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Siemens Former Telco Chief in Custody as More Cash goes Missing |
15/12/06 |
Reports throughout European press are saying that pressure is mounting on top executives at Siemens after the arrest of a former senior manager in a growing investigation... Read More |
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Ryedale Boss is Double Award Winner |
15/12/06 |
| Ryedale Telecom boss Alice Adams struck gold at the Yorkshire Business Awards 2006 – twice.
Adams was named Business Personality Of The Year and also claimed the Woman... Read More |
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Entanet Welcomes New Ofcom Broadband Rules |
15/12/06 |
| UK wholesale provider of converged voice and data connectivity services, Entanet, has welcomed Ofcom’s decision to force ISPs to hand over MACs (Migration Authorisation C... Read More |
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Ofcom to Make Broadband Switch Easier |
15/12/06 |
| Ofcom has announced new rules intended to ensure that customers are able to switch to a different broadband provider quickly and easily. This follows a public consultatio... Read More |
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50% of Large UK Organisations Want To Cut Their IT Suppliers |
15/12/06 |
| Research by Matrix Communications shows enterprises believe they are using 20% too many IT suppliers
Matrix Communications, the UK Virtual Network Operator (VNO) and w... Read More |
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BT Fusion Now Available With Wi-Fi For Small Businesses |
15/12/06 |
| BT has launched BT Fusion Wi-Fi for business, bringing together the benefits of fixed and mobile convergence on one mobile device, with seamless two-way handover between ... Read More |
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BT Signs New PBX Deal with Nortel |
15/12/06 |
| BT and Nortel have signed a new, three-year partnership agreement to drive the uptake of VoIP, multimedia, instant messaging and mobile communications by UK enterprises o... Read More |
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Applegarth Books in at Aston Hotels |
14/12/06 |
| Applegarth Communications Ltd has been appointed communications partner to new UK hotels group Aston Hotels.
The Leeds-based IT and telecoms company has secured a cont... Read More |
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Siracom Scoops Aastra Award |
14/12/06 |
| Basingstoke based distributor, Siracom has been awarded the SIP Terminal Distributor of the Year by Aastra. The firm has achieved a 300% uplift in sales of Aastra SIP ha... Read More |
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Striving For Perfection |
14/12/06 |
| Distributor Nimans is raising the profile of its warehouse operation
The company says its in-house operation is one of the ‘jewels in the crown’ of the Manchester-base... Read More |
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BT Retail Targets Strong Profits Growth |
14/12/06 |
| BT Retail has issued new guidance to the City, targeting strong profits growth for the 2006/7 full year. The division said it would achieve EBITDA percentage growth in th... Read More |
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Avaya Launch one-X Quick Edition to Small Businesses |
14/12/06 |
| Previewed at the October Convergence Summit, one-X Quick Edition has now been formally launched by Avaya.
one-X Quick Edition is a peer-to-peer phone system for locati... Read More |
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Pan-European Regulator? – A Curate’s Egg say Eversheds |
14/12/06 |
| Viviane Reding, the European Commissioner responsible for Information Society and Media recently discussed the possibility of creating a new pan-European regulator. The p... Read More |
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Toshiba BCD Introduces Mobility Extension For Strata CIX Systems |
14/12/06 |
| Toshiba Business Communications Division today announced that Mobility Extension from Wavelink Communications has been selected as a Toshiba Recommended Product. Mobility... Read More |
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Pipex Moves up ADSL Broadband Chart |
14/12/06 |
| Epitiro releases results of Q3 Consumer ADSL Internet Performance Indicator (IPI) Report.
Pipex has stormed into second place in Epitiro’s top ADSL broadband performer... Read More |
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Siemens Adjusts '06 Profit |
14/12/06 |
| Siemens AG has adjusted its net income for fiscal year 2006 because of more tax charges related to an ongoing corruption scandal.
