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Dimension Data ‘Fields the Force’ |
15/06/07 |
Systems Integrator Dimension Data has enhanced its UK Managed Services offering by providing Avaya field engineering resource across all parts of mainland UK. This new c... Read More |
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Number One Swedish Electronics Provider Breaks Into Britain |
15/06/07 |
| This week saw the official UK brand strategy launch of Doro as they set out to become a player in the home and commercial technology arena. The initial focus of the compa... Read More |
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Westcon Group is Comms Business 'Distributor of the Year' |
15/06/07 |
| Comms Business Magazine also awards Westcon's Gillian Earle 'Channel Sales Person of the Year'
Distributor Westcon Group was recognised as Comms Business 'Distributor ... Read More |
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DMSL Set to Expand Channel Offering |
15/06/07 |
| DMSL, the distributor of BT broadband and related services, has announced plans to expand the range of products and services it offers to enable its reseller partners to ... Read More |
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Tiscali International Network Scales Up Investment in North American |
15/06/07 |
| TINet, (Tiscali International Network) is mounting an aggressive campaign to further establish itself in the North American wholesale IP Transit market. As part of the c... Read More |
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Telindus Reseller Award |
15/06/07 |
| Telindus, an expert in delivering vendor-independent business and technology-focused network solutions and services, today announced that it was named Reseller of the Yea... Read More |
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Crane/Westcon Call a Halt to Mitel Sales |
14/06/07 |
| Distributor Crane/Westcon has advised their channel partners that from 11 June they will no longer accept, supply or support any orders for Mitel products. This is thoug... Read More |
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CTI Launches VoIP Call Management to Europe |
14/06/07 |
| CTI Group is introducing two of its pioneering VoIP solutions to Europe - SmartRecord IP - its web-based call recording solution - and emPulse, for hosted web-based commu... Read More |
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Azzurri Race to Success |
14/06/07 |
| With the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) season underway, winning team VX Racing will be able to attribute a large part of this success to a communicat... Read More |
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Rocom Partnership with Camrivox Simplifies VoIP to Boost Reseller Margins |
14/06/07 |
| Rocom has announced a new supplier relationship with Camrivox, a manufacturer of VoIP IP phones, which sees the expansion of its Radius range to include Camrivox’s techno... Read More |
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Survey Highlights Growth of the ‘Anywhere Office’ Phenomenon |
14/06/07 |
| IP telephony provider ShoreTel has announced highlights from its ‘Anywhere Office Survey’. Results showed 92% of respondents were employed in organisations where employee... Read More |
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Silverware for the Digicomm Team |
14/06/07 |
| Digicomm BCS Limited has achieved Avaya Silver Accreditation status.
Mark Pollitt, Managing Director at Digicomm had this to say after receiving the award, “We feel h... Read More |
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UK Businesses Stall on Unified Communications |
14/06/07 |
| Almost half of all deployments of unified communications solutions are being delayed or plans postponed indefinitely.
One in three IT managers are being frustrated by ... Read More |
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Resellers to Cash in on the Managed Security Space |
14/06/07 |
| Terry Cave, VP EMEA at St Bernard Software says there is no end in sight for the growth in security solutions
“As UK resellers look to expand their convergence portfol... Read More |
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Nortel and IBM Team to Deliver UC for SMBs |
13/06/07 |
| Nortel and IBM have unveiled plans to deliver a simple and cost-effective solution for businesses that makes the move to IP telephony and unified communications as easy a... Read More |
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Rocom in Swift Move to Replace Mitel |
13/06/07 |
| Richard Carter, managing director of distributor Rocom, has confirmed that his company will be distributing the Nortel BCM system in earnest from the beginning of July. T... Read More |
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Vodafone Claim VoIP is Expensive |
13/06/07 |
| Vodafone is upping the stakes in their bid to strangle VoIP at birth by claiming the service is expensive to use and in an unrelated move Sky News has reported that becau... Read More |
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5i Showcases Applications to Enhance Unified Communications & Margins |
13/06/07 |
| Comms Business Award Winner 5i is hosting a unique reseller seminar designed to articulate the business benefits of unified communications (UC) applications and identify ... Read More |
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Netelligent Enhance Cisco Unified Communications |
13/06/07 |
| Netelligent has announced the release of its latest version of Interact, a desktop client interface that allows the Cisco unified communications user to integration with ... Read More |
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Telecomplete Named ISP of the Year for Second Time |
13/06/07 |
| Telecomplete has been awarded ISP of the Year 2007 at the esteemed Comms Business Awards held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London.
