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Un-unified communications

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Unified communications adoption is being held back by vendors’ failure to make their systems work together. But could the channel benefit from this trend, asks Doug Woodburn

13 Apr 2012

Resellers to grow fat off UC interoperability delta

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Lack of progress among vendors means resellers will be needed to tie the systems together, Gartner analyst argues

28 Mar 2012

AVM moves further into unified communications

UC market set to weather economic storm in UK

Timico snaps up London comms VAR Redwood

Keyboard buy and sell keys

Avaya and Mitel partner sells up to ISP group

09 Feb 2012

Mitel: No plans to move back to two-tier model

Signing of Trust Distribution designed to give vendor access to small business space, but wider single-tier model is here to stay

19 Sep 2011

Mitel puts Trust in first UK distributor since 2007

Comms vendor appoints Lancashire outfit to distribute 5000 CP product, four years after canning all five UK distributors

16 Sep 2011

Avaya heads PBX market but EMEA sales remain sluggish

New Jersey-based vendor consolidates top spot but second quarter is a mixed bag for comms market

18 Aug 2011

Unnamed VAR grabs ex-Mitel man to create identity

Ex SpiriTel boss enlists sales and marketing director to create a brand identity for his new VAR

11 Jul 2011

May divorce be with you: IT's most explosive break-ups

We run through the top five tales of love gone wrong. Which one gets your vote as the most memorable split?

28 Apr 2011

Jewell takes Brocade crown in UK

Mitel man Marcus Jewell appointed vendor's UK and Ireland boss

30 Mar 2011

UC market hits highest growth for two years

Market expands seven per cent in Q3 as Microsoft readies itself for Lync push

22 Nov 2010

Daisy and SpiriTel unite in comms mega-merger

Acquisitive publicly listed providers join forces as Daisy lays out £27.5m on London rival

10 Nov 2010

Scalable and Alternative in Mitel marriage

Two of comms vendor's top UK partners join forces as Alternative Networks agrees £10m buyout of rival

04 Oct 2010

Mitel drives Ryder Cup comms

Vendor supplies IP telephony kit to this weekend's transatlantic golf competition

01 Oct 2010

Mitel drops IPO price

Vendor to raise about $150m from upcoming flotation, but $14-a-share price is way below previous estimate

22 Apr 2010

Telephony market begins recovery as 2009 ends

Western European market shrinks 23 per cent in 2009 as vendor competition intensifies

01 Mar 2010

Mitel unveils software goal

Vendor looks to voice and virtualisation partners to help drive plans to become a "software-centric" company

19 Feb 2010

Comms VAR Qubic Ltd hits the wall

Mitel and ProCurve partner is liquidated despite impressive growth last year

18 Feb 2010

Licensing boon for VARs as Mitel makes it simple

Channel welcomes vendor's software shake-up

12 Feb 2010

Mitel EMEA chief braced for public spending cuts

Vendor's regional leader Graham Bevington prepared for "double-dip recession " to bite comms market after election

10 Feb 2010

PBX market begins long road to recovery in Q2

UK market shrinks by a quarter year on year but returns to sequential growth following torrid Q1

23 Sep 2009

Mitel cuts avoid VAR support

Comms vendor stresses that new management structure is designed to protect channel engagement

14 Sep 2009

UPDATE: Mitel denies direct plan as Kenneally departs

Vendor confirms departure of UK sales chief after management reshuffle but refutes rumours of direct sales team

04 Sep 2009

Gardner toasts first-year success

Industry stalwart Ty Gardner enjoys successful first year at Comms Solve Technologies and aims for further growth

25 Jun 2009

Mitel offers creative finance deals

Mitel looks to enhance financing support for existing partners and selectively recruit disillusioned VARs from rivals

08 Jun 2009

Cataclysmic Q4 for UK PBX market

Total extensions plummet by a fifth year on year as both ends of the market shrink

10 Mar 2009

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