January 28, 2008
cover story
Advertising chaos
Telecom service providers are entering the advertising game
just as this multibillion-dollar market appears to be coming apart at the seams...
IPTV adds to the business plan
It wouldn't be television without advertisements, and they wouldn't be advertisements without a solid money-making plan behind them...
The search for the golden goose
Advertising on mobile devices and over wireless networks is pegged as a can't-miss proposition, but the sector's killer app is nowhere to be seen -- yet...
editor's letter
A whole new world
The many facets of digital TV have turned the traditional advertising model on its head, and according to the many experts we interviewed for this issue's special report on advertising, no one truly knows what the new business model is going to be...
forward motion
Taking the retail view to telecom
New CEO Ed Mueller brings a unique perspective and a very different strategy to Qwest...
CLECs heat up new year
Competitive service providers started 2008 with a flurry of announcements, indicating a determination to push hard for market share...
Churn plagues Provo's muni fiber network
Defending the city's wholesale fiber-to-the-premises network initiative this month, Lewis Billings, the mayor of Provo, Utah, told local press that subscriber growth has been substantial over the life of the project...
opinion
Deconstructing the 3G data cap
It would be quite ironic if AT&T, just months after bragging about its open network, were to implement a 5 Gbyte cap on 3G data usage...
metrics
Carrier Ethernet's growth curve continues
The market for Ethernet services continues to grow, and in turn so does the market for Ethernet technology...
innovation
Bigger is better
There was an elephant in the room when Toshihiro Sakamoto, president of Panasonic, delivered the keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas -- and not in the figurative sense, either...
wimax
VoIP looks to WiMAX
Clearwire and Sprint's upcoming WiMAX launches are promising wireless broadband connectivity, but there's another service available in the mix that the two companies aren't so vocal about: voice...
what's next
Video's future becomes clearer
Continued improvements in video display technology highlighted the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show. Several manufacturers showed 100-plus-inch displays,...
