GSM Association BARG/Roamfest Meeting – September 11, 2007 – BSG Clearing Solutions, a subsidiary of Billing Services Group Limited (AIM: BILL), the telecom industry’s clearing and settlement provider, today announced the launch of its Near Real Time Roaming Data Exchange (NRTRDE) service.

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) announced today that Ericsson, a world-leading provider of telecommunications equipment and related services to mobile and fixed network operators globally, has selected AT&T to provide an advanced Virtual Private Network (VPN) across the Middle East region.

Prysmian Telecom Cables & Systems is to embark on a major initiative to support the growing uptake of Fibre To The Home (FTTH) technology in Europe. The 'FTTH European Roadshow' is due to commence in the UK on 4 September and will visit 15 countries over 11 weeks. This will include Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, Spain and France.

AT&T Inc. has announced that the readers of Multi-Housing News have selected AT&T as a 2007 Technology Choice Award Winner in the field of telecommunications. AT&T supports property owners in their work to attract and retain residents with complete, reliable, end-to-end and next-generation communications and entertainment solutions through its recently rebranded AT&T Connected Communities program.

Skype, the provider of a very large internet telephony services, said that it's users were having issues due to outage to log in to Skype and using the service. Skype outage had cause millions of users not being able to log in, which has been due to a software issue.

The end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994 brought the African National Congress to political power along with a mandate for reform of nearly all the nation’s institutions, including the telecommunications sector. But “the reform of telecommunications has largely failed,” according to an analysis by Robert Horwitz, professor of communication at the University of California, San Diego, just published in the journal Telecommunications Policy.

Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) and leading Pakistani operator Warid Telecommunications Limited (Warid Telecom (Pvt.) Limited) today (August 14) announced a new three-year managed services agreement that will deepen the existing strategic partnership between the two companies and marks Ericsson's first multivendor deal in Pakistan.

Verso Technologies, Inc., a global provider of next generation network solutions, announced today that it received a significant additional order from one of China’s largest telecommunications equipment manufacturers that is scheduled for an African deployment. The order is for Verso’s NetPerformer® bandwidth optimization and related products in the amount of $828,000.

Even as telecom regulator TRAI is talking to companies on the issue of capping the number of players in a circle, the Department of Telecom of India is understood to be of the view that the current limit, which goes up to eight in some areas, is unsustainable.

iPhone seemed to be a miracle for the techies. It was long awaited and hard to get. But now it is also announced to be vulnerable.

Ooma, a company providing internet telephone services, is challenging cable telecommunication providers. It now offers free distance calls in the United States.

Research In Motion unveiled its new BlackBerry smart phone that works with both cellular and Wi-Fi networks.