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A Year to Remember For NEC at Nimans 30/11/07
2007 has been a year to remember for Nimans’ NEC team, securing record breaking annual sales for the second time in a row - and the department is poised for even greater ... Read More
FCS Sets up Number Portability Working Group 30/11/07
With the announcement of the requirement to establish a common database for routing calls to ported numbers made by Ofcom today, FCS has responded by setting up a Working... Read More
Commsworld Expand in to New Premises 30/11/07
Richard Nicol, CEO at network services company Commsworld says that due to the growth experienced by our company, and in order to better serve our customers, we will shor... Read More
Fixitlocal opens up SaaS Sales Opportunity for SME Resellers 30/11/07
fixITlocal, the nationwide network of resellers that offers service and support to small businesses on a localised basis, is adding further value to its subscribers throu... Read More
Amateur Hour is Over – Spam is now a $200 Billion Business 30/11/07
IronPort Systems has announced the availability of its 2008 Internet Security Trends Report which highlights the key security trends of today and suggests ways to defend ... Read More
One in a Million 30/11/07
This week Nokia announced that the N95 handset, noted for its next-generation services including GPS, has sold a million units. I have one of these – and jolly good t... Read More
Senior Management Changes at Telefónica O2 Europe 29/11/07
Telefónica S.A. today announced that Peter Erskine is to step down as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Telefónica O2 Europe with effect from 31 January 2008. He re... Read More
Canopy Expands Degree Ceremony Audience 29/11/07
When the University of Huddersfield handed out degrees to successful graduates more proud relatives were able to watch live, thanks to a Motorola Canopy system provided b... Read More
Technology Company Grows by 300% 29/11/07
A sharper strategy, burgeoning reputation and new sales director have helped a hi-tech Yorkshire company to dramatically increase business. Ryedale Telecommunications has... Read More
Chess Ranked Number 131 on the 2007 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 29/11/07
Chess today announced that it ranked Number 131 on the 2007 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over five years, from 2002... Read More
Brightstar Europe Appoints MD For Germany, Benelux And The Nordics 29/11/07
Brightstar Europe, the Joint Venture between Tech Data Corporation and Brightstar Corp., has today announced the appointment of Michael Møller as Regional Managing Direct... Read More
Freedom Reduces Telephony Maintenance Costs for West Bromwich Albion 29/11/07
Freedom, the leading voice and data integrator, has installed an IP-telephony system for West Bromwich Albion (WBA) as part of a three year contract to provide a complete... Read More
Top Three Security Concerns in the SME Market for 2008 29/11/07
Nabil Souli, CEO of UBIqube Solutions, has seen a raft of SME’s encounter security issues at one point or another - a result of the increasing use of the internet within ... Read More
Intec Preliminary Results 29/11/07
Intec Telecom Systems, a supplier of billing and operations support systems to the global telecoms industry, has announced its audited preliminary results for the year en... Read More
New Nortel Products Focus on Secure, Simple and Flexible Solutions for Business 29/11/07
Nortel is introducing five data products and several enhancements aimed at optimising network infrastructure with simple solutions that make it a more powerful tool to su... Read More
BNS Telecom Group Report Year End Results 28/11/07
BNS Telecom Group plc, a provider of white labelled telecoms services to the UK SME and corporate market, has published its audited preliminary results for the year ended... Read More
Griffin Launches their First Range of LLU Products 28/11/07
Griffin Internet, who announced a partnership with Tiscali earlier in the year, has now launched a range of LLU services to the channel. Griffin has integrated the ord... Read More
Daisy Staff Bare their Flesh for Unisex Charity Calendar 28/11/07
