October 22, 2007
EDITOR'S LETTER
The smart money's on ...
One of the best things about my job is the opportunity it gives me to talk to a lot of very smart people. Most recently, I spoke with Andy Lippman, one of the founders of MIT's Media Lab and now a visiting technical fellow at Nortel Networks...
FORWARD MOTION
Seismic shift in competition?
The net effect of the recent FCC decision granting AT&T the right not to resell packetized and broadband services will be fewer service options for business customers, say competitive service providers...
Verizon pursues P2P video
When Verizon's chief technology officer Mark Wegleitner spoke at Telephony LIVE this month about the promise of peer-to-peer networking for on-demand video distribution, he acknowledged the irony of a longtime opponent of piracy embracing P2P video-on-demand...
Pondering the business of FMC
It's not a question of whether Verizon follows Sprint and T-Mobile down the fixed/mobile convergence path, it's just a question of when and how, according...
Google, Microsoft join free 411 party
Service provider revenues are under attack from all quarters, and 411 directory assistance can be added to the list...
Q&A: In-Stat's Michelle Abraham
Michelle Abraham, analyst for In-Stat, talks with Associate Editor Sarah Reedy about a key trend in Internet TV and what telco service providers are doing about it...
OPINION
Tough choices at Alcatel-Lucent
In her book Tough Choices, Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, recounts the way she helped cement the cultural integration of one of telecom's largest acquisitions using nothing more than a pair of cowboy boots and a knot of men's socks...
INNOVATION
Landmarks add depth to maps
For the directionally challenged, finding a destination with street names and cardinal directions can be a frustrating experience ...
WiMAX
Watching WiMAX
The aura around WiMAX has become overpowering of late. Anything that can be ascribed to an access technology has been ascribed to WiMAX: the bridging force of the digital divide, broadband anywhere, Wi-Fi on steroids...
COVER STORY
IPTV takes baby steps to be different
IPTV today is just beginning to reach U.S. households in major metro areas, but it is already delivering more than entertainment...
WHAT'S NEXT
Our IPTV wish list's Top 10
Operators offering IPTV are going to find it increasingly hard to convince users that pretty TV guides and 10,000 video-on-demand titles are enough to switch from cable and satellite offerings...
