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- Should the US government impose wireless fee limits like the EU?
- Should the US government impose wireless fee limits like the EU?ClarificationI believe that these price caps apply specifically and only to "roaming" charges, i.e. between countries in the EU.The EU can and is doing this because one of its goals is a "common market", and the telecos have resisted encouragement...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, wireless fee, U.S. Government, telecommunications company, phone, wireless
- Discussion threads 2009-04-22
- Michael Dell: Telcos may subsidize netbooks to sell 3G
- Dell CEO Michael Dell said he expects netbooks to eventually be subsidized by wireless telecom carriers that would sell the devices along with 3G service. The comments, made at the Citigroup Technology Conference on Wednesday, could shed some light on Dell's strategy as it announces a new...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Telecommunications Company, 3G, Mergers & Acquisitions, Telecom & Utilities, Corporate Law, Cellular Phones, Telecommunications, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Intel's Centrino 2 + WiMAX could break the Luddite Telcos
- I was at Intel's Centrino 2 launch on Monday and I'm hoping that Centrino 2 can do the same thing Centrino 1 did for WiFi but this time for WiMAX -- make it a reality. The timing for Centrino 2 to be a change agent for WiMAX,...
- Tags: Intel Centrino, Telecommunications Company, Intel Corp., WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Service-Optimized Ethernet Solutions Are Critical to Achieving Carrier Business Transformation Goals
- For the next 2 to 3 years, business model transformation will remain the single most important trend among all types of communications service providers worldwide. Whether the company is thought of today as an incumbent telco, cable company, wireless carrier or content provider, business model transformation is a critical first...
- Tags: Wireless Carrier, Telecommunications Company, Cable Company, Cable, Service-Optimized Ethernet Solution, Business Model Transformation, Telecom & Utilities, Wi-Fi, Telecommunications, Wireless
- White papers 2007-02-01
- dotMobi aims around the wireless Telcos to boost mobile Internet
- dotMobi aims around the wireless Telcos to boost mobile InternetUselessMobile phone web is useless, and web access on a PDA is barely useable.Total crap. Aside from emails, telcos can stuff it.MobiI've seen several mobi sites - pretty impressive, considering this extension is early stage. With the companies (Microsoft, Google, Samsung,...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Advertising & Promotion, Mobile-Phone Web, wireless, mobi, telecommunications company, wireless Telco, mobile, mobile Internet
- Discussion threads 2006-12-22
- Net neutrality debate still simmers
- Net neutrality debate still simmersOnly a complete fool believes the Telcos!!!Fact, every company content provider that has a connection pays for it. Sorry guys but the DS-3 lines don't come cheap to install and the monthly fee is a killer.Fact, 80% of the fiber in the ground remains unlit....
- Tags: WiMAX, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Wi-Fi, wireless, business model, telecommunications company, Net Neutrality
- Discussion threads 2006-07-11
- EarthLink and Google win San Francisco Wi-Fi bid
- EarthLink and Google win San Francisco Wi-Fi bidWonder who the other bidders were?Specifically I wonder if the Telco's made a bid?poor SFThose poor San Franciscans. i've had people on the line for 7 hours to Earthlink support, being bounced back and forth across the Pacific; and another client made...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, NETWORKING, EarthLink Inc., network, RFP, telecommunications company, wireless, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-04-06
- Is a Baby Bell vs. free WiFi turf war interfering with Katrina recovery efforts?
- Is a Baby Bell vs. free WiFi turf war interfering with Katrina recovery efforts?Telcos versus people - forever.Because it started as a physical business - wires and equipment to individuals from a government assisted monopoly, the 'telephone' companies love theie captive cusotmers and hate competition. A lot of years and...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, Government, Telecom & Utilities, wireless, Katrina Recovery, telecommunications company, Wi-Fi, Baby Bell
- Discussion threads 2005-12-05
- My jaded take on the wireless VoIP-cell cannibalization issue
- My jaded take on the wireless VoIP-cell cannibalization issueWhat risk?The WiMAX steamroller will kill ALL telcos and cellphone companies. WiMAX VoIP handhelds will be the ONLY way to communicate in a few years. I hope you don't have a lot of stock in the telcos . . .Keep dreaming!WiMAX is...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, NETWORKING, mesh networking, telecommunications company, WiMAX, wireless, network
- Discussion threads 2005-03-16
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- 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
- Bells give net neutrality the McCain two-step
- For over a century the Bells have been masters of the bureaucratic game. Their failure in the Bell break-up, which delivered huge profits to investors, only taught them to fight harder. So after putting themselves together like the broom in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," of course they're going...
