January 2008

Etisalatâ€™s VoIP plans

Mon, 2008-01-28 19:28 — JR

Etisalat is one of the very few operators who still manage to mint money from international calls. And it manages to do so because almost 80 percent among the countryâ€™s population of 3 million are expatriates who helped generate 4...

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Webinar on FMC security

Tue, 2008-01-29 11:49 — JR

Our next webinar will discuss FMC Security. This is our second webinar in the series focused on Asia Pacific service provider community. For a while we will stick to just one webinar a month. It seems like a lot of...

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Interview with Suranga Chandratillake, CEO, Blinkx

Tue, 2008-01-29 12:02 — Faisal Kawoosa

Is there a need for a dedicated video search engine? People on Internet usually prefer to use just one search engine? Search is all down to relevance and accuracy. The existing search engines were developed for text search and are...

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NewStep funding says FMC is kicking

Wed, 2008-01-30 13:10 — JR

FMC during 2007 has mostly been about the femtocell trials. UMA based consumer offerings did gain a little ground. But no way near what the industry had expected. SIP/VCC based FMC offerings have altogether been a disappointment. It is the...

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Amino 2007 IPTV update

Thu, 2008-01-31 18:43 — JR

Yearly revenues of Â£32.3m, Y/Y increase of 27%. Gross margins 35.1%. Profit before tax Â£1.4m 598k IPTV Set-Top Boxes shipped during the year. Nearly all Mpeg-2 based products. Y/Y increase in shipment was 35% On a cumulative basis, Amino has...

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T-Mobile sells over 250k FMC dual mode phones

Wed, 2008-01-23 19:53 — JR

T-Mobile USA has sold over 250k FMC integrated handsets. The company does not reveal how many of those have actually taken up the FMC service. Sources suggest that about half the people who buy the phone sign up for the...

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AT&T re-launching VoIP service

Tue, 2008-01-22 18:17 — JR

Great to see one of my predictions for 2008 coming true. AT&T is re-packaging and re-launching its VoIP offering. Having met less than exciting demand for its VoIP over DSL, the telco is re-launching the same offering over its much...

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Converged billing from your bank

Thu, 2008-01-17 08:11 — Anonymous

We have been looking for ONE BILL for over two decades now, but we still put up with multiple bills. If there really has to be just one bill, why limit it to just telecom services? While we are at...

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Snailmail Autoresponder Gmbh

Thu, 2008-01-17 08:11 — Anonymous

One thing that will not be integrated into a unified messaging box is the snailmail. As much as I would like my post to appear in my inbox, this is not going to happen ........... unless you read iLocus blogs!!!!...

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Interview with Andre Temnorod, CEO, Broadvox

Thu, 2008-01-17 19:15 — Faisal Kawoosa

How is Broadvox positioned in the next-generation telecom market? Our vision is to become the leading provider of SIP Trunking services to SMBs and enterprises in North America. Currently, we have an excellent business as a carrier's carrier but we...

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