With app numbers rising, so are app-selling opportunities 

Jul 5, 2011, By Michelle Maisto

There are now more than 100,000 iPad apps, and even Microsoft's Windows Phone recently passed a milestone. Rising app totals are not only driving billions in revenue, but new sales avenues....

Apple iPad now accounts for more than 25 percent of U.S. mobile Web use 

Jul 5, 2011, By Michelle Maisto

More than 1 percent of all Internet browsing is now done on an iPad, and the iPhone is the number one way Americans are accessing the mobile Web, says a new report, highlighting Apple's significant role in our online behavior. ...

Does Google have the right make-up to make Google+ work?  

Jul 1, 2011, By Michelle Maisto

Telcos often get criticized for ‘not getting’ the content business or being too staid to compete in the world of apps and services. Dare we say: could Google face the same challenge?...

KDDI makes Wi-Fi major component of mobile broadband network 

Jul 1, 2011, By Kevin Fitchard

Using Ruckus gear, KDDI is deploying a 100,000-access point Wi-Fi data offload network...

TW Telecom asks the FCC to declare IP voice a telecommunications service 

Jul 1, 2011, By Joan Engebretson

Petition aims to pave the way for direct IP-to-IP voice interconnection, lower inter-carrier compensation...

Nortel patents go for $4.5 billion to consortium 

Jul 1, 2011, By Rich Karpinski

Partners in bidding include Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, Research In Motion and Sony; question is: what will they do with them?...

New Skype and Fring Android video apps may have carriers up at night 

Jun 30, 2011, By Michelle Maisto

The vendors have each introduced mobile video calling for Android devices. While the market has yet to take off, when it does, the carriers will need to be prepared. ...

LightSquared lashes back at GPS industry 

Jun 30, 2011, By Kevin Fitchard

Preempting a long-awaited report roundly critical of its LTE plans, LightSquared turns the tables and blames interference problems on GPS device makers...

Synchronica purchase of Nokia assets includes deals with Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile  

Jun 30, 2011, By Michelle Maisto

Synchronica's $25 million purchase of Nokia OBM assets includes contracts with Verizon, AT&T and other top carriers and turns Nokia into a paying customer...

Research shows Ethernet tag switching less costly to operate than MPLS-TP 

Jun 30, 2011, By Joan Engebretson

Fujitsu attributes Ethernet tag-switching cost savings to its mature OAM capabilities...

What is propensity analytics -- and why is it important for carriers? 

Jun 30, 2011, By Alex Leslie

If you can measure it, you can predict it, says IBM exec in this Q&A on how to do data-crunching right ...

Looking down a dumb pipe from the other end 

Jun 30, 2011, By Alex Leslie

Familiar news from the GSM Association Mobile Money Summit in Singapore this week, with presentations from players at various points in the mobile money value chain...

TDS scoops up OneNeck for hosted ERP 

Jun 30, 2011, By Jason Meyers

Carrier's $95 million acquisition of the hosted and managed services provider hinges on its enterprise resource planning apps, plus new data center space...

Cisco's new tablet app store is all business 

Jun 29, 2011, By Kevin Fitchard

AppHQ borrows the app store’s provisioning model, but makes the customer the enterprise, not the end user of its new Cius tablets...

The data center as central office of the future? 

Jun 29, 2011, By Joan Engebretson

Interconnection announcements between Allied Fiber and DuPont Fabros Technology and between zColo and CENX suggest the tandem switch may be a more appropriate analogy...

Subex scores ROC deal in the Middle East 

Jun 28, 2011, By Alex Leslie

In a competitive market, service providers need every advantage; improving efficiencies, collecting revenue and limiting fraud all add to the bottom line...

Service provider partners critical to Office 365 strategy 

Jun 28, 2011, By Jason Meyers

The launch of Microsoft's cloud-based application platform hinges on distribution by service providers and other resellers ...

Why the GPS industry needs to work with LightSquared 

Jun 28, 2011, By Kevin Fitchard

It's in everyone interests to find a solution to LightSquared's GPS interference problems, if one exists. If they don't there serious consequences for future mobile broadband networks...

ABRY merger with Masergy will fuel service expansion 

Jun 28, 2011, By Joan Engebretson

Masergy plans include high-definition videoconferencing, desktop virtualization and data center consolidation for multi-national corporations ...

The biggest small telco you’ve never heard of 

Jun 28, 2011, By Joan Engebretson