Economy News
Innovation during downturn can be planned
Telecom service providers can plan to make their companies stronger during the current economic downturn by making sure they have or acquire talent in marketing, branding, innovation and collaboration...
Ovum sees glimmers of hope for vendors
Despite a rough fourth quarter for telecom equipment vendors, glimmers of hope remain for the challenging year ahead, according to research analysis firm...
Comcast blames telcos, economy for net-adds dropoff
Comcast vows to double wideband footprint this year as sub growth stalls...
Growth to be hard-won in 2009
The good news for Bell carriers is that despite economic turmoil, they can achieve growth in 2009. The bad news is how much....
The economy's CE victims
Revenue growth in the consumer electronics industry is unlikely this year, according to Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association...
The best and worst of 2008
2008 Will be most remembered as the year the economy stopped aka Worst. Christmas. Ever. The year major vendors rebooted. CEO Pat Russo left Alcatel-Lucent...
Getting the Message on Market Size
Service providers often are encouraged to chase new markets such as content and advertising. But a larger, unappreciated and still-growing market already...
Best Buy accelerates mobile push amidst struggling sales
The big-box retailer looks towards wireless to stave off the effects of an economic recession...
Surviving the Recession: Tough choices in R&D
Economic downturns can have devastating effects on the R&D budgets of telecom vendors. Will vendors have to start cutting and if so what?...
AT&T listening to customers, cutting bills?
Alan Weinkrantz was an early U-verse customer of AT&T’s in San Antonio and has been blogging for some time about that experience. Now he’s telling the world that AT&T is willing to dramatically cut prices in order to retain its most valuable customers....
Surviving the Recession: Keeping the Dollars You've Already Earned
Traditional revenue assurance is moving beyond billing audits and fraud detection to encompass network and service assurance as well, while emerging telco value chains are bringing the concept of partner assurance to the forefront...
Surviving the Recession: Business Services
As telecom carriers look to tailor their residential consumer offerings for an increasingly budget-conscious mass market, they may find an even less forgiving environment among business customers...
Surviving the Recession: Finding Wireless Value
Consumers won’t ditch their cell phones, but to weather a recession, wireless operators must make them invaluable...
UBS: US telco spending could drop 10% in 2009
Spending among US telcos could drop 10% or more next year, according to UBS analyst Nikos Theodosopoulos, who had previously predicted only a 5% drop....
Surviving the Recession: The Residential Market
After years of selling faster speeds and more high-definition TV channels, Comcast is now pitching cheaper services, offering a triple-play bundle of basic voice, video and data offerings for less than $30 each...
Survey: Bad economy good for TV viewing
A national survey commissioned by Verizon found 57% of US adults will cope with tough economic times by staying home and watching more television...
NGN spending outlook mixed as VoIP slows, policy grows
Research Infonetics sees a pullback in carrier VoIP spending, but policy server market grows to support new services, fair usage...
Management World: 'Cleaning house' a back-office priority as capex spending slows
As service provider capex spending slows due to the economic downturn, back-office staffs would do well to turn their sights back to that work...
NGN spending pulls back, though hopeful spots remain
Cisco, Sonus see deep declines; SBC vendor Acme Packet stays course citing ROI-driven deployments...
Clouds gather in carrier spending slowdown
Uncertainty in the overall economy has led large North American telecom carriers to grow increasingly conservative in their spending...
Ciena reports tier-one spending slowdown
Ciena lowered its expectations for its fiscal year today, citing a broad slowdown in spending among tier-one carriers, particularly in North America, that the company believes could last a few quarters....
Verizon says economy not hurting its results
In announcing second quarter results today, Verizon officials repeatedly said the slowing U.S. economy is not having a major impact on its financial results....
