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Telephony Podcast: Broadband Gets Brutal 

The second quarter was one of the worst quarters for broadband on record, with dramatic declines in subscriber additions across the industry. Ben Piper, director of multiplay market dynamics for Strategy Analytics, explains what's driving this drama and where the market will go next....

Telephony Podcast: Ifbyphone CEO Irv Shapiro 

Telephone application platform startup ifbyphone has built a building block platform for assembling web and telephony integrated applications. We talk to CEO Irv Shapiro about the Web/telco mashup market and the opportunity to better serve SMBs with this more flexible application approach....

A Telephony Podcast: Voice in increasingly data-focused mobile industry 

Telephony senior editor Kevin Fitchard and former AT&T Labs President Hossein Eslambolchi discuss the role of voice in increasingly data-focused mobile industry....

A Telephony Podcast: CLEC Snapshot 

Though macroeconomic concerns have led some analysts to sour on the CLEC space lately, one analyst sees cause for optimism. Donna Jaegers, on leave from Janco Partners, gives her take on the CLEC sector's outlook for the rest of the year and beyond....

A Telephony Podcast: IPTV World Forum: Tom Higgins, DigiSoft Executive Chairman  

As service providers increasingly turn their focus towards value-added services that can differentiate their IPTV offerings, Tom Higgins, Executive Chairman of service-enabler DigiSoft, spoke with Associate News Editor Sarah Reedy about what vendors are offering, as well as other prominent themes at the IPTV World Forum’s first North American conference. ...

A Telephony Podcast: iPhone 2.0 Roundtable 

In today's podcast, Telephony editor's Rich Karpinski and Sarah Reedy join Current Analysis analyst Avi Greengart to explore the impact of the new iPhone 2.0 and App Store on the mobile user experience -- and the shape of the industry at large....

A Telephony Podcast: Covergence's new CEO 

Jim Moran, named this week to be the new president and CEO of Covergence, a maker of session border control and management gear, explains the changes he has in store for the company as well as the changes he sees in the enterprise IP communications market....

A Telephony Podcast: Open-source mobile operating systems 

Senior Editor Kevin Fitchard discusses the open-source mobile operating system with LiMo Foundation executive director Morgan Gillis. ...

A Telephony Podcast: Mobile’s virus threat 

According to AdaptiveMobile’s studies, between 2007 and 2008 there was a 1,000% increase in mobile viruses, with the average mobile operator cleaning off 100,000 viruses daily from its network. Gareth Maclachlan, CTO of AdaptiveMobile, joins Associate News Editor Sarah Reedy to discuss the implications of the viruses for mobile operators and their customers. ...

A NXTcomm08 Podcast: George Dobrowski, Broadband Forum 

The DSL Forum this week changed its name to the Broadband Forum to reflect the changing scope of its work in an ever-changing marketplace. George Dobrowski, chairman and president of the Broadband Forum, speaks with Associate News Editor Sarah Reedy about the broadband industry and its relevant themes at NXTComm08. ...

A NXTcomm08 Podcast: Anda Networks' Gum on the Floor 

From the exhibit floor of the NXTcomm08 trade show, Greg Gum, vice president of marketing and business development, describes the latest Ethernet access gear being unveiled this week....

A NXTcomm08 Podcast: Independent Telcos and Wireless 

Telephony Senior Editor Kevin Fitchard discusses independent telcos and wireless at NXTcomm08 with TDS' Scott Meier, Vanu's Vanu Bose and Millennium Marketing's Kermit Ross...

A Telephony Podcast: Who Is Darkstrand? 

Chicago-based networking provider Darkstrand emerged from relative obscurity this month to purchase half the capacity on the nationwide National LambdaRail network. Michael Stein, Darkstrand's CEO, explains what the company plans to do next...

A NXTcomm08 Podcast: Nortel’s Sita Lowman 

Associate News Editor Sarah Reedy talks to Sita Lowman, leader of converged core and application marketing for carrier networks at Nortel, about the company's voice-over IP technology on display at next week’s NXTComm08 show in Las Vegas...

A Telephony Podcast: Misconceptions of Wi-Fi in Handsets 

Associate Editor Sarah Reedy talks to Karen Hanley, Senior Director of the Wi-Fi Alliance, about consumer confusion regarding Wi-Fi technology in cell phones...

A Telephony Podcast: Netcracker 

In this Telephony podcast, executive features editor Rich Karpinski speaks with Sanjay Mewada, vice president of strategy for OSS vendor Netcracker. Mewada talks about the new "service ecosystem" for service providers, which involves a much more extended and open value chain of partners. How do carriers need to adapt to this new reality?...

A NXTcomm08 Podcast: Integra5's Meredith Flynn-Ripley 

Editor in Chief Carol Wilson talks to Meredith Flynn-Ripley, CEO of Integra5, about the company's latest converged services platform suite of applications, being shown at this year's upcoming NXTcomm show in Las Vegas....

A Telephony Podcast: Peter Adderton and Agency 3.0 

MVNO pioneer Peter Adderton is back in the wireless business. The Boost Mobile and Amp’d Mobile founder discusses his new venture Agency 3.0 with Telephony senior editor Kevin Fitchard...

A Telephony Podcast: Rural and Muni Fiber Myths 

Dr. Timothy Nulty, the former general manager of muni broadband firm Burlington Telecom, explores the myths and models surrounding rural and municipal fiber broadband deployment...

A Telephony Podcast: Cloudshield 

Deep packet inspection and traffic-shaping/Net neutrality issues are all over the tech headlines these days. Rich Karpinski, Telephony executive editors-features, talks with Peder Jungck, CTO and founder of DPI vendor Cloudshield, about the "right" way to use DPI and how service providers can change the tenor of the conversation about this important -- yet controversial -- technology...

A NXTcomm08 Podcast: The Telecom Network of 2018 

The telecom industry has gone through a period of incredible innovation in the last 10 years, resulting in mass proliferation of wireless, broadband and the rise of the Internet. Will that innovation continue? And will the next 10 years be productive as the last? Bell Labs vice president and head of research Gee Rittenhouse discusses the telecom network of 2018 with Telephony senior editor Kevin Fitchard...

A Telephony Podcast: Mobile TV Trends & Insights 

Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson speaks with Telephony wireless reporters for an informal roundtable discussion of the mobile TV market. Editors Kevin Fitchard and Sarah Reedy weigh in in the market's growth, competitive landscape and future potential...

A Telephony Podcast: Penetrating the MDU Market 

Multidwelling units are a different animal than single-family homes when it comes to deploying bundled telecom services. Richard Holtz, CEO of consultantcy Infinisys, details the various considerations needed to penetrate the changing MDU space...

A Telephony Podcast: TMF Chairman Keith Willetts  

With TM Forum Management World 2008 just around the corner, we talked with TMF Chairman Keith Willetts about the show's main themes and the technologies and trends driving the telco back-office...

A Telephony Podcast: WCA President Andrew Krieg  

WCA President Andrew Krieg and Senior Editor Kevin Fitchard discuss the 700 MHz auction winners, the upcoming launch of Xohm and WCA’s upcoming conference in D.C....

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