Nortel and IBM announced a new service assurance solution combining IBM Tivoli Netcool Carrier VoIP Manager software with network consulting and integration services from Nortel. This solution is for communication service providers seeking greater network capacity and performance with lower costs.

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stop the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). To help keep it that way, the agency has awarded a one-year, estimated US$6 million IT services contract extension to Nortel Government Solutions.

SURFnet, a global leader in advanced network research, is enhancing the collaborative powers of academics at universities and higher education institutions in The Netherlands using a Nortel intelligent optical solution. The network powers the showcase StarPlane project which utilises pure optical technology to deliver on-demand computing power.

Nortel has teamed with Northwestern University to demonstrate an international network - designed and optimized to deliver digital media and video - based on next-generation optical network technology.

More than 20,000 students and staff at the University of Tsukuba are benefiting from increased speed and access to sophisticated new learning technologies after the university upgraded its campus network with a Nortel* [NYSE/TSX: NT] Ethernet solution providing unprecedented speed.

Taiwan Post, the largest postal, banking and insurance services provider in Taiwan, will ensure customers will continue to be served and catastrophic failure to business operations averted in the event of disaster through a Nortel [NYSE/TSX: NT] Metro Ethernet solution.

Nortel [NYSE/TSX: NT] announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a limited share purchase plan as a vehicle to enable certain Nortel executive officers to purchase common shares from Nortel to satisfy share ownership guidelines.

Nortel [NYSE/TSX: NT] is enabling regional service providers throughout North America to simplify the transition from traditional voice technology to VoIP making it possible for their customers to take telephony to the next level with new calling features, online account management and VoIP integration into multimedia services like IPTV.

New IP Powered Business solutions from Nortel [NYSE/TSX: NT] are making it easy for service providers around the world to sell and host pre-tested VoIP services to small and medium sized businesses (SMB)

Belize Telemedia Limited, the leading telecommunications service provider in Belize, has announced it will expand its wireless coverage within the country, while also reaching new rural communities in Belize, by deploying Nortel [NYSE/TSX: NT] wireless technology.

Nortel announces that Videotron, a Quebec communications services operator providing telephony, Internet access, television and wireless services to residential and business customers, is now offering customers the ability to communicate anywhere, over any device with one of the first deployments of a new Soft Phone service that provides videocalling and customizable VoIP call routing functions with a new cable solution.

Regional service provider Kerman Telephone (KermanTel) has selected Nortel [NYSE/TSX: NT] to roll out wireless data and IPTV services to its customers in this central California town.