HP revs device management story
By: Rich Karpinski
A year after making a key acquisition in the device management area, HP recently unveiled a new platform focused on helping wireless carriers deliver and manage mobile device roll-outs to their customers....
Sprint loses rebanding appeal
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint will have to vacate its Nextel 800 MHz spectrum in June, even if public safety agencies haven’t vacated the spectrum by then, a federal appeals court ruled today. ...
MagicJack attacks
By: By Sarah Reedy
MagicJack founder, and inventor of its technology, Dan Borislow, doesn’t like the term voice-over IP (VoIP). He thinks it has a negative connotation in an industry prone to struggles. ...
Ribbit adds voice to Salesforce – at $25 a pop
By: By Rich Karpinski
Alternative service provider Ribbit this week said it has gone live with a service integrating mobile voice calling and other telephony features into Salesforce.com...
XO finds demand for higher Ethernet speeds
By: By Carol Wilson
Businesses are asking for higher Ethernet speeds than originally predicted, leading XO Communications to launch service offerings in the 15 Megabit per second and 20 Mb/s range, XO said today. ...
MDU exclusivity ban breeds questions, fears
By: By Ed Gubbins
The Federal Communications Commission claimed to have “opened the door” to competition in March by banning exclusive contracts for bundled services in multidwelling units (MDUs). ...
MetroPCS launches in northern Florida
By: By Kevin Fitchard
MetroPCS has turned up its service in Jacksonville, Fla., transitioning the former PTA and Cleartalk PCS networks into its own footprint...
Alcatel-Lucent’s Olivier Coste on DVB-SH and mobile TV
By: By Sarah Reedy
Last Friday, Alcatel-Lucent announced it would trial the new hybrid satellite-terrestrial mobile broadcast technology with DISH Network in the United States kicking off this month. ...
Building B says ‘open Sezmi’
By: By Carol Wilson
As promised, Building B, the company offering end-to-end wholesale video offerings to service providers, has relaunched itself as Sezmi Corp. and today also unveiled a set of advanced television features that it calls the complete TV 2.0 solution....
Alcatel-Lucent: As CDMA declines, W-CDMA steps up
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel-Lucent doubled its sales in Wideband CDMA in the first quarter as the synergies of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies' merged UMTS portfolios begin to emerge, company officials said today...
Updated: Time Warner spins off cable services
By: By Sarah Reedy
Time Warner Cable, which today announced will be fully separated from parent company Time Warner Inc., has beat out its main competitors, including AT&T and Verizon, in both video and broadband earnings. As both of the leading telcos state plans to increase the price tag on their video services, some analysts are predicting the run of success will continue...
Big OSS projects moving into production
By: By Rich Karpinski
OSS "transformation" projects are beginning to move off the drawing board and into production, with executives behind those efforts warning colleagues they'll take longer than expected, fail without employee and exec-level buy-in and put greater pressure on IT to contribute to top-line growth, according to service providers at the B/OSS World Show in Chicago....
Telepresence inches toward interoperability
By: By Dawn Bushaus
So far, most telepresence vendors have been myopically focused on getting their proprietary systems into the hands of customers, but service providers caution that they need to start thinking now about how to interconnect their systems in order to avoid islands of technology that can’t be bridged...
Adva aids Ethernet handoff
Adva Optical Networking introduced a new demarcation device designed to manage the interface between carrier networks....
Leap expands IP core
By: By Kevin Fitchard
As Leap Wireless grows, so does its IP network. The operator of the Cricket Communications service had added Genband’s latest-generation wireless gateway and more-robust session border controllers from Acme Packet to its networks to meet increasing traffic demands as Leap adds customers and grows its footprint...
Towerstream lights up first building
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Towerstream is taking a page from Cogent Communications’ book, announcing today that it is providing a gigabit broadband capacity to the General Motors building in midtown Manhattan, marking the first time it has provided service to an entire building rather than an individual business...
