MTNL Employees Could be Moved to BSNL, DoT: Report
Telecom Talk
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), a state-run telecom company that operates in Mumbai and New Delhi is expected to see some downsizing in the employee force.
MTNL Accounts Frozen by Union Bank of India over Non-Payment of Dues: Report
Telecom Talk
AUGUST 30, 2024
State-run telecom operator MTNL’s (Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited) bank accounts have been frozen by the Union Bank of India.
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Smaller broadband providers are bigger winners of MN Broadband grants
Blandin on Broadband
OCTOBER 11, 2024
Telecompetitor reports … This week, Minnesota announced $52 million in grants to expand broadband throughout the state, with the majority of awards going to small telecom providers. Other awards included Garden Valley Telephone Company, $4.6 million; Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative, $3.9 million; Bevcomm Inc.
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MTNL Defaults on Rs 422 Crore Loan Towards Banks
Telecom Talk
AUGUST 6, 2024
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), a state-run telecom company, has defaulted on the payment of a Rs 422 crore loan towards several banks.
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FCC Approves TDS-RiverStreet Sales
Broadband Breakfast
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
WASHINGTON, September 16, 2024 - Federal regulators have approved the sale of two TDS Telecom networks to RiverStreet Management Services. entered into a stock purchase agreement to transfer ownership of Amelia Telephone Corp. and New Castle Telephone Co., and New Castle Telephone Co., TDS, based in Madison, Wis.
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BSNL and MTNL forgo merger, sign 10-year service agreement
Total Telecom
AUGUST 16, 2024
In an effort to make the companies (and, therefore, the national telecoms sector itself) more competitive, the government has been considering merging the two businesses since at least 2022.
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DigitalBridge to acquire JTower in $631m deal
Total Telecom
AUGUST 15, 2024
JTower’s board of directors has endorsed the offer, recognising the growing need for advanced telecom infrastructure as Japan prepares for further 5G and 6G technologies. JTower’s founder and president, Atsushi Tanaka, as well as Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. million) according to a Bloomberg report.
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Small Texas City Losing Cable TV, Keeping Internet after Network Sale
Broadband Breakfast
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
6,000) will soon experience a shift in its media landscape as TDS Telecom plans to discontinue its cable TV service there by Sept. The move comes as part of a broader agreement in which TDS Telecom, headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, has sold its cable systems in Alpine and four other Texas locations. Alpine, Texas (pop.
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PLDT, NTT data centre deal collapses, mulls new buyer
Developing Telecoms
AUGUST 15, 2024
PLDT chairman and CEO Manuel Pangilinan said a deal is on the boil for a 49% stake in the operator group’s data centre business, despite negotiations with Japan-based Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT) collapsing.
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10 Interesting Facts About the Telecom Industry
ACC Telecom
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
10 Interesting Facts About the Telecom Industry 1. Lewis Latimer helped draft the patent for Bell’s design of the telephone. Working with Alexander Graham Bell, Latimer helped draft the patent for Bell’s design of the telephone. The first telephone answering service started in 1923.
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UScellular sells spectrum to Verizon in $1 billion deal
Total Telecom
OCTOBER 21, 2024
” The sale has already been approved by UScellular’s majority shareholder, Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), which owns 82% of the company. We are continuing the process to opportunistically monetize the remaining spectrum assets not included in today’s announcement.” said said LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr.,
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Cohesive Technologies to Exhibit with Guardian Telecom at Convergence India 2024
Cohesive Global
JANUARY 2, 2024
New Delhi, India – Cohesive Technologies, a leading provider of unified communication solutions, is excited to announce its participation in Convergence India 2024 featuring Guardian Telecom, a global leader in industrial communication solutions. Cohesive Technologies and Guardian Telecom will be exhibiting at Hall No.
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NTT to launch new AI company ‘NTT AI-CIX’
Total Telecom
AUGUST 8, 2024
News The telco is the latest to join the global race for AI dominance Japanese telco NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) has announced its intention to launch a new AI company, named NTT AI-CIX, that the company says will focus on the promotion of “chained AI”, rather than “individual AI”. billion yen ($13.6
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MN Broadband Grant Round Lower Population Density Awards are announced
Blandin on Broadband
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Applicant Project Grant Award Amount Bevcomm Inc Bevcomm Inc-Tyrone Township $1,101,801 Bevcomm Inc Bevcomm Inc-Waseca County Ph 2 $1,186,050 Federated Rural Electric Association Federated REA-Martin County $8,008,419 Garden Valley Telephone Company Garden Valley Tel Co-Mahnomen Cty $4,626,012 Otter Tail Telcom Otter Tail Telcom-West Fergus Falls $3,700,198 (..)
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What the Accessible Canada Act Means for Telecom Providers
VoIP MS
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
We summarize the main implications and demands regarding telecom providers’ obligations under the Accessible Canada Act (ACA) and its impacts on VoIP Resellers. As you will see in the next few paragraphs, many deadlines have already passed. Conclusion: Ready to make a difference as a Telecom Provider?
