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December
The satellite industry is responding to the worldwide demand for broadband access by funding new projects to expand services
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Verizon trying LTE as alternative to fibre and building fibre to support LTE launch
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November
O3b, a satellite project to provide wholesale connection to the internet in remote areas, will go ahead after raising $1.2bn
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Dutch and Spanish incumbents are to work together to serve multinational clients in 20 countries, but not Germany
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US company Globalstar has launched six satellites to provide satellite telephone services for Australia’s Pivotel
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US wholesale ethernet operator Neutral Tandem has integrated its new acquisition, Tinet, the former wholesale division of Tiscali
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October
BICS, Belgacom’s international wholesale network, is upgrading its technology to 40 gigabits over existing fibre and is planning to move to 100 gigabits
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BT is saving IT spend by virtualising its data centres, 21CN executive Rob Thomas tells Broadband World Forum, and the company will use cloud for a new IPTV service
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The Italian regulator should review the fees Telecom Italia charges to rival companies, says the European Commission
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Chris Harper reaping the rewards of a flat, global network architecture
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Turkcell is working with Deutsche Telekom to launch an MVNO in Germany
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Following a ruling by UK regulator Ofcom, Virgin Media plans to use BT infrastructure to reach customers
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Reports say TalkTalk will become a wholesale customer of BT’s fibre network to deliver fast fixed broadband
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August
Inmarsat has won a $340m contract from LightSquared to provide the satellite capacity for its US mobile network
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Enterprise mobility, applications and M2M underpin wholesale ambition with global scale
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July
Vodafone's Michel Combes is to chair the mobile industry's Wholesale Applications Community, with JIL's CEO Peters Suh taking over as CEO
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Openreach local loop order for fibre programme
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MainOne links Ghana and Nigeria with western Europe
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Cloud platform for infrastructure as a service
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June
Main line to Ghana and Nigeria ready to enter service in July
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Colt ready to invest cash on boosting cloud and managed services business
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Satellite company Iridium picks Thales Alenia to build 81 new satellites and arranges funds
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May
The Australian Competition Tribunal has rejected Telstra’s bid to raise the wholesale price for access to its copper network
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Invitel Holdings is selling wholesale division Invitel International to Turkey’s Türk Telekom for €197m
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Qtel has launched Virgin Mobile in Qatar in a tie-up with Richard Branson, who is considering other partnerships with the company
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New Zealand Telecom chief Paul Reynolds may sell its international wholesale voice unit or merge it with another operator’s
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The GSM Association’s biggest members are backing a plan to launch a wholesale apps store, to give developers a one-stop-shop, by February 2011
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The company that last month recruited Sanjiv Ahuja to build a satellite/terrestrial 4G network in the US is talking to T-Mobile USA about a wholesale deal
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April
Vladimir Butenko’s CommuniGate Systems offers hosted unified communications services via telecoms operators to 150 million users worldwide
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Vladimir Butenko’s CommuniGate Systems offers hosted unified communications services via telecoms operators to 150 million users worldwide
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Telstra is planning to increase the price it charges rivals for wholesale access to its local loop
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March
NTT is using wholesale provider TTK to deliver its services to customers across Russia
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February
ISPs are struggling to cope with consumers’ demand for online video. In the UK, BT is responding by launching its own wholesale content network for video.
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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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Reports from the UK suggest BT is considering plans to open up its cable ducts to rival operators