analysis & commentaryCOMMENTARY FROM OUR STAFFOpen or closed, porn finds a way to mobileThe iPhone Sex App Store, disguised cleverly as a magic store on mobile Safari, came online yesterday on the iPhone and iPod Touch... Consolidating RLECs loom large over vendorsAs rural carriers bulk up through consolidation, they are gaining more power over their equipment suppliers... Why AT&T can’t win its ‘map for that’ spat with VZWIt seems the more AT&T pursues its grievances with Verizon Wireless the more it gets egg on its face... Verizon to Hulu: You’ll be dead in two years, anywayMedia giants always underestimate the upstarts, but it doesn’t mean they are right.... Marketers and the iPhone mom opportunityThere’s a new class of always-connected broadband users that has overtaken teens and the often-cited Millennial Generation in technology dependency... Commentary: Seeking smart answers to grid questionsThe smart grid is positioned as holding the answers to a lot of problems inherent in the complex and unwieldy beast that is the nation’s electric grid... Commentary: Incumbents don’t warm to stimulus fundingIf you accept the notion that broadband connections are important to economic development and general community well-being — and if you don’t, just stop reading here... Facebook and the communication meltdownA “Facebookaholic” is defined as a person whose chronic dependence on Facebook leads to interference with health and to social and economic problems. But the problems don’t end there... Is your boss spying on your smartphone?Smartphones were once perks of privilege for businesses, but no more... Commentary: In broadband stimulus, cart races horseThough the application deadline for the first round of broadband stimulus funds is the end of next week, some of the first winners are already being named... Merging fish with an oil tankerIt’s easy to think about the megamergers between telecom vendors of the last few years in terms of mere dollars and euros, product lines and business groups, sales channel and R&D synergies... Is Verizon rebound-ready?In announcing its second-quarter earnings, Verizon today acknowledged that business services revenues are slowing down because of the weak economy... Augmenting realityEver wish your Facebook profile just hovered over your shoulder, so any friend, neighbor or colleague could pull down your vital stats and Bahamas vacation photos out of thin air? Okay, probably not, but maybe your kids would... Rural telcos doing better — but is it enough?It’s a classic bad news, good news situation. The bad news: Independent telcos are losing value, at a pace of 12% between Jan. 1, 2008, and Jan. 1, 2009, according to a July report from Stifel Nicolaus... Clearwire goes 3GThe funny thing about mobile broadband is that people actually want to use it while mobile... Why premium mobile TV needs free-to-airFree-to-air mobile television is taking off across the globe (depending on whom you ask), but the market for a mobile TV service of any kind still is struggling to gain traction in the U.S. ... Will telepresence users push for interoperability?The last time I tried to write about the need for interoperability within telepresence, I provoked annoyed response from companies such as Polycom and Tandberg, which already have made their services interoperable and are open to connections with others... Commentary: How the cloud will transform mobile appsIt’s commonly accepted by now that mobile application storefronts are a new frontier of wireless... Commentary: The Missouri plan for broadband stimulusThe Missouri plan to achieve statewide broadband access by 2014, funded with federal stimulus money, may well represent the best model for stimulus applicants to follow to improve their odds of winning... Bandwidth envyIt’s not surprising to hear that home buyers consider high-speed Internet connections via fiber to be an important amenity... Consumers say VoIP not essential; magicJack begs to differConsumers are much less likely to cut back on landline spending than they are on either free or paid voice-over-IP services, according to Alcatel-Lucent's Market Advantage Program study released yesterday... Energy bill should energize changeNow that the House of Representatives has passed an energy bill with a decreasing cap on greenhouse gas emissions, it’s clear that U.S. businesses need to be thinking seriously about how they will either reduce their carbon emissions or buy offsets to account for their usage... TV Everywhere: Innovation or control?Time Warner Inc. and Comcast today made their partnership, first announced in March, for TV Everywhere official... Can NSN turn CDMA customers into LTE customers?I asked Nokia Siemens Networks head of North America Sue Spradley on Monday whether it would be “weird” to start selling CDMA after being a champion of the GSM family of technology for so long... Broadband speed creepAT&T and Verizon both are nudging up broadband speeds in conjunction with a range of promotions apparently aimed at giving a last-minute push to their second-quarter numbers... Commentary: Smart grids and telecomMy dishwasher offers a handful of different options for wash cycles, one of which is called “smart wash.” I don’t really know what the differences are between them, but I know that once you deem one option the “smart” one, there’s little point in offering the alternatives... Prepaid 3G broadband may be the answerVirgin Mobile (NYSE:VM) may have just provided the wireless industry with a solution to the nagging problem of data caps... |
