Verizon-Broadcom deal allows continued imports
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Broadcom Corp. and Verizon Wireless Inc. have reached a deal that will allow Verizon to continue importing and selling mobile handsets that are at the center of an ongoing legal battle between Broadcom and Qualcomm Inc.
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The U.S. International Trade  Commission (ITC) has denied Qualcomm Inc.'s  request to  stay an order banning imports of new phones with Qualcomm chips  that the agency said infringe a Broadcom Corp.  patent.
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NEW YORK, November 5  - Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications (VZ.NYS) and Vodafone Group, has reached an agreement to acquire all of NextWave&#39;s airwave spectrum licenses for about $3 billion.
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In the wake of a patent battle between Broadcom and Qualcomm, a Verizon deal with Broadcom enables it to continue to import certain devices work with its 3G EV-DO network.
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NEW YORK: Verizon Wireless said on Thursday it had signed an agreement with NextWave Telecom to purchase all of its airwave licences for $3bn.
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The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC)&#160;said it will investigate whether Qualcomm is complying with a ban that prohibits it from importing certain chips into the U.S.The investigation is the result of a complaint that Broadcom filed with the U.S. ITC. Qualcomm is importing chips that employ a work-around of a Broadcom patent that the court ruled Qualcomm infringes. Broadcom alleges that the new technology also infringes its patent.The investigation is the latest chapter in a long-running dispute between the two chip companies. In July, the ITC ruled that Qualcomm was infringing on Broadcom patents. In a very rare decision,&#160;the ITC forbade the import of phones that included future versions of certain Qualcomm chips rather than all the offending chips because the commission decided that would have unduly damaged the economy.However,&#160;the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has since stayed that ruling.One attorney suspects that Broadcom&#39;s most recent complaint to the ITC is an effort to essentially overrule the appeals&#39; court stay.&quot;This enforcement proceeding represents a crafty way for Broadcom to get around the court&#39;s stay and go directly to the ITC to give some teeth to the remedy provided by the ITC,&quot; said Lyle Vander Schaaf, an attorney at Bryan Cave and a former ITC attorney.If the commission decides in Broadcom&#39;s favor, Qualcomm could face millions of dollars in penalties, he said.Broadcom said it is seeking fines and additional orders against Qualcomm.
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Verizon Communications Inc. said on Monday it and five Asian partners will build a $500 million high-speed optical cable linking the United States and China in a bid to benefit from burgeoning Internet activity in China.
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Wi-Fi hotspot owners BT Openzone, Singapore&#39;s StarHub, Malaysia&#39;s maxis, Japan&#39;s NTT Com, T-Mobile, Australia&#39;s Telstra and Telecom Italia have entered into a broad roaming agreement to allow each company&#39;s customers to access the others&#39; networks.
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Well, it looks like things are getting a bit more interesting regarding the Sprint/Nextel deal. It seems that Vodafone, which owns 45% of Verizon Wireless in the US, is supporting a move by Verizon to potentially buy Sprint PCS.
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The U.S. International Trade Commission ordered a ban on Thursday of some imported cellphones with Qualcomm chips that infringe on a Broadcom patent.
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WASHINGTON -- The nation&#39;s largest wireless phone company is created by the deal approved Tuesday by the Federal Communications Commission.
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Verizon Wireless is buying wireless spectrum licenses covering 23 US markets from bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. for $3 billion, bolstering the cell phone company&#39;s ability to compete with the big new rival
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(InfoWorld) - Broadcom Corp., one of networking's biggest chip makers, is buying a vendor of production-ready software for network gear. LVL7 Systems Inc. sells software that runs switches and routers for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). By delivering that software to OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) and ODMs (original design manufacturers) and integrating and testing it with their products, LVL7 cuts development costs and time to market. Broadcom will pay about US$62 million in cash for LVL7, based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. The deal, announced Wednesday, has been approved by both companies' boards and LVL7 shareholders, and it should close by the end of the year, according to the companies. Broadcom supplies various chips to some of the biggest names in networking, including Cisco Systems Inc., Nortel Networks Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Motorola Inc. LVL7 will let it deliver a complete package of hardware and software to vendors making SMB equipment, helping them more quickly bring out new products and enter new technology areas, such as wireless LAN switching, according to the companies. LVL7 said Broadcom has been a partner for several years. LVL7, founded in 1999, has about 170 employees split between Research Triangle Park and Hyderabad, India. They will become Broadcom employees and remain in those locations, said Broadcom spokeswoman Gennis Lafayette.
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(InfoWorld) - Verizon Communications Inc.'s 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. Verizon Business' "customer edge to customer edge" SLA option is available at no additional cost for the company's Private IP (Internet Protocol) customers based in the U.S., with the service planned for other Private IP customers by the end of the year. The customer edge SLA covers network facilities that Verizon Business leases from other telecom providers to gain last-mile access to business customers. Verizon Business offers a 20 percent credit of the customer's monthly recurring charges if it fails to meet the SLA. Verizon Business is expanding its SLA options because many customers are moving voice, data and video onto Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks, said Mike Marcellin, the company's vice president for global product marketing. "The customers we're working with are looking for as robust guarantees as they can get," he said. In any month, a Verizon Business customer can invoke either the traditional provider edge SLA or the new customer edge SLA. The two SLAs differ in some details, with the provider edge SLA offering stronger guarantees in some areas. For example, the provider edge SLA guarantees jitter rates of no more than five milliseconds, and the customer edge SLA offers jitter rates of less than 10ms one-way voice over IP traffic and less than 20ms one-way video traffic. "If it goes off of our private IP network, we lose some level of control, but we're still able to stand behind the overall end-to-end SLA," Marcellin said. "We're giving the customer the best of both worlds." The customer edge SLAs also offer guarantees on packet delay and packet delivery ratio, as well as time-to-repair guarantees. Verizon Business has announced other enhancements to its SLAs in the past year, including a voice quality SLA and an enhanced time-to-repair SLA, that did away with the standard average time-to-repair metric in favor of guaranteed time-to-repair in every outage. The expansion of SLAs are important for customers as they move more applications to wide area networks, said Courtney Munroe, vice president with IDC. "It's a bid deal in the sense that a lot of [customers] keep asking for more and more tangible SLAs," Munroe said. "A lot of [providers] shy away from giving these SLAs." Verizon Business' SLAs are among the best in the telecom industry, Munroe said.
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Verizon's agreement with Philadelphia brings new life to the city's WiFi plans.
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The largest U.S. wireless service provider commits billions to network data speed upgrades.
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Verizon Communications Inc.   said on Monday it and five Asian partners will build a $500  million high-speed optical cable linking the United States and  China in a bid to benefit from burgeoning Internet activity in  China.