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Telcordia has been chosen to administer number portability in Chile, which is set to go into effect July 29. Telcordia presented the best technical-economic setting a transaction value for each switch in exchange for 377 pesos (US$ 0.82). According to …

Chile’s Secretary of Telecommunications (Subtel) said that four companies – Telcordia, Indra,Informática El Corte Inglés and Neustar – presented technical and economic offers to manage Chile’s number portabilitydatabase. The winner will be announced on Aug. 5, and then will have 120 …

Qualcomm announced it has agreed to acquire substantially all of the assets of Rapid Bridge LLC, a San Diego-based inventor of advanced techniques for the design and development of semiconductor products. Rapid Bridge’s San Diego design team and San Diego/Bangalore …

L.M. Ericsson (ERIC) announced it plans to acquire privately held Telcordia for $1.15 billion in an all-cash transaction, strengthening Ericsson’s portfolio of operations support systems/business support systems. Telcordia’s 2,600 employees are expected to become Ericsson employees when the transaction closes …

Eric Schmidt announced, via his blog, that he is stepping down as CEO of Google. Larry Page will be taking over the day-to-day business as Google’s new CEO and Schmidt will transition to executive chairman. Schmidt declared that he will …

The Open Rich Media Mobile Advertising (ORMMA) initiative unveiled its rich media advertising specifications and open source code for publishers who want to serve rich media campaigns across all mobile platforms and devices, said the group. The ORMMA initiative was …

Telcordia said Garry K. McGuire has been elected non-executive chairman of the company’s board of directors. McGuire has held a seat on the board since 2006 and is the former chief financial officer and senior vice president of corporate development …

Editor’s Note: This is an article from our September Special Edition, Behind the Scenes: A focus on integrated subscriber and network management systems. During the next few weeks, RCR Wireless News will be posting a variety of articles addressing the …

Mobilicity, which provides3.5G pay-in-advance services in Canada, deployed Amdocs‘ products using a managed services model to establish its entire OSS and BSS operations. The Amdocs customer experience systems support the entire order-to-cash and order-to-activation processes for Mobilicity, starting with new …

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Gemalto said it has been chosen by KDDI in Japan to provide its User Identity Module cards and Trusted Service Management solution for an upcoming near-field communications program. The pilot program will run from May through December and allows users …

The BWA spectrum auction under way in India continues to be an intensely competitive affair. By the time it concludes, a pan-India BWA spectrum slot could end up costing as much or more than a pan-India 3G spectrum slot – …

Part 3 of a 3 part interview with Tom Kershaw, Senior VP and General Manager, Interconnections Solutions, Telcordia.

Part 2 of a 3 part interview with Tom Kershaw, Senior VP and General Manager, Interconnections Solutions, Telcordia.

Part 1 of a 3 part interview with Tom Kershaw, Senior VP and General Manager, Interconnections Solutions, Telcordia.