Editorial Contacts

2008 Editorial Calendar Topics and Contacts

If you would like to solicit an idea for one of our staff-written features, we ask that you contact only the editor listed next to the appropriate topic. We also ask that you contact the editor not earlier than one month before the publication of the feature.

Issue Date/Feature Topic

Editor

March 17 issue

Teleconferencing versus Business Travel: Will the green option ever win? For decades now, telecommuting and teleconferencing have been touted as more environmentally friendly ways of doing business. Telepresence now looms a the next big thing to being there. But will it really have an impact on the way corporations do business? Is global warming a real enough threat to change long-established habits?

Dawn Bushaus, dbushaus@mindspring.com

Web Services in the Telecom World

Rich Karpinski, rkarpinski@telephonyonline.com

New IPTV Applications

Sarah Reedy, sreedy@telephonyonline.com

Guide to IPTV (A supplement to Telephony)

Carol Wilson, cwilson3@telephonyonline.com

March 31 issue

The New Service Provider: The dynamics of operating as a service provider have changed drastically. New technologies and changing market realities are forcing operators to find new ways of running their business, generating revenues, fueling growth, working with partners and serving customers. In addition, new types of potential operators are emerging from a variety of industries and backgrounds, most notably Web-based companies (such as Google armed with wireless spectrum). In this cover story package, we'll look at how incumbent carriers are evolving and new service providers are emerging and evaluate the strategies and tactics required to operate a successful "new service provider."

Rich Karpinski, rkarpinski@telephonyonline.com
Kevin Fitchard, kfitchard@telephonyonline.com

3G Wireless and Beyond

Kevin Fitchard, kfitchard@telephonyonline.com

Powering the Wireless Network

Mark Donahue, mdonahue@telephonyonline.com

Wireless Review (A supplement to Telephony)

Kevin Fitchard, kfitchard@telephonyonline.com

April 14 issue

The Politics of Telecom: In a hot political year, broadband policy has occasionally been mentioned, but more often has taken a back seat to the economy, health care and the Iraq war. In this feature, Telephony Editor-in-Chief will explore just what the presidential race might mean for telecom policy going forward, on an issue-by-issue basis. Among the topics to be discussed: broadband accessibility, Net Neutrality, Universal Service and the future of competition.

Carol Wilson, cwilson3@telephonyonline.com

Next-Generation Billing Systems: This feature will look at billing for bundles and how service providers are producing the single bills that cover voice, data, video and even wireless services.

Freelance Editor (please contact Carol Wilson, cwilson3@telephonyonline.com)

SMB Data Services: The small to mid-sized business market is getting a lot of attention from incumbents, CLECs and cable companies alike. What has that meant for small businesses? Is technology filtering down faster for the small but data-dependent companies?

Carol Wilson, cwilson3@telephonyonline.com

The Independent (A supplement to Telephony)

Joan Engebretson, JoanEngebretson@cs.com

Wireless Review (A supplement to Telephony)

Kevin Fitchard, kfitchard@telephonyonline.com

April 28 issue

Do The Math: Telecom service providers are strongly driven by their financials and in this first effort at what will be an annual feature, Telephony will look at the real numbers behind today’s telecom trends. The feature will include both descriptive and prescriptive analysis from leading companies, with comparisons between what service providers are earning today, in terms of revenues, ARPUs, new services such as advertising and more, and what they are likely to earn in those categories in five years.

Staff Report, headed by Rich Karpinski, rkarpinski@telephonyonline.com

FTTx Network Management and Testing: As telecom service providers push fiber deeper into their networks, they have the opportunity to also add more robust testing and monitoring systems that enable them to proactively detect problems at both the physical and application layers of the network.

Ed Gubbins, ed.gubbins@penton.com

Measuring Video Quality: Getting a true measurement of what the customer is seeing is trickier than it sounds. Service providers are looking for end-to-end solutions that enable them to measure quality down to the set-top box, but assembling such systems is still a major challenge.

Carol Wilson, cwilson3@telephonyonline.com

May 5 issue

Cover Story (to come)

(to come)

New Trends in OSS

Rich Karpinski, rkarpinski@telephonyonline.com

Mobile Video Applications

Kevin Fitchard, kfitchard@telephonyonline.com

Guide to Carrier Ethernet (A supplement to Telephony)

Ed Gubbins, ed.gubbins@penton.com

May 19 issue

Cover Story (to come)