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	<title>Alpha Neuron Business Blog &#187; Telecom</title>
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		<title>Nortel Explores Bankruptcy Protection Scenario:</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nortel Networks Corp has sought legal advice to study a bankruptcy protection scenario in the event that its restructuring plan fails and has also been exploring potential assistance from the Canadian government, the Wall Street Journal reported. On the subject of legal advice for studying a bankruptcy scenario, the WSJ cited people familiar with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telecom Industry Update &amp; Powerwave Technologies Analysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Telecom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing plan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mobile operator messaging revenues are under threat. Operators are rolling out flat rate data packages to encourage mobile Internet usage and uptake, which is in turn enabling the availability of free, ad-funded online messaging on the mobile handset. Mobile application development is by nature technically challenging. However, the carriers have not helped. Mobile technologies are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deal Analysis: Virgin Mobile acquires Helio</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shankar_avsb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deal Analysis:
Its always advisable to buy a running business than to build one from scratch &#8212; where possible. Virgin has done that in this case.
It would have cost Virgin about $25 million to build/replicate this platform from scratch. Helios has it up and running. $39 is like a 50% premium, and if you consider time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Networx &#8211; a sample billion $ deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shankar_avsb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. government will announce this month the carrier it has selected to supply voice, data, video and wireless services through 2017. The $20 billion project, called Networx, is split into two contracts: (1) Networx Universal includes VPN, VoIP, frame relay and ATM services, and (2) Networx Enterprise which will focus on emerging IP and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile &amp; Wireless Industry Trends</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shankar_avsb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mobile &#38; Wireless Industry continues to undergo serious long-term changes in business landscape, influenced by rapid technological advances and preferences of corporate customers and end-users. Mobile communications is expanding into new geographical markets with diverse characteristics and dynamics, operator demands in mature markets are becoming more sophisticated with the advent of new multimedia services, [...]]]></description>
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