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YouTube, Joost and dozens of online video start-ups have done something many thought impossible: they have gotten the telecom executives excited. So excited that some of them are sponsoring Web 2.0 cocktail parties and cutting deals with little companies, hoping that Internet video will keep pushing the demand for bandwidth, and bring in some much [...]

Infinera, one of the shining stars amongst new telecom start-ups has filed an S-1, hoping to go public sometime in the near future. It is not the only optical/networking related start-up looking to tap the public markets. BigBand Networks is another IPO candidate and there is talk of a Force 10 Networks IPO. (Read: Return [...]

Former FCC chairman Reed Hundt is part of a team looking to build a new national public-safety wireless network, which they say would be combined with a open-access, commercial 4G offering that would offer wholesale services to carrier customers.
While similar in theory to the idea floated by Morgan O’Brien and Cyren Call, the Hundt operation, [...]

Motricity, the Durham, North Carolina-based mobile content delivery company has a habit of raising more and more capital. The company, that competes with the likes of Qualcomm and VeriSign says it has raised another $50 million in a series H round (yeah, I said H) from investor Carl Icahn, to bring the company’s total to [...]

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JUST RELEASED: How do you make Gizmo Project better? Add free calling to other IM clients to the service. And that’s exactly what SIPphone, the company behind Gizmo Project, has done with the just-out-of-oven Gizmo Project 3.0 soft client. You can now make free calls to people that use Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live IM [...]