- Tags: Net Neutrality, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- Lawmakers to FCC: Time for a closer look at Google Voice
- There's been yet another twist in the ongoing drama surrounding Google, AT&T and the FCC. Washington lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have asked the FCC to launch a formal investigation of Google Voice, specifically Google's blocking of calls to certain rural exchanges, according to a...
- Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Voice, AT&T Corp., Federal Government, Telecommunications, Government, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- Google's response to AT&T's charges on Google Voice
- How about fixing the first articleso we know what you are talking about.Torn...I can certainly appreciate the arguments being trotted out by Google. They seem, however, to want to have the best of both worlds...acting as a de-facto "common carrier" while not actually being one. Given this, I...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Darkmane, ATT, Google Inc., AT&T Corp., carrier, network
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- AT&T cries foul to FCC, uses Google Voice to spark Net Neutrality debate
- There's a Net Neutrality battle going on and AT&T has put a double-edged sword at the feet of the FCC - and Google's name is written all over it. AT&T sent a letter to the FCC today, asking the regulatory agency to look into the practices of...
- Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Voice, AT&T Corp., Net Neutrality, Google Voice, Federal Government, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Government, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- U.S. national broadband strategy: Funding is the elephant in the room
- we don't need big governmentThe broadband has to be build by private businesses and everyone needs to pay to get it.The government should only provide incentives like tax cuts that are deficit neutral.And of courseAnd of course ZDNet is still pushing the crazy idea that broadband everywhere is inevitable. Somehow,...
- Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Highways, broadband, broadband over power line, U.S. national broadband strategy, U.S. National
- Discussion threads 2009-08-14
- TELUS Improves Compliance and Strengthens Security With the RSA enVision Platform
- TELUS is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $9.7 billion of annual revenue and 11.6 million customer connections including 6.1 million wireless subscribers, 4.2 million wireline network access lines and 1.2 million Internet subscribers. The challenge was to comply with Payment Card Industry PCI security standards regulation by...
- Tags: RSA Security Inc., Network, Compliance, TELUS Corp., Security
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- Bad Idea Dept.: AT&T's Ed Whitacre to run General Motors
- Ed Whitacre, who built SBC, one of the babies Bell, back into "The New AT&T" has been tapped by the Obama Administration's auto task force to be chairman of the "reinvented General Motors." Seriously. Think about that. AT&T is the template for...
- Tags: Board, AT&T Corp., General Motors Corp., Whitacre, Whiteacre, Corporate Governance, Telecom & Utilities, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Can the Man Who Re-Assembled AT&T Change His Tune For GM?
- Ed Whitacre. The quintessential amalgator of companies. He's going to save GM, as its new chairman? Don't get me wrong. He did a pretty amazing job with the hand he was played in telecommunications. He took the smallest of the Baby Bells,...
- Tags: AT&T Corp., Southwestern Bell, General Motors Corp., Internet, Operational Planning, Telephony, Business Operations, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- HP Service Activator Solution Bundles Software, Services, Hardware to Ensure Scalability, Functionality, and On-Time, On-Budget Delivery
- Tatung, a 90-year old global electronics company based in Taiwan, is no stranger to wireless technology: its portfolio has long featured products like wireless phones and terminals. The company wanted to deploy a new WiMAX infrastructure to deliver broadband wireless telecommunications services. Tatung designed and implemented an infrastructure that features...
- Tags: Software Service, Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Tatung Co., Telecommunications Service, Scalability, Hardware, WiMAX, Wireless And Mobility, Wi-Fi, Telecommunications
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- Wireless data caps: Are usage based pricing schemes here to stay?
- Wireless data providers--notably AT&T and Verizon--have capped their wireless data plans at 5GB per month. In the billing statements that cap is pretty clear, but the ramifications of exceeding them aren't as obvious. In a research note dubbed “Free†Just Ain’t What it Used to Be, the...
- Tags: Network, Video, Pricing Strategy, Wireless, Craig Moffett, Wayne Burdick, Definition Movie, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
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