TROY, MI — (Marketwire) — 10/27/09 — Viper Networks, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: VPER), a global telecommunication network operations and technical management company, announced today that it has successfully finalized, pending final regulatory approvals, the acquisition merger with Cirilium India Pvt. Ltd.. This merger with the Company’s joint venture partner, upon completion, will entail a combination of cash, stock and certain technical and operational management contributions.

As previously announced, Cirilium India Pvt. Ltd., based in Chennai, India, is a profitable communications provider with a world class multi-gigabit, multi-protocol convergent IP infrastructure that provides convergent services like voice, data and video through the same Backbone and Broadband Access Network.

The consummation of this merger transaction with Cirilum, provides the Company with the exclusive franchise rights with Bharat Sanchar Nigam, Ltd. (BSNL), and majority ownership for operating the awarded India license both inside and outside of the country.

BSNL is the 7th largest telecommunications company

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LM Ericsson Telephone Co. (ERIC) said it has been selected as one of two suppliers for AT&T Inc.'s (T) Wireline Access products and services. The deal is a major win for Ericsson's wireline business in North America. It will now provide full system solutions within AT&T's wireline access network, significantly accelerating the company's ability to bring new broadband-based products and services to market.

Ericsson will be able to firmly focus on its research and development, strengthen relationships with third-parties, streamline relevant business practices and ensure wireline access product integration to provide AT&T with the best and most innovative solutions available.

Already having approved Ericsson's GPON Fiber to the Home (FTTH) solution for general deployment, AT&T will now start integrating Ericsson's DSL portfolio for Fiber to the Node (FTTN) and IP DSLAM solutions to support its offerings like IPTV, High Speed Internet and VoIP over an all IP

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Stock markets might just have finished a particularly strong quarter - with the S&P 500 Index gaining 15.2% for its best quarter since 1998, the MSCI World Index rising by 19.7% and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index adding 33.6% - but started to look tired last month, and July is also off to a shaky start.

Volume has been declining on rally days and expanding on declining days, which can be construed as bearish action. On July 2, Lowry’s Buying Power Index closed one point below where the Index was at the March 9 stock market lows, i.e. Buying Power is now weaker than it was at the early March bottom.

As doubts persist over the strength of the global economic recovery, the S&P 500 Index, MSCI World Index and MSCI Emerging Markets Index have dropped by 5.0%, 5.9% and 6.3% respectively from their June highs.

Regarding the US

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span style="font-weight: bold;"TW Telecom (NASDAQ:TWTC)/span gets two downgrades this morning:br /div style="text-align: justify;"br /span style="font-weight: bold;"- Merrill Lynch/BAM /spandowngrades TWTC to Underperform from Buy with a $10 tgt on the realization of their thesis, strong stock performance and valuation. TW Telecom shares are discounting a view that the company can maintain its current revenue trajectory and margin profile throughout the economic downturn. Firm's projections are more cautious, as they believe TW Telecom’s contractual business model creates a lagged effect regarding changes in economic activity. TW Telecom faces regional economic pressure.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"- FBR Capital /spannotes TWTC reported better-than-expected 1Q09 results but provided a cautious outlook for 2009, reflecting macro trends, weak enterprise demand, product substitution, and pricing pressure. Results for 1Q09 were largely ahead of consensus and FBR expectations, driven by solid execution amid a difficult environment and reflecting the relative resiliency of the telecom services subscription-based business ...

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Chicago, IL – March 26, 2009 – Zacks.com releases the latest Industry Outlook. Today's interview is with senior analyst Peter Chua, who talks about the Pacific Rim Telecom Industry, including Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PHI).

 

A synopsis of today's Industry Outlook is presented below. The full article can be read at http://at.zacks.com/?id=2678.

