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Infonetics: UC Market To Top $1 Billion by 2013
Communications industry market research firm Infonetics Research recently published two unified communication reports, one a worldwide and regional market share and forecast report, the other a survey of North American companies and their plans for deploying unified communication equipment and services, as well as their ratings of leading unified communication …(396 words) Related Topics: equipment,... »
Analyst Firm Positions AT&T in the Visionaries Quadrant for Oracle Outsourcing in North America
AT&T today announced it has been positioned as a “Visionary” in the recently published “Magic Quadrant for Oracle Outsourcing, North America” report by Gartner, Inc. Related Topics: AT&T, gartner, North America »
Nortel gets court OK on GENBAND CVAS bid
Nortel has obtained Canadian and U.S. court approval for GENBAND’s stalking horse agreement as well as bidding procedures for the sale of its Carrier VoIP and Application Solutions business. Nortel announced that at a joint hearing it obtained orders from the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware and the Ontario Superior Court... »
ScanSource Enters Agreement With Fujitsu
ScanSource POS Barcoding, an international value-added distributor of automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) and point-of-sale (POS) solutions and services and sales unit of ScanSource Inc. (SCSC), has signed a distribution agreement in North America with Fujitsu America Inc., a provider of IT-based business solutions for the global marketplace. Through …(218 words) ... »
Cloud Telephony Explained And Dissected At ITEXPO East
If you want to get a better idea of what “cloud telephony” is, or just want to start discovering what it could mean for your business, you can’t miss Cloud Communications Summit in Miami taking place on January 20-22. Organized by pal Thomas Howe, better known as Mr Mashup, this summit wants to give you... »
Verizon Business Joins NORAD to Track Santa’s Sleigh
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – Where in the world is Santa Claus? That’s a question millions of children ask on Christmas Eve. On the big night, the answer will be only a toll-free call away. Verizon Business again is teaming with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) to provide a special free... »
Top Stories of 2009: It’s the economy stupid!
With the 2009 economy almost in the can, there has been much debate about what that means for VoIP. The nature of our industry gives it both pros and cons in times of financial cut backs and companies looking to save a dime. VoIP upgrades often mean expensive equipment purchases and buildouts but also... »
F5 Appoints VP of North America Channel Sales
F5 Networks Inc. (FFIV) has announced the appointment of Gary Abad to vice president of North America channel sales. In this role, Abad will drive F5’s regional sales partnership efforts and programs in support of F5’s global channel strategy. An accomplished sales management leader, Abad brings more than 20 years of …(174 words) ... »
Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Device Sales on Pace for Flat Growth in 2009, Increase 9 Per Cent in 2010
Stronger than expected sales in Western Europe and an acceleration in the grey market in the third quarter of this year will drive worldwide mobile device sales to end users to 1.214 billion units, a 0.67 per cent decline from 2008, according to the latest outlook by Gartner, Inc. In September, Gartner had forecast... »
Airvana’s Peculiar Acquisition Announcement
What should we make of Airvana’s (AIRV) announcement that a private equity group is buying the company for $530 million, or $7.65 a share in cash? With $205 million in cash and equivalents as of September, plus almost $40 million collected subsequently from Ericsson, Airvana has more cash than it needs, so this isn’t... »
Nortel CVAS leads the VoIP pack
Nortel decided it was time to connect all the dots for us and in a release today noted that all the recent VoIP market research reports had it’s VoIP company at the head of the pack. Infonetics Research’s report, Service Provider VoIP Equipment and Subscribers Market Share, Size, and Forecasts for 3Q09, claimed that Nortel... »
Verizon Business Joins NORAD to Track Santa’s Sleigh
Where in the world is Santa Claus? That’s a question millions of children ask on Christmas Eve. On the big night, the answer will be only a toll-free call away. Verizon Business again is teaming with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) to provide a special free hotline for …(260 words) ... »
Ericsson, Kapsch Score Nortel’s GSM Assets
Telecom gear maker Ericsson (ERIC) and a smaller, Austria-based partner have won bankrupt Nortel Networks’ GSM businesses at auction thanks to a successful joint bid.On Tuesday, Ericsson agreed to pay $70 million for the GSM/GSM-R assets in North America while Kapsch CarrierCom, with a pledged $33 million, will control the GSM/GSM-R …(269 words) ... »
Technology, Media and Telecommunications: News from Asia
Japan Telecommunications • Softbank Corp. (SFTBF.PK) is interested in buying stakes in Indian and Chinese companies. The company is eying companies engaged in mobile applications and technology. Softbank bought an additional stake in U.S. application provider RockYou Inc. for US$50 million. Softbank has a 33 percent stake in... »
More Setbacks for Nokia Siemens Network
Zacks.com submits: Nokia Siemens Network, the 50-50 joint venture between Nokia Corp. ((NOK) and Siemens AG (SI) continues to suffer setbacks one after one. Severe economic recession has forced the telecom carriers to significantly reduce their capital expenditures and network upgrade plans throughout the world. This situation has resulted in a huge fall in... »
