Special Report: Telephony's Best and Worst of 2007

Rumors We'd Like to See Come True

1. Google builds a 700 MHz network: The search engine giant does everything else — why not be a service provider? Of course, the Google geniuses are too smart to be sucked into a world where they have to provide (gasp!) customer service.
2. Nacchio said no: The federal government offered indicted ex-Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio lots of money to spy on Americans illegally, but his uncompromising personal ethics prevented him from taking the dough.
3. Google buys Sprint: We don't think Google could run the company any better necessarily. We just think if Google actually became a nationwide wireless carrier, the whole world would go ape — black becomes white, up becomes down. Internet companies becoming carriers? C'mon, we're journalists. We love this kind of stuff.
4. Microsoft MediaRoom meltdown: According to Microsoft's many jealous middleware competitors, at some unspecified point of mass deployment, its IPTV solution will cease to scale and a lot of TV screens will go black. Why would we want this to happen? See rumor three.

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