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Siemens and Nokia to deliver Enhanced Business Mobility |
15/03/07 |
Agreement creates an enterprise FMC solution that spans from Nokia E-series devices to Siemens SIP based PBX Platforms
Siemens Enterprise Communications announced toda... Read More |
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Avaya Opens one-X Portal |
15/03/07 |
| Avaya has announced the opening of their one-X Portal, a Web-based interface that enables employees to easily and securely access Avaya telephony, messaging, mobility and... Read More |
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TeleWare Extends Commercial Agreement with Nuance |
15/03/07 |
| TeleWare, the provider of intelligent hosted and on-premises communication solutions to businesses and service providers, has announced that it has completed commercial n... Read More |
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Top 100 Telecommunications Services Companies Feeling the Pinch |
15/03/07 |
| A group of lean, fit and relatively small companies are taking the telecommunications services industry by storm and showing the bigger players how it’s done.
That’s a... Read More |
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Vodafone Announces New Flat-Rate Data Roaming Tariff |
15/03/07 |
| For Vodafone 3G data card users like me the news that Vodafone is to introduce a flat rate daily roaming charge for all you can eat data usage is good news. I spent £120.... Read More |
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UK Businesses Breaking the Law as WEEE Comes into Force Today |
15/03/07 |
| The Government has failed to consider the impact on UK business with its recent introduction of the WEEE Directive. Falling over backwards to comply with the whims of Bru... Read More |
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Timico Appoints New Executives |
15/03/07 |
| Timico, a provider of converged communication services to the business market, has announced two new appointments which will boost the company’s channel presence and its ... Read More |
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Microsoft Make Another Voice Announcement |
15/03/07 |
| Microsoft has made another move in to the voice communications market with the announcement that they are to buy Tellme Networks, a provider of voice services for ‘everyd... Read More |
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Affiniti Becomes Centre of Excellence Partner for O2 |
14/03/07 |
| Affiniti has been appointed a Centre of Excellence Data Partner by O2. This new partnership level was launched on 18 January by O2 and means that Affiniti will benefit fr... Read More |
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Nimans Dealer Scoops Top Sales Prize |
14/03/07 |
| The aptly named Exeter-based reseller IP Office Ltd was the lucky recipient of £500 worth of bonus bond vouchers for top performance in a special Avaya sales incentive co... Read More |
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Convergence Specialist Expands Channel Program |
14/03/07 |
| 5i, who label themselves ‘the convergence expert’s expert’, is launching an enhanced partner programme and recruitment drive as it enters into its 5th year. In the next s... Read More |
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Nimans Appoints New Mitel Business Manager |
14/03/07 |
| Distributor Nimans has appointed telecoms sales manager Chris Birchall to spearhead its Mitel sales activities. Chris’ 14-year industry career spans roles for companies s... Read More |
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Wilko Calls on Elite Telecom |
14/03/07 |
| Leading High Street retailer Wilkinson has called on Elite Telecom to provide call management services for its nationwide network of stores.
Wilkinson is the latest in... Read More |
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Reduce your Carbon Footprint with Help from BT |
14/03/07 |
| This is interesting news from BT. Have a go yourself and work out your carbon footprint. My ‘score’ was an appalling 55 tonnes by the way against an average BT tell me of... Read More |
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FMC Company Hat Trick |
14/03/07 |
| Cicero Networks selected as a “Pulver 100” Company for the third consecutive year.
Cicero, who provide wVoIP solutions for Fixed Mobile Convergence, has been named as... Read More |
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Colt Wins Frost & Sullivan Customer Service Award |
14/03/07 |
| Colt has been awarded the Customer Service Leadership Award 2006 by leading analyst firm Frost & Sullivan, in recognition of its ‘superb customer service in the European ... Read More |
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Executel Scores With Roseberry Contract |
14/03/07 |
| North East communications firm, Executel, has scored highly with a telephony contract for Roseberry Sports & Community College in Chester-le-Street.
In a bid to stream... Read More |
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Datatec Anticipate 17% Rise in Revenues |
14/03/07 |
| Datatec, the international ICT group best known in the UK through the activities of distributors Westcon and Comstor and Logicalis, has announced a year end trading and e... Read More |
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Nortel Crown Datasharp with SMB Achievement Award |
13/03/07 |
| Truro based Datasharp has won the Nortel SMB Achievement award at their recent partner conference.
