Sigma Systems in right place at right time
By: By Tim McElligott
Sigma Systems was a thought leader in the telecom software space at the height of the Internet, telecom and competitive carrier investment craze...
In the off-deck circle
By: By Kevin Fitchard
MLB taps Qualcomm to manage its direct-to-consumer content sales...
TXP ushers in multivendor FTTP
By: By Ed Gubbins
Third-party optical network terminals could lower fiber network costs...
Device management is hot, but is it standard?
By: By Tim McElligott
The industry appears to have rediscovered the need for device management, but the TeleManagement Forum has begun asking if it is a solution in need of a standard...
Redline enters U.S. WiMAX market at 3.65 GHz
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Redline Communications said today it is the first WiMAX vendor to receive FCC certification for its equipment in the newly opened 3.65 GHz bands. The certification marks Redline’s entrance into the competitive U.S. market as a WiMAX vendor....
Analyst: Google making its own 10GbE switches
By: By Ed Gubbins
Google may have developed and deployed its own 10 Gb/s Ethernet switches, according to a Wall Street analyst citing multiple sources....
Young Zayo makes its fifth acquisition
By: By Ed Gubbins
Just a few months after its public launch, Zayo Bandwidth is making its fifth acquisition, the company announced today....
WebsEdge pools interests for IPTV content
By: By Carol Wilson
A U.K. company is putting a new twist on community television, bringing it into the IP and IPTV worlds as it does so. WebsEdge is a content provider that targets both communities of interest and local communities in creating specialized content that can be delivered over the Internet and over IPTV systems. ...
AT&T closes Dobson deal
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T Mobility’s narrow lead on Verizon Wireless for overall subscribers just got 1.7 million customers wider. ...
ITC’s revenue flattened by wholesale business
By: By Ed Gubbins
ITC^DeltaCom’s sagging wholesale business flattened out otherwise modest revenue gains in the third quarter, as the competitive carrier worked to better manage its debt....
Two VoIP start-ups team up
By: By Rich Karpinski
Two of the “Js” in the next-generation voice-over-IP market — JaJah and Jangl — said this week that they are partnering to combine the strengths of their complementary VoIP services....
Spotlight On: Microsoft’s Michael O’Hara
By: By Carol Wilson
As part of its push into the business services market, Comcast this week announced plans to offer Microsoft Communication Services to small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). This Internet-hosted offering enables SMBs to share documents, access calendars, track tasks and use email, and it is based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Michael O’Hara, general manager for the Communications Sector at Microsoft, spoke to Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson about the partnership...
IBM: Security linked to NGN rollouts
By: By Tim McElligott
Bolstered by the frame-of-reference to a previous survey, IBM said today that carriers around the world are starting to see security for IP-based services less as a hindrance to service rollout and more as an opportunity to provide security services to its customer base. They just don’t all have a plan for how to realize it...
China Telecom taps IBM 'Innovation Factory'
By: By Rich Karpinski
IBM’s “Innovation Factory” -- a Web 2.0-style product to help service providers brainstorm Web. 2.0-style services -- has landed a strong endorsement from China Telecom...
Web standards body joins plea for open mobile Internet
By: By Kevin Fitchard
BOSTON--A number of Internet companies have been banging away at the wireless industry lately, pleading with it to open its mobile networks and handsets to the larger world of the Internet...
Introducing the world to WooMe
By: By Sarah Reedy
San-Francisco startup WooMe publicly launched its U.S. and U.K.-based online introduction service yesterday, with the tagline, “WooMe is introducing the world, one person at a time"...
Eagle Broadband enters Chapter 11
By: By Ed Gubbins
Eagle Broadband entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday as its former chairman submitted an asset seizure order to its primary bank...
Forbearance squabble heats up
By: By Carol Wilson
The war of words is heating up between Verizon and a group of competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) determined to prevent the incumbent from getting regulatory freedom in six of its local service markets...
Verizon lights 40G network
By: By Carol Wilson
As promised earlier this year, Verizon Business has gone live with a 40 Gb/s network, using Juniper Networks’ T-series core routers to carry Internet traffic at that speed between Washington, D.C., and Chicago, and on its multi-protocol label switched network between Washington and New York City...
Qualcomm, AT&T bank on Firethorn
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm is expanding its broad wireless technology portfolio to mobile banking, revealing today its intent to shell out $210 million to acquire Firethorn, an early pioneer in the field...
VeriSign goes back to basics
By: By Tim McElligott
So much for VeriSign’s experiment with telecom. The company said today its new strategy is to go back to basics and stick with its core competency: Internet security...
Occam’s losses multiply
By: By Ed Gubbins
Occam Networks reported sharp declines in revenue and net income during the third quarter, in accordance with warnings the company gave last month...
Alltel childproofs mobile phones
By: By Sarah Reedy
Alltel Wireless today announced the launch of Axcess Family Finder, a GPS tracking application designed to increase safety for adolescent users and peace of mind for their parents...
Mid-Tex launches converged CDMA/GSM network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Mid-Tex Cellular has launched the industry’s first dual-mode CDMA/GSM network, using Vanu’s software-defined radio solution...
Mobile VoIP to dominate, study says
By: By Carol Wilson
A new study from a London-based research firm claims that mobile voice-over-IP will become a mainstream form of communication by the end of 2012, based on rapid growth of voice-over-3G wireless users...
Android innards: Java twists and licensing turns
By: By Rich Karpinski
As promised, Google released the software development kit (SDK) for its new mobile operating system Android on Monday, and with the code in the wild for less than 24 hours, impressions are starting to roll in...
BSG adds mobile bill payment to payment gateway
By: By Tim McElligott
Through its relationships with service providers, BSG Clearing Solutions claims it can touch every household in the U.S. and help providers charge for content and other services from third parties. But that’s not enough. BSG wants to touch every mobile user as well...
Hammerhead takes PBT past point-to-point
By: By Ed Gubbins
Hammerhead Systems today unveiled a new version of its carrier Ethernet aggregation switch designed to bridge the gap between provider backbone transport (PBT) and multiprotocol label-switching (MPLS) technologies as well as to allow PBT to become more than just a point-to-point technology...
Jiangsu Mobile, Kodiak bring push-to-talk to China
By: By Sarah Reedy
Jiangsu Mobile Communications announced today that it has selected Kodiak Networks to supply push-to-talk (PTT) technology for its customers in the Jiangsu Province. JMCC is a subsidiary of China Mobile, the largest telecommunications operator in the world and the largest publicly listed Chinese corporation...
Disney revives MVNO overseas
By: By Kevin Fitchard
While Disney failed to get its family-oriented mobile virtual network operator off the ground in the U.S. and Europe, it is revisiting the idea of the MVNO in Mickey Mouse-obsessed Japan...
