CenturyTel, EMBARQ Officially Close Merger
CenturyTel completed its $11.6
billion USD stock and debt purchase of
EMBARQ. The combined company,
CenturyLink, will be based in Monroe, Louisiana, and potentially have
$8 billion in annual revenue. It has more than 2.1 million broadband
customers, 440,000 video subscribers and 7.5 million access lines in 33
states. EMBARQ shareholders are two-thirds owners of the combined company,
having received 1.37 CenturyTel shares for each Embarq share they owned.
The deal included CenturyTel assuming $5.8 billion in EMBARQ debt. The two
brands will be converted gradually to CenturyLink, a process expected to
conclude later this year.
Cisco TelePresence Meeting Conducted across Multiple
Carrier Networks
Cisco announced that
AT&T, BT,
and Tata Communications
successfully conducted the industry's first multipoint, intercompany Cisco
TelePresence meeting across multiple carrier networks. AT&T, BT, and Tata
- together with Cisco - demonstrated the technical ability for a Cisco
TelePresence user to call others on any carrier network. The demonstration
featured inter-carrier Cisco TelePresence connections between the
following sites: AT&T TelePresence Solution sites in Bedminster and
Morristown, NJ, and Chicago, IL; a BT site in Colorado Springs, Colorado;
a Cisco site at Cisco Live in San Francisco; and Tata sites in Boston and
London.
Motorola to Deploy Mesh Network at Japanese Port
Motorola announced that its mesh
network, MOTOMESH Solo (6300 series), is to be deployed at Osaka Port's
Yumeshima Container Terminal in Japan, which is one of Japan’s five
largest ports. The system is scheduled to start operation in October 2009.
MOTOMESH Solo solution is a mobile, scalable wireless mesh network
providing multi-hop connectivity via distributed, decentralized
packet-routing algorithms, the company said. Each client device on the
mesh network acts as a router/repeater, which greatly reduces the need for
cable laying.
AT&T Donating Prepaid Phone Cards to US Military
Personnel Overseas
AT&T announced that, with the help of the
USO, it is donating more than 30,000
prepaid phone cards with a retail value of more than $150,000 to US
military personnel stationed overseas in 2009. AT&T is working with the
USO to distribute the first 20,000 prepaid cards of the year at overseas
military bases and during USO entertainment tours in the weeks surrounding
Independence Day 2009.
NTT to Offer SLA for Global IPv6 Services
NTT Communications (NTT Com) announced
that it is offering a service-level agreement (SLA) guaranteeing 100%
network availability, as well as latency and packet loss levels, to
customers using IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) services provided on
NTT Com’s global Tier 1 IP backbone network, effective July 1. If services
do not achieve the quality levels guaranteed under the SLA, NTT Com will
refund all, or a pro-rated amount, of the customer’s service fee, the
company said. IPv6 is the successor to IPv4, which is still in dominant
use but projected to run out of Internet address space in the relatively
near term. Enterprises and governments worldwide are just now beginning
the move to IPv6, a process expected to dramatically accelerate in the
next two years.
Utah Chooses Qwest to Provide Converged Voice and
Data Network
Qwest Communications announced that the
US state of Utah has chosen it to
deliver a converged voice and data network. The company said its
Ethernet solution will provide state and local government agencies, and
businesses in Utah, access to additional bandwidth speeds to help satisfy
an increasing public demand for online services.
Faulkner offices will be closed
for the Independence Day holiday in the US but our online information
services are available 24/7. TelDaily will return Tuesday, July 7. Thank
you for your support!
....
Randi Martin, Faulkner
Information Services
New Security
Management Product Is Now Available on the Web
Faulkner's
newest information service, Security Management
Practices, is now available to subscribers over the Web!
For information about subscribing, just send an email message to sales@faulkner.com or call
800-843-0460 (856-662-2070).
If you wish to be removed from
the Telecom Daily Email list, please click here: mailto:telecomdaily@faulkner.com?subject=Remove.