November 1, 2008
COVER STORY
The World According to Barry
With the launch of the first Xohm network in Baltimore, Sprint's 4G president (and WiMAX evangelist) Barry West saw years of his hard work made a reality....
EDITOR'S LETTER
Big broadband secrets
In the midst of the financial system meltdown, the U.S. Congress finally found the time to address the issue of broadband availability by passing the Broadband Data Improvement Act....
FORWARD MOTION
Portal power
One tool in the effort to stem the tide of landline losses is the voice/data portal, a service that gives consumers a chance to manage their landline voice and voicemail service from a PC....
VC chill could slow innovation
Sequoia Capital may have said it best at an early October meeting with portfolio executives....
Embedding 4G
If 4G is to succeed, it will require a new embedded devices, starting with laptops, moving toward ultramobile PCs, mobile Internet devices and eventually consumer electronics....
Dipping for dollars
There's revenue in those phone number and address databases — if service providers know how to go in there and claim it....
R.I.P. ODP
On-device portals were once a concept ahead of their time. These application engines gave developers access to the individual user rather than the device itself...
ADC jumps into WiMAX
In the wireless industry, ADC is best-known for its distributed antenna and indoor coverage systems, but the vendor is using the new market opportunity of WiMAX...
BT joins operations outsourcing trend
BT Group told its employees last month that about 500 of them in the design and operations units were about to become Alcatel-Lucent employees as part...
Honoring the Long View
Innovation is often thought of in terms of “light bulb” moments, but the winners of Telephony's 2008 Innovation Awards also stressed the importance of remaining dedicated to a project or effort, sometimes over a long period....
OPINION
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
As the country feels itself slipping into the fog of a potentially lasting economic downturn, those in the telecom industry can name the sensation more precisely...
WIRELESS
Mobile Video's Final Frontier
As Internet video becomes synonymous with mobile video, consumers are more willing than ever to watch content on the go....
SOFTWARE
ASP to SAAS to Clouds -- Oh my!
Remember ASPs — application service providers? How about SaaS, or software as a service? Or, to crib an IBM-birthed term, on-demand applications?...
Managed Security Gets a Makeover
Managed security services originally were an extension of what telecom service providers already were giving their business customers...
INNOVATION
Platforms for Partners
The need to build platforms for on-boarding, integrating and settling payments with third-party partners has come to the fore....
ETHERNET
PBB Steals the Stage
Two years ago, Nortel Networks' newly minted metro Ethernet division made a splash at the Globalcomm trade show by introducing provider backbone transport technology in its carrier Ethernet switch....
WHAT'S NEXT?
Buying Customer Loyalty?
Are things getting tough at AT&T and Comcast? Are they missing their subscriber targets or are they experiencing higher than usual churn?...
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