Datasharp received the award for succeeding in taking Nortel into ne... Read More |
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Bailey Teswaine Sees Opportunities with 21CN |
13/03/07 |
| Rajesh Sinha, Chief Technical Director for Bailey Teswaine says that VoIP is now the norm for corporate clients and will increasingly permeate into the mid-market, SME an... Read More |
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Resellers Join Crane on Road to Success |
13/03/07 |
| Crane’s Avaya team say they have held their most successful roadshows to date. Over the past two weeks some 200 attendees joined one of the regional briefings where Crane... Read More |
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Arc Solutions Enable ExCeL to Reduce Telephony Costs |
13/03/07 |
| Reading based Arc Solutions, the developer of IPT applications for Cisco, has announced how its voice applications have delivered a more efficient and effective customer ... Read More |
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Entanet Expresses Concern At Netservices VISPS’ Predicament |
13/03/07 |
| Wholesale voice and data connectivity provider Entanet has expressed its concern over the announcement that NetServices has written to its smaller wholesale broadband par... Read More |
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Microsoft to Grab VoIP Market |
13/03/07 |
| In a keynote speech last week, Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft Corp.’s Business Division, predicted that in just three years, the average VoIP solution for business w... Read More |
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Zycko Academy Enhances its Portfolio |
13/03/07 |
| Zycko Academy, the training arm of convergent storage and IP solutions distributor, and Riverbed Technology have developed a series of technical training courses in respo... Read More |
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Samsung Launch SME Thrust with OfficeServ 7100 |
12/03/07 |
| Samsung Network Division has launched their new entry-level OfficeServ 7100 which, together with the OS 7200 and OS 7400, completes the OS 7000 family.
The Samsung Off... Read More |
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Funkwerk Launches New UTM Range |
12/03/07 |
| Funkwerk has announced a new range of UTM (Unified Threat Management) security appliances aimed at SMEs that provide all-round network security and are easy to configure ... Read More |
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Opal’s Joint Partner Collaboration |
12/03/07 |
| After years of setting up established long term relationships with Chambers of Commerce across the country, Opal is now offering increased opportunities that would have o... Read More |
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IBM and Cisco Work on Joint UC Plans |
12/03/07 |
| New Client Platform and Expanded Relationships Benefit Developers and Customers
IBM and Cisco have announced their intent to deliver a new platform for unified communi... Read More |
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New Provider Promises IP Telephony Revolution |
12/03/07 |
| Take the world’s leading technology, a terrific product range and matchless channel expertise and you have Sipcom – a revolution in IP telephony.
That’s what the compa... Read More |
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£17 Billion Wasted on Unnecessary Face-to-Face Business Meetings |
12/03/07 |
| Polycom has announced results from a ‘Congested Lives’ research study of over 1,200 businesses employees in the UK, indicating that unnecessary face-to-face meetings cost... Read More |
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Distributors vie for Avaya Web Traffic |
12/03/07 |
| Distributor Nimans has announced a new Avaya micro-site for resellers seeking product and training information.
Nimans say that by visiting www.nimans.net/avaya resell... Read More |
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Computer 2000 Urges Resellers to Get into the Tag-Selling Habit |
12/03/07 |
| Computer 2000, the UK arm of Tech Data, is calling on more resellers to get into the habit of tag-selling so that they can boost their profits and encourage customers to ... Read More |
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Thus Launches WLR "Calls and Lines" Service for Businesses across the UK |
12/03/07 |
| Thus becomes a one-stop-shop for business communications
Thus plc today announced the launch of its "Calls and Lines" service, using Wholesale Line Rental (WLR) to pro... Read More |
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Strong Finish to 2006 say MZA |
12/03/07 |
| Analyst MZA has reported a strong finish to 2006 in the UK PBX market.