What do you get if you combine 20 unclothed men, 30 nude women and 12 months of the year? Answer - a naked calendar! At the beginning of November, 50 employees from La... Read More
Global Knowledge Chief Architect Named Microsoft MVP 28/11/07
Wokingham based Global Knowledge, a provider of IT training, has announced that Thomas Lee, Chief Architect for Microsoft EMEA at the company, has achieved the status of ... Read More
TeleWare Adds Microsoft Platform for Unified IP Communications 28/11/07
TeleWare’s flagship Intelligent Office software now has native support for Microsoft Exchange 2007, as well as Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. The announceme... Read More
Tiscali ‘Clubs’ Together for Voice Innovation 28/11/07
Resellers on the lookout for new business opportunities and fresh ideas for traditional PSTN replacement services will welcome the news that Tiscali Business Services and... Read More
Nimans Sets out their Stall for Siemens 28/11/07
‘There’s never been a better time to join up with distributor Nimans and become a Siemens reseller’. That was the message from nationwide seminars outlining details of th... Read More
Traxe Global Services Sets Up UK HQ in Peterborough 28/11/07
Traxe Global Services, part of Xtera Holdings Group based in Texas, USA has chosen Peterborough as the location for its new UK centre, creating eight new jobs and with mo... Read More
Telecoms Watchdogs Lack Powers to Fight Monopolies 28/11/07
The powers and independence of National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) have in many cases been restricted and their ability to enforce rules under the EU Telecoms Framewor... Read More
New Snom VoIP DECT Phone Launched 28/11/07
Distributor ProVu has announce the arrival of Snoms' new VoIP DECT phone the m3 saying the design combines mobility with dependability without compromising audio quality.... Read More
Fibre Optech Expands its External Sales Team 28/11/07
Cambridgeshire based Fibre Optech, the specialist distributor of cabling infrastructure and CCTV security communication products, has recruited two new field sales accoun... Read More
Credit Squeeze Could Lift Hosted Sales say Nortel 28/11/07
Speaking to Comms Business Magazine, Tony Bailey, Nortel VP Channels, UK & Eire, says a possible UK credit squeeze could play right in to the hands of hosted services sup... Read More
Solution1 and Telstra Europe Partner for UK Business Solutions 28/11/07
Solution1 a communication service provider of managed network services, VoIP and ISP solutions, and Telstra Europe have today announced a strategic partnership to deliver... Read More
Nortel Targets Mid Market with Channel Initiative 27/11/07
Nortel say they are making it easier for its UK and Ireland channel partners to quickly capitalise on new revenue opportunities with the introduction of the Nortel Channe... Read More
European Excellence Awards Shortlist Thus for NGN Campaign 27/11/07
THUS has announced that its next-generation network (NGN) communications campaign has been nominated in the Telecommunications category of the annual European Excellence ... Read More
Computerlinks Wins Citrix Fastest Growing Distributor Award 27/11/07
Distributor Computerlinks has been awarded the Fastest Growing Distributor Award for Citrix in UK, Ireland and South Africa. The award, announced at the annual Citrix ... Read More
Colt Boosts SME Division with Key Appointments 27/11/07
Colt today announced two new appointments in its direct and indirect sales teams. Peter Forsdick joins Colt as Channel Account Manager and Jonathan Rogers has been appoin... Read More
AVST Debuts New TUI To Replace Legacy Voice Mail 27/11/07
UC solutions vendor Applied Voice & Speech Technologies has announced new CallXpress functionality which emulates the Nortel Meridian Mail telephone user interface (TUI).... Read More
Plantronics to Show London Commuters a Better Way to Work 27/11/07
27 November 2007 – Plantronics, the leading headset manufacturer will be showing commuters how they can work wirelessly and more effectively in their offices this week wi... Read More
Nimans Hails Next Generation Audio Conferencing from Konftel 27/11/07
Distributor Nimans is anticipating great interest following the launch of a ‘next generation’ audio conferencing unit from Europe’s biggest manufacturer, Konftel. The ... Read More
