Carol Wilson - Telephony's Editor-at-Large
MOST POPULAR ARTICLES BY CAROL WILSON:
AT&T announces largest FTTP build
AT&T today announced its largest fiber-to-the-premises network build-out to date, reaching a 20,000-home master-planned community near Houston, as part of Project Lightspeed....
Wholesale consolidation moves to the next Level
Level 3 Communications last week made its latest move and maybe its last for a while in a flurry of acquisitions with its $1.4 billion purchase of Broadwing...
SIP now packing the trunks
Newer services that offer session initiation protocol trunking are taking hold in the marketplace this year, even as service providers continue to deal...
Verizon video will tap multiple technologies
Company also planning first GPON deployment by end of 2006...
DSL, cable broadband prices diverge
Amid a confusing flurry of promotional deals that are often regionally targeted, cable companies and telephone companies are definitely diverging on price...
Private phone numbers in vogue
For more than a decade, the telecom industry has been promising to make communications easier for its customers by allowing them to have a single phone number, regardless of what device they use to communicate...
Pricing of bundles more art than science
What customers pay depends on where they live--and even if they talk back to a service rep...
VoIP QUALITY QUESTIONS STIR ECHOES
Best-effort voice over IP succeeds in delivering cellular-level voice quality only 60% of the time, according to research done by InterNAP, the Seattle-based...
The Net effect of consolidation
Telecom will have a new look as mergers like last week's Nokia/Siemens deal take hold, but is it better?...
Analysis: DVR battle just beginning
EchoStar Communications has won permission, for the time being, to continue selling its digital video recorder services, after a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., issued a temporary hold on a Texas court order that block those sales...
You've VoIPed a long way, baby
The growing voice-over-IP industry has improved to the point that it outranks landline phones both in customer satisfaction ratings and in overall audio quality...
