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Vodafone CEO Sarin steps down, to be replaced by Colao
May. 27, 2008
Vodafone Group CEO Arun Sarin will step down from the top job at the mobile operator in July, the company said Tuesday.

XO expands Ethernet footprint
May. 01, 2008
XO Communications announced today that it has expanded the reach of its Ethernet services to include more than 500,000 businesses in 75 major metropolitan markets.

Peeling the layers off the UC onion
Mar. 17, 2008
The fire has been lit, and the frequency with which the term 'unified communications' appears in discussions concerning enterprise technology today only adds fuel to the flames. To ignore it would be akin to closing an ...

Vodafone links IP and phone, killing roaming charges
Mar. 04, 2008
Vodafone Germany will offer IP telephony allowing customers overseas with an Internet connection to call home at the same rate as if they were still in Germany.

XO unveils bandwidth-based voice pricing scheme
Jan. 16, 2008
XO Communications announced today that it will start charging for converged IP services based upon bandwidth use rather than the total number of voice lines.

Verizon nears convergence goal
Jun. 20, 2007
CHICAGO -- Verizon Business will announce vendors it has selected for its converged core router architecture and its next-generation multiservice access edge in the third quarter, according to officials interviewed at ...

NXTcomm to show raft of next-gen service gear
Jun. 18, 2007
IMS, IPTV and Carrier Ethernet to highlight NXTcomm conference in Chicago.

XO charts VoIP progress
Jan. 24, 2007
XO Communications this week said its VoIP traffic grew 80% over the past year, exceeding 15 billion minutes in 2006.

Ofcom rules that VoIP must do emergency calls
Dec. 07, 2007
The U.K. telecom regulator has, as expected, ruled that customers must be able to call the emergency services using VoIP.

What’s taking fixed-mobile convergence so long?
Dec. 03, 2007
Fixed-mobile convergence, or FMC, has been much hyped, but has been slow to roll out because of carrier foot-dragging and cautious customers, industry watchers say.

Converged services opinions

Beyond E911: 21st century emergency services
Jun. 20, 2007
Johna Till Johnson's Eye on the Carriers: All telecom service providers should be required to provide E911 services, even VoIP companies.

Vertical lessons from over the water
May. 31, 2007
Anyone who travels outside the United States quickly realizes that the people "over there" know a lot more about us than we do about them.

Supporting the virtual workplace becoming SOP
Apr. 12, 2007
You may have noticed a subtle but significant change in your organization over the past few years. I'm talking about the increasing shift toward a virtual workplace in which employees and their bosses (or peers) operate ...

BellSouth unveils IP Centrex
May. 21, 2004
BellSouth has unveiled its first network-based VoIP service: Centrex IP throughout its nine-state Southeast region.

Is FMC the 'real' convergence?
May. 08, 2006
VoIP convergence used to mean a bunch of softswitches, media gateways, replacing Class 5 switches and - not accidentally - spending telecom dollars that used to be spent on traditional TDM on VoIP voice instead. Not ...