TELECOM IN TODAY'S NEWSPAPERS

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Top StorynnWall St. Journal* -- AT&T reported a 74% earnings jump, a sign that its acquisitions are starting to pay off; it plans to roll out a HDTV version of U-verse IPTV in 15 markets by year end (Financial Times*; N.Y. Times; USA Today; Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Chicago Tribune; Communications Daily, p3). nnAmong OthersnnWSJ -- Vivendi filed suit in U.S. court against Deutsche Telekom and a Polish oligarch, after being stymied in Europe (FT).nn -- Telmex is expected to announce the purchase of a group of Spanish-language phone directories in the U.S., making a foray into one of the country's fastest-growing demographic markets.nn -- Nokia won a minor legal victory against Qualcomm when an appeals court sent back a decision to deny Nokia's motion to stay its patent dispute.nn -- Japan's Softbank debuted a discount price plan for its mobile service in a bid to take customers from rivals, as new govt. rules make it easier for users to switch providers (FT).nnNYT -- Moscow prosecutors say they're investigating whether 30,000 mobile phones that were supposedly destroyed were in fact sold at knockdown prices in stores in the Russian provinces.nnCD -- Voters in 9 states will fill 15 contested state commission seats in the Nov. 7 election. Hot issues are ethics, telecom infrastructure, consumer responsiveness (p2).nnWashington Internet Daily -- ISPs losing dial-up customers can turn to in-building broadband over power lines, says Telkonet executive (p3; CD, p4).nnL.A. Times -- Robert McDowell's confirmation as the 5th member of the FCC was supposed to end a 2-2 partisan deadlock that had stymied the agency on several issues for more than a year.nnNewsday -- U.S. asked Namibia to extradite former Comverse Technology head Jacob "Kobi" Alexander as his ex-finance chief agreed to plead guilty in an options probe. n n_____________________nn*The Wall St. Journal and the Financial Times can be accessed online via paid subscription only.