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FCC’s wireless spectrum auction fetches $14 billion, 09/20/06
Five weeks and nearly $14 billion later, the FCC’s Advanced Wireless Services auction is …
Lucent acquires wireless content manager, 09/21/06
Lucent announced plans to acquire privately-held Mobilitec, a provider of content management software for wireless service providers, in a cash …
BellSouth to boost DSL to 50Mbps, 09/19/06
BellSouth will reportedly turn up 50Mbps broadband access service next year, based on VDSL2 technology
Metro Ethernet services: Panacea or pain?, 09/19/06
It seems that broader use of metro Ethernet services may be looming on the horizon as the next step for many enterprises. Most importantly, these …
Opinion: Filling the ‘Net measurement void, 09/18/06
In my years as an engineer and physicist, I maintained a focus on measurement – one of my earliest research designs in high energy physics was a liquid-argon calorimeter, which measures the energy created by a particle physics experiment. That’s why I …
Telecom Italia to acquire AOL’s German ISP for $853.5 million, 09/17/06
Telecom Italia will acquire the Internet access unit of AOL in Germany for €675 million ($853.5 million) in cash, the two companies announced Sunday.