Manchester based Telecomplete is ... Read More |
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Liverpool Business Launch |
13/06/07 |
| Business IT & Telecommunications reseller Nemesis Networks held their official launch to Merseyside event at the SAS Radisson Hotel in Liverpool last week.
Nemesis Sal... Read More |
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Comms Business Awards 2008 dates announced! |
12/06/07 |
| Following last week's hugely successful Comms Business Awards held at The Royal Lancaster Hotel in London we are pleased to announce the dates for the Comms Business Awar... Read More |
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Leeds Metropolitan University gets a lesson from Mitel in IP communications |
12/06/07 |
| Leeds Metropolitan University, one of the largest universities in the country, with over 50,000 students and 3,500 staff and multiple site relocations planned, has upgrad... Read More |
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Datasharp Get Security Recognition |
12/06/07 |
| National telecoms reseller, Datasharp, beat 2,500 resellers to be shortlisted by ICT security and control firm Sophos, for two of their awards. The top resellers were inv... Read More |
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Digitalk Unveils IP Virtual Office |
12/06/07 |
| Digitalk, an independent developer of multi-service voice switching platforms, has announced the launch of IP Virtual Office (IPVO), a new business communications system ... Read More |
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High Five for Spitfire |
12/06/07 |
| London based reseller Spitfire is now one of the top five providers of SDSL services in the UK according to wholesale suppliers BT and Easynet.
A key factor say Spitfi... Read More |
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Redstone Revenues up 56% |
12/06/07 |
| Redstone’s unaudited preliminary results for the 12 months ended 31 March 2007 show revenues up by 56% to £113.0m and gross profit up by 57% to £41.0m.
In the year rep... Read More |
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Global Crossing Expands VoIP Local Service to Nine More Countries |
12/06/07 |
| IP solutions provider Global Crossing has broadened the scope and reach of its VoIP services for customers around the world by extending its VoIP Local Service to six mor... Read More |
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Culture is the Most Difficult Barrier to Adoption of Remote Working |
12/06/07 |
| UK employees name office culture as the main culprit for the slow adoption of remote working and green practices research from Interwise finds. Interwise, a supplier of ... Read More |
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Node4 on the Look Out for New Resellers |
11/06/07 |
| Converged communications specialists Node4 announce today the launch of a new Partner Programme. With innovative solutions around QoS Broadband, SIP Trunking and Hosted T... Read More |
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Genesys & Alcatel-Lucent Increase Market Share |
11/06/07 |
| A recently published report from Gartner Dataquest - "Market Share: Contact Centres, Worldwide, 2006" by Drew Kraus, May 2007 - shows that Genesys Labs, an Alcatel-Lucent... Read More |
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Zen’s New Network Investment Increases Geographical Coverage |
11/06/07 |
| Zen Internet's ongoing network expansion has reached its next planned stage, with the introduction of a new Point of Presence in Leeds. Zen is a leading UK Internet Servi... Read More |
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Viatel Launches New Service for PBX Voice Resellers |
11/06/07 |
| Viatel today announced the launch of a new service for voice resellers enabling them to offer a Hosted Voice over IP service without changing their technology partner.
