Ericsson and Acea, an electricity distributor in Italy, have signed a 10 year managed service agreement to manage and develop Acea's system for Automatic Meter Reading (AMR). The system will be deployed in Rome to 1.5 million households.   Ericsson says that is...

Mitel and Foundry Networks Inc. announced the successful completion of interoperability testing between their respective Gigabit Power over Ethernet (PoE) solutions. The expanded partnership between the two companies focuses on simplifying the deployment of converged...

France Telecom announced that its residential Voice over IP services, running on Netcentrex solutions, have exceeded 1 million lines in commercial service across 5 countries at the end of 2005: France, UK, Netherlands, Italy and Spain.   On the release note, it...

BT Germany has announced at CeBIT that it is launching a new reseller platform for Voice over IP:“BT Wholesale VoIP”.   The BT solution permits the assignment of phone numbers to the VoIP subscribers – either from the respective local network or from the 032 path...