January 1, 2009
Cover Story
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...
Editor's Letter
2008: Glad it's over
By contrast, I think we all have unusually high hopes for 2009. A new president with new ideas and broad support for enacting those ideas is one reason...
Foward Motion
Milking 3G
Despite its name, long-term evolution is on the horizon, but UMTS operators apparently aren't willing to wait....
Recession and VoIP: Good and bad news
Industry analysts expect consumers and small businesses to be drawn to cheap voice-over-IP offers as they try to cut costs...
Mobile handset market shuffling
Although it was passed up by Samsung in the third quarter, Motorola may come out on top this year in the U.S. but not for long....
Google Math
While Google strongly disputed the calculations, Scott Cleland of consultancy Precursor and founder of NetCompetition.org claims the search giant has built its business model by taking advantage of the shared economics of the Internet....
The mythology of prepaid wireless
Only 16% of Americans use prepaid wireless phones today a figure much lower than that of other developed countries, according to a new study...
40G's short life begins
Early last year, some carriers complained that if the price of 40 Gb/s technology didn't come down, they would skip it and go from 10 Gb/s straight to 100 Gb/s...
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...
U.S. earns IPTV bragging rights
For most service providers deploying IPTV in 2008, the move was a defensive play to combat incumbent cable and satellite providers....
Opinion
Service provider resolutions
Every December, I, along with millions of other Americans, think about my resolutions for the upcoming year....
Innovation
E-Signatures Get SaaSy
When it comes to electronic signatures, the biggest innovation isn't in the technology which has been around for years but in finding a way to use them....
Networks
Will Carriers Dominate the CDN Market?
Without a doubt, 2008 was the year that service providers moved forcefully into the content delivery network business....
Wireless
ODI Field of Dreams
Tony Lewis of Verizon Wireless has the enthusiasm you'd expect from someone with a new-age title like chief evangelist....
Ten on Top
Telephony picks the carriers, vendors and executives who wielded the greatest wireless influence in 2008....
Broadband
Move Over, Geek Squad
Telecom service providers are cautiously exploring the business model for technical support as a residential broadband service, expanding their offerings...
What's Next
WiMAX: A tale of two markets
WiMAX technology offers great promise to deliver high-speed broadband Internet access with DSL-type performance and price, as well as facilitate the supply of low-price customer premises equipment....
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