This means all the spectrum can be reused in adjacent cells, providing a further boost in capacity.Qualcomm and Hughes went on to build a simulator to test these ideas, but the satellite-telephony plan was abandoned.
Britain's exports rose by 15.5% in the three months to June, the fastest rate since July 2006.Skype, a Luxembourg-based provider of internet telephony, said it planned to raise $100m through an initial public offering on the NASDAQ stockmarket.
With the most recent acquisition of Zeetl – a social telephony company that Hootsuite plans to integrate into its platform to enable sales and support teams to communicate more rapidly with their customers – Holmes is positioning Hootsuite in competition with CRM (customer relationship management) providers like Salesforce.
All six of the big cable operators, which collectively reach 85% of U.S. households, have begun commercial deployment of Internet voice telephony or have announced plans to do so imminently.
Yahoo! is planning to incorporate telephony capabilities into its instant messaging service some time in the near future, reports say.
Boeing says it has no plans to offer voice telephony on Connexion, though it might provide phone boxes, away from other passengers, on bigger aircraft.The airlines increasingly see broadband as a way of luring passengers from other carriers, while providing a useful extra source of income.
And for the record, Cisco recently bought one of the leading network telelphony vendors Celsius and plans to offer IP telephony soon.
Last month, Executone announced plans to transfer its telephony and health care businesses would be transferred to a new privately held company.
Spanlink Communications Inc., a maker of computer telephony software, said yesterday that it planned to take the company private and that Cisco Systems Inc. would invest in the newly private company.