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Horizon equIP Offers Juniper Networks Channel Centre of Excellence |
11/06/07 |
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Horizon equIP Technology, a specialist IP security integrating distributor, has announced the formation of a new sales team to create a channel centre of excellence f... Read More |
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Avaya Buyout Signals Dawn of Change in VoIP Landscape |
11/06/07 |
| Nemertes Research, an independent research firm that specialises in quantifying the business impact of technology has commented on Avaya merger agreement with Silver Lake... Read More |
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Termination Time is Halved with New Brand-Rex Tool |
08/06/07 |
| Structured cabling solution manufacturer, Brand-Rex, has today announced the launch of its new line of innovatively designed 10G compliant, tool-free RJ-45 snap-in-jacks ... Read More |
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Karting Teams Endure Race to Success |
08/06/07 |
| Teams from some of the industry’s leading dealers and distributors enjoyed a night of high-speed excitement recently at a telecoms industry Karting Challenge organised by... Read More |
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ONI Achieves Gold Certification from Cisco |
08/06/07 |
| Reseller ONI, a provider of integrated network solutions, has announced that it has been awarded Gold Certification from Cisco.
Andy Brocklehurst, Unified Communicat... Read More |
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Vegastream Completes SME to Campus Product Portfolio |
08/06/07 |
| Vegastream, the developer of IP gateways has announced the general availability of the Vega 50 Europa, specifically designed to enable the smaller enterprise to move effi... Read More |
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Skype Gateway for Mobiles Launched |
08/06/07 |
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IP Drum today launches IP Voicelink, a palm-sized gateway that enables users to connect to the Skype web telephony service via their existing mobile phone. The vendor... Read More |
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NGN Number Challenge |
08/06/07 |
| According to Matt Townend, Managing Director of networking consultancy illume, one of the key challenges faced by carriers transitioning to Next Generation Networks (NGN)... Read More |
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Inter-Tel says Vector Capital Decides Not to Make any Bid |
07/06/07 |
| Inter-Tel confirmed yesterday that private buyout firm Vector Capital Corporation has decided not to make any acquisition offer for the company. Inter-Tel said that Vecto... Read More |
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The Artois Championships goes for VoIP |
07/06/07 |
| Event communications specialists Max WiFi have been selected to supply voice and data communications to The Artois Championships, the world renowned men’s tennis tourname... Read More |
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Applegarth Communications Strike Gold |
07/06/07 |
| Leeds-based telecoms firm Applegarth Communications is celebrating this month, having been awarded prestigious Gold Plus Status in Aastra Telecom’s Partner Programme, bas... Read More |
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IP Increasingly used for Non-Voice Applications say Nortel |
07/06/07 |
| It’s well understood that the key aims of Next Generation Networks (NGNs) are to allow operators to improve customer experience, reduce time to market for new services an... Read More |
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‘Broadband Britannia’ is Sunk without Data Centre Strategy |
07/06/07 |
| Plans to stay on top of the international broadband league tables will fail unless the UK’s data centre infrastructure is overhauled according to Alex Rabbetts, MD of dat... Read More |
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TalkTalk responds to BT’s price cuts – Vonage says it’s Froth! |
07/06/07 |
| Following BT’s price cuts on 1 June, TalkTalk has announced that it too is reducing prices.
Like BT, TalkTalk has cut line rental to £10.50 per month. It’s ‘Talk2’ ca... Read More |
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VoIP as you are |
07/06/07 |
| In a recent posting on his blog Mark Deakin, Unified Communications Manager at Microsoft, says one of the questions I get asked at events, almost without fail, is 'Are Mi... Read More |
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Thus Wins Contract with Leeds Metropolitan University |
07/06/07 |
| Thus has been awarded a contract by Leeds Metropolitan University to deliver voice services over its advanced next-generation network, improving the resilience and reliab... Read More |
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Fixed-Mobile Convergence Services Still at Starting Gate says IDC |
07/06/07 |
| While the last year has seen many new fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) services appear across Western Europe, it has also highlighted how truly difficult it is to get the s... Read More |
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Smartbunker: The Data Centre Service Committed to Zero Carbon Energy |
06/06/07 |