STL Awarded Samsung Platinum Accreditation 27/11/07
STL Communications have become one of just a handful of European partners to be awarded Platinum Partner status by Samsung. STL supply voice and data communication ser... Read More
Juniper Forecasts 3G Evolution 27/11/07
Juniper Research predicts that subscriber numbers for 3G LTE (Long Term Evolution) will approach 24 million by 2012, just two years after the early versions of the techno... Read More
Companies Slow to Adopt ‘Greener’ IT Infrastructure 27/11/07
While there is growing awareness of the need to adopt more environmentally friendly or ‘green’ IT practices, many companies are being slow in actively pursuing this path,... Read More
TFM Networks MD Named IoD’s Young Director of the Year 27/11/07
Stewart Yates, managing director of TFM Networks, has been named Institute of Directors Young Director of the Year, an award that recognises directors with outstanding bu... Read More
WRL3 Delay – The Naked Truth 27/11/07
It is not often that you see the Director of a well established Telecoms company riding naked on horseback. It is the stuff of office pranks which never comes to fruitio... Read More
Government Invests in Train to Gain for Skills Development 27/11/07
The Government has outlined how a massive extension of the Train to Gain scheme will offer bespoke skills brokerage and high quality responsive training to enable all emp... Read More
Azlan to Provide 90-day Deferred Payment on all Nortel Products 26/11/07
Buy Now/Pay Later Lease allows customers to make no payments for the first 3 months of a 39 month lease Leasing provider Grenkeleasing has announced a joint promotion ... Read More
Mitel Announces UC Specialisation and First Partner 26/11/07
Mitel has announced the launch of a new Unified Communications (UC) designation for its Select Partners and Premier Partners. The first of Mitel's unified communications ... Read More
Nimans are up for the Cup 26/11/07
It’s not every day that you get your hands on The FA Cup but that’s just what happened to Ian Brindle and Chris Birchall from Nimans when they visited the new Wembley Sta... Read More
Konftel Launches Conference Phone of the Future 26/11/07
Conference phone vendor Konftel is launching the Konftel 300 which includes an upgraded version of their OmniSound audio technology now been enhanced to deliver high perf... Read More
Minister Summons Telco’s to Broadband Summit 26/11/07
Britain's leading telecoms executives and competitiveness minister, Stephen Timms, are meeting today to find ways to prevent Britain's slide down the world broadband leag... Read More
Channel Partners Race Ahead with Highnet 26/11/07
Over 30 of Highnet’s Channel Partners from all over Scotland attended their Channel Partner Event 2007, held in the Marriott Dalmahoy Hotel and Country Club in Edinburgh ... Read More
A New Convergence for 2007 26/11/07
Looking back at the events of the last 12 months, Marios Ktisti, Commercial Product Manager, Hugh Symons Telecom sees the ‘open source’ platform and mobile devices as par... Read More
BT Leases Subsea Cable to Bring New Network to Northern Isles 26/11/07
BT has reached agreement with Faroese Telecom to share part of a new fibre optic submarine cable being laid between the Faroe Islands, Orkney and Shetland and the Scottis... Read More
Westcon Convergence is Avaya EMEA Enterprise Distributor of the Year 26/11/07
Westcon Convergence business has won Avaya’s EMEA Enterprise Distributor of the Year Award. The award was presented to U.K.-based Crane Telecommunications for the las... Read More
Expand Networks Offers Tonic for WAN Congestion 23/11/07
Expand Networks, a provider of application acceleration over the wide area network (WAN), has announced that it is offering a Free WAN Health Check worth £1000 enabling e... Read More
More than Half of Small Businesses are a Click Away from Disaster 23/11/07
The vast majority of small businesses may have binned their paper mountain by going digital, but more than half are failing to back-up their electronic files - and riskin... Read More
Mobile Operators Must Develop a Robust Business Case for Femtocells, says Analysys 23/11/07
Mobile operators are considering widespread deployment of indoor base stations - called femtocells - as early as 2008. A large-scale roll-out of femtocells carries consid... Read More
