Verismo bypasses PC for Internet TV
By Sarah Reedy
Silicon Valley start-up Verismo Networks this week joined the list of technology vendors that wants consumers to add a new device to the home...
Alcatel-Lucent carves out managed broadband offerings
By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel-Lucent today announced an update to its triple-play platform designed to add higher service quality options to best-effort broadband...
NextWave wins first MXtv trial
By Kevin Fitchard
NextWave Wireless has received its first bite on its new WiMAX TV platform, announcing Tuesday that Taiwan’s Global Mobile will deploy NextWave’s V5 base station and accompanying MXtv platform in the capital city...
What went wrong at Akimbo
By Ed Gubbins
After winning investment from AT&T and Cisco Systems, Akimbo Systems closed its doors this weekend...
Microsoft spiffs up Mediaroom developers’ kit
By Carol Wilson
Microsoft this week released a beta version of its Microsoft Mediaroom Presentation Framework to the 150 software developers that are part of the Microsoft program, allowing them to now directly import Web Services content into IPTV applications...
MU brings “Dynamics” to service assurance
By Carol Wilson
MU Security today announced a major change in its corporate strategy, as well as a new name – MU Dynamics -- to reflect the broader role the company wants to play in helping service providers prevent network downtime. ...
NXTcomm 2008: Everything under the sun
By Telephony Staff
With a high-powered keynote schedule and slew of exhibitors representing the latest technology trends, telecom's mega-event is set to sizzle in Las Vegas...
Could global telcos launch Skype competitor?
By Rich Karpinski
With voice lines eroding rapidly, AT&T, BT, NTT and other incumbent carriers soon will launch their own IP telephony competitor to Skype, predicted investment banking firm ThinkPanmure in a research note...
Samsung, LG get green light on mobile TV standard
By Sarah Reedy
The Open Mobile Video Coalition (OVMC), an organization of 850 local broadcasters, today submitted its viability report findings giving Samsung and LG the stamp of approval to pursue mobile TV based on the best of both manufacturers’ competing standards...
MultiService Forum readies global demo
By Rich Karpinski
Carriers including Verizon, BT, Vodafone and new member China Mobile will be among the host test sites for the MultiService Forum's global interoperability demonstration of next-generation networks...
NDS teams with Cox for next-gen user interface
By Sarah Reedy
In a move to differentiate its television offering, third-largest cable provider Cox Communications today announced it has chosen NDS to implement a next-generation video user interface (UI). ...
More disturbing numbers for telcos
By Carol Wilson
Two separate sources this week are offering up more analysis showing the telcos are falling behind the cable companies in the broadband and video battle...
Clearwire-Sprint WiMAX deal reborn
By Kevin Fitchard
The deal that was lost has now been found. Sprint and Clearwire have resurrected their WiMAX joint venture, this time with the added bonus of a $3.2 billion investment from Google, Intel and three cable companies...
Broadweave to heal iProvo by shedding wholesale fiber model
By Ed Gubbins
Broadweave Networks, a provider of fiber-based triple-play services in greenfield developments, has acquired the municipal fiber network of Provo, Utah, vowing to improve the operation by replacing its open-access wholesale model with one in which Broadweave both owns the network and offers services over it...
Qwest wireless switch adds another nail to MVNO coffin
By Kevin Fitchard
Until Monday the main casualties of the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) fallout have been small boutique operators, but now Qwest Communications is giving up on its virtual operator relationship with Sprint, opting instead to sell the standard Verizon Wireless service available at any cellular kiosk. The MVNO business model isn’t just failing the niche players; it isn’t working for the big retail operators either...
Wild idea? AT&T, others to launch Skype competitor, firm predicts
Rich Karpinski
With voice lines eroding rapidly, AT&T, British Telecom, NTT and other incumbent carriers will soon launch their own IP telephony competitor to Skype, essentially writing off voice revenues entirely while moving customers to data, wireless and IPTV services, investment banking firm ThinkPanmure predicted today....
By the numbers
By Rich Karpinski
The telecom industry is changing and evolving so rapidly these days, it's sometimes hard to keep up. It's also difficult to separate hype from reality and real trends from blind alleys. For that reason, we thought we'd take a look at a (large) handful of key industry numbers, figures and metrics hard data or at least very strong, educated guesses to create a snapshot of where the industry is today, and where it's heading...
Building B says ‘open Sezmi’
By Carol Wilson
As promised, Building B, the company offering end-to-end wholesale video offerings to service providers, has relaunched itself as Sezmi Corp. and today also unveiled a set of advanced television features that it calls the complete TV 2.0 solution....
Alcatel-Lucent: As CDMA declines, W-CDMA steps up
By Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel-Lucent doubled its sales in Wideband CDMA in the first quarter as the synergies of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies' merged UMTS portfolios begin to emerge, company officials said today...
Updated: Time Warner spins off cable services
By Sarah Reedy
Time Warner Cable, which today announced will be fully separated from parent company Time Warner Inc., has beat out its main competitors, including AT&T and Verizon, in both video and broadband earnings. As both of the leading telcos state plans to increase the price tag on their video services, some analysts are predicting the run of success will continue...
Telepresence inches toward interoperability
By Dawn Bushaus
So far, most telepresence vendors have been myopically focused on getting their proprietary systems into the hands of customers, but service providers caution that they need to start thinking now about how to interconnect their systems in order to avoid islands of technology that can’t be bridged...
Putting the squeeze on HD
By Carol Wilson
Coming late to a market is not usually a sign of innovation, but as Thomson makes a U.S. push with its SmartVision IPTV system, the global video company is banking on doing things better than the existing players...
IPTV standard-bearer
By Carol Wilson
The DSL Forum might not seem like the obvious organization to tackle IPTV standards, but based on its work delivering end-to-end visibility into broadband networks via its TR-069 standard, the global group is now firmly focused on IPTV quality of experience as well...
Surfing the TV
By Sarah Reedy
It is hard to imagine surfing the Internet without a search engine, yet this remains the only option for television viewers seeking a similar experience...
DISH’s DVB-SH testing could gel with 700 MHz plans
By Sarah Reedy
In another boon to the expanding DVB-SH ecosystem, DISH Network and Alcatel-Lucent today announced they will test the new hybrid satellite-terrestrial mobile broadcast technology in the United States starting in May of this year...