| Centrinet, a provider of managed network and secure data hosting services, today announced the launch of Smartbunker, a data centre purpose built to provide high performa... Read More |
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Zyxel Devices Enable Zero Delay Roaming for Voice and Data |
06/06/07 |
| Zyxel Communications has announced the latest additions to its business wireless portfolio. The suite of products enables SMBs to quickly and easily implement a secure, s... Read More |
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Chess: An Acquisitive History |
06/06/07 |
| David Pollock, Chief Executive of Alderley Edge based telecoms company, Chess plc, with 21 acquisitions behind him, has laid out his company’s history of purchasing resel... Read More |
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5i Expands Managed Services Team |
06/06/07 |
| Convergence and Unified Communications specialist 5i Limited has appointed Andy Glover as their new UK Technical Support Manager. Andy joins 5i from printer giants Lexmar... Read More |
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Networks First Acquires ANS |
06/06/07 |
| Networks First, a specialist provider of converged network support services, has acquired ANS (Access Network Services), the IP Telephony solutions support services compa... Read More |
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Access Based Charging Model Ahead say CPW Networks |
06/06/07 |
| Neil McArthur, Managing Director of Carphone Warehouse Networks told Comms Business Magazine his company could not have launched through TalkTalk a free broadband service... Read More |
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One Third of UK Mid-Sized Companies Have No IT Strategy |
06/06/07 |
| A study conducted by market research firm Dynamic Markets has today revealed that technology is still not being seen as a strategic tool by UK mid-sized organisations and... Read More |
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MZA say PBX Market Grew 6% in 2007 Q1 |
06/06/07 |
| Any slight doubts about the longevity of the buoyant mood in the UK economy came too late to have any effect on the Q1 2007 PBX and IP PBX market results according to ana... Read More |
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Media Companies Need NGNs say Thus |
06/06/07 |
| Industry research conducted by network operator Thus has revealed that media companies in the broadcast, production and advertising space, cited speed (39%), security (32... Read More |
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TM Solutions live on Openreach new WLR3 platform with Strategic Imperatives |
06/06/07 |
| Strategic Imperatives the virtual network enabler and provider of Openreach integration solutions for WLR and LLU communications providers, has announced that its EMP Sol... Read More |
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2007 Heating up to an Interesting Year for Enterprise Telephony |
05/06/07 |
| Pure IP PBX system sales increased 3% in the first quarter of 2007 compared to the previous quarter, and are up 76% from 1Q06, according to Infonetics Research's latest E... Read More |
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Cable & Wireless Offers New Telepresence Managed Video Services |
05/06/07 |
| Cable & Wireless Europe, Asia and US today announced the availability of Virtual Telepresence - a fully managed video conferencing and collaboration solution that provide... Read More |
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AVST Upgrade Callxpress |
05/06/07 |
| Applied Voice & Speech Technologies (AVST) today announced general availability of the new version of its flagship unified communications (UC) solution, Callxpress 7.9. ... Read More |
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Zultys and Siracom Opt for VoIP Unlimited's SIP Service |
05/06/07 |
| Service provider VoIP Unlimited and Zultys Technologies have launched a new combined bundle of VoIP services to fortify their positions in the UK market and complement th... Read More |
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Microsoft Upgrades Office Live Meeting |
05/06/07 |
| Today at Microsoft’s annual TechEd conference, the company unveiled a new version of Microsoft Office Live Meeting that will deliver on significant investments to improv... Read More |
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VoSKY Signs Exclusive Distribution Agreement with Rocom |
05/06/07 |
| As reported by Comms Business Magazine last week, VoSKY Technologies has announced that it has signed an exclusive UK distributor agreement with leading PBX and telecoms ... Read More |
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Avaya Confirms Merger Agreement |
05/06/07 |
| Avaya has this morning written to its' UK channel partners to confirm that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Silver Lake, an investment firm focused ... Read More |
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Avaya Deal is Done says Wall Street Journal |
05/06/07 |
| According to the Wall Street Journal Silver Lake and TPG Capital LLC last night agreed to purchase telecommunications-equipment company Avaya Inc. for about $8.2 billion.... Read More |
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SIR DIGBY BACKS SMARTER WORKING REVOLUTION |
04/06/07 |
| “UK business needs to come out of the dark ages and realise that it cannot continue to use working practices that originate from the 19th century.”