Voicenet Solutions Launch Centres of Excellence 23/11/07
Voicenet Solutions is setting up “Centres of Excellence” across the country which will be dedicated Voicenet Solutions hosted VoIP resellers. Four have already been appoi... Read More
Burns is Top Gun for Nimans 23/11/07
Top performing Panasonic and Plantronics resellers had glory in their sights when they took part in a Nimans Clay Pigeon shooting day. The 20-strong party which included ... Read More
2ergo Report 45% Profit Increase 23/11/07
Lancashire based comms company 2ergo has reported a 45% increase in profits to £8.6m on the back of a 11% increase in revenue to £33.3m. Neale Graham, Joint Chief Exec... Read More
Micron Communications Gain Mitel Specialisation 22/11/07
Somerset based Micron Communications has been awarded hospitality specialistPARTNER designation from Mitel. Micron is one of four companies to be selected in the UK and ... Read More
Computer 2000 Acquires Maverick 22/11/07
Computer 2000 has announced the acquisition of the goodwill and assets of Maverick Presentation Products and its associated businesses, Hotlamps, Screen Expert, and Visio... Read More
Internet Faces ‘Meltdown’ 22/11/07
The Internet will face a dramatic slowdown by 2010 due to the sheer scale of data carried across it. Internet access infrastructure will not be adequate for supporting de... Read More
Avistar Expands its Video-Centric Unified Communications Software 22/11/07
Avistar Communications say they are now capable of supporting up to 100 locations and thousands of simultaneous multi-party video calls from one server, following the lat... Read More
Truphone adds 260 Hotspots to its Network with Surf and Sip 22/11/07
Truphone has announced the addition of 260 hotspots to the expanding estate of locations from where Truphone can be used to make free and low-cost mobile phone calls over... Read More
Voispeed Looks to Invest Heavily in The UK Market 22/11/07
Following 12 months of establishing relationships with resellers, setting up headquarters in St Albans and making inroads into the SME market, VOIspeed an Italian provide... Read More
Riding the Web Wave 22/11/07
Web application delivery represents a fantastic chance to fundamentally change the economics and accessibility of IT services. Simon Paton, managing director, CommuniGate... Read More
Nemertes Research Predicts Internet Gridlock 22/11/07
A report by US analyst firm Nemertes Research has predicted that the internet is facing massive slowdown, with the spectre of complete meltdown a real possibility by 2010... Read More
Westell Launches IP Migration Convergence Switch 22/11/07
Convergence gateways and broadband access solutions specialist Westell has launched their InterChange Convergence Switch - ICS3. The company says the products is designed... Read More
VME Retail Check Out Thus Network 21/11/07
Thus has been selected by VME Retail, a supplier of management solutions for some of the UK’s leading retailers, to connect 58 Lothian & Borders Co-Op supermarkets using... Read More
Switching Headache as ISPs Offer Conflicting Advice 21/11/07
BroadbandChoices.co.uk has revealed the results of an undercover customer service research project. An alarming 46 per cent of call centre operators gave the wrong advi... Read More
Contact Centre Attrition Rises for Fifth Consecutive Year 21/11/07
ContactBabel's fifth annual UK Contact Centre Operational Review revealed a worrying trend, with contact centre staff attrition rising for the fifth consecutive year to 3... Read More
Unified Group to Showcase Services and New Offices 21/11/07
Berkshire based Voice and Data Convergence specialists Unified Group, is holding an Open Day on 4th December to celebrate its move to bigger offices in Calcot near Readin... Read More
Telcos and VARs get a helping hand tackling the SME managed services market 21/11/07
UBIqube Solutions, a managed security services (MSS) solutions provider, today unveiled its unique ‘out-of-the-box’ MSS toolkit that enables UK-based telecom operators, i... Read More
SIP Trunking Service gets Clearance from Splicecom 20/11/07
IP Telephony Platform provider, SpliceCom have approved Node4’s SIPlink service to be compatible with their maximiser product, adding to the list of endorsed IPBX provide... Read More
