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Update on Tekelec Switching Purchase

November 3, 2006

Phil Harvey recently updated me on the situation with Light Reading's take on the Tekelec switching division being sold to Ericsson:

Our sources may be wrong on the acquirer. We updated our story yesterday and are still following up with everyone we talked to. Evidently things are pretty fluid over there at Tekelec and the top candidate changes from day to day.

FCC Delays the AT&T/BellSouth Merger Again

November 3, 2006
The FCC commissioners remain deadlocked on the AT&T/BellSouth merger and although it is widely believed the merger will happen, it is the conditions placed upon the new company – employing 300,000 employees that has ye to be decided. This article tells us that McDowell may be forced to vote. If he does it will make things very interesting. As you may remember from my previous writings he worked for Comptel and this merger is exactly what he wouldn’t want to happen as a representative of that association.