Nextel introduced WiFi service for business travelers in partnering with Boingo and Wayport. AOL UK enters competition with BT with cheap traditional voice services. AOL Talk includes unlimited local and national U.K.landline calls, at any time of the...

Connexion by Boeing will introduce TV plans with four live streamingchannels. BT has called on US regulators to block the merger of SBC and AT&T, arguing the deal would leave the US with a classic duopoly. Telenor plans to invest $900m in Pakistan, expanding...

According to Juniper Research, 44% of on line consumers surveyed are interested in viewing video on their cell phones for free, but only 19% indicate they would be willing to pay anything for those services. The wireless gambling market will generate...

Nortel will supply BT with Centrex IP, in order to enhance its contact center services with voice over IP. It will deliver to Tiscali Italia an optical infrastructure across more than 300 Italian cities. Cisco is providing Swisscom with Ethernet for business...

Cisco announced FY3Q05 strong results of $6.2bn in revenues (+10%) and net income of $1.4bn (+16%). Gross profit margin was around 66%, a dream for most of its competitors. Cisco generated $1.9bn in cash during the quarter and held some $16bn in liquidity....

Microsoft is rolling out a new version of its mobile software (Windows Mobile 5.0), and made a deal with Philips Electronics. WM 5.0 is targeted to support hard drives in phones, creating a new class of devices competing with music players. The deal with...

Huawei pre-announced deals with Telefonica Spain. Without giving more details, Huawei seems having some good commitments from Telefonica for orders this year. After BT last week, It should be its second big splash in Europe. Microsoft intends to enter...

Alcatel finds demand for WiMAX is growing and out pacing demand for UMTS infrastructure in some regions, such as LATAM, Russia, India. It is not the case in WE and China. Alcatel is abandoning further development of its IPTV middleware product, the Open...

NEC has received an order from MTS (Russia) for the delivery of Mobile Internet Platform and mobile handsets for its i-mode service. Nortel received an expansion network order from BaykalWestcom, a major Eastern Siberian cellular operator. The order covers...

Cingular will offer its business subscribers EDGE-enabled laptops from Sony. O2 and NTL (both in the UK) will trial Mobile TV very soon. O2, however, made the comment it will not open the commercial service until 2008. RealNetworks is moving into mobile...