http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com CommunicationsDirect is a free news and information service for global telecommunications professionals. CommunicationsDirect offers frequent updates onbusiness, policy, and technology issues. CommunicationsDirect also offers free daily and weekly newsletters. 2008 PricewaterhouseCoopers en-us Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:45:01 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:45:01 telecom_direct_editor@us.pwc.com Saturday Sunday http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/140/32398?199 The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) will promulgate detailed solutions to reduce waste of resources caused by telecoms operators’ duplicated network construction, the official Xinhua News Agency reports, citing Xi Guohua, deputy minister of MIIT. The National Audit Office has recently indicated in its... http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/100/32396?199 The CommunicationsDirect latest poll results are in. The question posed was, ‘Do you want visual voicemail on your mobile device?’  Results show that 8% of our respondents already have visual voicemail; 38% said ‘yes’, they would like to have it; 27% said ‘no’; and another 27% say they do not... http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/32395?199 Vodafone has announced that it is to begin selling Dell Inspiron Mini9 mini-laptops across its key European markets, as part of a partnership with Dell. The models will feature built-in mobile broadband from Vodafone, and will be sold exclusively through the operator's stores and online and directly from Dell. The mini-laptops... http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/140/32393?199 Research conduced by DIW (the German Institute for Economic Research, a Berlin-based think tank) has found that of the five major Western European markets—Germany, France, Britain, Italy, and Spain—studied, the German one is the most unsupportive for its incumbent telecoms operator; the research was commissioned by... http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/32391?199 Most executives believe that relentless execution-efficient, timely, consistent production and delivery of goods or services-is the surefire path to customer satisfaction and positive financial results. But this is a myth in the knowledge economy, argues Edmondson, a Harvard Business School professor. She points to General Motors,... http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/32390?199 Telecom gear maker Telco Systems is bringing a solar power system to market that will help reduce the cost of electricity consumed by data centers and other research facilities. The system was developed by Distributed Solar Power, an Israel-based startup, using technology licensed from Tel Aviv University, and builds on a strong... http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/32388?199 Move over Linden Labs; IBM Research yesterday disclosed that it's working on a virtual environment that will go far beyond Second Life and its pseudo-reality and into the world of large corporate enterprises, where 'virtual world' technology will become the basis for a new generation of very business-oriented unified... http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/140/32386?199 The United States has finally caught up with Western Europe in the adoption of 3G, with 28.4% of American mobile subscribers having 3G devices compared with 28.3% in the largest countries in Europe, according to comScore. The number of U.S. subscribers with 3G-enabled devices has grown 80%, to 64.2 million during the past year,... http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/140/32385?199 Ciena Corp. isn't panicking about its expected fourth quarter revenue shortfall because the slowdown in Tier 1 operator spending that led to the revised sales outlook is likely to be short-lived, according to CEO Gary Smith. Ciena's fourth quarter revenues are set to be about 20 percent below previous expectations... http://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/32383?199 The U.S. is lagging behind Canada and now the UK in the wait for the first 3G smartphone from cult wireless email vendor, Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM). RIM announced the much-anticipated Bold, which uses high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) wireless technology to get downloads at around 1 Mbit/s, this spring but didn't...