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Gamma Breaks “one million IP minutes a day” Barrier |
31/07/06 |
Gamma Telecom, the voice applications and solutions provider, has broken the barrier to carry over one million minutes a day of IP traffic from customer’s applications. T... Read More |
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Cracking Results for Comms-care |
31/07/06 |
| Comms-care, a provider of channel and IT maintenance has announced their highest ever financial results and revealed plans for further growth. Turnover has doubled with £... Read More |
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BT Retail Responds to Electric Broom (See D.I.L.O. WLR Dealer on 24 July) |
31/07/06 |
| BT Retail has responded to Jed Marson of reseller Electric Broom, who made a complaints (Reproduced after the statement below) by issuing the following statement:
“BT ... Read More |
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Swyx Sad to See Zultys Demise |
31/07/06 |
| Following the announcement last week that IP PBX Vendor Zultys has ceased trading Swyx CEO Gunter Junk told Comms Business Magazine, “Obviously no one likes to see any co... Read More |
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BT Introduce Cheaper Simpler Call Packages |
31/07/06 |
| BT has today called on its customers to take advantage of the biggest ever cuts to its inclusive call packages. The call comes after a comprehensive review and widespread... Read More |
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Convergence First for Hugh Symons Telecom |
31/07/06 |
| South Coast based distributor Hugh Symons Telecom says that its newly launched mobile office solution is a market first. By aggregating the latest convergent technologies... Read More |
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BT to Slash Prices this Week |
31/07/06 |
| BT Group will this week announce plans to cut prices for the majority of its customers following a decision by Ofcom, the telecoms watchdog, to scrap price controls on th... Read More |
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Zultys Cease Trading |
31/07/06 |
| In a move that will come as a shock to many in the channel news is breaking that US IP PBX Vendors Zultys has ceased trading and laid off all staff worldwide. In the UK t... Read More |
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THUS Provide NGN for SSP |
31/07/06 |
| THUS has won a contract to supply Software Solutions Partners (SSP), one of the UK's leading providers of back office software and IT solutions to the general insurance m... Read More |
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Aastra Launches IntelliGate 150 and 300 |
28/07/06 |
| PBX vendor Aastra has launched two new additions to their IntelliGate range saying that now even the smallest of businesses can benefit from the Aastra IntelliGate’s full... Read More |
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New MD at NextiraOne |
28/07/06 |
| European network services provider NextiraOne has appointed Steven Skakel as its UK managing director with a view to further expanding the company’s penetration in IP app... Read More |
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BT’s 21st Century Network Racks up 23 Million Calls |
28/07/06 |
| BT's transformation of its network to deliver the next generation of communications services took a major step forward this week with more than 23 million customer calls ... Read More |
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News Sales Director for Cavendish |
28/07/06 |
| Cavendish Communications, one of the leading the suppliers of telephone systems in the South East, has appointed of Tony Suffoletto as Sales Director following the depart... Read More |
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CallXpress Contract Win |
28/07/06 |
| Weil, Gotshal & Manges, a leading international law firm, has expanded its deployment of CallXpress, the unified communications solution by AVST. This follows the success... Read More |
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Platinum for Scalable Networks |
28/07/06 |
| Scalable Networks, the specialist integrator providing secure, converged network solutions, today announces it has achieved Platinum Solution Provider status from Mitel w... Read More |
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Comstor Slash Training Costs |
28/07/06 |
| Resellers can reduce the costs of training courses with discounts of up to 45% off the price of standard course rates through a new initiative from Comstor. It has intro... Read More |
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Audio Specialist Sennheiser Achieves Record Sales |
27/07/06 |
| Sennheiser Electronic GmbH & Co. KG, best know in the comms channel for their headsets, concluded financial year 2005 with an almost 15 percent rise in sales.
