Bouygues Telecom News

Alcatel-Lucent has stuck another LTE feather in its cap, landing an exclusive gig to provide French carrier Bouygues Telecom with the network elements and services it needs to conduct trials in early 2010.

Alcatel-Lucent today announced that Bouygues Telecom has selected its end-to-end Long Term Evolution solution for a trial of mobile broadband services ; this trial is intended to evaluate the performance of LTE services in the 1800 MHz spectrum band.

Orascom Telecom, a leading telecom services provider in Egypt, would be interested in buying French telecom group Bouygues Telecom if parent Bouygues wanted to sell, but there are currently no discussions, Orascom's chairman told a paper.

Naguib Sawiris, the chairman of Egyptian communications group Orascom Telecom, is reportedly interested in acquiring French telco Bouygues Telecom if its parent Bouygues is willing to sell, La Tribune reports.

Envivio Inc. today announced that its 4Caster C4 video encoder is being used by Bouygues Telecom, one of France's largest mobile network operators with ten million subscribers, to encode video for its TV 3G+ mobile video service.

French mobile operator Bouygues Telecom has selected Openwave's traffic management solution to manage and optimise its network traffic amid rising demand for data and bandwidth-hungry services.

Openwave Systems Inc . , one of the world's leading software innovators offering a proactive mediation platform and tools to mobilize the Internet, has announced that Bouygues Telecom, a French mobile operator that is part of the Bouygues Group, has selected Openwave's traffic management solution to manage and optimize its network traffic.

French national champion Nicolas Vogondy Bichot, Charteau and Vogondy join Bernaudeau's French team Bbox Bouygues Telecom team manager Jean-Ren Bernaudeau has three new riders for next season.

Two of France's three mobile network operators have filed formal complaints against the regulator's upcoming 3G license auction.

While some of the overall contenders for the 2010 Tour de France may look with fear upon the route's early stages in Belgium and Northern France, the Quick Step team and Classics specialist Tom Boonen will certainly be aiming for victory on familiar terrain.

French cycling will have only two ProTour teams in the peloton in 2010 following the UCI's decision to deny the renewal of the Cofidis and Bouygues Telecom licenses to the sport's top tier.

Columbia-HTC's Andre Greipel takes 20th win of the season in Paris-Bourges. The 85th win of the Columbia-HTC team in 2009.

While team mate Filippo Pozatto was took the win in Italy Saturday, Russian team mate Pavel Brutt doubled the weekend wins for the Katusha outfit when he made good on a late attack to take an impressive solo victory in the 38th edition of the Tour de Vendee.

Despite impressive performances by riders like Moncoutie, Cofidis' poor rankings may have ended the team's ProTour status.

Out of favour: Thomas Voeckler may be able to repeat his stage winning heroics with Bbox Bouygues Telecom at next year's Tour de France, but not on the ProTour The decision comes just two days after the Road Race World Championships in Mendrisio, Switzerland, where UCI members gathered for their annual committee meeting to discuss key issues facing ...

French national team boss Laurent Jalabert on Saturday said his men must take inspiration from their compatriot Romain Sicard as they attempt to end a drought stretching back to Laurent Brochard's World Championship win in San Sebastian in 1997.

Team RadioShack and Sky could know as soon as Friday whether or not they will form part of the International Cycling Union's ProTour in 2010.

German cyclist Andre Greipel claimed his third stage victory of the Vuelta a Espana on Tuesday, while Alejandro Valverde retained the leader's jersey after finishing in the pack.

"IF I commit suicide, or if I die in a car accident in the next three months or so, you will know the threats were serious, because I am not feeling at all suicidal and I drive very slowly." Xavier Niel, the founder of Iliad, a young broadband firm which has upended France's internet-access market and wants to do the same for mobile telephony, says ...

"As former CEO of Worldspace Europe, Chereau has a deep understanding and passion for the massive potential that is European satellite radio," confirms Dave Krueger , CEO of ONDAS Media.