Extensions in the UK PBX/IP PBX market grew 4% in Q4 2006 compared to the same period in 2005. ... Read More |
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VoIP Set to Transform British Business |
09/03/07 |
| VoIP and IP telephony is now having a significant impact on the way organisations run their businesses as revealed by a new survey released today. 80% of responding comp... Read More |
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Avaya Launch Intelligent Communications Solutions for Customer Contact Market |
09/03/07 |
| Against a background of businesses being continuously challenged to adapt to changing customer needs and differentiate their service experience while balancing investment... Read More |
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Opera Telecom Re-Brands as OITG |
09/03/07 |
| Opera Interactive Technology Group (OITG) launched yesterday to help media companies to drive new revenues through interactive services, utilising the latest Voice, Mobil... Read More |
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Swyx Announces Vista and Outlook 2007 Support |
09/03/07 |
| IP PBX vendor Swyx has announced that the next release of its Swyxware 'pure' IP telephony software will support the new Microsoft Vista operating system as well as the l... Read More |
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Roaming WiMAX Agreement Established |
09/03/07 |
| Members of the WiMAX Spectrum Owners Alliance (WiSOA) have signed the world's first WiMAX roaming agreement, and formed a partnership with MACH Sarl and Trustive BV, the ... Read More |
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Sabio Investing in Speech Recognition |
09/03/07 |
| Contact centre specialist reseller Sabio is investing in the development of its Voice Self-Service Practice following the successful deployment of a series of major speec... Read More |
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FMC with VoIP Set to Reduce Voice Spend by 30% |
09/03/07 |
| Fixed-mobile convergence, combined with VoIP, will allow corporate customers to reduce their voice spend by over 30%, according to a new report, Fixed-Mobile Convergence ... Read More |
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Life at 40 for AKJ |
09/03/07 |
| Following its latest recruitment campaign, Aurora Kendrick James (AKJ), the telecoms billing specialist, has expanded its team to 40. Recent appointments include a numbe... Read More |
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AN4 Group joins Vadition Partner Network |
09/03/07 |
| Reseller AN4 Group has partnered with new ‘virtual’ distributor Vadition and looks forward to a profitable relationship.
“This industry is about two things – technolog... Read More |
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They Would Say That Wouldn’t They? |
09/03/07 |
| A recent Polycom survey shows over half of UK office workers want tools for flexible working.
Polycom a leader in providing collaborative communications solutions, say... Read More |
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Macropolitan in WiMAX Land Grab |
09/03/07 |
| UK’s largest owner of urban building telecom rights leaves stealth mode
Macropolitan, a new company formed by Ryan Jarvis, formerly BT Chief of Wireless Broadband and ... Read More |
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Feminine skills ‘key to business success’ |
08/03/07 |
| Don’t try to copy men – being a woman is your biggest advantage in business.
That’s the message from one of Yorkshire’s leading female entrepreneurs.
Alice Adams, w... Read More |
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Cisco Expands Microsoft Interoperability |
08/03/07 |
| Highlighting customer and partner demand for interoperability in the unified communications market, Cisco has announced it is expanding Microsoft interoperability to prov... Read More |
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Emerson Network Power Protects Cisco Routers |
08/03/07 |
| Liebert uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) protection from Emerson Network Power is endorsed by Cisco Systems. Besides providing the highest performance standards, Lieb... Read More |
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BT Launches £200,000 Campaign to Recruit Women Engineers |
08/03/07 |
| BT believes engineering “is not just for blokes” and in a bid to woo more women into the company it is launching a £200,000 apprentice attraction campaign on Internationa... Read More |
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James Hails Samsung |
08/03/07 |
| Roger James, Samsungs newly appointed Head of UK Channel Business, says that his is ready to grow their business significantly with the immanent arrival of the new Office... Read More |
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2E2 Announce Offer For Compel Group Plc |
08/03/07 |
| 2e2 has made a recommended cash offer for Compel Group plc for £53 million. Compel is a UK based IT solutions business, comprising two principal businesses; Enterprise So... Read More |
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Citel Announces Portico Telephone VoIP Adapter |
08/03/07 |
| Citel, the VoIP migration company has launched their Portico Telephone VoIP Adapter (TVATM) saying it will enable enterprises to quickly and affordably convert existing P... Read More |
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Ethernet Network Provider Targets Value-Added Resellers |
08/03/07 |
| London-based carrier-grade Ethernet provider, Exponential-e has today begun a recruitment drive for value-added resellers. The company, who specialise in deploying bespo... Read More |
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Ingram Micro to distribute GN Netcom’s entire range |
08/03/07 |
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GN Netcom has signed a UK-wide distribution agreement with Ingram Micro UK. Under the terms of the agreement, Ingram Micro will distribute GN Netcom’s entire range o... Read More |
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Griffin in the Video Spotlight |
08/03/07 |
| Video conferencing supplier Questmark has chosen Griffin Internet to provide the network to run their high definition, real-time video conferencing systems.
Questmark ... Read More |
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VegaStream Appoint Cohort Technology as New Distribution Partner |
08/03/07 |
| Telephony media gateway vendor VegaStream has entered into a distribution agreement with Cohort Technology. The new partnership will see Cohort promote and market VegaStr... Read More |
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Embrace VoIP or Die! |
07/03/07 |
| ‘Don’t get left behind’ is the message from telecoms distributor Nimans who say VoIP applications are finally coming of age as they continue to accelerate in popularity.
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Nortel Enhances Ethernet Switching Portfolio |
07/03/07 |
| Nortel has introduced a new family of Ethernet routing switches designed for enterprises migrating to VoIP and advanced unified communications applications.
