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Telecoms face cable competition in business sector
Cable companies are stepping up their efforts to woo the SMB sector as their next big growth opportunity, The Wall Street Journal reports. The Wall Street Journal (1/17)

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Embarq works to solidify its brand with customers
Embarq is focusing on the customer, especially those in the SMB market, and launching new services, such as wireless, to grow the company, according to company President and CEO Dan Hesse. Telecommunications (1/16)

Sprint unveils dual-mode handsets
Sprint introduced a line of PowerSource handsets from Motorola designed to bring together Sprint's CDMA network and the iDEN network. The dual-mode iDEN/CDMA handsets support push-to-talk services. Wireless Review (Chicago) (1/16)

Column: CBS affirms its digital direction
CBS believes it's on the right digital track, with a new survey showing 56% of viewers know network TV shows are available on the Web, and of those who didn't, when they were told about the new technology, 62% say they would sample it, according to Chicago Tribune columnist Phil Rosenthal. Chicago Tribune (1/17)

China Netcom sells fixed line assets
China Netcom is selling its fixed-line telecommunications assets and related operations in Guangdong province and Shanghai. The company is looking to shore up its operations ahead of launching 3G services. The Wall Street Journal (1/17)

Nortel sees BT contract as win for PBT solution
Nortel has been marketing its Provider Backbone Transport metro technology as ideal for wireless backhaul and business services applications and views BT's decision to go with the solution as validation of its efforts. Nortel asserts PBT can serve as an alternative or complement to multiprotocol label switching in metro networks. Telephony Online (1/16)

Time Warner Cable plans wireless, but not as part of "quad" play
Time Warner Cable won't market wireless services as part of a "quad" play, according to the company's chief marketing officer. Rather the New York-based company will sell wireless services as part of its existing "triple play" offering and as part of new brand called "Time Warner Cable on the go." Multichannel News (1/16)

Report: Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco each make a play in Taiwan
Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco Systems each reportedly made a bid for networking-device supplier ZyXEL Communications. Forbes/AFX News Limited (1/16)

Cablevision rejects Dolans' latest bid
A special board committee of Cablevision has rejected the $8.9 billion takeover bid by the Dolan family as "inadequate."  Bloomberg/ClipSyndicate (1/17) PaidContent.org (1/16) The Wall Street Journal (1/17)

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Singapore awards IPTV license
SingNet secured a Nationwide Subscription TV Service license that will enable the company to introduce mass-market IPTV services, including programming from Rainbow Media. The Media Development Authority is issuing licensing to increase competition in the IPTV market. World Screen News (1/16)

Companies flock to mobile Web
Mobile-phone advertising is still in its infancy in the U.S., but the possibility for revenue on the mobile Web is attracting everyone from major cell-phone carriers, such as Sprint Nextel, to Internet search engines, such as Google, and startups, such as AdMob and Third Screen Media. About 15% of American cell-phone users make use of the Web-browsing feature on their phones, according to M:Metrics. The Wall Street Journal (1/17)

Regulatory & Legislative

New law makes pretexting a federal crime
President George W. Bush signed the Telephone Records and Privacy Protection Act of 2006 into law, which means anyone found guilty of pretexting could serve up to 10 years in prison. Law enforcement will be exempt from the law. CNET (1/16)

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