June 1, 2009
Cover Story
Wanted: Telecom technicians with extensive IP background
With all the discussion of next-generation networks, there has been relatively little public discourse about next-generation jobs. In fact, when Telephony...
NSN Reshaping its Work Force
Nokia Siemens Networks has embarked on an internal retraining regime aimed at turning its telecom and wireless engineers into IP experts who can help...
Editor's Letter
Telecom's job challenge
Some 16 years ago, I remember reading the first report produced by the Network Reliability Council, a group set up by the FCC shortly after a series of...
Forward Motion
No LTE phone in the stars for 2010
If wishing something made it so, the U.S. would surely have a 4G iPhone in 2010. But the release schedules of long-term evolution chip vendors dash those...
Mobile Internet's mixed bag
The mobile Internet is one of the fastest growing revenue segments for operators around the world, driven by access fees and data traffic, according to...
Economy not slowing ATIS
Telecom industry companies, including service providers and equipment vendors, are not cutting back on their participation in ATIS committees and forums...
Is prepaid growth an illusion?
The prepaid wireless market was the banner story of the first quarter. While the postpaid segment saw net subscriber additions fall by 57% bringing overall...
Univa UD CEO on billing cloud services
Univa UD, which was formed by the 2007 merger of grid computing and cluster software firms Univa and United Devices, is now focused on enabling telecom...
Correction
In the May 2009 issue, Telephony accidentally re-ran a story, Unlimited pricing wars, from 2008. Please view the correct story at telephonyonline.com/mag/sprints-prepaid-blessing-0501/index.html...
Opinion
Self-sustaining mobility
The alternative energy mobile network seems to have plenty of momentum in the savannahs of Africa, the villages of India and the mountains of Tibet, but...
Wireless
Building the Green Mobile Phone
Castor beans, corn, water bottles, car tires, aluminum cans not what one typically thinks of when it comes to mobile phones, but these are key ingredients...
Networks
The Next SS7
Ask telecom entrepreneurs what they're working on these days and the term comes up. Signaling System 7, the protocol for setting up and tearing down calls...
Services
A Heartbeat Away
When Sorin Group, a leading global maker of medical devices, wanted to get into the U.S. market for remote heart monitoring, the company decided to look...
Video
Personalize Video's Pull
Start talking about the concept of personalized video with industry stakeholders and you'll quickly find yourself debating interactive applications such...
The Indpendent
Getting Back on the IPTV Horse
The SES Americom announcement in December that it was shutting down its IP Prime IPTV wholesale service seemed to definitively cast 2008 as The Year Independent...
Independents consider Europe's hybrid strategy
More than 35 new IPTV operations began trials or deployment across the globe in the past six months, suggesting opportunity in the market despite the...
IP at home on the high plains
ENMR Plateau is three companies in one: a rural telephone co-op serving 13,000 access lines in a 25,000-square mile segment of eastern New Mexico (or...
Bringing WiMAX to the reservation
As WiMAX operators penetrate further into rural communities, they're not only faced with the task of bringing broadband access to some of the most underserved...
Broadband in a Box combines dial-up, dish
Broadband in a Box is the name of a company with a novel new approach to rural broadband service that combines satellite and dial-up connectivity. The...
What's Next
What the Verizon Hub should be
Whenever I look at new offerings from telcos that have a digital home/consumer electronics angle to them, I ask myself, Is this something that a CE vendor...
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