TELECOM IN TODAY'S NEWSPAPERS

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Top Story nnCommunications Daily -- President Bush will nominate FCC Comr. Michael Copps to serve out a 5-year FCC term and Republican Tenn. regulator Deborah Tate for the rest of a 5-year term (p1; N.Y. Times; Chicago Tribune; L.A. Times). nnAmong OthersnnWall St. Journal* -- Telephone-network outages have grown more severe and are taking longer to repair, despite a strengthening of U.S. systems to withstand terrorism and natural disasters.nn -- The tepid U.S. response to the music-playing cellphone is surprising given strong demand in Asia and Europe.nn -- Siemens's profit skidded 88%, hit by losses at its information-technology and mobile-phone units.nnFinancial Times* -- John Caudwell, the billionaire founder of the Caudwell telecom group, has decided to try to sell his entire business rather than float it.nn -- Deutsche Telekom accused Madrid of unfairly subsidizing foreign acquisitions by Spanish companies.nnNYT -- A federal judge in Va. said Wed. it was "highly unlikely" he would delay a patent case against the maker of the BlackBerry that could result in a ban on its use in the U.S.nnWashington Post -- Verizon said it sued a Fla.-based private investigative agency to stop it from trying to obtain confidential information about wireless customers.nnCD -- House telecom draft angered Democrats, who say they weren’t consulted on changes weakening franchise fee collections, consumer protections and network neutrality (p2). nnCommunications Business Daily -- Forced spectrum sharing would damage the reliability of wireless networks, Verizon Wireless CTO told the DySPAN conference (p1).nn -- Internet giants are emerging as new VoIP telecom powers, Sonus CEO tells analysts (p3; Washington Internet Daily, p5). nnWID -- Internet firms fear regulation of services that is suggested in the latest House telecom bill (p1). n nn_____________________nn*The Wall St. Journal and the Financial Times can be accessed online via paid subscription only.