AT&T ups branding ante
By: By Carol Wilson
If you thought the AT&T logo was already ubiquitous, you ain’t seen nothing yet. The telecom giant announced today it is ramping up its branding campaign in anticipation of the late June launch of the Apple iPhone, for which AT&T is the exclusive wireless carrier...
Maturity of IPTV evident at NXTcomm
By: By Carol Wilson
While still in its early stages, IP-based TV, or IPTV, has grown up dramatically in the last year, according to equipment vendors preparing their exhibits for NXTcomm in Chicago June 18-21...
Occam lets slip details of new gear
By: By Ed Gubbins
Details of a new, unannounced product appeared temporarily this week on the Web site of Occam Networks...
Citigroup Analyst upgrades Verizon
By: By Carol Wilson
Veteran telecom analyst Michael Rollins of Citigroup has changed his rating on Verizon’s stock to “Buy” and also boosted his stock price target from $33 to $48, in what he called “a significant change” in his outlook on the company...
WiMAX Forum kicks off MIMO plugfest
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The WiMAX Forum is conducting its 3rd WiMAX plugfest in Sophia Antipolis, France, this time testing the smart antenna technologies that will make up the second phase of the Forum’s certification rounds...
Juniper CEO vows internal overhaul
By: By Ed Gubbins
Speaking to investors at the company’s annual shareholder meeting today, Juniper Networks chief executive officer Scott Kriens vowed to improve the router vendor’s efficiency and productivity...
Valere gets grant to develop solar power management
By: By Tim McElligott
The U.S. Small Business Administration awarded a grant this week to Richardson, Texas-based Valere Power to use expertise developed in the telecom industry to develop a management system that improves the efficiency of solar power systems through better power extraction...
BT results include NA expansion
By: By Carol Wilson
Most of the focus on the financial results announced earlier today by BT was understandably on the company’s 16 percent increase in annual earnings and a broadband surge that re-established the company as the U.K.’s largest broadband provider...
HP adds teeth to revenue assurance
By: By Tim McElligott
With service provider revenue on the rise, HP has developed new solutions to help them protect it...
Mobile ESPN re-launches on V Cast
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Mobile ESPN today was reborn as ESPN MVP, a BREW application on Verizon Wireless’ V Cast 3G service, offering all of the same features and capabilities as the ESPN’s former mobile portal but without the accompanying MVNO...
UTStarcom finds China fit
By: By Carol Wilson
Given the growing attention paid to Chinese vendors ZTE and Huawei on the global stage, it is surprising that a California-based company, UTStarcom, is the leading IPTV vendor in China, a market where the technology is now moving into scaled deployments...
ABI: Gaming consoles to lead Net-video-to-TV market
By: By Ed Gubbins
The market for allowing consumers to play Internet-delivered video over their televisions will yield $1.5 billion in service revenue by 2012, according to a new report from ABI Research...
AOL acquires TSM amid mobile ad frenzy
By: By Dan O'Shea
Online giant AOL announced it has acquired Third Screen Media, a mobile advertising network and ad-serving and management platform provider that has been one of the early key players in the rapidly evolving mobile advertising market...
Moto launches new RAZR
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola’s quest for the replacement to the RAZR culminated today in the unveiling of a device called the RAZR2, which improves upon the industrial design and slimness that made the original RAZR a 100 million-strong device...
Sprint to offer on-demand episodes of ABC shows
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sprint today announced a major content deal with Disney-ABC Television that will bring on-demand full-length episodes of popular TV shows like “Lost” and “Desperate Housewives” to the mobile screen...
In the Spotlight: NXTcomm’s Wayne Crawford
By: By Carol Wilson
In January, Wayne Crawford assumed the position of executive director of NXTcomm, the newly minted annual conference and exhibition of USTelecom and the Telecommunications Industries Association. Crawford brings considerable trade show experience to a considerable challenge--stage a major event that normally takes more than a year to plan in only about six months. He spoke with Editor-at-Large Carol Wilson about what visitors to NXTcomm can expect...
IP/MPLS edge spending surges
By: By Ed Gubbins
Global spending on service provider switching and routing equipment was up 12% from a year ago to $2.4 billion in the first quarter, according to Ovum-RHK...
Nokia upbeat on Q2 market share
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia’s expected gains off Motorola’s woes may just be taking an additional quarter to take effect...
Onemax chooses Veraz for IMS/WiMAX
By: By Dan O'Shea
Caribbean broadband wireless operator Onemax has selected softswitch and media gateway vendor Veraz Networks for deployment of an IP multimedia subsystem-over-WiMAX solution...
Time Warner Telecom punts on new name
By: By Ed Gubbins
Time Warner Telecom has given itself more time to come up with a new name....
Verizon Business buys Cybertrust
By: By Carol Wilson
Continuing its push into managed security services, Verizon Business today announced its acquisition of Cybertrust, a privately held company which provided security services on a global basis, for an undisclosed amount of money...
T-Mobile growth spurt continues
By: By Kevin Fitchard
T-Mobile added 980,000 subscribers in first quarter, beating out its much larger competitor Sprint and nearing the 1.2 million subscriber gains of the country’s largest carrier AT&T...
Juniper execs say axe about to fall
By: By Ed Gubbins
Some Juniper Networks executives are anticipating a significant reorganization of the company’s ranks to occur next week...
Palm targets both Palm, Microsoft users with new Treo
By: By Kevin Fitchard
With the launch of its new Treo 755p this week, Palm is taking a converged approach to the smartphone, using the Palm OS the company originally built its success upon but incorporating the Microsoft push e-mail technology in a nod toward the fast growing e-mail market...
XO cuts its losses
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications reported Thursday that it has reduced its net loss for the first quarter by more than 50% over the previous year’s first quarter, although its revenues fell slightly as the competitive carrier continues to shift its product mix to data and IP services and away from legacy voice offerings....
VZW extends TCS E911 deal
By: By Dan O'Shea
Verizon Wireless has extended an existing contract with TeleCommunication Systems for hosted E911 location services...
IPTV lessons from China
By: By Carol Wilson
On the surface--and even several layers down--there appears to be very little about the Chinese IPTV market that applies to the U.S. After all, the Chinese companies that are delivering IPTV are all government-owned...
Who needs IPTV? Not Windstream
By: By Tim McElligott
In addition to approximately 59,000 new net broadband customers, Windstream added approximately 35,000 net digital TV customers in its first quarter ending March 31, both records for the company...
T-Mobile’s HSDPA solution is totally RAD
By: By tim McElligott
Starting in Germany, T-Mobile International will begin using RAD Data Communications as its partner for backhaul in its 3G and high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) network...
Alltel purchase speculation picking up steam
By: By Kevin Fitchard
More reports about the possible purchase of Alltel surfaced today as the Wall Street Journal and Reuters both wrote that at least three separate consortiums of private investors are competing for the chance to take the country’s largest Tier II provider private...