The Munich-based group, Europe's bigg... Read More |
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Avoid Head to Head say Icon |
14/12/06 |
| Ray Pitchforth, marketing manager at distributor ICON says if you avoid going head to head with the majors and the unified communications market offers opportunities for ... Read More |
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ShoreTel Launch Contact Center 4.6 |
13/12/06 |
| IP PBX vendor ShoreTel has launched Contact Center 4.6 which introduces a universal queue, auto answer for inbound calls, release with reason codes and several other prod... Read More |
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Swyx Toolkit for Resellers |
13/12/06 |
| IP PBX vendor Swyx has launched its new 'Marketing ToolKit' to assist resellers to take full advantage of the Swyx branding as part of a range of lead generation programm... Read More |
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3Com Strengthens Enterprise Switching Portfolio |
13/12/06 |
| 3Com has announced it is further strengthening its enterprise stackable switching portfolio to create a comprehensive end-to-end networking solution that is optimised to ... Read More |
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Crane wins Avaya EMEA Enterprise Distributor of the Year Award |
13/12/06 |
| Distributor Crane has won the Avaya EMEA Award for Enterprise Distributor of the Year for the second consecutive year.
Crane scooped up the Avaya EMEA Enterprise Distr... Read More |
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Inter-Tel Pushes Network Training Standards |
13/12/06 |
| The Academy, Inter-Tel’s EMEA training centre, has added to its portfolio of IP communications training with the launch of a new qualification course for resellers.
I... Read More |
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CLA licensed to phone, thanks to Spitfire! |
13/12/06 |
| Reseller Spitfire has installed a Nortel BCM system for the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) new headquarters offices in central London. Spitfire was selected for the pro... Read More |
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ShoreTel Debuts ShoreWare |
12/12/06 |
| IP PBX vendor ShoreTel has announced ShoreWare System Monitor, a scalable, real-time network monitoring tool that provides IT managers and ShoreTel channel partners with ... Read More |
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Microsoft VoIP Server – 2500 Firms to try it out |
12/12/06 |
| Microsoft today reached a significant milestone in its enterprise voice strategy with the release of Office Communications Server 2007 to a private beta audience of 2,500... Read More |
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Nimans Finalises 2007 Roadshow Dates |
12/12/06 |
| Manchester based distributor Nimans is planning an enhanced series of trade roadshows for 2007, designed to recruit more resellers and educate those already in a specific... Read More |
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2007 "A Threshold for VoIP" say Inclarity |
12/12/06 |
| Next year will herald the phasing out of the traditional telephone system as British businesses look to the internet to enhance their telephony, according to Broadband Te... Read More |
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Avaya Names Top Channel Partners EMEA |
12/12/06 |
| The list of top Avaya EMEA resellers and distributors was announced last week as the vendor met with their channel in Rome. UK based companies fared well.
“We have see... Read More |
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HP ProCurve Going Great: Dell'Oro Group |
12/12/06 |
| A recent report by market research firm Dell'Oro Group has revealed that ProCurve Networking by HP is now the world's second largest global enterprise networking vendor i... Read More |
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Siemens Hires Outside Lawyer As Nokia Venture Threatened |
12/12/06 |
| Siemens on Monday said it's hired the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton to review its compliance system, amid concern that bribery allegations could disrupt its planned netwo... Read More |
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Deloitte & Touche say 21CN Positions BT Well |
11/12/06 |
| Speaking to Comms Business Magazine, David Tansley, telecommunications partner at Deloitte, says, "BT has announced that it has completed the first stage of its 21st cent... Read More |
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Liebert Products: Quality has its Right Value |
11/12/06 |
| Emerson Network Power has announced a 6% price increase in the Liebert-branded Precision Cooling (HPAC) and AC Power Systems (UPS) products as of January 2007. The vendor... Read More |
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Telecomplete Launch QIPS |
11/12/06 |
| Telecomplete are pleased to announce the launch of QIPS (Quality Intelligent Packet Switching). QIPS is an IP network technology for companies looking to achieve a conve... Read More |
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Siemens Raise the Curtain on NextGen SIP Phones |
11/12/06 |
| Siemens Enterprise Communications today announced OpenStage, a new line of IP telephones that bring an open communications hardware platform to the desktop for the first ... Read More |
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Zen in the Frame |
