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the government. Light Reading (6/23), CNN/Reuters (6/23), The Times (London) (subscription required) (6/23), Bloomberg (6/23)
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he changed it and where Motorola is headed. The Wall Street Journal (6/23)
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| | Report: Pay-per-call ads to reach $1.4B
Pay-per-call advertising, the practice of marketers paying for telephone queries from potential customers that resulted from text ads on major search engines, will be a $1.4 billion business by 2009, The Kelsey Group predicts. Pay-per-call ads typically are used by local businesses on local-themed sites and Internet Yellow Pages. Mediaweek (6/22)
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In a poll by Light Reading, 60% of respondents said their companies would exhibit exclusively at the TelecomNEXT conference in 2006, while 40% said they would exhibit only at the GlobalComm 2006 show. Light Reading (6/23)
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| | Japan's Jupiter prepares 100 Mbps service
Japanese cable operator Jupiter Telecommunications said it plans to offer a 100 Mbps data service beginning next month. CED Magazine (6/2005)
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| | Siemens gets serious about VoIP
Siemens has unveiled its Next Generation Exchange circuit-to-packet
migration solution for North American carriers looking to make the
switch to IP. Light Reading (6/21)
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| | Telecom providers lobby against municipal networks
Companies that offer Internet services say cities have better ways to spend limited taxpayer resources than to unfairly compete in the telecom market. Congress is considering whether local municipalities should be
allowed to offer citywide broadband services. CNET (6/23), The Wall Street Journal (6/23)
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| | China may delay 3G licenses
China is likely to delay doling out
3G licenses due to a technical glitch with the emerging TD-SCDMA
standard, which the Chinese government has been pushing as a homegrown
alternative to wideband-CDMA and CDMA2000 1X, reports research firm iSuppli. It is unlikely China will ditch TD-SCDMA to keep the rollout on
track because companies have invested so much money in the standard, the research firm says. EE Times (6/23)
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