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MTV Telecom Claim Pole Position |
15/02/07 |
Egham based distributor MTV Telecom is upping the stakes when it comes to channel technical support in order to stake claim to being the pre-eminent distributor for value... Read More |
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New Wave Continues Rise in BT Q3 Results |
15/02/07 |
| BT has reported its third quarter figures the highlights of which are:
- Revenue of £5,126 million, up 5 per cent
- New wave revenue of £1,880 million, up 17 per c... Read More |
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Alcatel-Lucent Launch IP Dedicated Recording |
15/02/07 |
| At their Paris Forum this week Alcatel-Lucent announced a new IP dedicated recording (IP DRlink) interface for its OmniPCX Enterprise IP PBX. The IP DRlink enables Alcat... Read More |
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Openreach Appoints Director to Head up Key WLR3 Programme |
15/02/07 |
| Openreach, the division of BT which delivers installation and maintenance services on behalf of Britain’s telephone and internet service providers, today announced the ap... Read More |
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Shocair Sells Communio Group |
15/02/07 |
| Communio Group Ltd and its subsidiaries have been sold through a management buyout to its Technical Director Mr. Andrew Turner. The details of the financial transaction w... Read More |
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Zycko Urge IT Channel to Cut Carbon Emissions |
15/02/07 |
| Distributor launches group-wide policy to reduce power consumption
Zycko, a value-added distributor of convergent storage and IP solutions, has expanded its environmen... Read More |
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Channel Puts Business Before Pleasure |
15/02/07 |
| Over a quarter (27%) of the channel would cancel their holiday plans to win new business, according to Mitel.
Channels will not only stop at cancelling their holiday ... Read More |
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Mayflex raise £20,000 for 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami Victims |
15/02/07 |
| Distributor Mayflex has helped to rebuild a village in Sri Lanka. In March 2005 the company held a golf day to raise funds for the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami appeal.
Bot... Read More |
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Networks First Launch Independent Network Assessment Tool for IP Telephony |
15/02/07 |
| ‘Owl’ capacity planning enables VoIP call volumes and quality to be tested across networks before deployment.
Networks First, a provider of support services for networ... Read More |
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Polycom to Acquire Spectralink |
15/02/07 |
| Acquisition Leverages Mobility into IP-Based Unified Collaboration
Unified communications company Polycom and wireless telephony company Spectralink have signed a def... Read More |
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Anixter’s 2007 Security Solutions Catalogue Now Available |
15/02/07 |
| Distributor Anixter has announced the publication of its new European Security Solutions catalogue.
The Security Solutions catalogue builds upon the increasing importa... Read More |
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Norman Baker MP opens Cavendish Group’s £1.25m New Office |
14/02/07 |
| The Cavendish Group celebrated the completion of a £1.25m office development at the official opening ceremony with Norman Baker MP on Friday, February 9.
The champagne... Read More |
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DMSL Welcomes Re-Organisation of BT Indirect Channel |
14/02/07 |
| Appointment of SPG Director Martin Roddy to manage Indirect operations will have a positive impact on partners, says leading broadband distributor
DMSL, the distributo... Read More |
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Ofcom Introduces UK-wide 03 Numbers |
14/02/07 |
| Ofcom has published details on how certain aspects of its plan for UK telephone numbering will be implemented, including the introduction of new UK-wide 03 numbers during... Read More |
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Avian Flu Gives City Firms a Wake Up Call, Says New Research |
14/02/07 |
| New research* from Mitel has revealed that over half (52%) of city firms have no plans in place to deal with the outbreak of a pandemic.
The research will come as a se... Read More |
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BT Re-names Indirect Channel |
14/02/07 |
| In January this year, BT’s indirect channel operations moved into BT’s Service Provider Group, a specialist group which delivers services to the ISP community, following ... Read More |
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Redstone to Acquire Comunica |
14/02/07 |
| Reseller Redstone has announced that the Group has agreed to acquire the business of Comunica for a total consideration of up to £22 million. This will be the fourth acqu... Read More |
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New European Cabling Standards Guide Now Available From Anixter |
14/02/07 |
| Distributor Anixter has announced that its new cabling standards guide has been published and is available to order at their web site.
