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Alcatel-Lucent today announces its partnership Avetel, a new value-added distributor, to address the needs of local integrators who install and support communication solutions for small and medium businesses (SMB) in Portugal.

Avetel, a nation wide distributor of telecommunications equipment in Portugal, with a particular strong presence in the North of the country will play a leading role energizing the Portuguese SMB and Mid market and in delivering the Alcatel-Lucent Business Partner Program.

With this program – designed to recruit, train, certify, support, and provide innovative communication solutions to indirect resellers in order to broaden distribution and better address the growing SMB and Mid market in Portugal – Avetel will be able to be assisted with SME-focused marketing campaigns and messaging guidance. Sales training will focus on the importance of end-user engagement, and on transformation of business processes rather than just providing technical solution details. This emphasis is particularly important as business partners help smaller companies, which often have limited IT expertise.

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Listen to your favourite sounds while on the move with the trendy Outdoor Wireless Speaker MS500. A first for Sony Ericsson, the colourful and powerful Bluetooth™ speaker gives you a festival experience wherever you are or want to go!

Whether hanging out on a beach or enjoying urban life, the superior sound quality and cool design of the MS500 will impress all your friends.

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Univision Communications Inc., the premier Spanish-language media company in the United States, and AT&T* today announced a multi-year content agreement as part of the AT&T U-verseSM TV channel lineup.

The agreement includes continued carriage of Univision’s owned and operated broadcast stations; affiliated stations owned and operated by Entravision Communications Corporation (NYSE:EVC), Equity Media Holdings Corporation, Calipatria Broadcasting Company, LLC and JKB Associates, Inc.; and distribution of the cable network, Galavisión, and the network feeds for Univision and TeleFutura.

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The National Football League (NFL) today announced that it has selected Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) as the official supplier of end-to-end 802.11a/b/g (Wi-Fi) wireless networking solutions for all media covering Super Bowl XLIII. For the fourth year, the NFL will leverage Motorola’s expertise in secure enterprise-class wireless communications to offer reliable wireless connectivity for the more than 4,000 media members covering every pregame and game-day Super Bowl story.

Super Bowl XLIII is a demanding environment due to the business critical expectations, temporary facilities, high user density and radio frequency (RF) congestion. Motorola’s wireless network overcomes these challenges to enable the media to seamlessly access the Internet while moving through several on-site Super Bowl venues. Media interested in accessing the wireless network, powered by Motorola, can easily connect to the Internet from the media areas at the Super Bowl XLIII Media Center (Tampa Convention Center), in the team hotels and at the press areas of Raymond James Stadium by using their Wi-Fi compliant computing devices (laptops, PDAs or cellular phones).

Motorola is an industry leader in providing end-to-end networking solutions for the home, business and government. For Super Bowl XLIII, Motorola has deployed Motorola RFS6000 wireless switches, AP300 access ports, AP5131 mesh-enabled access points and Motorola AirDefense Solutions wireless security sensors. Offering industry-leading security and resiliency, the Super Bowl XLIII wireless network will allow members of the media to access and upload rich multimedia content, file news stories or blog about their experiences from any Wi-Fi-enabled device they carry.

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In today’s challenging economic environment, businesses need to pay only for the tools that are critical to how they conduct business. With new and unique Nextel Direct Connect(R) Custom Plans available from Sprint, businesses can do exactly that. They can easily select a plan that includes the tools their workgroups use most and the flexibility to add a bucket of minutes based on what will actually be used. The new plans provide unlimited Direct Connect, Group Connect, Mobile-to-Mobile, Text Messaging and Picture Mail, starting at $29.99 per month.

With other mobile providers, a business is asked to choose a plan based on monthly anytime voice minutes required per user and then pay incrementally for features such as push-to-talk, text messaging and picture mail. While this approach makes sense for consumers, businesses use mobile communications tools differently and need plans to address the fact that most communication occurs between workgroup members. With Nextel Direct Connect Custom Plans, the focus is on key services used most by workgroups, which are bundled with unlimited usage, at a low flat monthly rate. A business can then attach a bucket of anytime voice minutes to be shared with the entire workgroup.

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