The Sen... Read More |
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TeleWare Launches Intelligent Presence Manager |
27/07/06 |
| TeleWare, the provider of both hosted and on-premise intelligent communication solutions for businesses and Service Providers, has announced the launch of TeleWare intell... Read More |
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Buy out at Glamorgan Telecom |
27/07/06 |
| Glamorgan Telecom Ltd, who employ 52 staff in Wales, has announced a Vendor Inspired Management Buy Out (VIMBO) financed by The Royal Bank of Scotland ("RBS") in a combin... Read More |
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BT 21CN Trials Carry Live Calls over Cisco Gateways |
27/07/06 |
| BT’s 21st Century Network (21CN) voice trials are being supported with Cisco MGX series gateways deployed at 21CN metro nodes in Cambridge and Woolwich.
The trunk net... Read More |
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Rocom - Differentiating the Distributor |
27/07/06 |
| Richard Carter, Rocom’s Business Development Director, has outlined plans to work even more closely with resellers to take advantage of the new opportunities that a chang... Read More |
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Crane Mitel Team Recruit Resellers for a “Brighter Future” |
27/07/06 |
| Crane Telecommunications, the leading value added distributor of convergence and IPT solutions today announced the success of their partner recruitment event held in earl... Read More |
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BT First Quarter Results – Broadband Nears 9 Million Users |
27/07/06 |
| BT has reports its first quarter results for the period up to June 30 2006. Highlights include:
• Revenue of £4,864 million, up 3 per cent
• New wave revenue of £1... Read More |
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Up to 8Mb Voice Quality, Business Grade Broadband from daisy |
26/07/06 |
| daisy has launched a new and improved broadband proposition for Retail and Wholesale. Offering up to 8Mb download speeds and up to 800kbps upload speeds, daisy now boast... Read More |
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McCafferty Joins New Media Software |
26/07/06 |
| New Media Software has announced the arrival of Paul McCafferty as Regional Business Manager for the South of England. McCafferty has many years experience selling telep... Read More |
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Westcon Look for Synergy |
26/07/06 |
| Speaking to Comms Business Magazine Simon Thompson, Sales Director at Westcon, is looking to gain the benefits of cross training internal staff following the merger with ... Read More |
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Integrated Voice and Text over IP |
26/07/06 |
| Telecoms and mobile messaging provider, aql, is claiming to be the UK’s first VoIP infrastructure provider to allow customers to send and receive free text messages over ... Read More |
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Vadition - A Virtual Vendor |
26/07/06 |
| Ian Morris and Neil Ledger have formed a new company again, this time a distribution business called Vadition. These are the guys who started and sold Data Connectivity t... Read More |
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Unified Group Enhances Carrier Services |
26/07/06 |
| Unified Group, a data and voice convergence network integrator, has announced a substantial financial investment in SWIS Communication allowing the group to deliver a bro... Read More |
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Out to Lunch! |
25/07/06 |
| British businesses could be losing millions of pounds in orders because they don't have enough people answering their phone lines at lunchtime.
That's the finding of V... Read More |
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Hotspots Spread Across South East |
25/07/06 |
| The South East of England is leading the advance of wireless technology across the UK with the launch of the ‘Hotspots South East’ campaign on 26 July.
The ‘Hotspots... Read More |
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VComm Plug Reseller Skills Gap |
25/07/06 |
| Speaking to Comms Business Magazine, Scott Dobson, MD of Newbury based distributor VComm, who has spent ten years in voice and data communications and believes data resel... Read More |
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Siemens Market Leadership in Enterprise Telephony |
25/07/06 |
| Siemens Communications has received the Frost & Sullivan "Market Lea¬dership Award 2006" in the category of Enterprise Telephony in Europe. According to Frost & Sullivan ... Read More |
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Managed Services Director at Comms-care |
25/07/06 |
| Comms-care, a provider of channel network, and IT maintenance has appointed Steve Kirby as Director of Managed Services. With over ten years experience in Managed Service... Read More |
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Avaya Shakes up Management: CEO Peterson Out |
25/07/06 |
| Avaya yesterday replaced Chief Executive Donald Peterson, who led the company through six years after its spin off from Lucent Technologies, elevating two senior executiv... Read More |
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D.I.L.O. WLR Dealer |
24/07/06 |
| Jed Marson, Operations Director at Worcester based Electric Broom called in to say that he had just had yet another sales call from a telesales person at Worcester BT Loc... Read More |
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Verint Announces Acquisition of Mercom Systems |
24/07/06 |
| Further consolidation in the call recording market was announced last week when Verint Systems acquired Mercom Systems. Mercom has approximately 60 employees and is headq... Read More |
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Swyx Appoints New Director of Channel Marketing |
24/07/06 |
| Swyx has appointed Harald Bender as director of channel marketing. He will head up Swyx's channel marketing team, to deliver joint marketing programmes to assist its dis... Read More |
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Ballinger Departure Confirmed |
24/07/06 |
| Following new that Paul Ballinger was set to leave Alcatel, Peter Tebbutt, marketing director at the company has confirmed the move.
