March 1, 2009
Cover Story
U.S. Invasion
As emerging markets blossom and globalization flattens the world, the top carriers from each continent are reaching increasingly into one another's territory,...
Editor's Letter
Going global...again
Globalization is hardly a new trend in telecom, but it is one with a spotty history. In the 1990s, as the telecom bubble was inflating, multiple megadeals...
Forward Motion
Managed services mania
Managed services has become the new telecom industry mantra, as service providers rush into a space seen as the perfect answer to the increased technology...
Sprint, VZW eye 4G for fixed broadband, too
WiMAX and long-term evolution may be the first true mobile broadband technologies, but they still can be used for fixed broadband access at least that's...
Fighting wireless churn
The top five U.S. wireless operators saw nearly a quarter of their subscribers leave them in the past four quarters. These customers weren't giving up...
Alcatel-Lucent Never Forgets
Can an elephant dance? That's the question Ben Verwaayen is pondering these days, some five months into his reign as CEO of Alcatel-Lucent....
Google's bandwidth toolbox
As Internet service providers experiment with ways to control bandwidth consumption and manage congestion on their networks, they'll have Google and Google...
Ovum sees glimmers of hope for vendors
Despite a rough fourth quarter for telecom equipment vendors, glimmers of hope remain for the challenging year ahead, according to research analysis firm...
Opinion
Forget universal broadband
Somewhere along the way, I lost the logic in the universal broadband argument. For years, I would have said, Sure, for our national economic interests,...
Business Services
Can You Still Market Voice to SMBs?
The economic downturn has some predicting that small- and medium-sized businesses will join consumers in a mass cord-cutting and begin relying exclusively...
BSS/OSS
Fulfilling the IP Service Promise
As much as customers might like to complain about their local telco, you'd be hard-pressed finding any customer who could grumble too much about getting...
Wireless
Demystifying the MID
Mobile Internet devices could be the wave of the future if everyone could agree on what they are. These elusive gadgets not quite smartphones and not...
Access
Optical Outlook Cloudy
Industry researchers lowered their expectations for the optical networking industry in late 2008, taking into account the deteriorating economy. Dell'Oro...
Innovation
Doubling Up On Voice
In an industry where 3G is quickly becoming the network, 2G innovations don't get much attention. Vendors may be applying most of their R&D efforts on...
What's Next
Optical Trends to Watch in 2009
I’ve seen a lot of spectacular ups and downs in the optical networking arena in the 14 years I’ve been tracking it. 2009 promises to be another interesting year in this space. Here are 6 trends I see that will and won’t impact optical networking this year...
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