July 1, 2009
Opinion
Nortel and the megavendor innovation myth
In early post-mortems of Nortel Networks, the criticism that the company failed to misapprehends the current role of the world's top telecom equipment...
Wireless
Moblie Coupons go Mainstream
Even as mobile advertising struggles to gain acceptance among carriers, brands and consumers, the mobile phone quickly is becoming a replacement for the...
Articles
The end of an era and dawn of a new age
You hold in your hands the last issue of an institution. After 108 years, countless editors, hundreds of contributors, dozens of awards and thousands...
U.S. consumer bandwidth is booming, report says
Contrary to some concerns, consumer bandwidth in the U.S. has boomed over the last eight years, reaching a per-capita level of 2.4 megabits per second...
Broadband continues to grow
Broadband grew by 16.6 million lines globally in the first quarter of the year 3 million of which were in North America according to the Broadband Forum....
Harris Stratex evolving beyond a backhaul supplier
When you think Harris Stratex, the first words that come to mind are mobile backhaul. But in the last year CEO Harald Braun has quietly been transforming...
Picking apart Nortel's wireless assets
Earlier this summer Nokia Siemens Networks offered $650 million for Nortel's wireless assets but not all of them. NSN cherry-picked what it felt were...
Carbon cap could mean billions for telecom, IT
Telecom and IT companies are well-positioned to tap a potential $700 billion market for lowering carbon dioxide emissions, said Bill St. Arnaud, chief...
GSMA envisions an embedded future
The GSM Association is forecasting 50 billion connected devices on the market by 2025, which would mean that every individual would have approximately...
Washington weighs in on rural broadband
A report on rural broadband issued by FCC Acting Chairman Michael J. Copps in May offered an idea of the direction the new FCC is likely to take on broadband...
ERF Wireless' vertical plan for rural broadband
ERF Wireless is rapidly expanding wireless broadband in rural areas of the South using a methodical approach of targeting business customers in specific...
Making the most of Muni broadband
The ruling in Monticello, Minn., last month that the city could build its own fiber-to-the-home link for residents set the precedent that Internet is...
Nokia Siemens’ cultural integration
Nokia Siemens Networks’ birth involved more than merging product lines and operations. Soft issues rather than hard ones can kill a merger in its infancy, and considering the might and history of NSN’s parents, unifying two distinct corporate cultures into one would prove to be one of the venture’s biggest challenges...
NSN Transformation Continues in Year Three
Ask Mika Vehvilainen, chief operating officer for Nokia Siemens Networks, about the Nokia side or the Siemens side of his company and he'll tell you that...
Ooutsourcing Networks OPS
Among NSN's boldest ambitions in the U.S. and one of its more outstanding achievements is its drive to take over operations of carrier networks as a service....
Fiber Tug of War
Service providers across the globe slowed purchases of passive optical networking gear in the first quarter to focus more on adding subscribers to their...
Enhanced Ads Take a Hit but Keep Coming
For about as long as anyone has ever talked about IPTV, enhanced advertising has been part of the equation. Whether targeting ads to specific consumers,...
Cracking open the mobile device
It used to be that mobile developer programs were for handsets: Game and application designers would cluster around the hot phone or operating system,...
A dickens of a relationship problem
Some of the greatest duos in history Laurel & Hardy, Ruth & Gehrig and Lucy & Ricky were reportedly anything but close outside of work. If network operators...
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