The guide draws on Anixter’s kno... Read More |
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Jacada Announces Joint Marketing Agreement with Avaya |
14/02/07 |
| Contact centre solutions that streamline agent desktops and optimise application performance now delivered jointly with Avaya and its channel partners
Jacada, a provid... Read More |
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Comtec Restructure |
14/02/07 |
| Comtec, a distributor of telecommunication products and provider of Managed Services to the communications industry, based in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, has announced an... Read More |
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Pericom Expands Service Operation |
14/02/07 |
| Pericom, a supplier of IT and telecoms support solutions, has acquired the service base of Freestone Communications, the Milton Keynes-based PC printer and fax specialist... Read More |
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Funkwerk Secures Entatech in Distribution Deal |
13/02/07 |
| Funkwerk Enterprise Communications (FEC) has appointed hardware and software distributor Entatech to distribute its wide range of networking and telecommunications conver... Read More |
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Avaya Broadens Commitment to SMEs |
13/02/07 |
| Avaya has announced significant enhancements to its Intelligent Communications suite of converged IP telephony solutions specially designed for small and mid-size busines... Read More |
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Two Announcements from Broadsoft |
13/02/07 |
| IP Telephony platform vendor Broadsoft has made two strategic announcements this week.
Firstly, Huawei has selected BroadSoft for a global IMS deployment, allowing the... Read More |
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Eurotel Wins Samsung Top Spot |
13/02/07 |
| Halifax based reseller Eurotel has again secured top reseller status for Samsung business systems in the UK for the 10th consecutive year. The consistent ‘number one’ res... Read More |
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New Siemon Structured Cabling System Catalogue |
13/02/07 |
| Siemon announces the release of a new system-based structured cabling catalogue. Available free, the catalogue arranges Siemon products into their appropriate systems to... Read More |
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Customers Vote Nimans An ‘Excellent’ Distributor |
13/02/07 |
| Nimans has secured top marks in a nationwide customer satisfaction survey which reinforces its reputation as one of the country’s leading telecoms distributors where de... Read More |
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Partners Shape BT Channel Strategy |
13/02/07 |
| BT held a partner event in Manchester earlier this month with key channels to help shape their plans for the channel in 2007.
Phil Purssey, Sales Director for the Ind... Read More |
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BT Hits Wireless Cities Target |
13/02/07 |
| BT today announced that it has hit its target and now has 12 Wireless City networks up and running across the UK. They will offer a range of new services for consumers, b... Read More |
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New CEO at Inclarity Targets IP Telephony Growth |
13/02/07 |
| Inclarity has appointed Adrian Hughes as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to lead the further expansion of its Hosted IP Telephony business in the UK. Inclarity achieved a ... Read More |
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Tandberg Delivers Adaptive Telepresence Solution |
12/02/07 |
| Tandberg has introduced a telepresence solution that creates a collaborative, in-person meeting experience.
The company says their Experia system makes meeting partic... Read More |
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New Thinking from CommSoft |
12/02/07 |
| CommSoft recently launched their CommsOffice solution into the call management arena which, according to them, has seen no real innovations for several years.
