VoIP gets social
By: By Rich Karpinski
Putting voice in IP apps is a natural fit, but the business case is a challenge...
BabyTEL offers P2P VoIP through Facebook
By: By Rich Karpinski
Canadian voice-over-IP provider babyTEL next week will announce a new Facebook application that will bring VoIP peer-to-peer calling to the social network...
Syniverse expands its universe in Eastern Europe
By: By Tim McElligott
After proving itself in a greenfield opportunity with one of VimpelCom Group’s new mobile properties in the Republic of Georgia in Eastern Europe, Tampa, Fla.-based Syniverse Technologies signed a contract this week to provide data clearing and fraud services to all seven VimpleCom companies...
Advertiser claims Verizon inflated FiOS numbers
By: By Sarah Reedy
Less than two weeks after Verizon Communications celebrated its two-year anniversary of FiOS TV, an advertiser is accusing the carrier of fudging subscriber data for the fiber-based service...
New Siemens CEO slams Nokia joint venture
By: By Ed Gubbins
Six months after the company launched a joint venture with Nokia, Siemens’ new Chief Executive Officer Peter Loescher said he is dissatisfied with the results...
FTTH Con: Start-up opportunities abound in triple-play
By: By Ed Gubbins
ORLANDO--The battle between telcos and cable operators to bring triple-play services to consumers is creating a variety of opportunities for start-up companies, according to Jim Jones, managing director of Scale Ventures, a venture capital firm...
Clean up on aisle Internet
By: By Carol Wilson
Before launching the Customer Internet Protection Program it announced this week, Qwest Communications conducted a year of pilot trials, discovering in the process that consumers were happy to get information about viruses or other malware on their computers, so long as it came with detailed instructions on how to clean up the mess...
AT&T supplying BlackBerrys to USPS
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The U.S. Postal Service has signed up as a customer of AT&T in initiative to connect 5400 postal workers with BlackBerry push e-mail handsets...
FTTH Con: U.S. FTTH connections top 2 million
By: By Ed Gubbins
ORLANDO--Fiber-to-the-home connections in the U.S. have more than doubled from a year ago to surpass the 2 million mark, according to data released today from Render Vanderslice and Associates...
Verizon reveals more handsets as MediaFLO gains traction
By: By Sarah Reedy
Verizon Wireless today revealed its LG Voyager, the second handset announced in the past week to support Qualcomm subsidiary MediaFLO USA’s mobile video technology...
Study: T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless lead in customer service
By: By Sarah Reedy
T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless have held on to their lead in wireless contract regional customer satisfaction rankings for another year, a study by J.D. Powers and Associates indicates...
Adobe targets video with Flash Lite, new media player
By: By Rich Karpinski
Adobe put the focus on video at its developer conference this week with a new version of its Flash Light client for mobile devices and a new Internet video player...
Microsoft strikes back at ‘Office killers’
By: By Rich Karpinski
Seemingly beset on all sides by rivals attacking its multibillion-dollar Office business, Microsoft this week struck back with an online office services of its own—albeit ones that require users to have the desktop version of Office as well...
FTTH Con: Corning gets the bends
By: By Ed Gubbins
ORLANDO--Corning introduced a new highly flexible fiber at the Fiber-to-the-Home Conference this week that can make sharp turns with minimal attenuation of the signal it carries, easing deployment for carriers...
AT&T cellular network going all IP
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T is upgrading its core wireless network to an all-IP platform, building on the next-generation architecture Nortel began deploying in 2005...
New quarter, new CEOs
By: By Kevin Fitchard
MobiTV, Acision and Handmark all kicked off the beginning of the fourth quarter on Monday with new CEOs...
Nokia to buy Navteq for $8.1B
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia is cementing its position in the mapping/location-based services space, announcing today an agreement to buy GPS-mapmaker Navteq for $8.1 billion in a cash-for-stock deal...
EU picks up Qualcomm investigation
By: By Sarah Reedy
Qualcomm is in the hot seat once again. The European Commission announced today that it has begun an antitrust investigation into Qualcomm for alleged exploitative practices in the market for mobile phone chipsets...
FTTH Con: Alcatel-Lucent details GPON’s successor
By: By Ed Gubbins
ORLANDO--With major carriers such as Verizon Communications deploying gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) gear for fiber-to-the-home (FTTH), Alcatel-Lucent today described some likely successors to GPON at the FTTH Conference today...
Arbor tightens security with Peakflow 4.0
By: By Carol Wilson
Arbor Networks today introduced a new version of its Peakflow SP 4.0 security platform, which incorporates deep packet inspection into its existing networkwide security assessment system, offering service providers a unified approach to detecting threats and analyzing network traffic and applications...
iBasis claims No. 2 spot in global voice traffic
By: By Carol Wilson
The new iBasis has emerged this week, calling itself the second largest carrier of international voice traffic in the world, exceeding AT&T and second only to Verizon...
Analyst: Cisco eyeballing Navini
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Is Cisco Systems aiming to become the next big WiMAX vendor? Technology analyst firm Think Equity believes so, and it’s betting Cisco will make its WiMAX move through the acquisition of Navini...
3Com acquisition a mixed bag for Huawei
By: By Ed Gubbins
The acquisition of 3Com, announced today by Bain Capital and Huawei Technologies, gives the Asian equipment vendor entry into the U.S. enterprise market. ...
Tellabs cuts staff
By: By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs is trimming its work force by less than 1%, the company revealed in regulatory filings this week....
Disney to shut down remaining MVNO
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In another blow to the bedraggled MVNO business model, one of the final holdouts of the boutique wireless industry announced plans to shut down today. Disney Mobile stopped selling its family-oriented service plans today as well as discontinued the sale of content and applications....
WiMAX World: Muni Wi-Fi far from deceased
By: By Carol Wilson
CHICAGO — Only two years after it made headlines as the hot new thing, municipal Wi-Fi is making headlines again — as a technology trend that is DOA. ...
WiMAX World: Huawei, NextWave hook up for WiMAX testing
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CHICAGO — Huawei and NextWave said today that they are conducting interoperability trials of Huawei’s base station gear and NextWave’s WiMAX terminal chipsets. ...
WiMAX World: Clearwire warns of spectrum challenge
By: By Carol Wilson
CHICAGO — WiMAX providers such as Clearwire and Sprint Nextel are well-positioned to meet users’ broadband demands in the present and the immediate future, but regulators need to consider future spectrum needs and think twice about dividing available spectrum into smaller chunks in the name of promoting competition, said Scott Richardson, chief strategy officer for Clearwire, to a WiMAX World audience here today. ...
Ericsson picks Swedish IPTV set-tops
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ericsson has struck a deal with another Swedish equipment vendor for IPTV customer premises gear, integrating set-top boxes from Tilgin into its product portfolio....
WiMAX World: Nokia names Intel WiMAX chipset vendor
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CHICAGO — Nokia Siemens Networks, Nokia and Intel today said they have entered into a three-way pact wherein Intel’s WiMAX mobility chips will eventually be embedded into Nokia devices to jointly ensure interoperability across the NSN’s infrastructure, Nokia handsets and Intel-powered devices. ...
