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France Telecom-Orange and its partner Agility have formed a joint venture to acquire a 44% state in Korek Telecom, a leading Iraqi mobile operator. The joint venture will be formed...

Cisco completed its previously announced acquisition of Inlet Technologies, a provider of Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) digital media processing platforms. Inlet is based in Raleigh, N.C. Cisco paid approximately $95...

Altobridge, a start-up based in Dublin, Ireland, has raised US$12 million in funding from Intel Capital and IFC for its low-cost, low-capital, wireless communications solutions designed for rural communities. The...

NTT Communications confirmed that its Corporate Telephone Service (Arcstar direct) and corporate communication services (IP-VPN and e-VLAN) remain out of service in the northeastern part of the country. Submarine cables...

GENBAND announced that the SIP Business Trunking softswitch solution offered on its GENBAND C20 Converged Softswitch has achieved interoperability qualification with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2. Additionally, GENBAND announced...

AT&T will introduced a monthly data cap of 150GB for all its DSL customers and a 250 GB cap for all its U-Verse users starting in May. According to DSL...

March 14 NTT again warned that TEPCO's "rolling" power blackouts, beginning on Monday, would impact many communications services, including telephone systems, Hikari, OCN, ISDN, FLET, FLET ADSL, Business Ethernet, some...

Intel's Mobile Communications business unit has acquired SySDSoft, a privately held software company based in Cairo, Egypt, and hired approximately 100 of the company's electrical engineers and computer scientists. Financial...

Allied Telesis introduced further upgrades to its best selling series of GS950 WebSmart eco-friendly Gigabit switches. The AT-GS950/8, AT-GS950/16 and AT-GS950/24 maintain the same standard of Gigabit Ethernet speeds while...

Mellanox Technologies, which has been known for its high-performance InfiniBand fabrics, unveiled its end-to-end 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity portfolio for High Performance Computing, cloud computing, and mega warehouse data centers....

The European Commission will bring a legal case against France and Spain because they continue to impose specific charges on the turnover of telecoms operators in breach of EU law....

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Renesys reported surprisingly normal Internet routing patterns from Japan following the mega-earthquake and tsunami. The vast majority of Japanese network prefixes in the global routing table stayed active. Renesys noted...