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USDOJ scrutinizing handset exclusivity contracts

If you've been complaining to the Department of Justice about your unhappiness that the iPhone is only available on AT&T Wireless in the U.S. a familiar refrain, your complaints haven't fallen on deaf ears. The WSJ reports Google link that the the U.S. Department of Justice has...

Tags: Handset, Wireless, Telecom Industry, Government, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Wi-Fi, Telecommunications, Wireless And Mobility, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-07-07

Will telcos embrace open source and what if they did?

Will telcos embrace open source and what if they did?Re: ..What if they did?Hell would freeze over :)RE: Will telcos embrace open source and what if they did?Yes, eventually they will. When they realize that it may become a matter of survival, they certainly will. It is not...

Tags: cellco, handset, Linux, open source, telecom industry, telecommunications company

Discussion threads 2009-04-16

WiMAX: The Innovative Broadband Wireless Access Technology

The telecommunication industry has been through disruptive times, but data networking service revenue has continued to rise. The telecom industry is expected to continue to grow as demand increases for cable and high-speed Internet in previously unserviced locations and as local telephone companies upgrade their lines in response to increasing...

Tags: Academy Publisher, Broadband, Broadband Wireless, Telecom Industry, Telecommunication Industry, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, Wireless Access, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2008-04-01

Cell phone penetration in Mexico reached 46% in 2005

Mexican telecom industry grew 21.5% in 2005, according to Cofetel. Growth in cellphone communications accounted for 71% of the industry's growth in 2005. Mobile telephony continued its dynamism, reaching 47.5 mln users at the end of 2005 while traffic showed growth of 35% with respect to 2004. Around 46 people...

Tags: cell phone, telecom industry, telephone

Blog posts 2006-03-14

VoIP carrier supplier offers his vision- in PowerPoint slides

VoIP carrier supplier offers his vision- in PowerPoint slidesWhere are we going?After the VoIP parasite consumes its POTS host, it will have nothing to feed upon - and will promply die.VoIP 2.0 - A simple vision with complex challengesMr. Birkbichler's slides give a glimpse of what the future of voice...

Tags: Microsoft PowerPoint, open-source software, supplier, telecom industry, telecommunications, vision, VoIP

Discussion threads 2006-02-03

Big company research budgets

Big company research budgetsMechanisms of ActionSo a Public office should exist with a mission to monitor corporate transgressions. It has even been said that Microsoft went a little to far with recent moves back towards coercive licensing. It seems they needed to be put back in place. So much...

Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, telecom industry, telecommunications, antitrust

Discussion threads 2005-11-09

Additional Resources

Why IT can't seem to deliver measurable productivity

Sounds like excuses to me.If it can't be shown on the bottom line, its useless.IT really needs to be aligned with business needs.From what I have heard talking with several managers, IT needs to come out out the silo and focus on delivering business needs and services. From what...

Tags: Product marketing, Strategy, IT Operations, information technology, customer service

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Banks and auto sector got bailed out, are telecom providers next?

Worldwide the industry has been turned upside down and none of the industry players got bailouts like the banks or auto sector did. Debt levels at many of the main telecom players are at unbelievable levels. by Doug Hanchard

Tags: Bank, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Doug Hanchard

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Verizon preps fourth quarter device barrage; Droid will 'stimulate demand'

Nice and Sharp Future Focus of Verizon!! BUT....The article covered most of the solid facts containing the research of verizon. They are the strong contender for the future of Wireless Industry of US.But still, the roadmap of telecom is not predetermind.Also the dwindling policies of FCC are creating roadblocks for...

Tags: Smart phones, Telephony, Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, Verizon Communications Inc., fourth quarter device

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Antitrust: Time to break apart the phone companies -- again?

Actually,those 'guaranteed revenue' companiesAre not so rare. Food companies, oil and gas companies, phone companies, electric companies, water utilities.... the list goes on and on if I had enough time to think of them all.That is why we need to break up any company that gets more than a 10%...

