Avaya Inc. said on Monday it agreed to be acquired by private equity firms TPG Capital and Silver Lake for $8.2 billion, the latest in a string of deals in the telecommunications-equipment industry, reported Reuters.

Millions of customers are set to benefit as British Telecom (BT) today slashed the prices of its Option 2 and 3 call packages by up to 20 per cent. The price cuts mean that BT offers the best value for inclusive call packages, undercutting all its major competitors 1 .

T-Mobile offers its customers the best HSDPA network in Germany. This is the clear result of a broad-based test conducted by the magazine "connect," the leading technical journal on telecommunications, which recently took a close look at the performance of mobile broadband networks in Germany.

Apple will release new iPhone which will combine music player, mobile phone and web access device all in one.

Telecommunications Technology will in the Coming Years Have a Profound Impact on Many Societies in Africa, Contributing Largely to the Economic Growth and Wealth of Millions of People on the Continent.

Alliance integrates Atreus xAuthority with BEA Liquid Services Framework in order to Help Reduce the Time and Cost to Deploy Voice, Data and Multimedia Services

Agreement Enables BREW Locate Signature Solution Customers to Effectively Deploy and Manage Revenue-Generating, Location-Based Services

Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) has been selected by Telecom Egypt, the largest fixed operator in the Middle East and Africa, to expand its transport network in the Nile delta area.

Seven New Products Tailored to Emerging Markets Launched in New Delhi, India

New provider Armenian Datacom Company (ADC) appeared on the market of telecommunication services in Armenia. During the opening ceremony ADC General Director Harold Gritten said that the XXI century telecommunication network will operate in Armenia, which provides super modern corporative networks with powerful coverage and access to the Internet.

A book which gives an overview of plasmonics, an area of physics that could revolutionise computing and telecommunications over the next two decades, has been published by a researcher at the University of Bath, UK.

Fibre optics is the backbone of the telecommunications industry, the technology behind the internet revolution. But although the next generation of optical telecommunications networks promises greatly increased bandwidth, it also requires novel components for signal processing that are beyond the scope of today's electronics.