Rural FTTP 'perfectly economical,' says muni fiber veteran
By: By Ed Gubbins
The notion that fiber-to-the-premises is economically prohibitive in rural areas is a myth, according to Dr. Timothy Nulty, director of ValleyFiber, a nonprofit organization focused on bringing municipal fiber to towns in Vermont’s Upper Valley...
Yahoo taps Jajah for Web calling
By: By Rich Karpinski
One of the Web/telephony startups with the funny "J" name -- Jajah -- today cut a deal with the original Web-player-with-a-funny-name, Yahoo, to help deliver Web-based IP telephony calling to Yahoo's 97 million instant messenger customers...
Probe clears Cyren Call in D Block failure
By: By Donny Jackson, MRT
Much-discussed spectrum-lease payments made to potential D Block bidders prior to the 700 MHz auction were not the primary reason the 700 MHz spectrum swath failed to attract a bid that met the FCC’s reserve price, according to a report revealing the findings of a federal investigation of the matter...
VZW: As 3G phones multiply, so do data revenues
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless’ data sales jump 49% as Verizon increases install base of 3G phones to 58%, but AT&T outpaces VZW despite lower 3G penetration...
Networking the vote
By: By Sarah Reedy
By the presidential election this year in November, one-third of the millennial generation, those born between 1982 and 2003, will be eligible to vote....
TM Forum planning IT 'value chain' initiative
By: By Rich Karpinski
The TeleManagement Forum has mostly been focused on the telecom industry's "internal" IT and operations issues. But the group is in the final stages of putting together a new initiative that will focus on the so-called IT "value chain" ...
Verizon income up, wireline sagging
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon isn’t seeing the ill effects of a slowing economy, Verizon officials said today in their first quarter earnings call. Verizon Wireless business continues to grow, deadbeat accounts actually fell and FiOS customers are actually spending more money with Verizon, CFO Doreen Toben reported. Verizon is actually planning to increase prices in the second quarter, Toben added....
DISH’s DVB-SH testing could gel with 700 MHz plans
By: By Sarah Reedy
In another boon to the expanding DVB-SH ecosystem, DISH Network and Alcatel-Lucent today announced they will test the new hybrid satellite-terrestrial mobile broadcast technology in the United States starting in May of this year...
Ericsson North America sales get a boost
By: By Kevin Fitchard
While its overall outlook for mobile infrastructure sales may be flat, Ericsson may have found a bright spot in North America, traditionally the region at the bottom of the vendor’s revenue chart....
Qwest CTO on bonded VDSL2, PBT and more
By: By Ed Gubbins
In the second part of a two-part interview, Qwest Communications Chief Technology Officer Pieter Poll lends his views on cutting-edge technologies including VDSL2 bonding and PBT...
NextWave to unload U.S. spectrum
By: By Kevin Fitchard
NextWave plans to sell its U.S. wireless spectrum, ending all pretensions of becoming a mobile operator and allowing the carrier-turned-vendor to focus exclusively on its multi-faceted equipment and software businesses....
Moto looks to WiMAX, simplified phone platforms for future growth
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola’s mounting losses dominated the financial news in wireless today, but the beleaguered vendor pointed toward two strategic shifts that might ultimately pull the company out of the mire, though neither would likely bare results until 2009 when it plans to split into two separate companies...
Qwest comes clean on 20Mb/s FTTN
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest Communications today hailed two new DSL offerings, at 20 Megabits per second and 12 Mb/s, over its fiber-to-the-node architecture. Travis Leo, product director for broadband at Qwest, spoke to Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson about Qwest Connect Quantum and Qwest Connect Titanium...
Pivot's Demise Leaves Quad-Play Opportunity to Telcos
By: By Sarah Reedy
Just as Comcast and Cox Communications announce that they are abandoning their Pivot wireless phone partnership with Sprint, Compete today released survey findings indicating that most consumers would be interested in buying their wireless service from their existing cable or telco provider....
