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January 26, 2007 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise Read more at dailyLead.com News for telecom industry leaders       News of the Day    AT&T expands IPTV service AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre discussed the company's plans to roll out IPTV. He said that AT&T's U-verse service will reach 8 million homes by the end of the year. CNET (1/25) Redback Networks Inc. manages 50 million broadband connections for leading carriers and service providers, including AT&T, British Telecom, and Chunghwa Telecom. Redback's multi-service edge routing platform delivers next generation services in a unified manner to lower total cost of ownership.   Business & Industry Watch  Siemens shares surge despite fine Even as the EU fines Siemens $550 million for power transmission price-fixing, the company's shares are up 6 percent. The company announced that its fourth-quarter profit grew 51 percent to $2.1 million, that it will spin off its VDO auto electronics unit in an initial public offering and that it will acquire Plano, Texas-based UGS for $3.5 billion. Bloomberg Businessweek (1/25) U.K.'s C&W going into long-distance business in India The new entity Cable & Wireless Networks India, incorporated earlier this month, will be 74% owned by the U.K.-based Cable & Wireless. The balance of ownership, 26%, is held by an Indian partner, in keeping with that nation's ownership rules. Forbes/AFX News Limited (1/26) Nokia and Motorola grab greater shares of global market Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics slipped, while Nokia grabbed 35.2% of the global market in the fourth quarter, up from 34.1% a year earlier, and Motorola held 21.9%, up from 18.2%, according to the London-based research firm Strategy Analytics. International Herald Tribune/Bloomberg (1/25) China Mobile brings change to the Asian hinterlands The world's biggest cellular-phone company is China Mobile, a spinoff of fixed-line provider China Telecom, and it is changing the way a nation's people communicate, work and live. Bloomberg Businessweek (2/5)   Exhibiting at NXTcomm 2007? NXTcomm attendees are also USTelecom dailyLead subscribers. Drive readers to your booth by taking advantage of pre-show advertising opportunities. Click here or contact Eric Hoffman at 773.549.3868 or ehoffman@smartbrief.com.   ADVERTISEMENT   Technology Trends  Cisco issues security fixes for IOS, IOS XR Cert warns that Cisco IOS and IOS XR devices are vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks against Web sites. Cisco says it has issued security advisories about the vulnerabilities, and offers free software to fix them. Silicon.com (1/25) Cable, satellite DVRs to kill off stand-alone versions, analyst says The stand-alone DVR, pioneered by TiVo, will disappear by 2010, according to Yankee Group analyst Joshua Martin. Cable and satellite versions of the product will replace the stand-alone box, Martin said, although the TiVo brand may survive. Reuters (1/23) Social networking tops 2007 predictions for global wireless Look for mobile social networking and TV, cheaper multifunctional devices, and GPS-enabled handsets, according to inCode Telecom Group top 10 global wireless predictions for 2007. www.3G.co.uk (1/26)   Regulatory & Legislative  FCC commissioners prepare for first oversight hearing The Republican-controlled FCC is about to come face-to-face with the Democratic-controlled Congress. Issues such as media-ownership diversity, Internet access and broadcast decency standards are the focus of many Democrats' interest. The Washington Post (1/26)   LeadQuote  Life is rather like a tin of sardines -- we're all of us looking for the key." --Alan Bennett, English author and actor       Subscriber Tools       Print friendly format | Web version | Search past news | Archive | Privacy policy Advertise Account Director:  Mark Lasser (202) 737-5500, ext. 317 Download Media Kit   Read more at dailyLead.com A powerful Web site for dailyLead® readers including: Breaking News Industry Home Readers' Choice Press Releases Search Archive Get this RSS Feed Publish your Press Release       Recent USTelecom dailyLead® Issues: Thursday, January 25, 2007 Wednesday, January 24, 2007 Tuesday, January 23, 2007 Monday, January 22, 2007 Friday, January 19, 2007     Lead Editor:  Susan Rush       Mailing Address: SmartBrief, Inc.®, 1100 H ST NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20005     © 1999-2010 SmartBrief, Inc.® Legal Information