Sir Digby Jones, UK... Read More |
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New Authorised EMC Training Services Provide Resellers High Margin Opportunities |
04/06/07 |
| Magirus, one of the leading European IT systems and software distributors, has today announced the availability of new training courses for EMC's latest software and hard... Read More |
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Gematech Meets Major Incident Call Demands at Hospital |
04/06/07 |
| King’s College NHS Foundation, one of the largest and busiest teaching hospitals in London is now complying with the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004 after installing a BC... Read More |
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Networks First achieves 30% Increase in Turnover |
04/06/07 |
| Networks First, the provider of support services for network infrastructures, has announced it has achieved record financial results for year ending 31st March 2007. With... Read More |
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Adobe Appoints Premiere Global Services as Collaboration Partner |
04/06/07 |
| Premiere Global Services, a provider of on-demand business communication solutions, today announced integration of its industry leading audio conferencing services with t... Read More |
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Silver Lake to Buy Avaya for $8 Billion |
04/06/07 |
| Silver Lake Partners and TPG Inc. have agreed to buy Avaya for about $8 billion, the New York Times has reported, in the largest leveraged buyout of a computer networking... Read More |
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IBNetworks Goes Green |
04/06/07 |
| Chesham based IBNetworks are releasing a new look website and logo. To celebrate 18 years in business a new logo has been designed which will be the cornerstone of the ne... Read More |
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Avaya Hits 100k Mark for IP Office |
04/06/07 |
| Avaya has announced that it has now sold more than 100,000 IP Office systems to small and mid-sized organizations around the globe, serving an estimated 3.6 million users... Read More |
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Avaya, Nortel & Megatrends… |
04/06/07 |
| US based Garrett Myers, an independent ICT consultant, has told Comms Business Magazine that there seems to be two major megatrends in business at the moment.
“On one ... Read More |
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Workshop For Panasonic System Add-Ons |
04/06/07 |
| Nimans is hosting a Panasonic Applications Workshop on July 17th to highlight the many add-on features available for telephone systems. Dealers are being invited to Nima... Read More |
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Poll Explodes Myth of Poor Take up of Web 2.0 |
01/06/07 |
| A poll conducted by NetBenefit has revealed that 60% of respondents are actively using Web 2.0 technologies. Despite recent criticism that Web 2.0 is all marketing spin p... Read More |
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A Qualified Success |
01/06/07 |
| Distributor Nimans’ Avaya team is a qualified success - and that’s official! Business Manager Tim Freeth along with Julie Greaves and Kay Booth who work in Channel Develo... Read More |
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HTT Helps Deploy Viatel’s VTL WaveNet Advanced Services Across Europe |
01/06/07 |
| Viatel was able to roll out VTL WaveNet, its new European wholesale division, across 4 countries and 5 cities in just 8 weeks by using specialised engineering services fr... Read More |
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Alcatel VP of Enterprise Sales Departs |
01/06/07 |
| Longstanding Alcatel VP of Sales Graeme Allan has left the company
Peter Tebbutt, enterprise RSC director UK&I at Alcatel-Lucent, commented, "I can confirm that Graeme... Read More |
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Rocom See Potential of Vosky Skype |
01/06/07 |
| Distributor Rocom, who has signed an agreement for the Vosky Exchange range recently introduced to the UK market, sounds very keen on the potential for the products.
T... Read More |
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Ofcom Extends Broadband Opportunities In Rural Areas |
01/06/07 |
| Ofcom today introduced new regulations to extend wireless broadband access across the country, including in rural areas.
The regulations cover the 5.8 GHz band, curren... Read More |
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Relaxed Ofcom Rules see BT Drop Prices Again |
01/06/07 |
| Millions of customers are set to benefit as BT today slashed the prices of its Option 2 and 3 call packages by up to 20 per cent. BT say their price cuts mean they offer ... Read More |
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News Sales Chief Announced at Alcatel |
01/06/07 |
| Alcatel-Lucent has appointed Doug Rodgers as enterprise and corporate sales sector leader for its Enterprise Business Group UK&I. Rodgers will be responsible for identif... Read More |
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STL Acquires Intellion |
01/06/07 |
| Oxfordshire based PBX reseller STL today announced the successful acquisition of Intellion, the managed network services provider.
STL had previously sold their minute... Read More |
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