Chess Comes Top in Regional Chamber Awards 20/11/07
Chess has been named as a winner in the North West section of this year’s British Chamber of Commerce Awards. Chess won the region’s top award for Performance through ... Read More
Public Sector Business Continuity Planning may Fall Short of Public Expectation 20/11/07
Graham Chick, Chief Executive at Basingstoke based comms company GemaTech, says, ‘in an increasingly risk aware business environment, crisis management is an important co... Read More
‘Second-Class Citizen’ Attitude towards Women Still Remains in IT Sector 20/11/07
More than half of women working in IT (56 per cent) believe that the industry has a career ‘glass ceiling’ according to new research from GCS IT Recruitment Specialists, ... Read More
Consumer Panel Urges Ofcom to Focus on Children’s Issues 20/11/07
Ofcom should put greater focus on children’s issues, the Ofcom Consumer Panel - the independent voice for the consumer and citizen interest in communications markets - ha... Read More
Zycko’s Global Expansion 20/11/07
Building on its UK model distributor Zycko has expanded its global offices to Italy and Benelux, with further plans for Sweden, Spain and a second German office in Munich... Read More
Intact Integrated Services gets the NAC Nod from Cisco 20/11/07
Slough based Intact Integrated Services has been selected as the sole Cisco Advanced Services partner for the deployment of Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) technolo... Read More
Swyx Adds New Desktop and USB Phones from £40 20/11/07
IP PBX vendor Swyx has announced the availability of a range of entry level and more advanced phones/communications devices compatible with its release of SwyxWare Versio... Read More
Call Recording Poised to Buck 2008 Uncertainty 20/11/07
Leeds based call recording company Liquid Voice say that following recent gloomy economic reports, many small resellers are starting to get nervous about trading conditio... Read More
Comstor Network Solutions Handbook Published 20/11/07
Distributor Westcon Group has begun shipping the fourth global edition of the Comstor Network Solutions Handbook to its reseller customers around the world. The compa... Read More
Tower Software Launches Partner Programme 20/11/07
Berkshire based enterprise content management company Tower Software has formalised its channel strategy across EMEA with a Business Partner Programme for its TRIM Contex... Read More
Magirus Support Centre Launches Web Support Portal 19/11/07
IT distributor Magirus is to offer customers in EMC, security and virtualisation environments a new Web-based support portal for the first time. This support management t... Read More
Telstra Europe Makes Strategic Senior Appointments 19/11/07
Telstra Europe is expanding its senior management team with two strategic hires to build on strong growth in 2007 and manage demand for 2008. Nik Haidar joins as Direc... Read More
D-Link Announces Senior European Appointment 19/11/07
Networking, connectivity, and data communications D-Link has announced that Dave Smith is to join the company as Vice President, Business Solutions. Targeting existing an... Read More
Looking Further Down the Mobile Road 19/11/07
Comms Business Magazine columnist Bob Emmerson says he is not a guru but his work does bring him into contact with companies that make the future, so he has a good idea a... Read More
Wii Campaign Proving a Success for Nimans 19/11/07
Distributor Nimans is reporting an exceptional response to its latest Polycom promotion where dealers can secure one of the most sought-after presents this Christmas - a ... Read More
CEO at ATC Extends his Share Ownership 19/11/07
Alex Tupman, Chief Executive of AT Communications Group, has bought 500,000 shares in the Company, taking his total holding up to 16.3%. AT has recently announced contra... Read More
Preferred Confirms Jackson as CEO 19/11/07
Preferred, a provider of business focused IT managed services, has appointed Rod Jackson as Chief Executive Officer who will take over from the current interim CEO and Fo... Read More
TeleWare Enhances Hosted Service Offering 19/11/07