Tags: Corporate law, Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Food & Beverage, 360Networks Corp., phone company, phone, antitrust

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Nokia posts third quarter loss; Mobile device demand improving

Nokia saw weak mobile phone sales in the third quarter, but said the mobile device industry won't fall as much as it had feared in 2009. Overall, Nokia reported a surprise loss of 559 million euro, or $836 million. The company on Thursday said it wrote down...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Mobile, Mobile Device, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-15

U.S. Internet ad revenue: Down 5.3 percent; Search rules

U.S. Internet advertising revenue checked in at $10.9 billion for the first six months of 2009, down 5.3 percent from a year ago, according to the Internet Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. As usual, search and display advertising dominated the standings. Search advertising totaled $5.1 billion for the...

Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-05

Open Solutions Alliance acquired by Europeans

Merger is Good for OPen SourceAwareness of the value of open source continues to spread horizontally across industries, including financial, telecom, healthcare, media and the software development industry itself. As open source use and mainstream adoption progresses, a natural evolution could be the development of a channel for business-oriented...

Tags: alliance, open source

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Telecom Expense Management: 5 Best Practices for Reducing Telecom Cost

Telecommunications expenses are among the largest cost items on corporate income statements. According to leading industry analysts, many companies can lower their telecommunications costs by 15% or more without damaging their service quality, and the savings would go directly to their bottom lines. In this white...

Tags: Best Practice, MBG Expense Management, Telecommunications Expense, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking

White papers 2009-10-05

Republicans rail against FCC's new net rules

How They RollThis is just how the GOP rolls. When Bill Clinton left office we were number one or two in broadband. Now we're down around 17 behind some Eastern European countries. The GOP keeps saying they're about competition, but they keep passing bills to stifle real competition. Sort of...

Tags: Federal government, FCC, GOP, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Court lifts FCC limits on cable ownership

Look out, here comes Comcast. The cable giant's ambitions have long been stymied by a 1993 FCC rule that limited any one cable company's business to 30 percent of the U.S. market. Friday, the D.C. Circuit threw out that rule as "arbitrary and capricious" (the standard for...

Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Cable Company, Video, Corporate Communications, Cable, Network Technology, Marketing, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-30

The disruptive nature of cloud computing

Maybe a little overstated don't you think?Let's really think about the amount of disruption from 1-10 on these examples: Gas Lamps to Light bulbs 10, nobody uses gas lamps anymore. Steel Mill example, maybe an 8 or 9. Open Source a 7 because even those that haven't used it benefitted...

Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

HP StorageWorks Systems Manage the Growing Flood of Data for Netherlands Telecom Leader KPN

KPN is the largest telephone company in the Netherlands - and a leading supplier of Internet services to businesses and consumers - supporting more than 2 million Internet subscribers and more than 3 million e-mail accounts. It needed to provide highly available, economical virtualized storage to support critical applications while...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Manage Inc., KPN, Utility Computing, Internet

Case studies 2009-08-01

Apple/AT&T/iPhone - Everything that's wrong with the cellphone industry wrapped up in a single package

Apple/AT&T/iPhone - Everything that's wrong with the cellphone industry wrapped up in a single packageWhy Adrian...apparently you aren't a glassy-eyed Apple fanboi Anytime you post anything even mildly critical of Windows, Bing, or anything MS the usual suspects come out in force and try to paint you as a rapid...

Tags: Cellular phones, Smart phones, cellphone industry, Apple iPhone, cell phone, handset, single package

Discussion threads 2009-07-28

Layer 7 Application Services Governance

Layer 7 Technologies', CEO, Paul Rochester, and VP of Engineering/Chief Architect, K. Scott Morrison, stopped by telephonically to introduce their company, its philosophy and bring me up to date on their product portfolio. The company offers server appliances and virtual appliances that take on the tasks of firewall, compliance enforcer,...

Tags: Web, Layer 7 Technologies Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Channel Management, Web Services, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-23