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March
A group of New Zealand entrepreneurs are planning a cable to increase the country’s capacity to California and Australia
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Verizon’s capex will be about $17 billion in 2010, with a strong cash flow, mainly from Verizon Wireless, according to CFO John Killian
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Ciena, headed by Gary Smith, is to raise $250 million to fund its purchase of Nortel Networks’ metro ethernet unit
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Telefónica is talking to independent operators in Mexico about a consortium to bid for the electricity company’s optical fibre network
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Private equity company Abry Partners is to buy US cable and broadband operator RCN for $531 million plus $730 million debt
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The Federal Communications Commission is expected to ask for $25 billion, double earlier estimates, on its US national broadband plan
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Qualcomm plans to buy back $3 billion worth of shares and boost its divided by $134 million a year
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February
The FCC is planning a second attempt to auction a block of spectrum in the 700MHz band, though it will be shared with public safety services
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UK cable company Virgin Media is increasing its broadband speed from 50 to 100 megabits a second
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US cable operator Comcast is raising $2.4 billion to help fund its purchase of 51% of NBC from General Electric
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Genband has won control of Nortel’s carrier VoIP business for $182 million after no other companies bid in an auction
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Truphone’s CEO Geraldine Wilson has announced the first of what she hopes will be 25 MVNO deals with leading global operators
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Sprint is planning to launch 4G phones, supplied by HTC using the Android operating system, to run on the Clearwire WiMax network
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Verizon Wireless is to offer Skype-to-Skype and SkypeOut services on nine smartphones from March 2010
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Verizon Wireless expects to launch LTE services in 25-30 US cities by the end of 2010
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Google is planning to build a limited number of broadband networks in US cities, operating at up to one gigabit a second
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One of Canada’s leaders in the media industry is developing broadband services and offering its nationwide fibre to international operators
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Motorola is reported to be rethinking its restructuring, selling its wireless network unit and spinning off a merged handset and set-top box unit
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Google has cut the ‘recovery fee’ that it charges US customers who downgrade their T-Mobile service contracts
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Media conglomerate Televisa is to acquire a 20% stake in Nextel Mexico for $1 billion
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The US telecommunications industry has decided not to hold the Supercomm exhibition and conference in 2010
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Deutsche Telekom is consulting with banks over a possible offer of shares in its US business T-Mobile USA
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The Obama administration is setting a new funding proposal to the telecoms regulator, which says it should earn $1.6 billion over the next decade from spectrum auctions
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US operator Leap Wireless, which sells under the Cricket brand, has appointed advisers to seek a buyer
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January
AT&T is responding to increased demand for its US wireless network — largely from iPhone usage — by committing $18 billion on network improvements
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Interviews with Süreyya Ciliv, Rob Pullen and Jeong Kim are now online
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The Mexican state electricity utility is to sell off spare fibre capacity on its grid to competitive telecoms operators in the market
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Atlantic Tele-Network in the US has negotiated a $300 million loan to help it buy former Alltel operations from Verizon Wireless
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The two biggest US mobile operators have started a price war, reducing rates for standard services but adding fees for data usage on smartphones
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The company that runs the Wind brand in Canada is looking to raise several hundred million dollars in debt to fund expansion
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Bell Labs president Jeong Kim wants to preserve the freedom that will allow his researchers to continue to deliver disruptive technology
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Carlos Slim is planning to bring together his Mexican fixed, mobile and international phone companies with a $21 billion offer by América Móvil for Telmex and Telmex Internacional
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Newly independent Skype has recruited Miles Flint, a former president of Sony Ericsson, as chairman
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Former EDS executive Jeff Kelly is taking over from former BT group CFO Hanif Lalani at the top of BT Global Services
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Google has boosted its offer for video compression specialist On2 by 20% to $134 million
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US operator Qwest is to raise $800 million through a note sale, for general corporate purposes and refinance of investments
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AT&T is to launch a set of Android phones as it loses US iPhone exclusivity, from vendors including Dell, HTC and Motorola
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Google will add other phones that use its Android operating system to its online store following the launch of its own phone, the Nexus One
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US-based Level 3 Communications is to raise $640 million in order to buy back existing high-yield debt
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Apple is to buy Quattro Wireless, a mobile advertising specialist, for $275 million