telephony by the end of the year, in the face of an inexorable rise of ‘illegal’ operators offering VoIP in the country. According to the Arka news agency, ArmenTel Director General Oleg Bliznyuk told reporters yesterday that the telco is currently the ‘monopolist de jure only’ in the segment, with many service providers using its network to offer VoIP – often at a poor level of quality. Bliznyuk says that once the monopoly is removed, the competitive environment will improve amid increased sector transparency, and the only companies that will survive will be those that can promise high levels of service quality.

   

New VoIP association is born

  • May 26th, 2007
  • 9:08 am

 A group of Argentine telecoms companies have launched an IP telephony and converged communications association, Catip, to promote the adoption of the technology, BNamericas reports, quoting local newspaper Infobae. Catip includes local firms Aldea Global, BroadBandTech, Comsat, Cotel, Cooperativa de Mar de Ajó, Cotelcam, CrossFone, Datco, Ertach, Gigared, IFX Networks, Impsat, Infracom, Ip Tel, Iplan, Servicio Satelital, Sky Online, SES Sistemas Electronicos, Telephone 2, TelViso and Wiltel. The goal of the association will be to discuss and study different issues affecting the adoption of VoIP in the fixed line and mobile sectors as well as the convergence of different service platforms including IPTV.

   

Wana selects Accenture, Telcordia for fulfilment solution

  • May 24th, 2007
  • 11:09 am

Moroccan operator Wana has selected Accenture and Telcordia to provide a fulfilment solution designed to support its next-generation, converged IP network infrastructure. Accenture and Telcordia will help Wana gain efficiencies in operations, engineering, IT, marketing and sales. Wana provides voice, internet access and VPN over its multi-technology access network, which uses CDMA, wireless local loop and fibre. As the lead integrator on the project, Accenture will provide application development support. The company will use Accenture Communications Solutions suite, which provides ready-to-use components within a common integration framework. The OSS deployment will integrate Telcordia Granite Inventory and Telcordia Expediter, part of the Telcordia Fulfillment Suite, to support all of Wana’s network infrastructure needs on a single platform.

   

Wind is behind Ericsson

  • May 23rd, 2007
  • 10:37 am

Italy’s largest alternative telco Wind has selected Ericsson to expand its optical network. The Swedish vendor will be providing metro and core optical transport technology and will also be acting as systems integrator to support the telco’s fixed IP broadband access. The contract calls for the supply of a Dense Wavelength-division Multiplexing (DWDM) solution to increase transmission capacity of 1600km of existing fibre cables and Broadband Remote Access server (BRAs) technology to improve fixed broadband access performance.

   

Symantec, Huawei to set-up telecom security tools jv

  • May 23rd, 2007
  • 9:25 am

Global security solutions developer Symantec and China-based telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei Technologies are forming a joint venture company. The new company will develop and distribute security and storage appliances to global telecommunications carriers and enterprises. The new company will be headquartered in Chengdu, China, with Huawei owning 51 percent of the joint venture and Symantec owning 49 percent. Huawei will contribute its telecommunications storage and security businesses including its integrated supply chain and integrated product development management practices. Additionally, the new company will have access to Huawei’s intellectual property (IP) licenses, research and development capabilities, manufacturing expertise and engineering talent, which includes more than 750 employees. Symantec will contribute some of its enterprise storage and security software licenses, working capital, and its management expertise into the new company. Symantec will also contribute USD 150 million toward the joint venture’s growth and expansion. The joint venture is expected to close late in the calendar year, pending required regulatory and governmental approvals.