The comp... Read More |
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Comstor Point the way for IPT ROI |
12/02/07 |
| Cisco and the Cisco-specialist distributor Comstor, have worked together to create a web-based ROI calculator for IPT deployments which Comstor’s OneVoice resellers are g... Read More |
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SMEs Using Insecure IT for Crucial Communications |
12/02/07 |
| * Figures highlight 40% of SMEs have no firewall in place
* Ensure long-term strategy for technology ROI, says Thus
Figures released this week by the British Chambers... Read More |
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Business Issues are Key Drivers for Contact Centres in 2007 |
09/02/07 |
| According to ProtoCall One, a systems integration consultancy for the contact centre industry, it is business issues - and not technology - that are going to be key drive... Read More |
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Syntelate Enhances International Appeal |
09/02/07 |
| Syntelate, the call centre desktop solution from Initiative Software, is now available in French, German, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Slovak and Arabic. With the localised... Read More |
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Comvurgent Launches MP3-Based Call Recording Solution |
09/02/07 |
| Comvurgent, a developer of digital call recording solutions, has announced the immediate availability of their SD Recorder. This new single channel system brings the tec... Read More |
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SMB Market is Flooded with Product say Layer 3 |
09/02/07 |
| Mike Tipper, Managing Director of reseller Layer 3, says the SMB marketplace is rife with small office based telephony solutions that claim to offer integration to back o... Read More |
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Freedom Enters Managed Services Market with Alcatel Platform |
08/02/07 |
| Watford based reseller Freedom has launched a new managed voice and data service called Continuum, aimed at the SMB sector.
The new service is part of Freedom’s conti... Read More |
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Niche is Good say CMA |
08/02/07 |
| The Communications Managers Association (CMA) has welcomed Ofcom’s recent report in to the role of the smaller ISP which shows how many UK enterprises depend on highly co... Read More |
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What SMEs Want |
08/02/07 |
| According to Steve Jones of distributor Electronic Frontier. business owners are far too busy running their businesses to spend time looking at their communication requir... Read More |
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New Market Direction say Swyx |
08/02/07 |
| Speaking to Comms Business Magazine, Andy Bills, Senior Vice President of Sales at Swyx, believes a key trend that is driving the future choices that will shape users’ re... Read More |
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3Com Opens Platform for Best of Breed Applications |
08/02/07 |
| Capitalizing on a growing demand for network solutions that deliver intelligence, flexibility, performance and control, 3Com has launched 3Com Open Services Networking (3... Read More |
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Freedom Adds Data Division |
07/02/07 |
| Watford based reseller Freedom has launched a new data division to capitalise on demand for network provision requested from its customers.
The new data division will ... Read More |
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Dynamic Bills a Hit says Ryder |
07/02/07 |
| Ryder Systems’ ‘Dynamic Report’, the secure telecoms eBill with interactive usage analysis charts, has received a virtually perfect score following end-user trials. The t... Read More |
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Speech On-Demand is very much In-Demand |
07/02/07 |
| Fluency Voice Technology, the speech recognition application company, has announced that it is experiencing great demand for the hosted (On-Demand) version of its speech ... Read More |
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Azlan goes for continued growth with Juniper Networks |
07/02/07 |
| Aims to recruit more resellers and boost market share over coming year
Azlan, the enterprise networking business unit of Tech Data, is embarking on a campaign to furth... Read More |
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SMEs Waking up to IP Possibilities say Mitel |
07/02/07 |
| Speaking to Comms Business Magazine, Alison Brewer, Mitel solutions marketing manager, says that smaller organisations are beginning to wake up to the possibilities of IP... Read More |
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CRM Tops 2007 Wish List of the Next Generation BlackBerry User |
06/02/07 |
| CRM and Field Force Automation is the most popular ‘next generation’ BlackBerry device application for UK companies, according to a survey conducted on behalf of leading ... Read More |
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Sunny Skies from the Cloud |
06/02/07 |
| To coincide with the launch of Windows Vista, The Cloud, Europe’s largest WiFi network operator, has unveiled a new partnership with Microsoft to provide up to three mont... Read More |
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Now is the time to Fully Embrace VoIP say Nimans |
06/02/07 |
| ‘Don’t get left behind’ is the message from leading telecoms distributor Nimans who say VoIP applications are finally coming of age as they continue to accelerate in popu... Read More |
