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Apple, by all means should be a star in India. It boasts of a celebrity fans club that includes cricket star Sachin Tendulkar (think A-Rod times ten), Amitabh Bachchan (Harrison Ford time ten), and musical maestro A R Rehman (think Quincy Jones). It is often featured in movies and television shows, fashion spreads and music [...]

Despite a slow start, the Canadians are finally embracing Internet Telephony. According to Canada.com, the playing field now includes Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc., Comwave Telecom Inc., Vonage Holdings Corp., Nicer Technologies Inc. and BabyTel. Telus Corp., AOL Canada Inc., Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. and Yak Communications Inc. plan to launch services later this year. Telus [...]

Barron’s: Pay television is the most important new business that FTTP would bring to the phone companies, enabling them to wring an added $30-$70 a month from a subscriber. But the Bells would have to take a large share of the pay-TV market from cable and satellite services, before that additional revenue justified the Bells’ [...]

Stephen Hardy: Just as “increased capacity” was the battle cry of the optical communications market as this decade began, calls for “cost reduction” now echo across the industry.

MercuryNews.com: Terry Christensen, a political-science professor at San Jose State University, said the candidates were shrewd to seize on broadband as a means of promoting their high-tech credentials. Unlike the arcane question of expensing stock options, broadband can readily be understood by Americans who use the Internet. “It’s an issue that enables them to talk [...]

Optical Solutions gear will be used North Dakota’s First Fiber to the Home Network. Daktel Communications, the CLEC subsidiary of regional cooperative Dakota Central Telecommunications, will overbuild the city of Jamestown, ND (pop. 15,500) with a competitive all-fiber network featuring state-of-the-art voice, IPTV, and high-speed data services.