Televisa to start telephone service in July -source
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Mexican broadcaster Televisa's  Cablevision cable TV unit has pushed back to July plans to  offer viewers fixed line telephone service, which would  challenge telecom market heavyweight Telmex, an unnamed source  at the company said.
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Public broadcasting will target an underserved audience with the Spanish-language network V-me TV, which launches March 5.
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Broadband should be available through 99.4 per cent of phone lines by next summer thanks to a technical breakthrough by BT.
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A European Union official told mobile phone operators Monday their charges for wireless Internet and text messages must drop by July 1 to avoid EU intervention.
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Mexican entertainment company Grupo  Televisa must share programming with other television stations  as a condition for buying a stake in cable company Cablemas,  antitrust body CFC said on Sunday.
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SBC Communications (SBC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) will introduce an Internet-based calling service for its local telephone customers early next year and will consider offering the service nationally later, the company said on
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By ED HARRIS  A BROADBAND television service developed by the founders of an online telephone business is expected to be launched next year, it is reported today.   The service will offer "the best of the internet with the best of TV".
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Local phone giant hopes a television revolution will keep encroaching cable providers at bay.
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One of the biggest telecom events in 2008 is slated to start on January 24, when both telcos and Internet companies will be able to place their bids on blocks of the 700-MHz spectrum.
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STOCKHOLM/NEW YORK  - A reality show or soap opera  on your mobile phone? This is the vision of top telecoms firms  as they hope that from 2006 consumers will sign up for new  phones that can receive digital television signals.
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By LAURA NESBITT Mountain View Telegraph Park-and-ride service from Moriarty to Albuquerque will begin in early July.
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Premium rate phone lines watchdog Icstis is to meet TV companies amid probes into calls to shows.
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The European Union's top telecoms  official said on Tuesday work on rules that will cap mobile  phone roaming charges is going "smoothly" and reiterated that  she expects an agreement by the summer.
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Carphone Warehouse is to launch a new mobile phone service, which will run through Vodafone's network.
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NDTV MediaÂs much-awaited Hindi entertainment channel will roll out in July 2007.
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(InfoWorld) - Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson will restructure and hire 500 more engineers to better meet demand for multimedia products and services, Ericsson's chief executive officer said Friday. Starting in 2007, Ericsson will reorganize into three units: networks, global services, and multimedia. The new engineers will primarily work in the multimedia group, and the bulk of them will be based in Sweden. The new group will help Ericsson better understand what types of multimedia services might become popular and how demands might vary, said Carl-Henric Svanberg, president and chief executive officer. "We and operators are still on a learning curve. When it comes to voice it's very easy," he said. "But with multimedia, what does a 13-year-old in Germany want and does an American 13-year-old feel the same? And that's much different than an adult in China." The new group will also aim to better leverage the company's relationship with Sony and with theirÂ mobile phone joint ventureÂ Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications. "When it comes to multimedia, we have exciting assets in Sony Ericsson and at Sony. We just haven't put it together and it's been embedded further down in the organization," he said. Svanberg offered an example of how Sony and Ericsson products might grow increasingly complementary. Currently, users of Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot camera-phones can send photographs to an online blog. Soon, standalone Cyber-shot cameras are also likely to include connectivity so that users can send photos to a blog, he said. Because Ericsson supplies wireless network infrastructure and develops some chips for mobile devices, that type of product and application could be created through an alliance between Sony and Ericsson. The new networks group, which combines several existing network equipment groups, will have a renewed focus on converged networks that will help support some of the emerging multimedia services in the home. "In the perfect world we will have a converged network where you won't know if you're speaking on a mobile or a fixed network," Svanberg said. Similarly, a user could be watching TV at home, pick up a mobile phone to watch the same program while moving around the house and then continue watching while moving to an outside location. Such a service would operate over connected wireless and wireline networks. The third new business unit, global services, combines Ericsson's existing professional services and network rollout groups and will focus on services for operator customers. Ericsson acquiredÂ most of U.K. telecommunications equipment vendor Marconi late last year and is in the process of laying off 1,600 people as it digests the new company. That acquisition is part of a recent wave of consolidation in the competitive network equipment market, including theÂ merger of Lucent Technologies and AlcatelÂ and theÂ combination of Nokia's and Siemens' networks groups.
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A lawsuit by more than 10,000 shareholders against German telecommunications operator Deutsche Telekom is to begin in April, the Financial Times Deutschland said Friday.