* Also: 10 ways you can cut your telecom costs; and Rolls-Royce signs $20 million deal with Nortel
Wireless service provider Clearwire is in a legal dispute over spectrum, colleague Denise Pappalardo reports. Clearwire claims that a community college in San Francisco is trying to get out of a spectrum licensing agreement so that the school could instead try to sell its spectrum to the highest bidder. Clearwire, founded by wireless pioneer Craig McCaw, is dependant on spectrum agreements that will allow it to deliver its WiMAX wireless Internet access service nationwide.
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Pappalardo has also compiled a handy list of 10 ways you can cut your telecom costs, ranging from organizing your bills better to rethinking how you support older technologies. Telecom is among the top 10 costs for most businesses in the United States, and for many it ranks in the top five.
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IDG News Services reports that Rolls-Royce has signed a $20 million seven-year deal with Nortel that will see Nortel replace a global TDM phone network with IP-based voice and fax services. The company will use Nortel equipment — servers, unified messaging and mobility systems — that will run on Rolls-Royce’s existing LANs. Seven hundred Rolls-Royce staff are already using Nortel-managed IP telephony, but eventually some 26,500 staff working in power systems and services divisions in Europe and North America could be on the new infrastructure.
