What’s Next

The end of any year typically brings with it a sense of renewed (if still cautious) optimism and a sense of new starts and new opportunity. Given the improving (gradual still, but definitely improving) state of the telecom industry, that strikes me as a good way to round out 2003. 

In keeping with our tradition of looking forward rather than revisiting the perils of the past, Telephony’s 2004 efforts will be firmly focused on covering, analyzing and handicapping the prospects and challenges that lie ahead: the advancement of voice over IP, the momentum of fiber-to-the-premises, the ever-more realistic notion of the telco triple play, the ongoing evolution of wireless networks and services, and all other innovations wireline and wireless, voice and data, fiber and IP, and so on. 

The end of the year is also a good time for evaluation, and this being the final edition of TelephonyOnline Update for 2003, I want to use this opportunity to request readers’ feedback on our publishing efforts (both print and electronic). My e-mail address is below, and I invite you to respond with any form of comment and any range of ideas. 

For example, how do you rate Telephony’s online daily news efforts? How do you, as a reader, find our e-newsletter publishing efforts? How do you access our content--via the print magazine, online or both? How do you rate our balance of coverage across technology categories and industry sectors like optical, wireless, access, software, broadband content, regulatory and more? What other topics would you like to see covered? And while you’re at it, what do you think of Telephony’s sister publication, Wireless Review?

I can’t promise I will answer every response (though I will try), but I do promise that I will read them all, appreciate them, share them with the rest of our editorial staff and learn from them. So please let me know what you think at jmeyers@primediabusiness.com.

Happy holidays. See you in 2004.

NOTE: TelephonyOnline Update will be back on Wednesday, January 7, 2004.