Tinet, previously Tiscali’s international carrier arm, has signed up as a partnerwith China Telecom to provide international Ethernet private line service to businesses customers. Tinet will offer Layer 2 Ethernet to through 220 POPs in mainland China, 70 POPs in Europe and 15 POPs elsewhere.
Ericsson’s new CEO Hans Vestberg has appointed a new head of its fast-growing global services - Magnus Mandersson, formerly the head of the CDMA unit. His replacement in the CDMA systems division will be Rima Qureshi.
Google has slashed the price of some of its Nexus One devices by $100 for T-Mobile customers. While eBay has been flooded with listings for the Nexus One, with sellers hoping to get between $300 and $1,000.
Orange and Shanghai Media Group (SMG) subsidiary BesTV New Media have teamed to work on cross-platform content services for television, PC and mobile phones. The three-screen agreement includes research into new technology, collaboration over new media and the broadcasting of content from the Shanghai World Expo.
Telstra has unveiled new Next G packages for small business owners and said it plans to launch three new built-in modem business laptops in partnership with Acer Computing.
India’s Disinvestment Secretary Sunil Mitra says he hopes BSNL’s mooted IPO will take place by March 2011, while talks have commenced with would-buyers to take a 4-5% stake in tower firm Reliance Infratel prior to its planned IPO.
Samsung Electronics has announced the expansion of its application store, Samsung Apps, to China, Singapore, Germany and Brazil.
Enterprise communications solutions vendor Avaya, owned by private-equity firms Silver Lake and TPG, is considering an IPO in 18 months to two years, say reports.
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