11/12/06 |
| Zen Internet is providing broadband connections for the Maplins UK Snooker Championship at the Barbican Centre in York. The event runs from the 4th December until the fin... Read More |
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Free Conferencing Brings in the Customers for M12 |
11/12/06 |
| Hampshire based telecommunications firm, M12 Solutions are celebrating the successful launch of their free audio conferencing service. From a standing start the service h... Read More |
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Somerfield’s New Virtual Network Now in Store |
11/12/06 |
| High street supermarket chain Somerfield have signed a multi year outsourcing contract worth £18.9 million with Virtual Network Operator Vanco for managed telecommunicati... Read More |
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GN Netcom Expand Sales Team |
08/12/06 |
| Headset vendor GN Netcom has expanded its sales team to meet the growing demand in the UK for high quality headsets. The appointment of Dale Peters as Sales Director and ... Read More |
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Nimans Outlines 2007 Roadshow Programme |
08/12/06 |
| Distributor Nimans is planning an enhanced series of trade roadshows for 2007, delivering an even more informative and educational programme, focusing on new technology f... Read More |
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Oak Telecom Appoint New MD |
08/12/06 |
| Following the semi-retirement of David Rands, Oak Telecom has announced the appointment of Adam Bardsley as Managing Director.
Bardsley joined Oak straight from Univ... Read More |
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Class Act for Reality Telecom |
08/12/06 |
| Educational ICT Specialist, Trusol Ltd, has joined Reality Telecom’s partner programme, adding Reality’s Call Navigator IP telephony service to its ‘turnkey’ portfolio of... Read More |
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Nimans Grab Avaya Growth Award |
08/12/06 |
| Distributor Nimans is toasting its latest awards success after being named the largest growth distributor of Avaya systems across EMEA with an impressive 59% sales increa... Read More |
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Rocom & Commsoft Europe Focus on Channel Partnership |
08/12/06 |
| After years of working together, Distributor Rocom and applications vendor Commsoft have announced a new strategy working to support the Rocom dealer channel
Rocom has... Read More |
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ShoreTel Sign Wireless Distributor |
08/12/06 |
| ShoreTel, who claim to be the fastest growing IP PBX company worldwide and leader in customer satisfaction, has signed a distribution agreement with Selcoms. By partneri... Read More |
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VegaStream Link up Toshiba and Gamma Telecom |
08/12/06 |
| VegaStream, the developer of telephony media gateways, has announced that it has successful completed three-way compatibility testing between its Vega IP Gateway, Toshiba... Read More |
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IT Departments Stifling Benefits of IP Migration |
07/12/06 |
| According to Nick Applegarth, managing director of Envox EMEA, too many organisations let their IT departments select new VoIP infrastructure single-handedly. In many cas... Read More |
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Record Breaking Conference Sales from Nimans |
07/12/06 |
| Christmas has come early for leading telecoms distributor Nimans after achieving record breaking monthly sales of conference call units with two major manufacturers, Poly... Read More |
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Telstra Europe Launches Remote Back Up |
07/12/06 |
| Telco Telstra Europe is launching a remote backup service to protect businesses against the loss or corruption of important data files and strengthen their disaster recov... Read More |
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New Channel Manager for Liebert UPS |
07/12/06 |
| Michele Martiradonna, Environmental Engineer aged 37 and Emerson Network Power executive since 2001, has taken up the role of EMEA Sales Manager for Liebert-branded UPS u... Read More |
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AT Comms Issue Trading Update |
07/12/06 |
| AIM listed AT Communications Group Plc has issued a trading update for the year to 31 December 2006 including expected profits and progress on the integration of Rocom, a... Read More |
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Public Sector Won’t Be Rushed into IP Migration |
07/12/06 |
| Survey findings from the public sector reveal startling insights into attitudes towards the move to IP telephony
Westell Technologies, a provider of convergence gatew... Read More |
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Cost is still Main Driver for VoIP |
07/12/06 |
| IP PBX vendor Swyx has conducted an on-line poll of more than 100 SMEs on the reasons they would consider a VoIP-based telephone system. 28% of the sample said that Inte... Read More |
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Gradwell’s VoIP Service for Nokia E70 and E-series |
07/12/06 |
| Gradwell dot com, the Bath-based UK VoIP provider, now offers customers a free connection to the latest Nokia E-series business mobiles, including the E70.
