September 24, 2007
EDITOR'S LETTER
Who owns the network?
The FCC is once again wrestling with some basic issues that affect competition, primarily for business services, in the U.S. market...
FORWARD MOTION
HP scours treasure trove of customer data
Like the volumes of books in the aisles of the Library of Congress that go unread, service providers have volumes upon volumes of data about their customers that go unmined...
Leap Wireless, MetroPCS spar over merger
Both companies say they'd make for an ideal marriage, but they're hashing out a very public pre-nup...
Alcatel-Lucent leaders draw fire
The big vendor's management team is suspected of scapegoating...
New software scales IMS traffic
Supporting a new service in a test environment with a handful of users is one thing. But what's a carrier to do when it suddenly needs to scale that service across its entire customer base overnight?...
At Your Service: Verizon WebMail
Verizon needed a next-generation Web e-mail client to keep its broadband customers using its portal applications and content...
Paetec emerges among CLECs
With its acquisition of McLeod, the company is putting Qwest on notice...
Study finds ISPs calm in the hacker storm
Although the number of zombie computers able to launch network attacks is growing, ISPs are still generally optimistic about their ability to address security issues, a recent study of ISPs by Arbor Networks indicates...
Advertising by SMS
Europe is inundated, by the U.S. has been relatively spared -- until now...
R.I.P. VoIP? Not hardly
The demise of SunRocket and the ongoing woes of Vonage haven't stopped the voice-over-IP industry from continuing to push out new solutions...
OPINION
Innovation 101: Making old things new
There are times when a new product or service arrives completely out of the blue. That kind of innovation, often called radical innovation, is what most people think of when they think of new product development...
INNOVATION
Exploiting education spectrum
It's hardly unusual these days for government entities to explore ways of delivering wireless broadband to the masses...
FTTX
The last 100 yards
The last mile of a fiber network is mostly stable and standardized -- right up to the point it crosses into the home, where it is often neither...
COVER STORY
What's Google's interest in wireless?
First the Google phone, now its partnership with Sprint -- Google's mobile ambitions are extensive, but how far will the Internet giant go?...
WHAT'S NEXT
Moving up the IT value stack
As the U.S. business communications market continues to consolidate, service providers need to constantly evaluate new potential revenue sources...