 

For telecom services, with its low penetration rate of 40% and low ARPU (average revenue per user), in many cases less than $10 per month, the industry in this region should be more resilient to a downturn.We have a HOLD recommendation for Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PHI) because of their dominant market position in all segments of the industry. PHI is likewise

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For the past several years, the telecom industry in Asia has been one of the fastest growing markets in the world, with year-on-year growth rates of almost 30% for the last five years. By September 2008, mobile subscriber count in Asia reached 1.4 billion, with overall penetration rate of 40%.

Market development in the region is characterized by two extremes. On the one hand are the developed countries with near-saturation penetration rates (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea), and on the other end are emerging markets still in the early to mid-growth stage (China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh).

The effect of a recession in the U.S. would be an economic slowdown in the region, but its effect on the telecom industry in the region would be less pronounced. This is because, unlike in developed countries where the consumers are being sold on replacement/upgrade durable goods, the emerging market consumer still has large untapped

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For the past several years, the telecom industry in Asia has been one of the fastest growing markets in the world, with year-on-year growth rates of almost 30% for the last five years. By September 2008, mobile subscriber count in Asia reached 1.4 billion, with overall penetration rate of 40%.Market development in the region is characterized by two extremes. On the one hand are the developed countries with near-saturation penetration rates (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea), and on the other end are emerging markets still in the early to mid-growth stage (China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh).The effect of a recession in the U.S. would be an economic slowdown in the region, but its effect on the telecom industry in the region would be less pronounced. This is because, unlike in developed countries where the consumers are being sold on replacement/upgrade durable goods, the emerging market ...

Elephant Talk seeks to become a supplier of choice for Business-to-Business telecommunications and content services. By combining fixed line and wireless access services through contractual arrangements with an unrestricted number of first/last mile telecom providers, Elephant Talk is able to offer innovative Mobile, Content, VoIP and Media Streaming as well as more traditional telecom services including: Carrier (Pre) Select, Premium Rate, Shared Cost and Toll Free Services.

Such contracts have expanded the company’s footprint into sophisticated networks in over a dozen markets in Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. Partners like KPN in the Netherlands, Telefonica in Spain, Swisscom in Switzerland, Telecom Italia in Italy, and Belgacom in Belgium have laid the groundwork for exciting partnerships to come; notably an upcoming definitive contract with T-Mobile in the near future.

Recently, Elephant Talk announced that its first Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE) platform using the antenna network of T-Mobile became operational in

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Monday October 27, 2008 Navivest

Telecom services provider CenturyTel Inc. (CTL) announced today that it will acquire EMBARQ Corp. (EQ), in a $5.8 billion deal. If the deal goes through, the combined company would have about 8 million landlines in 33 states.

Under the terms of the agreement, EMBARQ (EQ) shareholders will receive 1.37 CenturyTel (CTL) shares for each share of EMBARQ (EQ) common stock that they own. CenturyTel (CTL) will also assume $5.8 billion of EMBARQ’s (EQ) debt.

With CenturyTel’s (CTL) stock price close of $29.50 on Friday October 24, 2008, this translates into $40.42 in CenturyTel (CTL) stock for each EMBARQ (EQ) share, a 36% premium to EMBARQ’s (EQ) closing price of $29.74 on Friday and 11% over EMBARQ’s (EQ) average closing price over the past thirty trading days.

It is expected that the deal will be accretive to CenturyTel’s (CTL) free cash flow per share in 2010, the first

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We maintain our BUY recommendation for Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, or PLDT (PHI). PLDT is the country's dominant telecommunications service provider with a leading presence in all segments of the industry. PLDT continues to generate substantial free cash flow enabling higher cash dividend payout and acquisitions. However, rising fuel and food prices could unfavorably affect revenue growth rate as these compete with telecom services for a share of consumer expenditure.Shares are currently trading at 8.8x our estimate for 2008 earnings, which represents a significant discount to most other telecom carriers in both developed countries and emerging markets. Although the uncertainty related to the current credit crisis could further dampen capital market sentiment, the company s dominant position in the industry and robust free cash flow represents sound fundamental value. At a dividend yield of over 8%, we believe valuations would improve once normal ...