“After a pe... Read More |
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Telewest Ranks Highest in ISP Survey |
06/12/06 |
| Customer Satisfaction Levels Fall as Customer Service Waiting Times Lengthen
Telewest ranks highest in overall customer satisfaction among seven of the leading broadba... Read More |
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Pan-European Regulator? – A Curate’s Egg say Eversheds |
06/12/06 |
| Viviane Reding, the European Commissioner responsible for Information Society and Media recently discussed the possibility of creating a new pan-European regulator. The p... Read More |
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BT to Export 21CN ‘Know How’ |
06/12/06 |
| BT today announced the launch of its 21C Global Venture (21C GV), a business unit that will enable the delivery of next-generation networks (NGN) to communication provide... Read More |
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Awards for Griffin Internet |
06/12/06 |
| Griffin Internet has finished the year on a high by being recognised as one of the fastest growing companies by Deloitte’s UK and European awards, being crowed 47th in th... Read More |
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2007: The year of Mobility say Crane |
06/12/06 |
| Karen Parrott, Product Manager for the Convergent Products and Technology team at distributor Crane Telecommunications, says that 2007 will definitely be the ‘Year of Mob... Read More |
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Chess is 43rd in Britain’s Fastest Growing Private Companies |
06/12/06 |
| Cheshire based Chess plc is second in the Northwest in this year’s Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100, and is ranked 43rd nationally.
Now in its tenth year,... Read More |
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QuesCom Solution Now Rated Avaya Compliant |
06/12/06 |
| QuesCom, has announced that its QuesCom 400 IP/GSM gateway is compliant with key IP telephony solutions from Avaya. The QuesCom 400 helps businesses reduce calling costs ... Read More |
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MZA Report Decrease in SME PBX Sales |
06/12/06 |
| The latest set of figures from analyst MZA show that extensions in the UK PBX/IP PBX market grew 6% in Q3 2006, while systems fell 2% compared to the same period last yea... Read More |
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Nortel Launches New SIP Contact Centre |
06/12/06 |
| Nortel has announced new capabilities for its SIP Contact Center 6.0 solution saying that customers benefit from capabilities that will let them interact with agents via ... Read More |
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Russell Wins NEC Infrontia Award |
05/12/06 |
| North East based Russell Telecom has become the first company in Europe to be awarded a prestigious accolade for its technical excellence by NEC Infrontia.
