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August 14, 2009

Embarq Corporation Enters into Patent License with Klausner Technologies



By Anil Sharma, TMCnet Contributor


Embarq Corporation reportedly has entered into a patent license agreement with Klausner Technologies, Inc. for its Visual Voicemail services.

 
Klausner officials said that the Visual Voicemail patent license covers, among other products, the EMBARQ eGo DECT 6.0 Phone on the Embarq (News - Alert) network built by VTech, which includes the Visual Voicemail feature.
 
Embarq is the 24th company to license Klausner Technologies’ (News - Alert) Visual Voicemail patents. Current licensees of the Visual Voicemail patents include major US and European wireless service providers, handset manufacturers, cable operators, and other providers of Visual Voicemail services.
 
"We are pleased announce Embarq as our 24th Visual Voicemail patent licensee," said Judah Klausner, CEO of Klausner Technologies, in a statement. “Our patented technology lets consumers view, prioritize, and select voice messages from their mobile phones or from the Web.”
 
Klausner Technologies was founded by Klausner, an inventor of the PDA and electronic organizer. It owns 25 patents, worldwide, covering the basic Visual Voicemail feature in which subscribers selectively listen to their messages via cell phones or computers.
 
In July, CenturyTel (News - Alert), Inc. and Embarq Corp. announced that they completed their merger. The combined company, which will be known as CenturyLink, serves more than 2.1 million broadband customers, more than 440,000 video subscribers and approximately 7.5 million access lines in 33 states, based on operating results as of March 31.
 
CenturyLink expects to generate annual full run-rate operating and capital synergies of approximately $400 million by 2011. Based on this synergy level and operating results of the two companies for the twelve months ended Dec. 31, 2008, CenturyTel would have had combined revenue of more than $8 billion, combined operating cash flow of over $4.2 billion and combined free cash flow of approximately $1.9 billion.
 

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Anil Sharma is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anil’s articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Amy Tierney


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