A letter from Pauline
By: By Tim McElligott
If I were to choose one of these three words to describe myself--biased, inept or incurious (as those were the only three options offered by a reader last week who took exception to an article I wrote about Telus' second-quarter earnings)--biased would have to be the most honest, since no one is without biases. However, with regard to the article, there was no intentional bias...
Interoperability, eh?
By: By Tim McElligott
The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association last week established a nationwide multimedia messaging service interoperability network for all Tier 1 operators...
The anti-celebrity
By: By Tim McElligott
Because relatively few others will take note, in this age of celebrity-for-all-the-wrong-reasons--and often for no good reason at all--I would like to mention the passing on Monday of Jack Kilby...
Giga-hype
By: By Tim McElligott
Translated from French, "puissance d'influence" means the power of influence...
What danger lurks?
By: By Tim McElligott
As a kid I was intimately familiar with Stranger Danger, at least in my own mind. Every kid I knew was. We all had stories about black cars slowing down as they passed by...
Apples to apples
By: By Tim McElligott
Younger vendors of networking equipment and software often have used benchmarking results as tools to put themselves (in their minds) on par with more established competitors...
The heart of the matter
By: By Tim McElligott
In the case of Verizon offering VoIP providers access to its public safety answering points in order to help solve their E-911 dilemmas--despite their competitive relationships--it is enough, and rather refreshing, to take Verizon at its word that altruism played a large part in its decision...
Algorithm, logarithm, egoithm
By: By Tim McElligott
There are approximately 1300 local exchange carriers and 900 interexchange carriers spread across this vast expanse of land and people known as the U.S. So why do the approximately 100 independent software vendors (ISVs) in the telecom market all insist on going after the top five or 10?...
Everybody, have you Hurd?
By: By Tim McElligott
Mobile goes Def
By: By Jason Meyers
What did it all mean? Beyond the stickiness, tawdriness and sleaze of New Orleans and the haze of what clearly has become a telecom industry show...
No more mum on ENUM
By: By Tim McElligott
I am sure it goes further back, but the first time I remember hearing a serious discussion about ENUM was in February 2000 at the IN World Forum in Miami...
The true total cost of ownership
By: By Ben Allen Francis
Voice-over-IP 911 has already become the subject of talk radio, so the next step is logically this...
Patience payoff
By: By Tim McElligott
Patience may be a virtue, but without vision and the ability to spot the appropriate time to dispense with it, patience is but a cover for indecisiveness...
What have I missed?
By: By Ben Allen Francis
With the possible exception of Sprint/Nextel, all of these merger situations inherit a major back office nightmare into what is already not a pristine back office environment...
It's all about IMS
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The wireless industry has a new acronym to beat to death. It's called IMS--IP multimedia subsystem--and the vendors are bringing down the bat hard at the 3GSM World Congress...
When merger is madness
By: By Carol Wilson
The best time to score against a good basketball team is when their starters are on the bench. Whether the big guy's in foul trouble or the point guard just needs a breather--either way, their absence represents an opportunity. Winning teams takes advantage of such chances...
AT&T waves goodbye to IMS--for now
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T chairman and CEO Dave Dorman yesterday didn't miss his chance to cozy up with his new buddies at Cingular at the expense of some old ones...
The value of mobility
By: By Tim McElligott
"The value of mobility can't be overstated." Before you rack your brain trying to figure out which industry pundit uttered those words, let me save you the trouble...
Ad-monishing wireline replacement
By: By Tim McElligott
It's the same every year. We write the wrong date on our checks a half-dozen times. We break half our resolutions before going to bed on New Year's Eve....
Thank you for your support
By: By Tim McElligott
One disenchanted evening
By: By Tim McElligott
Return of the kings?
By: By Tim McElligott
As long as some RBOCs stayed on the VoIP sidelines it was easy to believe that once they entered the game, everything would change. Adoption would skyrocket....
Election Day hangover
By: By Tim McElligott
The office was intolerably gloomy Wednesday morning. Heads hung low in disbelief. Coffee went cold as demoralized Democrats stared at blank computer screens...