Russell Tel... Read More |
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Reality Telecom Increases IP Telephony Features |
05/12/06 |
| Reality Telecom has added some features to its already feature-rich IP telephony service for SMEs, Call Navigator IP, including simplifying 'hunt groups', which allow cal... Read More |
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2e2 in The Sunday Times Fast Track 100 |
05/12/06 |
| Newbury based reseller 2e2 is ranked 24th within the Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100, the national league table which ranks Britain’s one hundred private companies wit... Read More |
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Double Fast Track Success for Unicom |
05/12/06 |
| Manchester-based Unicom, which specialises in providing telecom services to small businesses, has been named in the Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100, to add to its Sund... Read More |
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New Network Managed Service from Nortel |
05/12/06 |
| Nortel is claiming that enterprises can speed the transition from traditional voice networks to secure, reliable, high-quality IP telephony while reducing both cost and r... Read More |
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Keeping the Faith with Zultys |
05/12/06 |
| Keith Reading of Basingstoke based resellers Qolcom is remaining optimistic regarding the future of Zultys, the PBX vendor that shed most of its staff when it went in to ... Read More |
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Contact Centre Management Need To Develop Their VoIP Strategy |
04/12/06 |
| Management information consultancy and software provider Teasel Performance Management has warned that customer management professionals need to start formulating VoIP st... Read More |
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Exinda Networks Launches Unified Performance Management |
04/12/06 |
| Exinda Networks, the provider of integrated WAN optimization and application acceleration platforms, today announced the launch of Unified Performance Management (UPM), d... Read More |
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Lunchtime Logic Teasers |
04/12/06 |
| How logical are you? Fancy teasing your brain? Well, now you can! SOS Communications and Comms Business have joined forces to add a spot of mind bending fun, with a su... Read More |
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Kingston Provides DIY Call Routing |
04/12/06 |
| Kingston Communications has launched its ‘SelfCare’ platform. SelfCare enables resellers and their customers to manage their call routing plans for 08 and 09 telephone nu... Read More |
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NEC Infrontia Promotes SIP |
04/12/06 |
| Why should your customers want to change their old phone system? No convincing reason. Then give them one says Elaine Annis, Marketing Manager at NEC Infrontia.
“Our a... Read More |
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BT Vision Kicks Off – Premier Footie Deal Done with Setanta |
04/12/06 |
| BT today launched its next generation television service, BT Vision. This service puts the viewer in control by combining the appeal of TV with the interactivity of broad... Read More |
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Coms Acquires ExchangeXT |
04/12/06 |
| Coms plc, an internet telephony service provider, today acquires VoIP provider Exchange XT Limited to accelerate revenues, enhance its technology platform and strengthen ... Read More |
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Avaya Pledge Profit Share with Channel |
04/12/06 |
| FRESH from their World Cup success, Avaya took their EMEA business partners to Rome last week, home to the FIFA World Cup Trophy for the next 4 years.
Four hundred of ... Read More |
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Alcatel Completes Acquisition of Lucent |
01/12/06 |
| Whilst the deal to ‘merge’ Alcatel and Lucent has now been completed it has emerged that the US government has reserved the right to re-open its national security review ... Read More |
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LLU Pushes on says OTA |
01/12/06 |
| Peter Black, The Telecommunications Adjudicator (OTA) has revealed in his latest report that the number of unbundled lines in the UK is now in excess of 1.1 million.
H... Read More |
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‘Most Significant Product Launch in Microsoft History’ says Ballmer |
01/12/06 |
| In a synchronised world wide launch yesterday Microsoft unveiled its new Vista OS, Exchange Server 2007 and Office 2007 Suite.
CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off the event i... Read More |
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Aastra UK & Europe not to Follow North American Lead |
01/12/06 |
| Aastra Telecom UK has confirmed that the partnership formed with Broadsoft in North America will not be extended to Europe.
Last month, Canadian PBX company Aastra, an... Read More |
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Sirocom Access all Areas |
01/12/06 |
| Virtual Network Operator Sirocom, recently acquired by Azzurri Communications, has announces the launch of Wireless Workspace, a service designed to provide blanket wirel... Read More |
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Redstone Half Year Sales Rise |
01/12/06 |
| Redstone has announced their result for the half year ending 30 September 2006 which shows sales rising from £42m to £47.4m. At the same time profits rose bt 43% to £17.5... Read More |
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Avaya Leads the Global Contact Centre Market |
01/12/06 |
| A new report from Gartner Inc. on the 2005 global contact centre market shows that Avaya to be the market leader with 39.1% of all contact centre agents – more than tripl... Read More |
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Comms-care opens new office in Ireland |
01/12/06 |
| UK channel IT support company Comms-care has opened a new office in Dublin, Ireland following the company’s growing demand in the region. The new office, located centrall... Read More |
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Westminster first of BT's wireless cities to become a reality |
01/12/06 |
| BT has announced an agreement to roll out a high speed wireless broadband network which will bring benefits for Westminster City Council’s services, mobile workers, the b... Read More |
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