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GPON: The Gateway PON

Fiber To The Home FTTH deployments continue to enjoy accelerated growth worldwide, with major deployments underway in Japan (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation [NTT]), Korea Korea Telecom and the United States Verizon. Passive Optical Networking PON deployments are currently segmented in two flavors: Ethernet PON EPON in Japan and Korea,...

Tags: Deployment, U.S., Gateway Inc., Competitive Local Exchange Carrier, NTT Corp., Conexant Systems, Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier, Passive Optical Networking Deployment, Ethernet, Fiber Optics, Network Technology, Broadband Internet, Optical Networking, Networking, Telecommunications

White papers 2008-05-21

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Google phone won't pry open wireless business models

Google phone won't pry open wireless business modelsI hate Sprint tooFor all the same reasons you do. But, one of them is primary in my experience (I've been on Sprint with cell phone since day one). There customer service sucks the big one. Always has. HOWEVER,...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, WIRELESS, phone, Sprint Communications, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-11-05

SunRocket orphan to TeleBlend provisioner's CEO: I am really tired of "runaround," "incompetence"

A reader from the Chicago suburbs has just sent me a copy of a non-friendly note he sent to the CEO of USA Telephone, the company that has been handling the switch of SunRocket orphans to "preferred provider" TeleBlend.I have to stress, these are the experiences of one reader- but...

Tags: Phone, Customer, SunRocket, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-08-16

EXCLUSIVE: Interview with SunRocket preferred provider TeleBlend distribution partner's CEO

TeleBlend is one of two "preferred" VoIP service providers suggested by Sherwood Partners, which is handling SunRocket's dissolutionWith more than a week since the shutoff, and former SunRocket customers still transitioning to new homes, I thought it might be interesting to check in with someone on the TeleBlend side for...

Tags: News, Packet 8, Vonage

Blog posts 2007-07-25

Iowa CLEC set to battle big telco's conference-bridge blocking

A representative of Iowa-based CLEC Competitive Local Exchange Carrier and broadband conferencing solutions provider Great Lakes Communications Corp. has emailed me with what sounds like a David-Goliath declaration of war against the big telcos. Justification, in GLCCs view, is what it sees as recent attempts by Cingular/AT&T Wireless,...

Tags: SprintNextel, Regulatory, General, Cingular

Blog posts 2007-04-05

Is the telephone apocalypse now?

Is the telephone apocalypse now?That's not good news.I suppose it's true though. I just left a job which switched to Internet Telephony in January. I hated it with a real passion.At the same time, this is cutting into the most profitable accounts of the traditional telephone companies at...

Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, PSTN network, VoIP, telecommunications company, phone

Discussion threads 2006-11-03

Consolidated Communications: Delivering the Industry's Lowest Total Cost of Ownership

Off late, Consolidated Communications CCI was purchased by a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier CLEC. But when that company filed for bankruptcy in 2002, it subsequently spun off CCI to private investors, including the great-grandson of the company's founder, on January 1, 2003. CCI was very clear about what it did...

Tags: Consolidated Communications Inc., Industry, TCO, Mirapoint Inc., CCI, E-mail, Instant Messaging, Groupware, Online Communications, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2006-09-01

NYC city council wants to study broadband options

NYC city council wants to study broadband optionsNYC broadband opposed by Verizon?The distribution plant wires and other outside facilities of any ILEC (incumbent local exchange carrier i.e. Verizon) should be the property of the "people" as it is not unlike water, sewer, roads etc. Verizon, or for that matter, any...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, LEC, Verizon Communications Inc., broadband

Discussion threads 2005-12-28

BellSouth, 8x8 launch VoIP service

BellSouth, 8x8 launch VoIP serviceBellsouth QualityFor years I have been using various Bellsouth services because of the fact they are the de facto carrier in Florida. This is a quick summary of each:Phone:This is probably the only thing about Bellsouth that works well.Long Distance:As of two years ago I...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, DSL service, VoIP, VoIP service, BellSouth Corp., phone, 8X8, DSL

Discussion threads 2005-12-12

Saskatchewan: Wheat fields, modern cities.. but no VoIP

Saskatchewan: Wheat fields, modern cities.. but no VoIPSaskatchewan:...the most socialist province in Canada.Is anyone surprised that they'd act like babies when faced with free market competition?SkypeIf you have an ADSL connection, download Skype.SaskTel's Position on VoIPI would like to take this opportunity to respond to Russell Shaw's commentary, "Saskatchewan: Wheat...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Free trade, SaskTel, VoIP, CRTC

Discussion threads 2005-09-26

Death by deregulation

In David Berlind's latest Alice in Wonderland trip through the American telecommunications universe -- "Are Baby Bells abusing gov't granted right-of-way?" -- he credits Bob Frankston, the co-inventor of the VisiCalc electronic spreadsheet, for inspiring this tour-de-force of imaginative fact development. Mr. Frankston's VisiCalc allowed the computer owner to invent...

Tags: natural gas, telecommunications

Blog posts 2005-08-23

Broadband monopolists: please don't enact VoIP port-block rules

Broadband monopolists: please don't enact VoIP port-block rulesMunn v. Illinois, 94 U.S. 113 (1877)That case is the first case to really put a point on the police power and their ability to regulate common carriers for hire. Comcast is a common carrier. Cox is a common carrier. ...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Network technology, Cox, Comcast Corp., common carrier, carrier, VoIP, broadband

Discussion threads 2005-08-12