Telecom Industry News

Cable and Wireless Worldwide shares rise almost 45% after the mobile phone operator says it is in the early stages of ‘evaluating the merits’ of a bid

Group offers to buy majority of Egyptian telecoms operator Mobinil from tycoon Naguib Sawiris and then change the name of the business to Orange

Telecoms group moves to pacify subscribers hit by email shutdown and pledges to speed up investment in infrastructure and software

Capitalised at £700m C&W Worldwide would be a tiddly acquisition for Vodafone but it could see it cap costs by acquiring its own UK plumbing

A ruling by the Federal Competition Commission keeps alive the possibility of fostering more competition in the US$35bn-a-year telecoms sector

Vertical Systems Group today released its 2011 U.S. Business Ethernet Leaderboard, featuring the leading carriers according to Ethernet port market share. The 2011 year-end report showed fairly little change versus the mid-year 2011 report, but one notabl…

Telco giant AT&T (NYSE: T) has teamed with virtualization pioneer VMware (NYSE: VMW) to launch a virtual private cloud service with a wordy moniker: AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service. The virtual cloud lau…

Cloudscaling, a cloud consulting firm that has assisted in the development of several public cloud offerings, today is debuting a solution based on the OpenStack open source cloud platform that is aimed at helping corporate enterprises build private cloud…

A lackluster wireline performance did not stop Bell Canada and parent company BCE (NYSE: BCE) from recording strong fourth-quarter jumps in earnings and revenue. BCE reported overall earnings equaling just under $486 million U.S. for its latest qua…

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has lined up a multivendor interoperability test of the 28 Gbps Very Short Reach interface draft standard for the upcoming OFC/NFOEC conference March 6-8 in Los Angeles. The 28G approach has been positioned by some …