Pipeline Publishing, Volume 3, Issue 11
This Month's Issue:
The Long Arm of Telecommunications Law
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Skype and Google are reportedly eroding telecoms revenue, a new report of Analysys has concluded. Reasons for the purported erosion include Skype’s (and similar services) robbing the traditional telephony market of as much as $18.2 billion in the year 2011.

Cisco, in its effort to increase its share of customers, has made 25 acquisitions in the last twenty seven month, the latest of which is an agreement to acquire WebEx, an on demand collaboration provider, although sources are split on whether it was sold for $2.9 or for $3.2 billion. WebEx itself did $380 million in revenue last year.

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MACH, Portfolio Company of Warburg Pincus and global clearing and settlement partner for mobile-based transactions, has an agreement to acquire CB Holdings, Inc, the parent company of Cibernet, which was founded in 1988. The combined companies expect to process more than 25 billions messages, billing records, and content downloads each year.

Skype and Google are reportedly eroding telecoms revenue, a new report of Analysys has concluded.

Vitria Technology, Inc., a provider of business process integration solutions, has recently launched Business Accelerator, “the industry’s first open, agnostic enterprise-class integration suite built from the ground up for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA),” the release stated. It builds on and complements the legacy and B2B integration capabilities of Vitria’s BusinessWare® software, and is available immediately. Vitria is also announcing the release of Resolution Accelerator ™ 3.0, which “provides more capability for SOA environments, enables faster implementation, and increases user productivity.” It will be released in early April.

Tangoe, Inc. and TRAQ Wirless, Inc. have completed a merger. The new company will be operating under the name Tangoe, Inc. and will provide technology-based software and service solutions that “enable global organizations to procure, manage, and control their voice, data, and wireless communications resources.”

Syndesis, a leader in OSS solutions, has introduced Syndesis® IPTV Express™, an IPTV service fulfillment solution that manages, using a single, unified platform, “both IPTV service content and connectivity across telecommunications networks.”

 

 

 

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