DAILY TELECOM NEWS: Happy New Year 2006 To All...

Daily Telecom News By Luis Galarza

Telecommunicate and G-Folder Staff.- I want to thank you all for supporting this blog and my work, and I want you to know that I will keep working hard to served the community of Fitchburg and Leominster Mass, USA, and my global customers. I wish you happiness, success, and love for you and your familly in this year 2006.

Yours truly,

Luis Galarza, President/CEO of Telecommunicate and G-Folder.

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VOIP NEWS: Comcast is the new player in the VoIP game, hitting Atlanta first...

Daily Telecom News By Luis Galarza

VoIP Industry News.- Comcast has started selling VoIP service in the Atlanta area, taking on BellSouth. Comcast's offer, which starts at $39.95 per month for unlimited calls, has attracted 1,000 new customers a day in the area, the cabler said. If they knew that, there are other VoIP providers that offers the same service starting at $17.00/month, that's a big saving per month. The Philadelphia Inquirer/Associated Press

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DAILY TELECOM NEWS: AT&T wants to deliver "Your World" logo campaign

Daily Telecom News By Luis Galarza

Daily Telecom News.- Just like Sprint made a big marketing promotion for their new logo when they merge with Nextel, now the new AT&T Inc., the result of a merger between SBC Communications and the former AT&T Corp., will unveil its new "Your World. Delivered." tagline and ad campaign on New Year's Eve at Times Square in New York. For more information about this topic go to: The Detroit News (12/29), The Dallas Morning News (free registration) (12/29), The New York Times (free registration) (12/29), The Wall Street Journal (subscription required)

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DAILY TELECOM NEWS: Ericsson seeks new opportunities in telecom services

Daily Telecom News By Luis Galarza

Daily Telecom News.- Ericsson is focusing more on providing telecom services such as systems integration and network management to compensate for falling telecom equipment prices, which increase telecommunication devices repair services profits. The company has made several acquisitions to boost its position in the services market and has recently signed two deals worth a combined $4.4 billion to operate Hutchison Whampoa's 3 unit in Italy and the U.K. For more information go to: The Wall Street Journal (subscription required)

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DAILY TELECOM NEWS: Telecoms trying to free time for VoIP and Wireless services

Daily Telecom News By Luis Galarza

Business & Industry Watch.- Verizon Communications, AT&T and Alltel are at various stages in the process of deciding whether to sell large portions of their landline assets to focus more on high-growth areas such as VoIP and wireless. While shedding some landlines is inevitable, keeping most of them could have an upside, most notably because they are a direct connection to customers' homes. Also, for those who want to save money on local residential or business phone service, you can switch to Trinsic local phone service provider, their rates are lower than any other carrier and they offer better features. For more information go to: The Wall Street Journal (subscription required)

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TODAY'S VOIP NEWS: New Skype 2.0 VoIP service, now with video

Daily Telecom News By Luis Galarza

Daily VoIP News.- The rise of voice over IP services, has persuaded many people to ditch their landline in favour of free internet phones calls, with Skype being one of the most populars services around. Now Skype free service is just for pc-to-pc calls, you still have to paid for pc-to-phone calls.

VoIP provider Skype Technologies released a new version of its software that includes video calling. Skype 2.0 also provides users with a greater ability to customize their VoIP service, like a tool bar for Microsoft Outlook. Which latter allows users to dial people directly from their contact lists. For more information about this article just go to: Red Herring, The New York Times (free registration), Los Angeles Times (free registration), The Wall Street Journal

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WIRELESS NEWS: Now Court ruling a blow to BlackBerry maker RIM

Daily Telecom News By Luis Galarza

Wireless & Cell Phone News.- U.S. District Court Judge James R. Spencer voided Research In Motion's request to enforce a $450 million settlement with patent firm NTP, which had argued the deal was never finalized. The decision weakens RIM's position because it now must engage in new settlement discussions with NTP to prevent an injunction that would halt BlackBerry sales in America, including me. Patent law experts say they expect the companies will reach a deal, although RIM says it has a workaround in place if they cannot. For more information about this topic go to: The Washington Post (free registration), Reuters, USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal (subscription required)

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WIRELESS NEWS: RIM: BlackBerry will not shut down their service

Daily Telecom News By Luis Galarza

Daily Telecommunication News.- Research In Motion Chairman and co-CEO James L. Balsillie said the company has a "software workaround" in place to keep BlackBerry's U.S. service running even if it is ordered to end service by the judge presiding over its patent dispute with NTP. Balsillie also said the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has signaled that it will eventually reject all of NTP's wireless e-mail patents, which are the focal point of the case. NTP co-founder Donald E. Stout said NTP's case would not be undermined even if the patent office were to rule against it, and added that the judge could still issue an injunction. As you see some patents are closing the road of development and products or services improvement, just like Amazon.com try to do before with their "One Click" Purchase tool, and now Google is joining the parade, with their intent of patenting their "RSS Ad Delivery Service". For more information go to: The Washington Post

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DAILY TELECOM NEWS: European regulators approve Ericsson-Marconi deal

Daily Telecom News By Luis Galarza

Daily Telecommunication News.- European Union regulators approved Ericsson's acquisition of Marconi's telecom equipment and international services business. Once Ericsson integrates Marconi, it plans to enter the growing market for fixed and mobile broadband services. In a plan to build a larger customer base like their main compatitor "Motorola". For more information aboout this topic go to: Reuters

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VOIP NEWS: EBay Bought Skype for $2.6 billion

Daily Telecom News By Luis Galarza

Daily VoIP News.- eBay bought VoIP provider Skype Technologies for $2.6 billion. The deal will boost eBay's efforts to reach new customers and give Skype additional cash as it expands its VoIP services. A lot of people that don't understand how business networking and joint ventures work, though that the eBays decision was stupid, because they could it start their own VoIP service for less. But, what they didn't understand is that eBay didn't just bought the company and services, they bought a direct connection to millions of Skype subscribers, that didn't use or know about eBay, plus they can make money from a hot service. For more information about this telecom topic go to: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal

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VOIP NEWS: IconnectHere is Winning high-volume VoIP subscribers all over the World

Daily Telecom News By Luis Galarza

Daily Voip News.- IconnectHere is a VoIP company base in the US. But offers their services to more than 200 countries. Some of the services offer by IconnectHere are: Local, long distance, international, and unlimited calling bundles starting at $15.99 per month. Free unlimited in-network calling and features included with every purchase! They also big on International Broadband phone offering international numbers and shipping.

Broadband providers can capture fresh revenue streams by offering new VoIP services to high-volume telephony customers. And that's what IconnectHere is doing, plus they offer on of the best deals on VoIP service.

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DAILY IPTV NEWS: Texas alters franchise law, opens way for telco TV Over IP

Daily Telecom News By Luis Galarza

Daily IPTV News.- Telcos won a major victory last month in their efforts to launch video services in Texas when Gov. Rick Perry signed legislation replacing city-by-city franchising with a single, statewide franchise. This will help to speed up IPTV development...

Also, Texas law may speed up Verizon's plans: Verizon said the Texas franchise bill will accelerate the deployment of video services in the state and might lead to additional fiber buildouts. This is telling you that IPTV industry is going to be big and everybody wants to jump on it. For more information about this go to: American City Business Journals/Austin Business Journal, Reuters, Mediaweek, The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), Multichannel News

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