The new No... Read More |
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CommuniGate Beats off Avaya |
07/03/07 |
| GAP Internet Communications has implemented their internet communications platform, CommuniGate Pro, as a pure telephony application at Oracle specialist e-DBA in prefere... Read More |
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European Wi-Fi Usage Shows Rapid Growth |
07/03/07 |
| iPass Wi-Fi Hotspot Index shows 74% increase in European usage from H1 to H2 2006
iPass, a global provider of services that unify management of enterprise mobility, t... Read More |
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Networks First Launches VOIP Quality Monitoring Tool |
07/03/07 |
| Provider of support services for network infrastructures Networks First has launched ‘Hummingbird’, an independent service to monitor and maintain the quality of IP telep... Read More |
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Avaya Integrate Business Processes |
07/03/07 |
| Avaya has introduced a new solution that addresses the challenges businesses face in responding faster, smarter and more effectively in today’s ‘always-on’ world. The sol... Read More |
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Microsoft Set to Deliver Enhanced VoIP Solutions |
07/03/07 |
| Microsoft predicts that in the next three years 100 million Office customers will click to call.
In a keynote speech, Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft’s Business Di... Read More |
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Affiniti Selects Datapulse and Arc |
07/03/07 |
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Mettoni, parent company of telecoms solution providers Datapulse and Arc, announced today that it has been selected as preferred vendor by communications integrator A... Read More |
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VoIP Unlimited Raises the Quality Bar |
07/03/07 |
| Companies using VoIP technology supplied by VoIP Unlimited will experience greater reliability than ever before because of a new technology implementation from Exinda Net... Read More |
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Nimans sign Steve Norman as Sales Director |
06/03/07 |
| Telecoms distributor Nimans has appointed Steve Norman as Sales Director which completes the company’s restructure which began over 12 months ago. Nimans’ Chairman Juli... Read More |
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Cisco Delivers New Unified Communications Solutions |
06/03/07 |
| Cisco has announced new products and applications they say allow organisations to use their network as a platform for more effective and more personalised business collab... Read More |
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Traditional Comms Revenues Under Threat say Analysys |
06/03/07 |
| New players, such as Skype and Google, are successfully fostering novel forms of communication among online communities, potentially posing a major threat to core communi... Read More |
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Entanet Calls on Ofcom to Insist on Fair Play |
06/03/07 |
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Voice and data connectivity service provider Entanet is calling on Ofcom to clamp down on rivals that are persuading customers to take up both their data and voice se... Read More |
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Broadband customers aren't as happy as they used to be |
06/03/07 |
| Point Topic's latest survey (BroadBand User Consumer Survey 3) has highlighted growing dissatisfaction amongst UK consumers with the internet service they receive from th... Read More |
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Swyx Resellers can turn to Gamma Telecom for SIP Trunking |
06/03/07 |
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Gamma Telecom and Swyx have just completed an extensive interoperability and QoS testing programme that will allow channel partners to offer a SIP trunking service to... Read More |
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Ashland Sells out to Spiritel |
06/03/07 |
| AIM listed Spiritel plc has announced the acquisition of Ashland Group Limited for a total consideration of £3.7 million after deducting cash balances acquired of £0.2 mi... Read More |
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Broadband providers must diversify to sustain SME spend |
06/03/07 |
| Broadband providers must look to broadband managed services to sustain small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) spend in Western Europe according to a new report, Strategi... Read More |
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Griffin Internet Award Winners Announced |
05/03/07 |
| Managed Broadband supplier Griffin Internet recently announced the winners of the Griffin Excellence Awards for 2006. The awards take place annually and recognise outstan... Read More |
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Convergence Summit North - expands due to demand! |
05/03/07 |
| Last week Miles Publishing, owners of Comms Business and The Convergence Summit exhibitions announced that The Convergence Summit North due to take place on 1st & 2nd May... Read More |
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Gamma Acquisition Strengthens Software Capabilities |
05/03/07 |
| New software and staff will support continued rapid growth
Gamma Telecom has taken the major step of bringing in-house all of the services currently provided by its sy... Read More |
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Late Payment Escalates in IT Sector |
05/03/07 |
| Resellers bear brunt of customers’ late payment, as average Days Sales Outstanding soars to 152 days for smaller IT firms
Siemens Financial Services has analysed thous... Read More |
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Nimans Expands Support Service Offering |
05/03/07 |
| Telecoms distributor Nimans is extending its service offering by providing dealers with installation and maintenance facilities for Avaya communications equipment – on a ... Read More |
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Ofcom Fines over Silent Calls will Continue, warns Eversheds |
05/03/07 |
| Communications regulator Ofcom shows no sign of slowing its campaign against abandoned or silent calls, following its recent fines against four companies including Carpho... Read More |
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Viatel Storms into the Wholesale bandwidth market |
05/03/07 |
| Viatel has announced the launch of VTL W@veNet, its new European wholesale division.
