Carriers on deck with wireless for All-Star Game; Sprint Nextel bid talk ‘groundless’

Opinion
Jul 11, 20071 min

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Carriers on deck with wireless for All-Star Game, 07/09/07: Baseball fans may be watching Barry Bonds to see if he clobbers another home run at Tuesday night’s Major League All-Star Game, but the nation’s major wireless carriers will be busy watching cellular network congestion in downtown San Francisco.

Juniper scales down service router, 07/09/07: Juniper lowers entry point into service provider service routing.

Sprint Nextel bid talk ‘groundless’ says SK Telecom, 07/10/07: South Korea’s SK Telecom Tuesday denied a local newspaper report that it is preparing a bid for Sprint Nextel.

Utilities tap broadband-over-power-line technology, 07/10/07: Electric companies not looking to get into telecom can use BPL for metering.

U.S. seeks 7 years in prison for Qwest’s CEO, 07/09/07: Prosecutors are recommending that former Qwest Communications International Chief Joseph Nacchio serve more than seven years in prison for insider trading during the telecommunications boom.

Survey: Cisco, Riverbed top choices for WAN acceleration: Cisco and Riverbed are the two top vendors battling it out for customers in the WAN data compression and acceleration market, according a study by TheInfoPro.