"I can confirm that Paul Ballinger... Read More |
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Cisco Extends 0% Financing to SMBs |
24/07/06 |
| Cisco Systems Capital has extended its Easy Lease 0% finance package to the end of December in order to help more small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and mid-market ... Read More |
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Crane Sever All LG Sales Ties |
24/07/06 |
| Distributor Crane Telecommunications has ceased selling LG products with immediate effect but will however continue to maintain and repair systems
In a letter to all t... Read More |
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L3n Proves its IP Telephony Capability |
23/07/06 |
| In a world where differentiation from the competition is increasingly difficult, Cambridge based resellers L3n have achieved just that by achieving Cisco Premier Partner ... Read More |
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C2000 Look to New Broom to take Business to New Heights |
21/07/06 |
| Computer 2000, the UK arm of Tech Data, has appointed Claudette Atkinson as General Manager PC Components and Supplies, and has set out a strategy aimed at further increa... Read More |
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Entanet Upgrades National Network to 1Gig and Re-Opens Manchester POP |
21/07/06 |
| Business-to-business ISP Entanet has upgraded its national network to 1Gbps, at the same time re-opening a point-of-presence in Manchester, to provide a fast resilient in... Read More |
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Telephonetics gets VIP |
21/07/06 |
| Telephonetics plc, the UK-based advanced speech recognition (ASR) company has completed the acquisition of Voice Integrated Products Limited (VIP), a privately owned ASR ... Read More |
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Service Company Hiring |
21/07/06 |
| Network services and maintenance company Networks First has announced several new appointments, five additions to the sales team, including Julian Jackson, Bill Rhodes an... Read More |
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THUS/Demon Pleased to be on Broadband Podium |
21/07/06 |
| THUS seems chuffed that its Demon Internet brand has come third in a test of consumer broadband performance quality in the UK. The survey, which was carried out by Epiti... Read More |
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ShoreTel Updates PBX and Announces New Phones |
21/07/06 |
| IP PBX vendor ShoreTel has announced a new release of its IP telephony platform saying it raises the bar for systems aimed at branch offices and small businesses demandin... Read More |
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Global PBX/IP PBX Market Q1 2006 |
21/07/06 |
| Analysts MZA report a strong start for Q1 2006 in the PBX and IP PBX markets - global volumes increased by 4% compared to the same period of 2005, as the number of extens... Read More |
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Voice4IP Launches Phone Solution for Flexible Working |
20/07/06 |
| According to Manchester based Voice4IP, while flexible working is being embraced by more British businesses than ever before, telecoms providers have so far failed to off... Read More |
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Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award |
20/07/06 |
| XLN Telecom, a provider of fixed lines to small businesses, has announced that CEO, Christian Nellemann, has won the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Te... Read More |
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Williams joins AdEPT Telecom |
20/07/06 |
| AdEPT Telecom plc has appointed former Schroders Director Edward Williams as a Non-Executive Director with immediate effect.
Edward began his leading city career at... Read More |
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Redstone Acquires Tolerant Group of Companies |
20/07/06 |
| Redstone has completed the acquisition of Tolerant Systems Ltd, Net-Adept Limited, Net Quest Solutions Limited and Trent Datacomms Limited (together the “Tolerant Group o... Read More |
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Ofcom Scraps BT Price Controls |
20/07/06 |
| UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has removed BT's retail price controls for line rentals and calls, having deciding that competition had finally reached the required intensity... Read More |
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Crane Mitel Team Qualified to Support Channel |
20/07/06 |
| Distributor Crane Telecommunications says having a dedicated and fully qualified Mitel team demonstrates their support and commitment to their reseller channel.
