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Thursday, July 2...

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.

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