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Verizon Business adds to SLAs Verizon Communications' Business unit has expanded its service-level agreement (SLA) options, allowing customers to invoke their SLAs on the last mile of their network connection, even in cases where Verizon doesn't own those pipes. Tata to aid India's telecoms expansion India's largest outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. has landed a US$140 million contract from India's large state-owned telecommunications services provider, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd., for the deployment of next-generation networks in the country. August 30, 7:15 a.m. PDT Microsoft Research explores location technologies Microsoft researchers are working on a variety of location-based tools, some of which could turn into interesting commercial applications. July 16, 4:29 p.m. PDT European Commission pushes Germany on telecom access The European Commission asked the German regulatory authority, the Federal Network Agency, Monday to do more to ensure a level playing field in the market for high-speed optical fiber connections to the home or office. June 25, 9:49 a.m. PDT Galileo financing plan unworkable, says Commission The agreed public-private financing plan for Europe's multibillion-euro satellite navigation system, Galileo, "cannot work", the European Commission said Monday. May 7, 6:48 a.m. PDT EU to go ahead with Galileo satellites, says official As concerns mount about the commercial viability of Galileo, the European Union's ambitious geopositioning satellite project, pulling the plug isn’t an option, said European Commission Vice President Gunter Verheugen on Thursday. April 26, 9:45 a.m. PDT US military plans to put Internet router in space The U.S. military plan to test an Internet router in space, in a project that could also benefit civilian broadband satellite communications. April 12, 7:59 a.m. PDT EC sets May deadline for creating Galileo company The European Commission has given the eight companies picked to build and run the Galileo satellite navigation system until May 10 to create a single company and choose a chief executive for it. March 16, 9:28 a.m. PST Iridium plans next-generation satellites Iridium Satellite LLC, the company that raised Motorola Inc.'s expensive space-based network from the ashes of bankruptcy, is now planning a new generation of satellites that may be able to continuously monitor the environment and take pictures of Earth. February 16, 12:25 p.m. PST Memo to AT&T: Get with the times I don’t often use this column to share warnings about companies whose business practices leave me (and others, no doubt) feeling used and abused. But one can only take so much. So, here goes.  February 8, 3:00 a.m. PST AT&T offers more concessions for BellSouth acquisition In a bid to win approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for its planned US$67 billion acquisition of BellSouth Corp., AT&T Inc. has expanded the set of concessions it's offering to overcome opposition to the deal. December 29, 4:11 a.m. PST Congress sets Alcatel-Lucent hearings Another hurdle has cropped up for the merger of Alcatel SA and Lucent Technologies Inc. as the U.S. House Armed Services Committee has set a hearing on the national security implications of the deal. November 10, 10:32 a.m. PST Eutelsat to beam TV onto mobile phones in 2009 Satellite operator Eutelsat Communications will include a transmitter capable of delivering television services to mobile phones on a satellite due for launch in 2009. Eutelsat will form a joint venture with another satellite operator, SES Global SA of Luxembourg, to sell services over the transmitter, the companies said Monday. October 30, 10:58 a.m. PST Sanctions could cut North Korean telecoms links An agreement by the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on North Korea could see the Asian nation's few telecommunications links with the outside world cut. October 13, 6:24 a.m. PDT Nokia's GPS patents may help resolve Qualcomm dispute Nokia Corp.'s patent licensing deal with Trimble Navigation Ltd. this week could give the phone maker an important boost in an ongoing dispute with CDMA developer Qualcomm Inc. October 6, 6:45 a.m. PDT In Brief: S. Korea signs up for EU's Galileo navigation South Korea has made good on a promise to cooperate with the European Union on the latter's Galileo satellite navigation system. September 12, 4:32 a.m. PDT Stem cell debate threatens EU research fund plan A €9 billion (US$112.6 billion) injection of research funds into information technology research over the next seven years hangs in the balance Thursday, as an ethical debate about whether the European Union should fund stem cell research threatens to delay the approval of the whole €54 billion research budget, people close to the debate said Thursday. July 20, 11:27 a.m. PDT Alcatel, Lucent agree to merge Alcatel SA and Lucent Technologies Inc. have reached a definitive agreement to merge, they said Sunday. April 2, 8:04 a.m. PDT > Telecom |
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