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Clearwire the big kahuna in broadband wireless
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Clearwire is by far the largest broadband wireless access provider in the world, according to Maravedis, which recently performed a subscriber count of all of global WiMAX and proprietary BWA networks....
BroadSoft tries mashup contest route
By: By Rich Karpinski
BroadSoft today announced a contest aimed at encouraging developers to build voice "mashups" for its voice over IP platform...
Nortel gains ground in managed telepresence push
By: By Sarah Reedy
Nortel Global Services, the telepresence arm of Nortel Networks, today inked a deal with professional services firm Deloitte to provide telepresence, video conferencing and associated multimedia services to the global organization’s 130 member firms. ...
Acme stirs fears of VoIP slowdown
By: By Ed Gubbins
A revenue shortfall announced last week from a leading vendor of voice-over-IP equipment is stoking concerns over whether macroeconomic conditions are leading to a slowdown in enterprise VoIP spending...
How NSN plans to take over US networks
By: By Ed Gubbins
Embarq is meant to be a showcase that will help convince North American carriers to hand over the keys of their most sacred possessions: the network itself. NSN has its work cut out for it....
TM Forum: SDPs must be simple, organic
By: By Rich Karpinski
Service delivery platforms (SDPs) – which rapidly moved from concept to reality in some service provider networks – are now getting a second, more considered look ...
In the Spotlight: Azuki co-founder Cheng Wu
By: By Sarah Reedy
One month after emerging from stealth mode with a new mobile tool kit to enable personalized and interactive rich-media services, Azuki Systems has been quickly learning the ins and outs of the mobile media services market....
What the AT&T/Dish breakup says about the telco video market
By: By Sarah Reedy
Dish Network announced this week that AT&T would stop selling its product bundle that includes satellite television through the Dish partnership...
AT&T pushes U-Verse into muni fiber hotbed
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T’s deployment of U-Verse services in Tennessee, commenced this week, could provide an unusual showcase of three-way competition in the country’s most active hotbed for municipal fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP)....
MetroPCS Northeast expansion begins
By: By Kevin Fitchard
MetroPCS officially flipped the switch on its Advanced Wireless Service (AWS) network in Philadelphia today, marking the beginning of a northeast expansion that will almost double the size of its footprint and expand into three of the largest metro regions in the US by 2009....
Flash gets searchable, widening use
By: Rich Karpinski
Adobe’s Flash technology provides a “flashy” user interface for Web sites, set-top boxes, cell phone and video content but with one important caveat – unlike HTML, Flash content was not able to be spidered and indexed by search engines....
Service providers stay hands-off on hands-free
By: By Sarah Reedy
Beginning today, drivers in the state of California and Washington cannot talk on their cell phones while driving unless they use a hands-free device, and drivers under age 18 can’t use either. ...
VZW rhapsodizes on music
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless is no longer tackling the mobile music market solely under its own brand, announcing today the long-awaited paring of its mobile music service with RealNetworks....
DigitalBridge WiMAX goes mobile in Wyoming
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Earlier this month the first WiMAX network in the US to support true mobility went live commercially, but it wasn’t a Sprint or Clearwire network. DigitalBridge Communications gains that honor...
Alltel evolves My Circle with SMS
By: By Sarah Reedy
Members of Alltel Wireless’s My Circle plan can now get unlimited text, video and picture messaging to anyone in their “circle” as well as other Alltel customers. ...
Google links PC, living room devices
By: Rich Karpinski
If you’ve already got hardware on your desktop and in your living room, Google wants to connect these two worlds with a simple – and free – piece of software, the Google Media Server....
The truth about IMS
By: By Rich Karpinski & Carol Wilson
Completely overhauling the global telecom network per complex yet open-to-interpretation specifications can't be easy, right? Then why the surprise when...
Virgin embraces postpaid
By: By Kevin Fitchard
After years of pursuing the only MVNO model proven to work, prepaid, Virgin Mobile is taking a chance on niche postpaid services...
Instinct will sell out by week’s end, analyst says
By: By Sarah Reedy
Only a week after its commercial launch, the Samsung Instinct has become the fastest-selling EV-DO handset in Sprint’s history. With many stores having already sold out of their stock, Ranjan Mishra, wireless industry management consultant and founder of ESS Analysis, is confident the entire inventory will be depleted before the week’s end – good news for the country’s third largest carrier ...
Consumer push-to-talk: Does anyone really care ‘where you at?’
By: By Sarah Reedy
With Sprint’s impending nationwide rollout of push-to-talk over its CDMA network, the third largest wireless carrier is hoping to expand upon what was once an extremely loyal Nextel following, adding consumer and general business users to Nextel’s core clientele of blue-collar subscribers. But not everyone is convinced that the technology will even be noticed. ...
Home-network innovations aid connectivity, self-installation
By: By Carol Wilson
In-home installation and networking remains the hardest part of IPTV, so it’s no wonder that vendors are looking to innovate in that arena. ...
MetroPCS lures Sprint, Verizon subs with ‘bring your phone’
By: By Kevin Fitchard
MetroPCS is trying a new tactic to lure customers away from Verizon Wireless and Sprint. It’s offering to re-flash customers’ CDMA phones for use on the MetroPCS network...
Telco APIs get more 'RESTful' – will it matter?
By: Rich Karpinski
Service provider efforts to expose network functionality via open application programming interfaces (APIs) have proved mixed at best, but vendors and operators are hoping that making those interfaces more Web-friendly may help the cause....
Video exacerbates P2P problem, Sandvine says
By: By Carol Wilson
Peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic is still growing and remains the largest single bandwidth consumer, according to the latest analysis of traffic by broadband equipment vendor Sandvine. ...
Speakeasy joins XO Ethernet resellers
By: By Ed Gubbins
XO Communications has branched out its Ethernet-over-copper offerings, enlisting a growing number of resellers in recent months including Speakeasy, a unit of Best Buy that also regularly competes with XO in some markets...
T-Mobile’s VoIP play may hurt cable more than telco
By: By Sarah Reedy
T-Mobile’s entrance into the landline business today is the latest encroachment of the fixed voice market from a competitor without a fixed voice network. ...
Nokia pulls a Google
By: By Kevin Fitchard
If Nokia has its way, Linux won’t be the only mobile software associated with the term “open.”...
In the spotlight: 360 Networks’ Nick Reifschneider
By: By Carol Wilson
VoIP services are booming, at least at the wholesale level, for 360 Networks, which today announced the addition of Dallas to its wholesale offering. Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson spoke with Nick Reifschneider, the company’s VoIP services product manager....
Alltel upgrades 3G networks for fast uploads
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alltel today said it would begin to upgrade its 3G EV-DO network from revision 0 to revision A, adding upstream capacity and lower latency to the broadband network in select markets....
AT&T, Microsoft team on national e-health care
By: By Carol Wilson
The new healthcare initiative launched today by AT&T, Microsoft and Covisint is intended to enable patients to take more control over their medical care, improve that care at a lower cost and communicate more easily with their doctors. ...