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Comms-care appoints Renewals Manager |
06/02/07 |
| Comms-care, a provider of channel network, and IT maintenance has appointed Charlotte Saunderson, who has taken up the role of Renewals Manager. Saunderson will be respon... Read More |
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If it's Quality you want |
06/02/07 |
| Jim Robertson, commercial director at distributor MTV Telecom told Comms Business Magazine “If it is quality you want in the SME sector then users today have a wide range... Read More |
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Zycko Launch EMEA Isilon VAR Recruitment Drive |
05/02/07 |
| Reseller recruitment underway for vertical market expansion
Zycko, a value-added distributor of converged solutions, has launched an EMEA-wide channel recruitment camp... Read More |
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New Catalogue from Fibre Optech |
05/02/07 |
| Fibre Optech, the specialist distributor of cabling infrastructure and IP based products for the security and communication markets, has launched its new product catalogu... Read More |
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UK LLU Accelerates |
05/02/07 |
| Peter Black, the independent Telecoms Adjudicator has revealed in his January statement that the total number of lines now unbundled in the UK has has passed the 1.5 mill... Read More |
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New Drivers for Call Management say CTI Group |
05/02/07 |
| Call Management vendor CTI Group has told Comms Business Magazine that with a dramatic decrease in call charges the traditional key business requirement for call manageme... Read More |
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NIMANS DELIVERS PHONE SYSTEM TO PACIFIC ISLAND! |
05/02/07 |
| Leading telecoms distributor Nimans has despatched a telephone system thousands of miles to a tiny island near Hawaii, in one of it’s furthest ever deliveries.
The NEC... Read More |
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Tech Data Enter European Mobile Device Distribution Market |
02/02/07 |
| IT Distributor Tech Data Corporation, best known in the UK as Computer 2000, and Brightstar Corp., the world’s largest wireless distributor and supply chain solutions pro... Read More |
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Avaya Raising their UC Credentials |
02/02/07 |
| Avaya is hosting a forum empowering workers through unified communications with IBM, Microsoft and Gartner set to join Avaya to discuss perspectives on unified communicat... Read More |
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ECTA Blames rise in Monopolies for Broadband Slowdown |
02/02/07 |
| The European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA) has reported a significant slow down in Broadband uptake across Europe, falling from 23% to only 7% growth ... Read More |
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Carphone Warehouse Handed £35k Fine |
02/02/07 |
| Carphone Warehouse has been fined £35,000 for making silent calls. It is one of four firms to be rapped by the telecoms regulator Ofcom for ‘causing annoyance’ to consum... Read More |
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BT Extends US Footprint with INS Acquisition |
02/02/07 |
| BT has agreed terms to acquire International Network Services Inc. (INS), a global provider of IT consulting and software solutions. This professional services acquisitio... Read More |
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Top Ranking |
02/02/07 |
| South West Communications Group has been ranked number 39 in the 2006 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 (South), a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in sou... Read More |
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Pipex Crack da Vinci Code |
01/02/07 |
| Demonstrated for first time at Microsoft launch of Windows Vista
Hosting technology from Pipex Business is powering a brand new online experience from the British Libr... Read More |
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Telinet Lands the Job with Mitel |
01/02/07 |
| IP PBX vendor Mitel has announced award winning recruitment agency, Eden Brown has deployed a Mitel IP solution to help consolidate its telephony system.
Having gone t... Read More |
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Sytel Helps Outbound Call Centres Move out of ‘Catch 22’ |
01/02/07 |
| In the wake of Ofcom’s announcement of substantial fines for telemarketing companies announced on 30th January 2007, Sytel has decided to re-run its seminar series for ca... Read More |
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Dealer Sales Reshuffle at Nimans |
01/02/07 |
| Significant changes have been made to its Dealer Sales team by telecoms distributor Nimans, with sales manager Adrian McMahon arriving to spearhead the department – takin... Read More |
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CTP Program Upgrade due in March |
01/02/07 |
| Prosoft Learning who, back in 2001, together with the Telephony Industry Association (TIA), created the Convergence Technologies Professional (CTP) program to solve the s... Read More |
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21CN: Channel Needs Clarity say Zyxel |
01/02/07 |
| Rob Mackinnon, Product Manager for Zyxel has told Comms Business Magazine that the only thing that is clear about BT21CN at the moment is that nothing is clear, and ISPs ... Read More |
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