Chicago based Comunicano client, IfByPhone, was featured in today's Chicago Sun-Times. The story placement is the work of my virtually based asymmetrical communications agency staff's teamwork approach, collaborating using tools like Basecamp from 37Signals and other web and IP based services. The key to this story is about being big [...]
Alcatel-Lucent has announced that it has been selected by GTD Group, one of the main service providers in Chile, to deploy the country’s first network based on fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) gigabit passive optical network (GPON) technology. Installation and deployment of the GPON network will start in the third quarter of 2008, [...]
The Kenyan internet service provider AccessKenya Group has contracted Alvarion for a large-scale mobile WiMAX deployment in the 3.3GHz band. The ISP says it will use the new network to provide high speed wireless internet services for middle and high-end residential users in Nairobi and Mombasa. AccessKenya already offers broadband [...]
Telecom Italia (TI) is proposing the formation of a new entity to oversee the operation of its wireline networks unit, local newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore writes. The proposed watchdog, which would be made up of staff from both the telco and the country’s telecoms regulator Agcom, would ensure that [...]
The Russian telco Tele2 is expected to apply for a licence which would allow it to begin offering cellular services in Moscow. Local website CNews says Tele2 is keen to begin operating in the capital and discussions between the Swedish-owned firm and new Minister of Mass Media and Communications, Igor [...]
The Portuguese alternative telco Sonaecom has reported a second-quarter net loss of EUR6.7 million (USD10.5 million), down from a profit of EUR1.3 million in the year-ago period. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) dropped 12% year-on-year to EUR34.6 million thanks to higher operating costs, which rose 16.7% to [...]
