BCE says might combine with Telus
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Telecom company BCE Inc.  said on Wednesday it is discussing with telecom company Telus Corp.  the possibility of combining the two companies.
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(InfoWorld) - After testing the waters with consumers for more than a year, BT Group plans to extend its converged fixed-mobile communications service to businesses early next year. The move follows a successful field test with a government organization. BT Corporate Fusion, announced Thursday, combines Wi-Fi and mobile phone service for voice calls, using VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) technology when calls are made over a wireless network to lower phone costs. The service will be rolled out initially in the U.K. and Italy early next year, with Germany, France, Spain, and the Benelux countries to follow. The operator plans to announce handset deals in the coming weeks. The new service works like this: Calls made from dual-mode Wi-Fi-GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) phones within an office building are connected through Wi-Fi access points and routed over existing fixed-line infrastructure. Using VOIP technology to route those calls saves money. Outside corporate premises, the dual-mode phone operates like a mobile phone, providing ubiquitous coverage and global roaming. These calls, however, are more expensive because they are carried over mobile phone networks. The Leeds City Council has been testing the new converged service at two locations. Several operators, including Deutsche Telekom and the Danish subsidiary of Sweden's TeliaSonera, have launchedÂ new converged fixed-mobile servicesÂ but these offerings areÂ targeted at consumers, largely in a move to keep customers from abandoning traditional fixed-line telephone service. On Thursday, BT also said the group expects to more than double revenue from networking services for enterprises in the U.S., Japan, China, and India. The company did not pen a number to its predication.
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Telecommunications companies Swisscom AG and Telekom Austria AG are in talks over a possible merger, Swisscom said.
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Columnist Craig Mathias expects that eventually there will be some kind of merger of technologies between the iPhone and the Blackberry that will incorporate the iPhone platform and the BlackBerry's push e-mail supported via a Web interface.
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Investor's Business Daily - With Philadelphia's recent proposal to install a citywide broadband wireless network, will there be brotherly love between the city and its broadband service providers?
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OPTUS was one of seven Asia Pacific telcos to form a joint venture that will try to overcome the hurdles facing mobile phone carriers across the region.
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Sprint - the US&#39;s third biggest mobile telco - and fifth-place rival Nextel are reportedly in talks about a possible merger. The deal would create a carrier with approximately 39m subscribers and a market value of around $70bn.
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Fund manager Cerberus Capital Management to buy the Mobitex network, used to support a quarter of the world's BlackBerry users.
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The move follows a string of similar deals between Ma Bell and cable operators, as it looks to aggressively market VoIP.
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Orascom Telecom, a leading mobile operator in emerging markets, has raised the possibility that it could be sold as part of further industry consolidation.
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Satellite company Loral Space & Communications Inc. , in partnership with a Canadian pension fund, is expected to announce a deal to acquire the Telesat satellite unit of BCE Inc. , Canada's biggest telecoms company, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site.
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The combination of BCE Inc. , Canada's biggest phone company, with Telus Corp.  is "an all Canadian solution" to ensure a strong player survives the tough telecoms industry, the chief executive of Telus said on Thursday.
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BCE Inc. , Canada's largest telecommunications group and the possible target of three international buyout bid groups, said on Wednesday it was in talks to explore the possibility of combining with rival Telus Corp.
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Time Warner Inc.&#39;s cable-television unit said it may start offering mobile phone service through an agreement with Sprint Corp.
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The communications watchdog is looking to create an independent pricing structure for broadband operators to offer connections directly to customers through Local Loop Unbundling (LLU), instead of renting them from major network owner BT.
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BCE Elix, a Bell Canada company, announced today it has achieved the Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) Advanced Technology Provider (ATP) status from Cisco Systems(R).
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Converged communications watchdog Ofcom is proposing BT more than halve its prices for making its last-mile copper telephone network available to competing broadband providers.