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To the edge: how AI is revolutionising the way we network
Total Telecom
AUGUST 7, 2024
For telecoms, AI is also fueling another, distinct revolution that is fundamentally changing how networks operate. The recent news that BT intends to close down 4,600 telephone exchanges , reducing the number dotted around the UK to just 1,000 by the early 2030s, put a spanner in the works for edge data centre operators.
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1996 Telecom Act affords FCC clear, unambiguous authority for Title II rulemaking
EldoTelecom
JULY 11, 2024
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Investor owned telephone and cable companies and their trade associations hope the courts will put the U.S. That would conceivably bolster their case if the underlying statute here – the 1996 Telecom Act – was unclear or ambiguous or failed to grant the FCC authority for its rules.
How Reliable is Our Nation's – and the World's – Broadband Infrastructure?
Broadband Breakfast
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Were readers of this publication to present at a telecom conference on the topic of broadband reliability, outages might not be top of mind. Stories of lasers destroying telecom satellites have been around since well before the last Millennium, and today are far more likely to occur.
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How U.S. telecom policy derailed in early 1990s in slow motion train wreck
EldoTelecom
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
The legislation envisioned Internet telecommunications services being offered over the existing telephone network and would have required telephone companies to provide access to their networks for these services on a nondiscriminatory basis and on reasonable terms and conditions.
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Deutsche Telekom 5G Small Cells in Phone Boxes
Telecoms Infrastructure Blog
MAY 15, 2023
Vodafone and BT/EE in UK have been deploying small cells in phone boxes for years, now the German operator Deutsche Telekom is going the same way as it starts dismantling the last remaining 12,000 public telephones of the 160,000 that used to exist. There are currently around 12,000 public telephones from Telekom.
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Nortel Networks Phone Systems – Support & Upgrades
NetWork Telecom
DECEMBER 21, 2023
If you already have a Nortel telephone system in your office and would like to discuss how you can get more out of it, contact us today ! “Network Telecom assisted us in moving and upgrading our system when we moved into a new facility. They have been with us while we grew and made additional changes.
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Missed Call Reports
TechAdvance
JULY 18, 2024
When your main telephone reception experiences a surge in incoming calls, cascade them to ring through to other administrative telephones or forward them to mobile staff after a set time delay of 15 to 30 seconds. Maximise Efficiency with Overflow Groups Maximise your call handling efficiency by utilising overflow groups.
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First cables laid to bring fast, reliable broadband to South Wiltshire under government’s Project Gigabit
Total Telecom
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
This delivers connection speeds of up to 10Gbps, with far superior speeds and reliability compared to old copper telephone lines. Minister of State for Telecoms Chris Bryant said: “Connectivity is a vital part of modern life, for individuals, families, communities, businesses and government.
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AT&T chief: BEAD goal should be universal service -- but not "devolve" to universal FTTP
EldoTelecom
JUNE 27, 2024
But while universal landline service was achieved for copper delivered voice telephone service in the 20th century, the program goal should not be to modernize it with fiber for the 21st as prioritized by the BEAD Notice Of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) as the best and highest use of public funds. telecom policy.
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Remote Working Packages
TechAdvance
JUNE 28, 2024
Tech-IP’s Remote Working Packages: Seamless and Secure With a Remote Working Package from Tech-IP , businesses can quickly and easily equip their employees with the necessary telecom equipment to perform their roles effectively. Lower Company Mobile Telephone Costs : Reduce reliance on mobile phones for business.
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BT/EE’s Growing Dependence on Small Cells to Boost Network Performance
Telecoms Infrastructure Blog
OCTOBER 14, 2024
Located on a variety of existing street assets, including BT’s iconic red telephone boxes, the units offer discreet boosters for coverage and are part of EE’s investment to maintain the UK’s best network.
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AT&T’s suggestion that edge content providers contribute to funding universal service calls for new paradigm of U.S. advanced telecom
EldoTelecom
JUNE 27, 2024
Stankey however raises a broader policy issue of how universal service is to be attained and specifically the high cost of the ownership, financing, and operation of its infrastructure in the digital IP era as it was for copper cable delivered analog voice telephone service in the previous century.
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India’s TRAI releases Recommendations on use of Tera Hertz Spectrum for 6G
IEEE ComSoc
AUGUST 27, 2024
Any Indian entity, including academic institutes, R&D labs, telecom service providers, central or state government bodies and original equipment makers, will be eligible for an authorization covering a maximum of five years. The Recommendations have been placed on the TRAI’s website (www.trai.gov.in). For any clarification!
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The True Cost of E911 Noncompliance: A $40 Million Tragedy
CADY
JUNE 18, 2024
Yet many organizations – including businesses, hospitals, schools, municipalities, and event venues – unknowingly fail to comply with Kari’s Law and RAY BAUM’s Act, the federal regulations that govern E911 for multi-line telephone systems (MLTS). These resources can help.
