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Wi-LAN, Inc., a Canadian innovator in the wireless data/Internet communications

industry, formed a strategic partnership with Amplify.net, a Silicon Valley startup specializing in broadband service-enabling solutions. Wi-LAN will provide Amplify.net's bandwidth solutions for Wi-LAW's wireless data products. Two other corporate investors, 3Com Corp. and Kingston Technology Corp., have taken a minority equity position in Amplify.net.... Telstra and STAR Telecom formed a network alliance which will accelerate Telstra's expansion in the U.S. STAR Telecom will provide Telstra with bandwidth capacity and network control services from its data center in Los Angeles, Calif.... Italian fixed telecom carrier, Infostrada, agreed to install ADC's network performance management technology, Metrica/NPR, for wireline management to guarantee quality and consistency of service as it manages massive growth in traffic and rolls out new capacity. In a year's time, Infostrada's business and private fixed-line subscriber base increased 136% to over two million. It also holds 28% of the Italian market for Internet access.... VoiceStream Wireless Corp., a GSM provider in the U.S., announced that it will implement Amdocs' Ensemble end-to-end customer care and billing system to support all of its subscribers.... Xpedior, Inc., provider of e-business solutions to Global 2000 companies and emerging digital business, and Delano Technology Corp., provider of interaction-based e-business solutions for the enterprise, have signed an agreement that will result in new integrated solutions for companies seeking e-business technologies that leverage email and the Web to support on-line customers, suppliers, partners, and employees.