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Verizon brings local advertising to FiOS
Verizon Communications plans to feature local advertising on its FiOS TV service in Long Island. The service, which competes with Cablevision in the market, expects 15% of the ads to come from local companies. Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.) (2/21)

• Verizon Wireless expands Rev. A reach: Verizon Wireless is rolling out its EV-DO Revision A network in several new states and Washington. Sprint Nextel also is migrating to Rev. A technology. Network World (2/20)

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Qwest can combine local, long distance services
Qwest Communications International received approval from the FCC to combine its local and long-distance offerings. The telecom said it would save money by not having to offer the services through separate entities. CNNMoney.com/Reuters (2/21)

Alcatel-Lucent invests in WiMAX
Alcatel-Lucent has made an investment in Sequans Communications, a WiMAX chip maker. Financial details were not revealed. InfoWorld (2/21)

Alltel may attract several suitors, analysts say
Alltel has said it is exploring its strategic options, which has analysts speculating that the wireless regional operator could attract a bid as high as $31 billion. CNNMoney.com/Reuters (2/20)

Google needs TV industry's cooperation
Google forked out about $1.7 billion to buy YouTube, but it still needs to chart a path toward profitability for the video-sharing company. Google's relationship with the TV industry has taken a turn for the worse of late, as companies such as Viacom have demanded that their video clips be taken down from YouTube. The Wall Street Journal (2/21)

Telstra wants regulators to loosen grip on broadband
Telstra launched a campaign to drum up public support in its fight to get the Australian government to relax regulations tied to broadband infrastructure. The telecom is holding back on planned infrastructure investment, saying current rules will enable competitors to piggyback on its network below cost. The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) (2/21)

LogicaCMG sheds telecom unit
An investment firm snapped up LogicaCMG's Telecom Products division for $517 million. LogicaCMG decided to sell the unit, which delivers converged mobile messaging and payments solutions to telecom providers, to focus on its IT and business-service offerings. cellular-news (U.K.) (2/21)

Technology Trends

Widevine wins encryption patent
Widevine Technologies was awarded an encryption patent that it says could help operators solve the downloadable conditional access systems problem. Widevine's single-encryption solution for securing content could be used by telecom, cable and satellite operators across various devices. CED Magazine (2/2007)

Deltathree buys fellow VoIP provider
Deltathree has purchased the service provider and consumer businesses of Go2Call.com, including parts of the company's regional infrastructure. The deal is designed to increase deltathree's presence in international markets. Telephony Online (2/20)

Vonage plans wireless rollout
Vonage plans to expand its portfolio to include wireless services during the second half of this year. Analysts speculate that the service, which will be offered under an MVNO agreement, could be sold under the Vonage Wireless moniker. BusinessWeek (2/20)

New technology from Terayon allows for targeted ads
Static Graphic Overlay, Motion Graphic Overlay and SqueezeBack are three new graphical-processing applications from Terayon Communication Systems that promise to help cable, satellite and telecoms create targeted ads in the compressed MPEG-2 domain. "They give the ability to customize or localize the content to make it more interesting or more relevant to their DMA," said Buddy Snow, Terayon's head of product marketing. Broadcasting & Cable (2/20)

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Regulatory & Legislative

Spotlight on ITC amid telecom developments, patent fights, global trade
The U.S. International Trade Commission was once a backwater of the Washington political scene. Its domain -- imports and patents -- was seldom a place of high-profile activity. But that was then. Today the ITC is center stage for billion-dollar disputes, international trade showdowns and a surge in patent filings related to the telecommunications industry. Bloomberg (2/20)

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