advertisement CONTRIBUTED COMMENTARYRisky BusinessThe telcos face big risks. Competitors - cable guys, wireless players, CLECs, ISPs, and the like - want to empty their networks of customers... Shedding Light on the Dark Cyber WorldThe Internet has become the central nervous system for our networked life. As a global network of loosely connected IP-based networks, it reaches into every country and provides governments, businesses and consumers worldwide with a common platform for communication. And now, a new kind of criminal has emerged... Who Keeps Shop at the Mobile Application Store?Mobile operators and device vendors alike are leveraging tight integration of applications with devices, and their own widget platforms and software stores, as they seek to optimize and control the mobile Web experience... The Promise of Universal BroadbandThe Obama administration’s economic stimulus package contains a broadband promise for rural America... Ask Steve: HDTV for the SMB?This week Ask Steve is excited to join Josh Martin, Yankee Group’s pre-eminent consumer analyst, as we discuss the consumerization of the enterprise and connected devices... 2009 Predictions: A Mid-Year Reality CheckI wanted to take a trip down memory lane and revisit our thoughts on 2009 and wireless networks and wireless infrastructure from way back in January... Regulatory Clouds Beginning to Clear?The recently released ARRA NTIA-RUS BTOP-BIP NOFA* (hereinafter simply NOFA) contained two important elements that offer encouraging signs for broadband service providers focused on delivering new, value-added services to their subscribers... Will the iPhone kill SMS?OK, so we all know the world is divided into two camps: Those with iPhones, and those that wish they had iPhones... Industry M&A: Another “Final Four”The signs have been all around us, and they are in fact accelerating... Churn Reduction: The Hidden DangerThe telecom industry has been deeply impacted by the worst recession since the Great Depression... A Dickens of a Relationship ProblemSome of the greatest duos in history – Laurel &Hardy, Ruth &Gehrig and Lucy & Ricky – were reportedly anything but close outside of work... Is the app store the elusive killer app?With the possible exception of voice service itself, we’ve never actually had a true killer app that has fundamentally changed the industry’s business model... Ask Steve: SMBsSMBs and the ecosystem serving them want to understand their options and purchase wisely... Accelerating Time to Market with Product Lifecycle ManagementOver the past six months the industry has been tempered by the global economic crisis... Just Give Me the Numbers!As a young consultant, I was presenting the key findings of a market study to a major telecom equipment manufacturer... Powerful forces at work between big media, telecom and technologyThe decades-long transformation of the media to digital has been a high-stakes war with many battles... Commentary: Cloud computing can solve business competition challengeThe saga of the telco and cable rivalry has moved to the business market place... Femto Apps -- You know you want them!I've been thinking a lot about femtocell-based applications lately. With few commercial femtocell services launched and the... Commentary: Build American and they will comeSince the ARRA was signed into law, the telecommunications industry's "field of dreams" has sprouted with webinars, seminars, whitepapers, commentary and suggestions about who should get the money, how to get it and how it should be spent... Will Over-The-Top Kill the Video Star?It is impossible to escape intense discussion of "over-the-top" (OTT) video these days, as it has gone well beyond user-generated content on YouTube... How "Fast" is Broadband?A perennial issue confronting the industry is determining the actual "speed" of broadband services... What The Verizon Hub Should BeWhenever I look at new offerings from telcos that have a digital home/consumer electronics angle to them, I always ask myself: is this something that a CE vendor could do better?... The Real Storm Is Yet to Come, Can Wireless Turn the Tide?Have we hit the bottom of the downturn? Are we finally seeing light at the end of the tunnel?... SDPs and Killer App CultivationThe telecommunications scrapheap is piled waste high with would-be killer applications... National Broadband Policy needs concrete goals to succeedOn April 8, 2009 the FCC issued its Notice of Inquiry (NOI), “A National Broadband Plan for Our Future”... Migrating Security into the NetworkEvery day, the news validates that Internet threats have gotten more numerous and more sophisticated... Putting the Innovation in Product InnovationWith global markets mired in recession and profit margins sliding, many communications and high-tech companies may be tempted to cut back on product development and merely ride out the storm... How to beat the cap wrapTime Warner is getting a lesson in “squeaky wheel” politics... (Yet More) Mobile Applications Coming To You SoonDriven by the runaway success of the iPhone and the rapidly growing adoption of Google’s Android OS by handset vendors and mobile service providers, the number of mobile applications is exploding... RCS: The Next Step in Mobile Services EvolutionIn 2009, efforts are underway that will change the IMS service landscape... |
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