The el... Read More |
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Telecom Suppliers Honoured |
19/07/06 |
| Three Telecoms sector organisations have been honoured with regional National Business Awards at glittering gala ceremonies in London and Manchester this month. Over 100... Read More |
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Nortel and Microsoft Form Strategic Alliance |
19/07/06 |
| The convergence of the communications and IT industries took a significant step forward yesterday as Microsoft and Nortel announced a strategic alliance based on a shared... Read More |
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Justine McDermott Joins CommSoft |
19/07/06 |
| Commsoft has announced that Justine McDermott has joined as Regional Sales Manager for the Midlands, North and Scotland. Justine worked for Crane for many years, looking ... Read More |
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Comtor Uses Rostrvm 'Pay For Use' Call Centre |
19/07/06 |
| Comtor, the Coventry based telesales and telemarketing company, has implemented Rostrvm Solutions' call centre software to drive sales growth.
Comtor specialises in di... Read More |
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Telecom Solutions Build Communications Infrastructure At Fulcrum |
19/07/06 |
| Reseller Telecom Solutions International has supplied a ShoreTel solution to Fulcrum Consulting, the international multi-disciplinary consulting engineers.
“We have an... Read More |
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Award for Chess |
19/07/06 |
| Cheshire based Chess plc has won the Award for Business Improvement Through People in the regional final of the National Business Awards and will now go through to the Na... Read More |
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L3n Proves its IP Telephony Capability |
18/07/06 |
| In a world where differentiation from the competition is increasingly difficult, L3n have achieved just that by winning the prestigious “Cisco Premier Partner” status. Wi... Read More |
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CTI International Sales Appointment |
18/07/06 |
| CTI Data Solutions has appointed Roy Pickard as International Sales Executive. Pickard will be focusing on building and developing new and existing relationships for the ... Read More |
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Telinet Wins SMB of the Year |
18/07/06 |
| Reseller Telinet Solutions has won the title of South East AXA Small to Medium Business of the Year in this year's National Business Awards
As a regional winner, Te... Read More |
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SpectraLink Leads the Way in RoHS-Compliant Wireless Telephony |
18/07/06 |
| SpectraLink, a provider in workplace wireless telephony incorporating Kirk Telecom, is claiming to be the first company in its class to ship enterprise-grade wireless tel... Read More |
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BT Tops 'Broadband Speed Tests' |
18/07/06 |
| A recent survey by internet testing firm Epitiro has indicated that BT is currently the best performing ADSL UK internet service provider (ISPs). Data on all of the leadi... Read More |
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The Thirteenth Man |
18/07/06 |
| According to FIFA World Cup sponsor and provider of the event communications Avaya, if the throngs of screaming fans were the 12th man at the 2006 FIFA World Cup the 13th... Read More |
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Executel Contract Pays the Rent |
17/07/06 |
| Middlesbrough’s largest landlord, Erimus Housing, has teamed up with the North East’s leading communications specialist in a bid to significantly improve customer relatio... Read More |
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Channel Changes |
17/07/06 |
| Channel Manager Paul Ballinger leaves Alcatel on the 29th September after many years with the PBX vendor. As yet we have no information as to where he is going.
Only ... Read More |
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Exchange Takes off with Verticals |
17/07/06 |
| Exchange Communication, Scotland’s only Avaya Silver Enterprise Partner has announced a strategic partnership with New Media Software, to deliver vertical market applicat... Read More |
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Datasharp - Exciting Times Ahead |
17/07/06 |
| The annual meeting of the Datasharp Group was attended by more that 50 Principals from The Datasharp Group. Speakers included Siemens, Nortel and Samsung, all of whom too... Read More |
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Crane to Offer Free Samsung Technical Training |
17/07/06 |
| Following the recent partnership between Crane and Samsung the distributor has announced they are to offer some one day Technical Training courses free of charge for engi... Read More |
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Microsoft Set to Provide Hosted CRM |
17/07/06 |
| Building they say on the market success of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0, Microsoft has announced the roadmap for the next major release of its Microsoft Dynamics CRM produc... Read More |
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