Citrix Adds Toll-Free Option to GoToMeeting
Citrix Online today announced they have added integrated Toll-Free audio to GoToMeeting Corporate and GoToWebinar. With this addition, meeting participants now have several audio options to choose from, including integrated toll-free, a toll-based number, or VoIP for audio over the Internet. Each participant in the same online meeting can select their own audio option. Customers... »
Voice Is Cable’s Secret Weapon for Growth
Earlier this decade, when cable companies started their foray into the phone business, not many gave them much of a chance to succeed. Sure, they could sell a lot of broadband connections, but no one thought they would be players in telecom services such as voice. Fast-forward to today, and the situation is entirely... »
Symantec Announces Partner Awards, Resources
Symantec Corp. (SYMC) this week announced the 2009 North American Partner Award winners at Symantec Partner Engage 2009 in Orlando. The Symantec Partner Awards recognize partners who have invested in Symantec and successfully combined Symantec software with their own services to solve customers’ most complex business challenges. The winners of the …(273 words) ... »
Research Report Shows VoIP Kicking PSTN’s Ass
According to Infonetics Research, VoIP services brought in $21 billion for service providers in the first half of 2009. According to their report, the number of residential/SOHO VoIP subscribers is forecast to top 225 million by 2013. In other words, with about 310 million Americans that means 75% of all residential subscribers will be... »
AdMob Sees Explosive Mobile Phone Internet Usage
A fascinating if not predictable report from AdMob was just released yesterday showing explosive mobile phone web surfing growth. In their September 2009 AdMob Mobile Metrics Report AdMob received more than 100 million ad requests from 14 countries, and more than 10 million ad requests from 64 countries. This data was collected using AdMob’s... »
Report: SIP Trunking catching on
A new report, SIP Trunking Deployment Strategies: North American Enterprise Survey, by Infonetics shows that purchase decision-makers at medium and large companies are either already spending money on SIP Trunking or they are planning to head in that direction. Many companies have deployed VoIP within their organizations, but they are still using legacy TDM... »
VoIP Ringing Up Billions in Sales
Can you believe that VoIP-based telephony services brought in nearly $20.7 billion in revenues during the first six months of 2009? Incredible as it might sound, it is indeed true, according to data reported by market research firm Infonetics Research. I fondly remember the early part of this decade when folks dismissed VoIP as little... »
Avaya Names 2009 Channel Partners of the Year
Avaya has announced that Avatel Technologies, Relational Technology Solutions, Verizon Business and Vision Technologies have been named as the 2009 Avaya Channel Partners of the Year for North America. The awards honor the leading members of the Avaya channel partner program that demonstrated significant revenue performance, technical expertise and overall …(388 words) ... »
Nokia Sues Apple Over Patent Infringements
Updated: Nokia is suing Apple over the alleged infringement of patents held by the Finnish handset maker pertaining to WLAN, GSM and UMTS. Nokia said in a statement: The ten patents in suit relate to technologies fundamental to making devices which are compatible with one or more of the GSM, UMTS (3G WCDMA)... »
Why the Great Internet Buildout Is Spurring M&A
If you’re a BlackBerry or iPhone user (see: addict), then you are partly responsible for the great Internet buildout. Those cute apps that look up baseball scores or let you log into Facebook eat up enough bandwidth to put the backend infrastructure of phone companies under pressure, forcing them to upgrade their networks with... »
Skype Is Coming to the Nokia N900
Skype, the Internet telephony business of eBay that is in the process of being sold to private investors for about $2 billion, is going to be making a debut on the forthcoming Nokia N900 device powered by the Finnish company’s Maemo operating system. This should come as good news for Nokia fans –- whom... »
SPIRIT tech driving HD audio in snom phones
Snom 870 SIP phones are getting an HD audio boost from SPIRIT DSP’s TeamSpirit Voice Engine Embedded, according to a TMC report. Licensing the SPIRIT technology allows snom devices to provide wideband audio even to users on overloaded networks, according to the company. The companies said the including the SPIRIT technology in the snom 870... »
The iPhone & Nokia’s Troubles, By the Numbers
Helsinki…you have a problem! (Actually it’s Espoo which has a problem, but Helsinki sounded better.) If you want to know why Nokia is in trouble, you need to look no further than its market share declines during the second quarter of 2009 in the company’s home market of Western Europe. This region accounts for... »
Major Blackberry Outage
One of our sales rep’s has a Blackberry and his email stopped working. Our MIS team looked at the email settings and they were fine. After contacting technical support, they told us that there is a BIS (BlackBerry Internet Service) outage in all of North America. Yikes! It’s enough to make a Verizon Blackberry user... »
Report: MetaSwitch global Class 5 softswitch leader
MetaSwitch led the global Class 5 softswitch category for the first time in the first quarter with 18.4 percent market share, according to a recently released Infonetics research report on the service provider VoIP equipment market. MetaSwitch also came in first in North America with 60.1 percent market share, according to the report, entitled... »