By PR NewsWire Press Release
LONDON, November 18/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Tata Communications, a leading provider of the new world of communications, was honored with the “Best Market Strategy” award at the Annual Capacity magazine Global Wholesale Telecommunications Awards in Amsterdam. The awards, held at Capacity Europe 2008, recognize significant key market players who, through applying innovation and [...]

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By BT Press Release
Indian companies currently perform most strongly for long-term economic growth and most poorly in their management of water resources
TATA Group considered as top corporate leader in sustainable development
BT announced today the launch of its “Sustainable Development Index - an assessment of business performance in India”. The SD index has been developed [...]

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By SubOptic Press Release
The Program Committee for the next SubOptic Conference & Convention to be held in Yokohama in May 2010 has been formed, and the first of the formal Program Committee Meetings took place in September 2008.
The Program Committee is responsible for formulating the overall conference program, including the oral paper presentations, poster presentations, [...]

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By Submarine Cable News Feed
Hutchison Global Communications Limited (HGC) and Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) have signed a Network-to-Network Interface (NNI) agreement to interconnect the companies’ Ethernet and IP-VPN networks.
With the NNI agreement implemented, HGC and TM will be well positioned to provide their corporate customers with broadened International Ethernet (IE) and IP-VPN service coverage, enhanced [...]

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By Submarine Cable News Feed
AT&T Inc. and Centennial Communications Corp. have announced that AT&T plans to acquire Centennial, a regional provider of wireless and wired communications services, for $944 million in cash. The transaction will enhance AT&T’s wireless coverage for customers in largely rural areas of the Midwest and Southeast United States and in Puerto [...]

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By Submarine Cable News Feed
LTS has announced that it is expanding its product offering and geographic footprint to include custom turnkey near-shore and terrestrial build solutions to address the growing need in the global communications market.
“LTS has extensive international experience in the submarine fiber optic cable industry and offer expertise in all aspects of near-shore [...]

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By PR Newswire Press Release
WARSAW and PARIS, November 14/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Poland’s General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways has selected an Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and Thales consortium to design, integrate, install and deploy the systems that will bring the A2 motorway up to EU commercial motorway standards. The contract, valued at approximately [...]

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By PR Newswire Press Release
SHENZHEN, China, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Bookham, Inc. (NASDAQ:BKHM) , a leading provider of optical components, modules and subsystems, today announced that it has received the Excellent Core Partner Award from Huawei — one of the world’s leading manufacturers of equipment for the telecommunications industry. Bookham President and CEO, Alain Couder, [...]

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By PR Newswire Press Release
PARIS, November 13/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced a new leadership team effective January 1st, 2009. The new team formed of a nice blend of leaders coming from outside the company, new talents from inside the company and existing senior leaders, will support a new business model [...]

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By BT Press Release
SECOND QUARTER
* Revenue of £5,303 million, up 4 per cent
* EBITDA before specific items1 and leaver costs of £1,429 million, down 1 per cent
* BT Global Services EBITDA before leaver costs of £119 million, down 36 per cent
* Operating profit before specific items1 and leaver costs of £744 million, down 1 per [...]

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