February 1, 2009
Cover Story
Transformation revisited
Not too long ago, big-bang network and IT system overhauls were all the rage. But with mixed successes, notable setbacks and a tough economy, what's a telco looking to transform itself to do?...
Editor's Letter
Useless warnings
I work in a high-rise building in downtown Chicago. Every year, at about the same time that Christmas decorations go up, a crop of useless warning signs...
Forward Motion
PC-makers lead the WiMAX charge
Round 1 in the WiMAX device bout goes to the computer-makers. When Sprint first launched WiMAX in the U.S., it touted support of the top three handset-makers as committed to seeding its forthcoming 4G network with converged devices....
Can Comcast shape behavior?
Comcast may be one of the first — and certainly most visible — service providers to publicly implement a system for coping with heavy bandwidth users....
Shades of green
It didn't matter how fast, how cheap or how innovative a new product was at this year's Consumer Electronics Show — if it wasn't green, it wasn't making headlines....
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...
What's next for VoIP vendors?
With BroadSoft's holiday acquisition of rival voice-over-IP platform vendor Sylantro, the battle to provide relatively vanilla VoIP platforms to service providers looks to be done....
Access line math
While most of the telecom industry frets over growing access line loss, longtime telco critic Bruce Kushnick, chairman of Teletruth, claims some line losses are fiction, perpetrated by AT&T and Verizon in an effort to push deregulation and possibly obtain tax breaks....
Will Palm's webOS woo developers?
In hopes of reinvigorating its brand, fallen PDA leader Palm ditched its legacy operating system and introduced a completely new one at the Consumer Electronics Show....
Broadband bonding spreads
U.K.-based Sharedband took its broadband bonding service nationwide in January. Having begun in the Seattle area early last year, it now serves Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and San Jose, Calif....
Opinion
Obama's Broadband Challenge
Today we have a new president. While it’s probably unseemly to start taking shots at Barack Obama on the day of his inauguration, I believe it’s only fair to point out that our new president is starting his new administration’s broadband policy with a contradiction....
Carrier Ethernet
The Big Picture
The market for carrier Ethernet technology, while driven fundamentally by the favorable cost-per-bit of Ethernet economics, is nonetheless, like other...
Business Services
Wholesale Changes
The wholesale market never was the sexy side of the business particularly after the telecom bubble burst and bandwidth was abundant and cheap....
Wireless
The Flat World Theory
New mobile architectures all share one assumption: Flat IP architectures are better. But why?...
Innovation
LG's Wireless Trend to Watch
Dick Tracy and James Bond have nothing on LG. At the Consumer Electronics Show, it wowed attendees with the world's first touch-screen watch phone, the LG-GD910....
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