TeleWare, the provider of intelligent hosted and customer premises communication solutions to businesses and service providers, has announced the launch of a SIP Trunking... Read More
Exchange Comms are Number One for Avaya in Scotland 19/11/07
Exchange Communications today announced that they have been awarded a Gold business partnership accreditation for Avaya’s SME Product Portfolio, making them Avaya’s only ... Read More
Global Telecom to Add 75 New Jobs 19/11/07
Bury based Global Telecoms and Technology are recruiting 75 new members of staff and is currently building new headquarters to house some of these positions. To celebr... Read More
Timico and Nortel Offer Unified Desktop Services for SMBs 19/11/07
Converged communication services provider Timico has become the first service provider in the UK to work with Nortel to launch a tailor-made, hosted VoIP service for SMBs... Read More
Rocom to Distribute Polycom’s OCS 2007 Handsets 19/11/07
Rocom has announced its distribution deal with Polycom for their new and range of handsets for Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007. Designed to increase... Read More
Central Telecom Crowned Avaya BusinessPartner of the Year 19/11/07
For the second year in a row communications specialists Central Telecom has been named Business Partner of the Year by Avaya. The highly contended title of BusinessPartne... Read More
VIVACITI Ditches 0870 in Favour of 0800 for Customer Support 19/11/07
Voice and data ISP, Vivaciti, has enhanced its service levels by taking steps to ensure customers that call into its support teams do not incur any unnecessary costs and ... Read More
Swyx's Extends Office Telephone Functionality to Mobile Workers 16/11/07
IP telephony vendor Swyx has announced SwyxWare Version 6.10, the latest version of its software-based VoIP telephony, aimed at both SMEs and larger corporates. New f... Read More
Comms Entrepreneur Awarded £5 Million in Real Life Dragon's Den 16/11/07
The UK’s young entrepreneur of the year Matthew Riley, owner and CEO of Lancashire-based Daisy Communications, was handed £5m after winning the Northern Final of the inau... Read More
HP ProCurve Appoint New UK Country Manager 16/11/07
ProCurve Networking by HP has announced that it will appoint Darryl Brick as its new country manager for the United Kingdom and Ireland, as of December 1st this year. ... Read More
BT Reports Solid Q2 Results 16/11/07
BT has reported their second quarts result for the year the highlights of which are? - Revenue of £5,095 million, up 3 per cent - New wave revenue of £1,914 milli... Read More
Spitfire Launches FibreLink Ethernet for Mission Critical Connectivity 16/11/07
London based comms company Spitfire has launched Spitfire FibreLink, an Ethernet service providing internet connectivity or site-to-site connectivity for businesses in ce... Read More
SMEs Benefit from Tailored Virus Protection 16/11/07
IT and internet services provider Redstone Managed Solutions has launched RedProtect E-mail, a managed anti-spam and virus guard service for small to medium-sized enterpr... Read More
Rocom Reclaims Siemens Distributor of the Year 16/11/07
Rocom has won the Siemens Distributor of the Year award, based on the highest volume sales this year. The award was accepted on behalf of the Siemens business unit at Roc... Read More
Synergy Places Avaya Leader in Worldwide Enterprise IP Telephony Revenues 16/11/07
Avaya extended its lead in worldwide enterprise IP Telephony revenues, according to Synergy Research Group’s 3Q 2007 Enterprise Voice Market Shares Report. The report sho... Read More
Firms to Feel the Squeeze in 2008 16/11/07
Escalating economic worries, higher prices and tighter spending will combine to make 2008 a much tougher year in the Telecommunications Services market, according to lead... Read More
Security Vital to Telecommunications Service Delivery 16/11/07
IBM today released findings from a survey revealing that global telecommunications carriers are increasingly viewing requirements for security as an opportunity rather th... Read More
Concert Group Tunes into Aastra 16/11/07
The UK’s largest independent communication consortium, The Concert Group has formed a strategic partnership with Aastra to promote IntelliGate as part of its telephone sy... Read More
 
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