New reality
By: By Vince Vittore
Although there are some in the industry who believe independent telcos exist in a vacuum, free from the harsh realities of the market, carriers of all sizes are facing a dizzying array of challenges...
Time to free IPTV
By: By A. Bernardin Arnason, Principal, Pivot Group
IPTV has gone mainstream. What was once discussed within Telephony magazine is now discussed within USA Today and the Wall Street Journal...
Local on the 8s
By: By Tim McElligott
The following headline appeared on Telephony's Web site last week: Independents diving into local content. That's great; they should--head first...
Who deserves broadband?
By: By Carol Wilson
It's a simple question, but it lies at the heart of so many different industry issues: Who deserves broadband? Just stop and think for a minute. Does every rural community, hoping to hang on to its schools and hospitals, deserve to get broadband access?...
Are standards outdated?
By: By Vince Vittore
While it's certainly understandable that every access/aggregation/customer premises equipment vendor wants to position its gear as perfect for the IPTV world, it now seems that standards bodies (both real ones and advisory ones) are getting into the act as well...
Give me an A for apps
By: By Kevin Fitchard
There's a lot of talk of fixed/mobile convergence, IP multimedia subsystem architecture and network spanning next-gen apps--of the whiz-bang services of the future that will change our lives...
Me-too muni fiber
By: By Ed Gubbins
The city of Paris is considering a municipal fiber network of some sort. Details of the plan were hard to come by, as the mayor's office didn't reply to any of my questions, which were all admittedly scavenged from my threadbare memory of high school French class...
Infamy is fleeting
By: By Tim McElligott
On the 341st flip of the calendar each year--for roughly the last six decades--we in the U.S. have commemorated the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Telecom has its own players, its own history and set of important dates...
