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Telestat, Canada's domestic satellite carrier, and Hughes Network Systems [HNS] have implemented a new satellite-based telephone network for Bell Canada that will enable it to offer uniform telephone service to […]

Global telecom company NxGen Networks will install Nuera softswitch and IP gateway products in its integrated voice and data network. By the end of 2001, NxGen expects to have gateways […]

Tachion partnered with Flexion Systems to deliver broadband voice and data services over its Fusion 5000 collapsed CO platform. Flexion designs and manufactures communications and IT solutions for small […]

Verecomm provides a framework for automation Ever since Ford's assembly line, production has focused on the process. In the telecom industry, the same holds true for pre-production and integration. Whether […]

Weeks like this one remind you why Nokia's [NOK] the leader in mobile handset sales. On the same day the wireless vendor released its third-quarter report a week early, it […]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The UK e-commerce financial services company Egg Plc has selected Entrust Technologies to help it deliver secure WAP-based services to customers. Under the agreement […]

SBC Communications [SBC] has signed a five-year contract to pay Lucent [LU] more than $1 billion to provide data, voice and access infrastructure technology for its national network expansion. The […]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD BT will use the Ask Jeeves for Business solution to provide customers with e-commerce and e-support services on its web site. The agreement between […]

Nortel's [NT] stock price may have sagged last month, but the company certainly is giving loyal investors lots of reason for faith. Yesterday, Nortel announced a 10-year, $1.4 billion contract […]

Nortel Networks announced contracts valued at an estimated US$525 million for a new wireless network build out expected to serve up to 17 million subscribers in Greater China, and to […]

Operator: SBC Communications (US) Supplier: Covad Communications Group (US) A $600m contract to provide dsl to the second largest local phone carrier in the US. SBC also intends purchasing a […]

West Lancashire District Council has signed a five-year contract worth £400,000 with Norweb, the telecommunications company, to provide links between its area offices and a new outbound calling service. Norweb […]

Bid.com International, an e-business provider, has signed a three-year agreement with News International to provide e-commerce services for the newspaper publisher's online ventures. Bid.Com's services will enable News International's sites, […]

Enron Broadband Services UK Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Enron Corp., has landed a three-year agreement with British Telecommunications PLC to enable subscribers of BTopenworld, British Telecommunications' new international [...]

Suburbs of Denver and Portland, Ore., last week became the latest municipal franchising jurisdictions to introduce cable competition. Lakewood, Colo., a community of 60,000 households west of Denver, granted WideOpenWest [...]

SBC Communications is hiring Nightfire Software to link SBC's electronic ordering system to the ordering systems of DSL competitors that need to lease SBC phone lines. The arrangement is designed […]

Operator: BT (UK) Supplier: Marconi (UK) BT has chosen Marconi to supply it with optical networking and high performance sdh equipment. The five year contract has a value of approximately […]

The growth of the wireless Internet has compelled Finnish wireless operator Sonera to break into the U.S. wireless market. Sonera gained substantial experience offering wireless Internet services in Finland and […]

BRITISH TELECOM (BT) has contracted Nortel Networks and London-based Marconi to upgrade its core national network to an optical Internet system that works over data and IP networks, the companies […]

ClearData Communications recently signed a three-year, $300 million contract with Nortel for metropolitan and long-haul optical and data networking equipment, Internet data center equipment, management software and professional […]

MDSI MOBILE DATA SOLUTIONS INC. signs an $8.5 million contract with Cable & Wireless Optus (www.optus.com.au) in which the latter deploys MDSI's (www.mdsi-advantex.com) Advantex r7 wireless workforce management software. The [...]

ALCATEL scores a $72 million contract to build a terrestrial fiber optical backbone for Mexican long distance carrier Avantel-MCI WorldCom. The company (www.alcatel.com) will install and maintain a 1,370-km SDH [...]

Operator: Lina.net (Iceland) Supplier: Ericsson (Sweden) Ericsson signed a $13.5m contract to supply Lina.net, the Icelandic network operator, with 'fibre to the home' for the capital, Reykjavik. With up to […]

Sonera has signed a contract with Nortel Networks to supply optical internet for long haul networks to Finland and Russia. The deal will enable businesses from Lapeenranta, Finland to Moscow […]

'The Internet is a real stroke of luck for the printing industry,' declared Bernhard Schreier, chairman of Heidelberg's management board at a Drupa press conference. Citing 'a flood of Internet [...]

