By the end of the year, Verizon’s current fiber-to-the-premises, or FTTP, and ultra-long-haul fiber network deployments will be more than halfway complete, said CEO Ivan Seidenberg Wednesday in a keynote address at NXTcomm...
Telecom service providers have more in common with content distributors all the time, according to two industry leaders speaking yesterday at NXTcomm...
NXTcomm announced Clearwire as the winner of the Spotlight award, representing the best of the 2007 Eos Excellence of Achievement Awards issued on Tuesday...
Three Washington experts disagreed yesterday on whether the U.S. needs more or less government interest in stimulating broadband deployment, with Federal Communications Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein advocating a national broadband policy and two members of the Bush Administration opposing federal intervention...
Allot Communications this week introduced a service gateway platform incorporating its deep packet inspection capabilities to enable broadband service providers to optimize bandwidth and deliver secure and profitable value-added services from a common platform....
AT&T today announced that its Homezone service, which integrates AT&T Yahoo! DSL broadband with DISH Network video, now will feature its High Definition content line-up, with more than 30 national HD channels and additional local HD content...
Johan Bergendahl, chief marketing officer for Ericsson, on Tuesday gave credit to AT&T for essentially kick-starting the mobile broadband business for UMTS, saying the former Cingular’s deployment of high-speed packet access—and the subsequent launch of laptop data card service—started a chain reaction around the world resulting in 117 operators rolling out the high-capacity upgrade....
Voice over IP is an alternative to circuit-switched telephony, so it makes sense that VoIP providers are looking for ways to reduce their interaction with the old world. ...
Despite generating ample buzz at NXTcomm and throughout the industry, IPTV is on track to have only about 63.6 million subscribers worldwide by 2011, according to Multimedia Research Group. ...
Mouse-controlled user interfaces, customized advertising and click-to-purchase capability were among the potential new IPTV applications discussed at the “IPTV Mindbender” session sponsored by the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions at NXTcomm Tuesday...
Wireless carriers routinely shaft customers with cryptic fees that ought to be included in basic rates, the director of consumer affairs for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich told a Wiley Rein conference Tuesday. ...
After establishing itself as a major player in Europe and elsewhere, Thomson is preparing to move more aggressively in the U.S., looking to snag both Tier 2 and Tier 3 players and also, potentially, a major operator growing dissatisfied with a current provider. ...
PMC-Sierra (Booth 1651) has announced two fiber access gateway solutions, the MSP7150 EPON/GPON gateway system on a chip (SoC), for fiber to the home (FTTH), and the MSP7140 VDSL2 Gateway SoC, for fiber to the node ...
Motorola is striking down its second ‘4G’ technology path, confirming today that it is bringing long-term evolution, or LTE, out of the labs and commercializing it by 2010...
ZTE today unveiled its Gigabit passive optical network solution as well as announced its first U.S. customer for the platform, communications systems integrator L&W Technologies....
While Motorola is shedding other network businesses such as GSM/UMTS, it has been building a substantial business in the WiMAX space. In the last year, it’s announced some of the largest contracts in the industry, including Sprint, ClearWire and Wateen Telecom in Pakistan. Dan Coombes, chief technology officer of Motorola, recently spoke with Telephony’s Kevin Fitchard to discuss developments in the WiMAX space and what the industry can expect from this fast-growing sector going forward...
Dan York is head of programming for AT&T’s Project Lightspeed and has been directing many of AT&T’s content acquisition efforts. He spoke with Telephony’s Editor-at-Large Carol Wilson...
In response to declining average revenue per user, telecom operators have come under intense pressure to improve service levels, launch new services, manage a bewildering array of technologies and streamline their cost structure. To combat these pressures, many have begun to outsource network operations...
So you’ve decided to stay and enjoy the beautiful June weather in a beautiful city. If you are wondering how to spend the time, here are some suggestions of things to do this weekend...
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