DEALS: Vendors gear up for new business lines


Vendors gear up for new business lines; NTT DoCoMo partners to expand i-mode.


DEALS

WHO

WITH

WHAT

SCOOP

Spirent Communications

SwissQual

Spirent will buy SwissQual for $70.5M in cash

The acquisition will enhance Spirent's portfolio of wireless test and measurement solutions and opens up a new business segment: subscriber experience management.

NTT DoCoMo

Philippine Long Distance Telephone

DoCoMo is purchasing about 7% of PLDT's shares for about $446M

DoCoMo also said it will partner with PLDT to launch DoCoMo's i-mode multimedia service in the Philippines.

West

Intrado

West will acquire Intrado for about $465M in cash

West plans to integrate Intrado into its Communications Services segment.

DataPath

Third Rails America

DataPath acquired Third Rail Americas for an undisclosed price

DataPath said the acquisition would allow it to add a terrestrial wireless component to its satellite offerings.

InterDigital

LG Electronics

InterDigital signed a $285M patent license deal with LG

InterDigital entered into a 5-year, non-exclusive patent licensing agreement with LG for 2G technologies, including TDMA, GSM, GPRS and EDGE, as well as W-CDMA, TD-SCDMA and CDMA2000-based 3G technologies.