CONSIDERING USER-FINANCED FIBER TO THE HOME
Brigham City, Utah, is poised to test out a rare and experimental model for broadband economics: having end users finance the cost of connecting their...
CORE WARS
When you think of 4G, the tendency is to think of radios fast radios that pump out massive capacity into the wireless industry's tiny niche of the electromagnetic...
TELCOS SEEK SOMEWHERE OVER THE TOP
Change in the over-the-top world is accelerating at a rapid pace, forcing communication service providers to figure out how they will play in a market...
SDPs: IN BETWEEN WHAT'S OVER THE TOP
Service delivery platforms allow service providers to choose a middle path between competing directly with over-the-top providers and relegating themselves...
MOBILE BILLING BLOWS UP
A year ago, mobile operators were starting to think about new, creative ways to bill and charge customers using their suddenly overwhelmed mobile data...
The birth of the 3G attack ad
Remember a time, not so long ago, when every wireless commercial on TV, every ad on billboards and in magazines was about bars, call coverage and minute...
IP Everywhere
FORGET ABOUT THE ATTENTION-GETTING BUT ULTIMATELY UNDERWHELMING VOICE-OVER-IP SOFTSWITCH OVERLAYS OR IPTV SERVICE DEPLOYMENTS OF YESTERYEAR. In today's...
AT&T: More bars in fewer places
Verizon Wireless may have AT&T beat hands down on the scale of its geographic 3G coverage, but according to data from independent testing firm Root Wireless,...
Frontier waits, cable guys pounce
Competitors are pouncing on Verizon's move to sell 4.8 million access lines to Frontier Communication in 14 states, reaching out to Verizon customers...
Best of 2009 and the road ahead
Was 2009 a year to remember or to forget? It was a year where you could put quotes around the word in a headline and everyone would get the ironic twist...
The best and worst of 2009
2009 WILL BE MOST REMEMBERED AS The year we all survived well at least mostly. Everyone opened an app store. Every handset-maker, carrier, operating system...
SDPs CAN'T BE ONE SIZE (APP STORE) FITS ALL
The concepts behind service delivery platforms are maturing, but the business models must follow to ensure success. The definition of SDPs may be constantly...
California dreamin'
We recently came back from visiting our daughter and son-in-law in California. They bought their first house about a year ago. They are both professionals,...
Retiring VHS vs. Betamax
Any time two (or more) technologies battle it out in the marketplace, pundits feel compelled to trot out the old VHS vs. Betamax analogy, as they look...
IN THEIR OWN WORDS 3G TAKES ITS LUMPS AT 4G WORLD
I don't want to talk badly about any of our competitors, but the reality is the 3G network is not built for the broadband data speeds we're talking about....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
