October 23, 2006

Farewell to the forecast

By Dan O'SheaOct 23, 2006 12:00 PM

Consolidation throughout multiple segments of the telecom industry continues to reshape the landscape, such that our view of the horizon is now virtually...

Wholesale consolidation moves to the next Level

By Carol WilsonOct 23, 2006 12:00 PM

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...

AT&T gets fiber envy

By Ed GubbinsOct 23, 2006 12:00 PM

With Verizon's fiber-to-the-premises initiative barreling along, and AT&T's fiber-to-the-node project still hovering, analysts say AT&T insiders are increasingly...

Merger uncertainty

By Carol WilsonOct 23, 2006 12:00 PM

Approval of the AT&T/BellSouth merger has been postponed until at least Nov. 3, as the FCC tries to decide what conditions to impose to protect the competitive...

Fast Forward: Eric Shepcaro

Although it opposes the idea of municipalities building their own Wi-Fi networks, AT&T earlier this year decided to partner with those cities and...

No winner-take-all for AWS

By Kevin FitchardOct 23, 2006 12:00 PM

Although much of the attention from the recent Advanced Wireless Services spectrum auction was focused on T-Mobile's $4.2 billion payout for 3G licenses,...

Mobile backhaul exploding, imploding

By Dan O'SheaOct 23, 2006 12:00 PM

It's been widely noted that mobile backhaul requirements will grow at a staggering rate as subscriber numbers and adoption of 3G services and applications...

Ericsson cracks U.S. mobile payment market

By Kevin FitchardOct 23, 2006 12:00 PM

The mobile content delivery market has experienced a wave of consolidation in the last year, exemplified by VeriSign's purchase of m-Qube and Amdocs'...

Mobile phones: safety device or distraction?

By Tim McElligottOct 23, 2006 12:00 PM

Technologists feel new policy management capabilities can serve both to provide parents with a better sense of security for their school-age children...

Wi-Fi becoming application platform

By Carol WilsonOct 23, 2006 12:00 PM

Having pioneered the broad deployment of Wi-Fi hotspot, Wayport appears ready to be swamped by the flood of municipal networks and other free and ad-supported...

WiMAX roaming off and running

By Dan O'SheaOct 23, 2006 12:00 PM

Though the number of WiMAX subscribers globally remains miniscule, proponents of the emerging broadband access technology already have started calling...

Loading the laptop

By Dan O'SheaOct 23, 2006 12:00 PM

The era of the loaded laptop is upon us, and what the laptop increasingly will be loaded with is broadband access chips, cards, antennas, ports and interface...

It ain't over till it's over

By Carol WilsonOct 23, 2006 12:00 PM

AT&T and BellSouth got a bit of a nasty surprise on their way to a quick merger. It appeared the way was cleared when the Department of Justice shocked...

Wireless in hiding

By Tim McElligottOct 23, 2006 12:00 PM

The secret to the success of any new service or application delivered over a wireless network is to hide the complexity of that network from the user....

Management motivation

By Ed GubbinsOct 23, 2006 12:00 PM

The progress Verizon has made lately deploying fiber to the premises brings to mind the executive compensation package the company's board approved in...

Bridging the smart antenna gap

By Kevin FitchardOct 23, 2006 12:00 PM

With the IEEE 802.16e standard finally in place, more than a dozen WiMAX vendors are looking for some way to differentiate their highly standardized products....

Hunting for a QOS consensus

By Dan O'SheaOct 23, 2006 12:00 PM

Telcos face a new set of challenges as they seek to deliver IPTV services, and although many of the hurdles have to do with how to package and market...

Making the leap from RF to IP

By Ed GubbinsOct 23, 2006 12:00 PM

As competitive pressures force carriers to deploy video services, they must choose the right technologies to deliver those services, balancing short-term...

The elusive early majority

By Neale MartinOct 23, 2006 12:00 PM

A few years ago, while working with a leading manufacturer of networking gear, I was surprised when an executive made the claim that voice over IP had...