Ribbit Amphibian ties mobile phone to Web
By: By Rich Karpinski
Telephony startup Ribbit today unveiled its first consumer service -- code-named Amphibian -- running on top of the company’s Web/telephony-integrated development platform...
Mobile social networking firms fight for pocket space
By: By Sarah Reedy
The social networking phenomenon, given credence by Web giants MySpace and Facebook, has taken hold of the mobile market, and every company wants a piece of the action...
U-verse comes to Chicago suburbs
By: By Sarah Reedy
Residents in most Chicago suburbs now have another option for video, as AT&T today announced it will begin installing its IPTV service, U-verse, in parts of 175 northeastern suburbs. This Illinois launch marks the largest U-verse rollout to date in any AT&T market...
The “next Google” gears up
By: By Sarah Reedy
Ooyala CEO and co-founder Bismarck Lepe shared with Telephony’s Sarah Reedy what the founders learned from Google and how they are taking that knowledge to change the Internet landscape...
Verizon sees no slowdown
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon today confirmed what AT&T said last week -- if there is an economic slowdown taking place, it isn’t having a major impact on the telecom business...
Taking the retail view to telecom
By: By Carol Wilson
New CEO Ed Mueller brings a unique perspective and a very different strategy to Qwest...
700 MHz auction starts with bangs, whimpers
By: By Kevin Fitchard
As Auction 73 shut down after its first week, things didn’t look good for the planned public safety/private network. After attracting a $472-million bid in the auction’s opening round, it has languished through round 4 as the other nationwide band, block D, and the individual market licenses attracted all of the attention...
Juniper CEO boasts Ethernet validation
By: By Ed Gubbins
In Juniper Networks’ fourth-quarter earnings call Thursday, CEO Scott Kriens continued to tough-talk carrier Ethernet equipment vendors. But this time, he had more numbers to back him up...
HP updates core OSS platforms
By: By Rich Karpinksi
HP this week delivered a major platform update for its NG OSS portfolio, adding a handful of new features but more importantly adding key underlying capabilities and standards deployments that set a new baseline for future OSS feature releases...
AT&T: Pair-bonding to come in ‘late 2008’
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T said today it expects to begin pair-bonding advanced DSL lines in “late 2008,” pushing back the expected arrival of what the company says is an important part of its fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) initiative...
Nokia breaches 40% mark in handset share
By: By Kevin Fitchard
By its own estimates Nokia achieved 40% global handset market share in the fourth quarter after a strong holiday sales season and increased dominance in the developing markets...
Slow economy doesn't faze AT&T
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T is expecting a strong 2008, with consolidated revenue growth in the mid-single digits, a significant expansion in margins and continued double-digit growth in earnings per share -- even if the U.S. economy continues to struggle, Senior Executive Vice President and CFO Rick Lindner told financial analysts today...
New CEO describes Sorrento’s second life
By: By Ed Gubbins
Though optical transport equipment vendor Sorrento Networks was absorbed by Zhone Technologies in 2004, a new incarnation of Sorrento launched this month, acquiring those products back from Zhone. Its CEO Jim Nevelle spoke with Telephony about the startup’s plans...
Soma scores big in India
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Little Soma Networks has hit the WiMAX jackpot, announcing today it is rolling out what it believes is the largest WiMAX network in the world in India...
Motorola mobile device profits plunge in Q4
By: By Sarah Reedy
Driven by disappointing sales of the Razr 2, Motorola today reported fourth-quarter earnings of $100 million, down from $623 million in Q4 of last year. Sales for the Chicago-based communications company fell in the last three months to $9.65 billion from $11.79 billion in the same period a year earlier...
Why Ciena acquired Worldwide Packets
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena’s surprise announcement of its plans to acquire Ethernet access vendor Worldwide Packets left some analysts scratching their heads yesterday, largely because Ciena declined to offer many details on key justifications for the deal and its terms...
Targeting 802.11n at the enterprise
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Siemens released its line of 802.11n product line today, joining a growing number of wireless LAN vendors that are designing high-capacity wireless LAN gear for the enterprise. The Burton Group believes that 802.11n will even replace wired Ethernet LANs in the next two years). The question is whether the enterprises need them, or can even support them, today...
Free-to-air mobile TV market accelerates overseas
By: By Sarah Reedy
Mobile TV chipmaker Telegent Systems today unveiled the TLG1120, a single-chip CMOS mobile TV receiver supporting all major worldwide broadcast TV standards, including NTSC, PAL, and SECAM TV broadcasts. According to the three-year old startup, the TLG1120 is the first mobile TV receiver to provide global access to free-to-air content...
TDS following in Sprint's footsteps - TDS and Madison WiMAX
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Telephone and Data Systems has launched a WiMAX network in Madison, Wis., tapping into the economies of scale generated by Sprint's upcoming Xohm launch...
GetMobile aims to be ‘AdWords’ of mobile
By: By Rich Karpinski
Mobile content and advertising vendor Quattro Wireless this week unveiled the new GetMobile mobile advertising network, designed to mirror the success of Google’s AdSense online auction format...
Grande’s Texas triple-play network goes up for sale
By: By Ed Gubbins
Texas cable overbuilder Grande Communications announced today it was pursuing “strategic alternatives,” potentially selling its fiber network and triple-play business...
Q&A: Gillis Cashman, MC Venture Partners
By: By Ed Gubbins
After eight years at MC Venture Partners, Gillis Cashman made partner this month at the venture capital firm, which focuses on technology and communications startups. Cashman, who sits on the boards of Cavalier Telephone, Zayo Bandwidth and cable player Baja Broadband, spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins about the future of CLECs and current economic trends shaping the telecom service provider space and investment in it...
IPTV standards effort moves ahead
By: By Sarah Reedy
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) begins work this week on the next phase of its efforts to establish global standards for IPTV, hoping to increase simplification and integration for IPTV manufacturers, service providers and consumers...
Security firm Arbor buys Ellacoya
By: By Carol Wilson
Security technology firm Arbor Networks today announced it has acquired Ellacoya Networks, a pioneer in the increasingly crowded field of deep packet inspection...
XO shakes up pricing models
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications continued its aggressive assault on the competitive services market today with a new pricing strategy that lets customers pay strictly for bandwidth and not for a specific number of access lines...
Anticipation grows for Tellabs M&A
By: By Ed Gubbins
After having cooled in the second half of last year, expectations for a Tellabs acquisition are rising once again with the start of the new year...
Alcatel-Lucent scores U.S. Cellular win
By: By Kevin Fitchard
U.S. Cellular is renewing its CDMA infrastructure contract with Alcatel-Lucent but to what extent neither the vendor nor the carrier is letting on...
Triple-play prices grow more elastic
By: By Ed Gubbins
As competition heats up for triple-play telecom services, the prices for those offerings are becoming more elastic—something customers are finding when they threaten to switch providers...
Pac-West bounces back again
By: By Carol Wilson
The new CEO of Pac-West Telecom is promising a financially healthier company with ambitious plans for the Western region...
The Android conundrum: Which comes first -- the phone or the app?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Android may have generated a lot of buzz in the wireless community, but one thing it hasn’t yet generated is an actual operating system...
