Telecom, Telephone, and Communications News

After I wrote the previous article, I took a look at Nortel and Ericssons sites and found some examples of new contracts.

Adelphia Selects Nortel Cable Voice over IP Solution

Cable Operator to Leverage Nortel Global Services to Help Drive New Revenue

TORONTO - Adelphia Communications Corporation [OTC: ADELQ], the fifth largest cable television corporation in the United States, has selected voice over IP (VoIP) solutions and Global Services from Nortel* [NYSE/TSX: NT] to extend a suite of telephone services to residential customers in selected Adelphia markets.

"Nortel's PacketCable* voice over IP and professional services not only meet our requirements, but also have a proven track record and solid reputation in the industry for helping drive new revenue opportunities," said Marwan Fawaz, chief technology officer, Adelphia.

"As the competition heats up to capture more subscribers and keep pace with new technologies, our cable customers like Adelphia continue to look at voice over IP technologies to give subscribers the best of the Internet with the best of today's telephone network," said Dan Mondor, general manager, Global Cable Solutions, Nortel. "Nortel has the experience and expertise to give Adelphia the carrier grade reliability expected, plus Global Services to help maximize network investment." More...

Rogers Cable Selects Nortel Cable Telephony Solution for Digital Phone Service

TORONTO - Nortel* [NYSE/TSX: NT] announced that Rogers Cable, Canada's largest cable television company, has selected Nortel as its primary softswitch vendor to support delivery of digital phone service and other new voice and data services across its service areas. Rogers plans to begin launching Digital Phone service in mid-2005.

Rogers passes 3.3 million homes in Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and has 69 percent basic cable penetration of its homes passed.

"Rogers shares Nortel's vision of enhancing the human experience through communications," said Dan Mondor, general manager, Global Cable Solutions, Nortel. "We have committed the resources and focused investments in this space to enable cable operators like Rogers to bring to market innovative new services that can enhance the human experience through communications."

"The majority of cable operators around the globe who have chosen to deploy cable telephony have selected Nortel cable voice over IP solutions," Mondor said. "We are honored that many of the world's leading cable companies recognize the strength of Nortel's solutions.”"More...

Ericsson and TCC in Taiwan sign systems integration and service delivery solution agreement

Ericsson and TCC (Taiwan Cellular Corporation) have signed a contract for systems integration and an end-to-end service delivery solution, marking a new customer for Ericsson in Taiwan. The service delivery solution is based on Ericsson Service Delivery Platform. The solution will enable TCC to create and introduce attractive consumer services in a fast and cost efficient way.

The Ericsson solution will support TCC to improve operational efficiency of their content and value-added service business, including content delivery and content management. The platform will also enable applications that combine data and voice, for instance voice and MMS together, for consumers.

"Ericsson has the systems integration expertise, as well as the service delivery platform required to support us deliver seamless value-added services to a large number of our customers. That makes them an invaluable partner for our upcoming 3G services," said David Clarke, CTO of TCC. More...

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Ericsson and India's Shyam Telecom sign CDMA2000 1X contract

Ericsson and Shyam Telecom have signed a contract to deploy Ericsson's total CDMA2000 1X wireless infrastructure solution in the Rajasthan circle.

"The growth potential in India is tremendous and Ericsson is very pleased to be a key supplier in this rapidly expanding market. We are honored to strengthen our partnership with Shyam Telecom by providing CDMA2000 activities, which shall bring advanced wireless services to customers in Rajasthan," said Mats Granryd, president of Ericsson Mobile Systems CDMA.More...

Like I said, looking up.