Nokia delivers Ovi Share for social networking
Nokia today launched a key part of its Ovi Internet services strategy with a revamped multimedia-driven social network dubbed "Share."...
What MS+Yahoo means for service providers
If the telecom and Web worlds are merging, then a mega-merger on one side -- Microsoft’s proposed $44.6 billion acquisition of Yahoo -- surely affects the other. But how?...
700 MHz Auction: Open access assured
In today’s opening round of the 700 MHz auction, a bidder pushed the C-block nationwide license over the $4.6 billion reserve price set by the FCC, ensuring that whichever bidder wins the license must launch an open-access network that will support any competitor’s device or application...
Qwest CEO: It’s the interface, stupid
Edward Mueller’s view of the future sets him apart from most telecom CEOs. He’s not building Qwest into a company that will deliver its own voice, data, video and wireless services to its consumer customers. Instead, Mueller is pointing Qwest toward a different kind of future...
700 MHz Auction: As open access nears, bidders back off
The price of the nationwide C-block license in the 700 MHz auction ticked upward today, but it got nowhere near the $4.6 billion reserve price necessary to trigger the open-access provisions of the highly valuable spectrum property...
Mobile social networking firms fight for pocket space
The social networking phenomenon, given credence by Web giants MySpace and Facebook, has taken hold of the mobile market, and every company wants a piece of the action...
U-verse comes to Chicago suburbs
Residents in most Chicago suburbs now have another option for video, as AT&T today announced it will begin installing its IPTV service, U-verse, in parts of 175 northeastern suburbs. This Illinois launch marks the largest U-verse rollout to date in any AT&T market...
The “next Google” gears up
Ooyala CEO and co-founder Bismarck Lepe shared with Telephony’s Sarah Reedy what the founders learned from Google and how they are taking that knowledge to change the Internet landscape...
Verizon sees no slowdown
Verizon today confirmed what AT&T said last week -- if there is an economic slowdown taking place, it isn’t having a major impact on the telecom business...
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...
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...
700 MHz auction starts with bangs, whimpers
As Auction 73 shut down after its first week, things didn’t look good for the planned public safety/private network. After attracting a $472-million bid in the auction’s opening round, it has languished through round 4 as the other nationwide band, block D, and the individual market licenses attracted all of the attention...
Slow economy doesn't faze AT&T
AT&T is expecting a strong 2008, with consolidated revenue growth in the mid-single digits, a significant expansion in margins and continued double-digit growth in earnings per share -- even if the U.S. economy continues to struggle, Senior Executive Vice President and CFO Rick Lindner told financial analysts today...
TDS following in Sprint's footsteps - TDS and Madison WiMAX
Telephone and Data Systems has launched a WiMAX network in Madison, Wis., tapping into the economies of scale generated by Sprint's upcoming Xohm launch...
IPTV standards effort moves ahead
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) begins work this week on the next phase of its efforts to establish global standards for IPTV, hoping to increase simplification and integration for IPTV manufacturers, service providers and consumers...
Security firm Arbor buys Ellacoya
Security technology firm Arbor Networks today announced it has acquired Ellacoya Networks, a pioneer in the increasingly crowded field of deep packet inspection...
XO shakes up pricing models
XO Communications continued its aggressive assault on the competitive services market today with a new pricing strategy that lets customers pay strictly for bandwidth and not for a specific number of access lines...
Triple-play prices grow more elastic
As competition heats up for triple-play telecom services, the prices for those offerings are becoming more elastic—something customers are finding when they threaten to switch providers...
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