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The article presents the news related to telecom industry. The market for gigabit Ethernet video routers is expected to expand rapidly now that the equipment can deliver a new generation of digital TV services. Spending on public wireless local area networks in the U.S. and western Europe is forecast to reach almost $6.3 billion (4.7 billion euros) by 2009. Still the market will be small compared with mobile cellular services. Despite a slow-down in growth in 2003 (just 23% compared to 80% in 2002), Voice over Internet Protocol networks traffic in now growing at twice the rate of traditional switched voice and accounts for 11% of international calls.