February 11, 2008
COVER STORY
Bell Labs: Reviving an icon
As the research arm of a monopoly, Bell Labs invented the communications world as we know it. But in today's competitive market, this venerable institution must redefine itself to survive...
EDITOR'S LETTER
The good monopoly
I have a confession to make: I've never played an entire game of Monopoly. Somewhere along the way, either I got bored or my playing companions did...
FORWARD MOTION
Open access & a boatload of cash
It turns out the two most controversial licenses in the 700 MHz auction generated the least amount of excitement when it actually came down to bidding...
Portal power shift
Lost amid the hoopla of Microsoft's unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo!, AT&T this month renegotiated its broadband portal deal with Yahoo! -- with much improved terms for the service provider...
Q&A:Bango's Anil Malhotra
Social networking, advertising and location-based services are among the biggest applications migrating to mobile handsets. The potential for additional revenue streams is definitely significant, but if mobile carriers can't measure their services' traffic, the mobile push could go unnoticed. Enter Bango...
Optical homecoming
The escalation of network traffic and its ensuing consumption of bandwidth capacity have brought renewed vitality to the optical sector in recent years...
DSL in the dumps, analysts say
A growing chorus of analysts is questioning the pace at which Verizon and, to a lesser extent, AT&T have backed off selling basic DSL services in order to push their higher-speed Internet offerings and their video services...
Real Web comes to mobile
Talk about your 180-degree turns. Remember when the mobile Web was about simple text snippets and phone-ready widgets? That's old hat. The latest trend is delivering the Web -- in all its desktop glory -- right to your hip pocket...
Rim races to deliver a faster DSL
Rim Semiconductor has given few clues about how it claims to have sent 40 Mb/s of data over 5500 feet of 26-gauge copper in...
OPINION
A wireless waste
In case you missed the buzzword train, everyone in the telecom industry is going green. Now it's just a matter of getting consumers to realize it...
Broadband for all
As the FCC proposes significant changes to the Universal Service Fund, it will consider for the first time the notion of applying USF to broadband deployment -- which I'm sure will bring no end to the political and philosophical debate over what extent rural broadband should be subsidized...
LOCAL LOOP
What's in a node?
In building fiber-to-the-node networks, telecom service providers are relying extensively on their experience with outside plant engineering while future-proofing their networks for what they know will be bandwidth-intensive applications...
SOFTWARE
Hands on the home
Residential gateways, IP set-top boxes, voice-over-IP terminals -- and soon you can add femtocell and WiMAX base stations. The list of customer premises equipment is growing, both in number and complexity, as service providers roll out richer services to more people...
WHAT'S NEXT
Jeff Citron, here's your answer
I briefly met with Vonage at the Consumer Electronics Show, and I talked to the nice, smart people in your booth. They were demonstrating some good-looking equipment that could do neat new things, and I even gave them a few good ideas to take it a step further...
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