VTL W@veNet will immediately offer high speed services across Europe including 2.5... Read More |
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SME VoIP Perspectives |
05/03/07 |
| Ian Godfrey, Director of distributor ProVu, says his company has five years experience of the VoIP market place and are distributors for key vendors such as snom, Linksys... Read More |
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Nimans Beef up Ericsson Team |
05/03/07 |
| Nimans has strengthened its Ericsson business development team with the appointment of Craig Rimmer whose remit is to help dealers from across the South of England grow t... Read More |
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LAN 2 LAN Achieves Gold Partner Status With Trapeze |
02/03/07 |
| LAN 2 LAN, a mobile integration specialist, today announces that it has achieved Gold Partner status with Trapeze Networks, the leading provider of centrally managed, swi... Read More |
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Compact ATCA performance from Rittal |
02/03/07 |
| Rittal have expanded their ATCA product range with the addition of two new versions of a 5U ATCA shelf with six horizontal slots at the front. Due to its design, Rittal ... Read More |
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VoIP? - All Wrapped Up say Rocom |
02/03/07 |
| Richard Carter, managing director of Rocom, believes the role of the distributor in the VoIP marketplace is significantly greater than ever was the case in a TDM world.
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Gyron Selects Telstra Europe as Facilities Partner |
02/03/07 |
| Gyron Internet, wholesale and managed services provider for medium sized UK businesses, has signed a long-term, multi-million pound contract with leading business telecom... Read More |
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TDM PBX Slide Accelerates |
02/03/07 |
| Traditional TDM PBX phone systems continue their steady decline in popularity, evidenced by a 22% drop in worldwide TDM PBX manufacturer revenue between 2005 and 2006, wh... Read More |
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AVST Launches Callxpress 7.9 Unified Communications Solution |
02/03/07 |
| New Version Extends AVST’s Flexibility in Deploying Unified Messaging
Throughout the Enterprise
Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) today launched a new... Read More |
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Unified Messaging Educational Site Launched by AVST |
02/03/07 |
| Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, (AVST), a provider of unified communications solutions, has announced the launch of a new educational website where a wide range of r... Read More |
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Aastra Launches New Family of IP Phones and i7.5 Software |
01/03/07 |
| Europe’s third largest telephone systems manufacturer, Aastra has unveiled a brand new range of IP Phones, adding to its existing portfolio of handsets designed to work w... Read More |
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Nimans Avaya Sales Incentive |
01/03/07 |
| Dealers have the chance to cash-in on a special Nimans and Avaya sales incentive with £4,000 worth of prizes up for grabs. The highest performer will earn £2,000 in vouch... Read More |
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Alcatel-Lucent Sign Finance Agreement with GE |
01/03/07 |
| Alcatel-Lucent has launched a new agreement with GE in the UK to provide finance solutions for UK and Irish enterprises. GE's finance solutions enable UK and Irish busin... Read More |
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New Software for NEC Infrontia Aspire |
01/03/07 |
| NEC Infrontia’s Aspire system gives the smoothest transition from analogue to full IP convergence says Managing Director Doug Lawes. The release of software V6.5 with the... Read More |
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Packeteer Wins Enterprise Award |
01/03/07 |
| Packeteer, the WAN application optimisation vendor, has received the NetEvents 2007 "Enterprise Product of the Year" award at an award banquet in Evian, France. This yea... Read More |
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The Irish National Parliament Deploys Alcatel-Lucent Convergence Solution |
01/03/07 |
| 1,100 users benefit from VoIP and unified communications tools in major multi-site installation
Alcatel-Lucent has announced that the Irish National Parliament (Oireac... Read More |
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Daisy Director Appointed to Otelo Board |
01/03/07 |
| Nelson-based Daisy Communications director Tony Dixon is the latest appointee to the Office of the Telecommunications Ombudsman, Otelo, and the news comes just weeks afte... Read More |
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New SME Assault from Toshiba |
01/03/07 |
| Toshiba BCD is launching its system for up to 25 users, called the Strata CIX40, in March this year.
Daniel Fuller-Smith, National Sales Manager at Toshiba BCD, comme... Read More |
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