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DIDWW voice and SMS innovations on display at ITW Africa and WWC 2024
VoIP Review
AUGUST 14, 2024
Following the Kenya summit, DIDWW will attend WWC 2024, a prestigious gathering of the global telecoms wholesale community. Scheduled for 18 to 20 September, this exhibition will take place at the Meliá Castilla Madrid hotel in Spain’s vibrant capital.
End of ACP illustrates need for omnibus reform
EldoTelecom
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
link] Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Rather than trying to reform legacy subsidy mechanisms created for voice telephone service, wouldn’t public ownership of open access regional fiber to the premises (FTTP) provide a twin win of superior access and affordability? Congress should give the FCC a bright green light to proceed.
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Business Calling Best Practices to Avoid Spam Labels
ACC Telecom
JUNE 12, 2024
The Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act uses caller ID authentication tools and framework, such as STIR/SHAKEN, to enable phone companies to verify that once a phone call is placed, the caller ID information transmitted matches the caller’s real phone number.
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Another Wildly Successful Congressional Broadband Tour
Rural Broadband Association
AUGUST 21, 2024
The final full day started with a visit with Tim York and Warm Springs Telecom on the Warm Springs Reservation. Our tour ended with a beautiful dinner at the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm, hosted by the farm’s owner Barb Iverson, chair of Monitor Telecom (Woodburn, Ore.) and Geri Fraijo, Monitor’s CEO.
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Why We’re Running Out of Phone Numbers
2600Hz Blog
MARCH 9, 2021
Unexpected Growth of PSTN Uses When we think of the phone network and how we interact with it, what typically springs to mind are the end-user signaling devices we use, such as our office phones, chat clients, and mobile phones.
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Understanding VoIP Regulatory Compliance – An Overview for Carriers
VoIP Review
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
Data protection and privacy – This is a major issue in most industries today, and telecoms is no exception. Number portability is the solution to this issue, and allows subscribers to switch providers and yet retain their telephone numbers. VoIP regulations demand stringent data handling , storage, and processing practices.
Telecom Jargon Demystified
NetWork Telecom
AUGUST 29, 2024
Ever felt overwhelmed by the telecom jargon (technical terms and acronyms) that seems to dominate the world of telecommunications? Whether you’re a small business owner trying to choose the right phone system or an IT professional tasked with managing your company’s network, understanding telecom jargon can be a daunting task.
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Unallocated Number Ranges, and Why Telcos Should Care
Iconxsolutions
JUNE 21, 2023
Globally, unallocated number ranges represent many billions of telephone numbers or CLIs that should not be in use, because they have not been put into service with active customers. By Ger Ryan, Head of Professional Services, iCONX.
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Solving the Universal Service Challenge
Rural Broadband Association
JULY 18, 2024
It was a great chance to speak before representatives from various media outlets, communications industry executives and a few NTCA members in town for the Women in Telecom Fly-In about NTCA and to highlight some of our important advocacy goals for this year and beyond. In 1996, these beneficiaries were telecom providers, right?
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Simplify Your Office Relocation
TechAdvance
JUNE 20, 2024
From relocating IT infrastructure to installing business telephone systems, our experienced project managers oversee every aspect of the transition, so that nothing is overlooked and everything is accounted for. We aim to reduce expenses without compromising on quality, therefore ensuring your office move is both cost-effective and efficient.
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What is Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)?
NetWork Telecom
APRIL 30, 2024
Contact Network Telecom Today Session Initiation Protocol 1. These sessions can range from a simple two-way telephone call to collaborative multi-media conferences. This technology has transformed the way we communicate, offering flexibility and cost savings over traditional telephone networks.
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6 Steps for Getting an Amazing VoIP Phone System for Your Business
NetWork Telecom
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Network Telecom offers 24/7/365 technical support so that they are there for you as soon as you need them. They resemble traditional telephones but use the internet to transmit voice data. Contact Network Telecom. Whatever your business telecommunications needs are, Network Telecom is here for you.
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What is SIP? Definition and Use for Businesses
NetWork Telecom
APRIL 29, 2024
</strong> SIP calling refers to making a phone call over the Internet instead of using old-school telephone wires. Don’t Get Left Behind: Make the Switch to SIP with Network Telecom Network Telecom can help you make the switch to SIP. Network Telecom offers a future-proof solution: SIP service.
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Details on MN Broadband Grant Awards Round 10 (Oct 2024)
Blandin on Broadband
OCTOBER 9, 2024
County: Morrison Representative Isaac Schultz, Senator Nathan Wesenberg Benton Cooperative Telephone Company Buckman Township Grant: $1,248,430 Local Match: $2,318,518 Total Budget: $3,566,948 The Benton Cooperative Telephone Company project will provide high-speed Broadband services to Buckman Township in Morrison County.
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