TaoTalk, the European real-time Internet voice chat and voice messaging specialist, has partnered with translation service Communicado to provide an Internet based audio conference facility to businesses worldwide. The new […]

The Defense Department should rethink its approach to long-haul communications services, said Dan Porter, the Navy's chief information officer. Now the Defense Information Systems Agency oversees and manages these services […]

The General Services Administration has awarded three contracts for local telecommunications service in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas. AT&T Corp., Southwestern Bell Corp. of St. Louis and WinStar Communications […]

Williams Communications Solutions, which provides integrated enterprise network solutions to businesses, is now offering its customers remanufactured telecommunications equipment through a program termed ValueLine. The remanufactured equipment can be viewed [...]

BT has teamed up with with pay-per-view operator the Digital Broadcasting Company to Webcast a new TV service Udirect.tv, which will launch in autumn. The new venture will offer short […]

Operator: Titan Corporation (US) Supplier: Alcatel (France) A series of turnkey contracts with a total value of $33.5m to supply and install telecom infrastructure in Benin, in Africa. The contracts […]

In a $1.75bn agreement, Carrier 1 will provide 360networks with 3000 kilometres of dark fibre on its German network connecting 15 cities and also on Carrier1's city rings in Paris […]

Corvis Corp., a supplier of an all-optical internet infrastructure, has signed an agreement with Broadwing Communications. Under the agreement, Broadwing will be the first company to deploy Corvis' suite of […]

Migration of voice and data from AT&T to WorldCom is nearly complete The Social Security Administration has cut over its national toll-free customer service system from AT&T Corp. to WorldCom […]

Verizon Wireless showed its might as the largest nationwide wireless operator by signing a letter of intent last week with Lucent Technologies for a contract estimated at $1.5 billion. 'It's […]

Global One will partner with Intermedia to provide local and international data and Internet services in the United States, officials at the companies said last week. Global One will connect […]

Telemar, a Brazilian telephone company operating in the northern state of Amazonas, plans to install 40 earth stations to improve its service, company Chairman Manoel Horacio da Silva told Brazil's […]

Comet, the Kingfisher-owned high street electrical chain, has appointed specialist digital agency The Hub to develop its interactive TV service on Open as it prepares to go head to head [...]

Energis has been called in by home improvement retailer Wickes to provide voice and data services. The contract, worth £1.5m over three years. Will Link all Wickes retail stores. warehouses […]

The National Science Foundation has agreed to a three-year extension of the very-high-performance Backbone Network Service, a next-generation link connecting universities and research centers at rates up to 2.4 Gbps. […]

Winstar won a four-year contract to provide data, local switched voice services and dedicated transmission services to government users in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn. US LEC received certification to […]

Operator: China Unicom (China) Supplier: Alcatel (France) Three contracts worth $l7m where Alcatel will provide cross connect and sdh for China Unicom's year 2000 national backbone projects, and dwdm/sdh for […]

Operator: Telefonica Argentina (Argentina) Supplier: Innowave ECI Wireless Systems (Israel) ECI will supply new point to multi-point fixed wireless access systems in a $37m contrac. It will enable Telefonica Argentina […]

Concert, the global venture between AT&T and BT, has won a $44 million multi-year contract to supply data, voice and video communications services to Texaco, to support the company's ebusiness […]

With the planned purchase of fiber across Europe, Nextlink is following in the footsteps of some of its peers and digging deeper roots across the ocean. Last week, Nextlink said […]

Weary of waiting for AT&T Broadband to either upgrade its system or halt rate increases, city officials in Oakland, Calif., will solicit other operators to compete in the city. City [...]

The local office of New York-based WinStar Communications Inc. recently won a contract from the U.S. government worth up to $240 million over eight years. The contract, which will be [...]

US retailing giant Wal-Mart could be using the UK as a testbed to enter telecoms. Asda Group, the British supermarket chain recently aquired by Wal-Mart on a shopping spree, has […]

QUALCOMM, NetZero Digital wireless company QUALCOMM [QCOM] bought a 10 percent stake in free Internet service provider pioneer NetZero [NZRO] for $144 million. QUALCOMM plans to use its 11.5 million-share […]

Centrica has formed strategic alliances with Vodafone UK, Torch Telecom and Cable & Wireless Communications as it plans to offer integrated fixed and mobile services in the UK. Vodafone will [...]