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HORSHAM, Pa., July 30, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) — Optium Corporation (Nasdaq:OPTM), a leading supplier of high-performance optical subsystems, today announced that based on preliminary financial information, it expects revenue for its fourth fiscal 2007 quarter ended July 28 to be in the range of approximately $26.0 million to $26.5 million. In addition, Optium expects to generate a net loss for the quarter. As the fourth quarter has only recently ended, an estimated net loss per share amount is not available at this time. The net loss per share amount will be driven by lower than expected revenue, lower than expected shipments of higher margin products, as well as underabsorption of manufacturing overhead and potential provisions for inventory reserves resulting from the lower than expected revenue. Optium also announced that its four top ten percent or greater end customers for fiscal 2007 were Scientific Atlanta/Cisco, Ericsson, Alcatel Lucent and Tellabs.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 30, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) — XO Communications (OTCBB:XOHO) has selected Infinera (Nasdaq:INFN) for a major capacity addition to its nationwide network to meet fast-growing demand for bandwidth.

LOS ANGELES, July 30, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) — The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) today announced significant advancement in the development of its Participation TV (P-TV) Draft Code of Practice in the U.S. MEF Americas recently hosted an industry workgroup meeting and a networking event in Los Angeles for executives across the mobile entertainment value chain, with the express goal of ensuring that P-TV services continue to be successful.

SAN DIMAS, Calif., July 30, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) — Wavestream (www.wavestream.com), a manufacturer of compact, highly efficient solid-state power amplifiers, today announced that the company has opened a new North American manufacturing and engineering facility. Maintaining Wavestream's headquarters in San Dimas, Calif., the new 32,000-square foot facility includes a 10,000-square foot manufacturing space as well as a 9,000-square foot RF lab to house more than 50 employees.

In comparison with its international peers, Telstra is not yet tapping into new revenue streams like triple play, IPTV and VoIP. The company is however one of the best-placed telcos in the world to profit from the new developments in digital media, and if Telstra’s CEO, Sol Trujillo, truly wants to leave behind a legacy of good leadership, there is still time to act and change his rearguard tactics to a frontal assault. BuddeComm still predicts a substantial and rapid shift from Telstra, and we wouldn’t be surprised if this culminated in a split up of the company, involving a float of different elements of the company – the parts will be worth more than the whole entity. This report provides a wide range of analyses in relation to Telstra’s current corporate strategies during 2007.

Telecorp is a communications company focused on the prepaid market, providing value-added services to both the consumer and business markets. The company was established in 2000 and has grown steadily through acquiring other businesses. Telecorp offers products and services to the market through three distinct market brands: CardCall, GOtalk and Global Card Services. Services offered include calling card services for the prepaid and postpaid markets, voice services, dial-up and broadband Internet services, as well as teleconferencing and messaging services. In March 2006 Telecorp acquired the SuperSaver phonecard, one of the first phonecards launched in Australia. By 2006, Telecorp’s CardCall international phonecards were up to five times cheaper than Telstra’s standard telephone charges. In September 2006 Telecorp was re-brand as “gotalk”. In April 2007 GoTalk was hoping that a discount ADSL2+ offering would help transform its traditional phone-card customers into online content users.

Soul is a provider of IP telecommunications and multimedia services in the Australian marketplace. Services including voice, Internet and data solutions are provided to a customer base ranging from the consumer market through to the SME, corporate and government sectors. Soul has the largest data network and voice network after Telstra, the largest fully converged voice, video and data IP-based access network in regional Australia and the largest voice-enabled IP network. By early 2007 Soul had completed the installation of 30 regional DSLAMs and is in the process of rolling out another 50. Following the sale of its media assets to PBL media in mid 2007, Soul will focus on its high growth telecommunications operations, multi-media capabilities and media infrastructure assets. Soul also recently signalled its intention to also focus on securing further wins in the large corporate and government data business. By mid 2007 IPTV trials had been proceeding very well. They are looking at a pay TV type model based on content for niche markets.

This report provides detailed marketing and financial analysis of Optus’s financial results up to 2006-2007, as well as an overview of its marketing strategy. It also provides market forecasting up to 2010. As is revealed, with a large proportion of its total revenue attributed to mobile, Optus is starting to feel the pinch of a mobile market that has almost reached the point of saturation. Legacy voice products dropped in its 2006-07 annual results as expected, but what was of most concern, was the extent of that fall. Another problem that Optus will face over the next five years is that gradually the very high growth we are seeing in broadband, due largely to the customer migration of dial-up to broadband products, will taper off as the market begins to move towards saturation. Much of its future direction will indeed depend on the outcome of current regulatory developments surrounding a Fibre-to-the Node (FttN) rollout and the successful operational separation of Telstra. However if Optus plays its cards right, it has the potential to once again exert market force to be a true challenger to the incumbent.

With standardised WiMAX finally arriving there will be several opportunities for this new technology. It still can position itself as an alternative broadband customer access technology. The longer it takes for incumbents to roll out true broadband networks (10Mb/s-plus) the more chance wireless broadband (WiMAX and meshed WiFi) has of securing a position in this market. In the end it will depend on whether the technology case and the business case for WiMAX will stand up against alternative offerings from fixed and other mobile systems. The future of WiMAX however might be more in the area of Mobility and Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs). In mid 2007 WiMAX received a significant boost when OPTEL launched it plans for a regional network.

With a telecommunications history going back to 1872, Australia’s telecommunications infrastructure is advanced and extensive, spanning the large island continent and extending across the Tasman and into Asia. It is these international developments, including backbones across the Tasman Sea and to Asia and the USA, both undersea cable and satellite based, that this report covers. The major operators and their activities are profiled, including the likes of Telstra, Optus, Telecom NZ, and projects such as the Southern Cross Cable Network, Jasaurus, SEA-ME-WE, the Asia Pacific Cable Network, and Intelsat and Inmarsat.