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Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) has been selected by Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) to expand and enhance its GSM/WCDMA/HSPA networks, providing the operator’s mobile customers with greater coverage and higher data speeds. The contract is worth US$160million.

Ericsson will provide a complete IP-based radio access and common core network. The system is designed to carry large volumes of traffic, providing SingTel’s 2.6 million mobile customers with improved services and better coverage island-wide, both indoors and outdoors.

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Nokia and Informatica Corporation announced that Informatica, the leading independent provider of data integration software, has completed the acquisition of Identity Systems, which was initially announced on April 17, 2008. With this acquisition, Informatica will assume full ownership of Identity Systems, effective from May 15, 2008. Identity Systems is a global leader in enterprise software development for identity resolution, providing fast, highly accurate and scalable solutions to profile, cleanse, group, match and consolidate data within computer systems and network databases.

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AT&T announced a new contract to provide network services to The RoomPlace. The Lombard-based company operates 22 stores in Chicago, suburban Chicago and Indiana.

Under the terms of the three-year contract, AT&T will serve as The RoomPlace’s primary network and data transport services provider. AT&T will equip 27 sites in all, including hosted data and disaster recovery centers and a state-of-the-art distribution center, by using AT&T’s Multiprotocol Label Switching Private Network Transport (MPLS PNT) service and Ethernet Dedicated Internet Access on AT&T’s OPT-E-MAN® service, a switched Ethernet service.

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AT&T announced a new three-year network service contract with West Suburban Bank. Based in Lombard, West Suburban Bank is a community banking company with 34 locations throughout Illinois.

Under terms of the contract, AT&T will serve as the primary service provider for West Suburban Bank, delivering AT&T OPT-E-MAN® service, a custom switched Ethernet service to connect multiple sites. The OPT-E-MAN optical transport solution will be used by West Suburban Bank to enhance Internet access and other real-time communication among its locations and with its customers.

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AT&T announced that leading industry analyst firm Gartner, Inc. has positioned AT&T in the Leaders Quadrant of its Managed and Professional Network Service Providers, North America¹ report.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant report is a guide for midsize businesses and large companies to identify and evaluate vendors that deliver IT services in support of connectivity and communications infrastructure (for example, Internet Protocol [IP] telephony hardware and software). The report assesses IT services providers on their product or service, overall viability, sales execution and pricing, among other criteria. Gartner defines managed and professional network services as, “multiyear, annuity-based agreements for network IT services in support of connectivity services and/or communications infrastructure. These include network and telecom expense management, network maintenance, network consulting, network development and integration, and network management.”

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Ever wonder which ringtones alert your favorite celebrities to a call from mom or management?

AT&T announced today the launch of the ‘Ringtone A-List’ (www.att.com/ringtonealist), a hot new Web site that unveils the sounds found on the wireless phones of today’s top stars. From Lauren Conrad, Whitney Port and Audrina Patridge of MTV’s hit reality show “The Hills” to Panic at the Disco members to champion professional bull rider Justin McBride, the AT&T Ringtone A-List is the only place that fans will be able to learn which songs are blowin’ up the wireless phones of their favorite celebs.

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AT&T today announced a three-year contract with Best-One Tire & Service, an independent U.S. distributor of the top automotive tire brands. Under the terms of the contract, AT&T will deliver complete Internet Protocol (IP)-based solutions and other telecommunications services that give Best-One Tire & Service the flexibility and efficiency to compete in the marketplace. AT&T will also manage its voice services.

AT&T IP Flexible Reach uses Voice over IP (VoIP) technology to provide Best-One Tire & Service with the benefits of IP-based voice and data applications. All on one network with scalable bandwidth, the new IP Flexible Reach solution uses an existing analog network platform to distribute calls for optimal call routing and volume control.

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AT&T today announced a three-year contract with Best-One Tire & Service, an independent U.S. distributor of the top automotive tire brands. Under the terms of the contract, AT&T will deliver complete Internet Protocol (IP)-based solutions and other telecommunications services that give Best-One Tire & Service the flexibility and efficiency to compete in the marketplace. AT&T will also manage its voice services.

AT&T IP Flexible Reach uses Voice over IP (VoIP) technology to provide Best-One Tire & Service with the benefits of IP-based voice and data applications. All on one network with scalable bandwidth, the new IP Flexible Reach solution uses an existing analog network platform to distribute calls for optimal call routing and volume control.

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This graduation season, Verizon Wireless customers can choose from a variety of phones and accessories. Whether entering college or the job market, Verizon Wireless has cool new phones, PDAs, smartphones, and stylish and fun accessories for the graduating Class of 2008:

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Sprint and Samsung Electronics Corporation Ltd. announced today that a new broadband wireless network offering the speed and mobility of WiMAX has met Sprint’s rigorous commercial acceptance criteria including overall performance, handoff performance and handoff delay. This key technical milestone has been passed after extensive evaluation both in the XOHM(TM) lab environment and with the commercial service network being built in the Baltimore and Washington D.C. area. Sprint plans on launching commercial WiMAX service in those cities later this year.

Samsung has been working with Sprint in the United States to test and build Sprint’s XOHM mobile broadband Internet service compliant to the mobile WiMAX standard. Since finalizing a supply agreement in 2007, the two companies have steadily made progress on the extensive project with previous key milestones including first data session in the lab (June 2007), first data session on the live network (October 2007) and successful interoperability testing with multiple other device vendors (April 2008).

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