Iowa Telecom to buy a second Minnesota Telecommunications Company
NOVEMBER 21, 2008 -- Iowa Telecommunications Services Inc. has reached an agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Sherburne Tele Systems Inc. for $80.6 million, subject to certain balance sheet and tax adjustments. Sherburne Tele Systems is a closely held telecommunications company serving nine communities adjacent to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Metropolitan Area.

Telecommunications crackdown
The government is preparing to crack down on the self-regulated telecommunications sector.

Telecom Stocks: Sprint, Verizon gain; AT&T lower
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Sprint Nextel Corp and Verizon Communications Inc. led telecommunications stocks in Friday trades after several days of sharp losses. Stocks were split between advancers and decliners, with early gains mostly evaporated.

No move to cap number of players: Raja
The government today ruled out limiting the number of operators in a circle and said that any such decision would need to be reverted back to telecom regulator Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of India (Trai).

Bell Canada cutting 250 office jobs in Ottawa, Hamilton, Toronto and Montreal
MONTREAL - Bell Canada (TSX:BCE) is cutting 250 clerical jobs across Canada, notably in Hamilton, Ont., Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal, the telecommunications giant announced Friday.

Telecom units ride demand surge
Telecommunications companies (telcos) in eastern India are witnessing strong demand despite the overall slowdown of the economy. In fact, many plan to introduce more value-added services, go in for retail escalation and for network and capacity building.

S&P affirms Nortel Networks ratings
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said Friday that it affirmed the ratings it holds for Canadian telecommunications equipment maker Nortel Networks Ltd., including a "B-" long-term corporate credit rating.

Telcos see potential in WiMax
Services to be introduced by year-end; will check decline in revenues. With the auctioning of spectrum for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) and 3G (third generation) technology just a month away in India, there?s palpable excitement in the global telecommunications world.

Bell Canada cutting jobs in Hamilton
The Canadian Press MONTREAL ? Bell Canada is cutting 250 clerical jobs across Canada, notably in Hamilton, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal, the telecommunications giant announced today.

Concept store to help DiGi push postpaid ops
KUALA LUMPUR: DiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd expects its newly launched concept store, DiGi360, to help boost significantly the number of postpaid subscribers.

Business.com Announces Open Source CloudBase at 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo
Business.com has announced the availability of CloudBase, a high-performance data warehouse system that scales horizontally on commodity hardware or a cloud computing network. Built on top of a map-reduce architecture, this technology enables business analysts using ANSI SQL to directly query large-scale log files arising in web site, telecommunications or IT operations. Now even small ...

BT ?hampered? over broadband rules
BT is growing increasingly frustrated at what it regards as foot dragging by the telecommunications regulator on rules surrounding its £1.5bn ($2.2bn) plan for a superfast broadband network.

Digitel 3-qtr loss balloons to P2.7B
Digital Telecommunications Philippines Inc. (Digitel) of the Gokongwei group reported Friday a consolidated net loss of P2.7 billion for the first quarters of the year, ballooning from P229 million in the same period in 2007, citing largely foreign exchange and market valuation losses.

Major income tax law changes explained at free farm income tax seminar
Five major pieces of legislation affecting income taxes were passed in 2008. Those changes, and others, will be discussed at the 2008 Farm Income Tax Seminar broadcast on the Iowa Telecommunications Network from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Nov. 25. The Iowa Farm Bureau, Iowa State Center for Agriculture Law and Taxation and the Iowa Farm Business Association cooperate to provide this seminar.

Sherburne Tele Systems sold to Iowa firm
Iowa Telecommunications Services Inc. has reached a deal to acquire substantially all of the assets of Sherburne Tele Systems Inc. for $80.6 million. (Q)

Total Access Communication Plc Sign Thailand's Largest Ever Office Lease At Chamchuri Square
Total Access Communication Public Company Limited, one of Thailand's leading telecommunications providers better known as DTAC, have signed Thailand's largest ever office lease at Chamchuri Square owned by Chulalongkorn University. The company signed a lease for 61,000 square metres of office space. (PRWeb Nov 22, 2008) Read the full story at ...

Australia to host ICANN 09
Sydney will host a conference of more than 1700 telecommunications experts next year to discuss the future of the Web, following lobbying of the Internet regulator by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and the NSW Premier.

Verizon Employees Take a Peek
Telecommunications company says several employees accessed Obama's account records.

Nawras Telecom to Build Latest WAN Across Oman
MUSCAT - Nawras, the Omani-Qatari telecommunications company that has just been awarded the new fixed line licence in the Sultanate, on Friday said it would build the latest generation fibre optic backbone and WiMAX wireless access networks across the Sultanate.

Swedish telecom firm closing W. Pa. unit, 250 jobs
Swedish telecommunications firm LM Ericsson plans to close its Pittsburgh-area operation by the end of next year, cutting 250 jobs in the process.