April 2009 Issue
Cover Story
Wireless 2025: A look at wireless in the year 2025
A decade and a half ago, the transition from analog to digital cellular created an explosion in wireless services. What started as an expensive service...
Editor's Letter
End of an era?
If you are holding the current print issue of Telephony magazine and turning pages to read the articles and columns, consider this: You have in your hands...
Forward Motion
So you want broadband stimulus funds
Much is unknown about how the federal government will award some $7 billion in broadband grants and loans between now and September 2010. Because the...
Smartphones graduate
Smartphones were the device success story of 2008, and they will be for 2009 if carriers and handset manufacturers get just a little smarter...
Consumer Cellular targets the mobile mature
The Millennial Generation may get all the attention, but there's a substantial U.S. market of more wireless users that warrants attention as well...
Carrier VoIP market shrinks
For the first time ever, service provider spending on voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology decreased for the fourth quarter of 2008, according to Infonetics...
From the Web: Video wars
Business video as a market is hot, as more companies consider videoconferencing and collaboration as a way to cut costs and work more efficiently...
‘Mr. Mashup’ becomes a CEO
Thomas Howe joins telecom API vendor Jaduka while startup Twilio lands funding, proving there’s still life in telco 2.0...
Squeezing out the early adopter
The reign of the early adopter is ending. Device-makers have always targeted these gadget-savvy technophiles, knowing that their approval or disapproval...
Opinion
Open APIs: A race to the bottom
It's a familiar refrain: Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. For telecom operators, the siren's call of the past few years has been to...
The Independent
Rural wireless success stories
Now that nearly every major regional wireless carrier has been gobbled up by the dominant players, the market is left with a handful of giant companies...
Clearfly brings UC to the SMB
As companies across the U.S. grapple with economic distress and belt-tightening, Clearfly Communications plans to bring unified communications to the...
FCC data shows improved network reliability
Local telephone service has made steady gains in reliability in recent years, according to data collected by the FCC through its Automated Reporting Management...
Dossier: Derek Barr, Hardy Telecommunications
Territory served: Three exchanges in eastern West Virginia Year founded: 1953 Employees: 32 Customers: A little less than 5000 Population density: Least-dense...
Innovation
Verivue's video combo
A new equipment vendor start-up in the IP video space emerged from stealth mode in early March with a new approach to video content distribution that...
Wireless
The business of mobile music
While music is one of few services capable of eliciting strong emotional ties and response from consumers, it hasn't corresponded with revenue when offered...
Networks
It's Only Fair: Telcos manage IP traffic to dictate fair usage
The network may not be seeing many areas of investment these days, but service providers have shown strong interest in a least one aspect: deploying smart...
Consumer Services
HD wi-fi crashes the home-networking party
New wireless technology operating in the 5 GHz spectrum and using multiple input/multiple output technology developed in the wireless industry appears...
What's Next
The diversification of killer apps
Voice is the killer app. Speed is the killer app. Video is the killer app. There is no killer app. If I hear 'killer app' one more time, I’ll kill the messenger....
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