October 9, 2006
EDITOR'S LETTER
Telecom tipping points
I still haven't read Malcom Gladwell's The Tipping Point, but like my fellow social-climbers, I try to refer to it whenever possible. Now that I've done...
COVER STORY
WiMAX: A vision for personal broadband
Concluding a recent series of vendor profiles on TelephonyOnline.com A new catchphrase has surfaced in the industry to describe WiMAX: personal broadband....
FORWARD MOTION
Reunited, and it feels good
The reunion of the telecom industry's top two trade associations in planning a single major trade show event can only be good news for all segments, including...
Fast Forward: William Quigley
Investing in the mobile industry isn't for the faint of heart. In some cases, fortunes rise and fall at a staggering pace. Mobile ESPN's quick demise...
Software vendors not quitting on MVNO model
Time will tell if software vendors that built platforms to support mobile virtual network operators are being stoic or honest in defending the MVNO model...
Mobile ESPN may not be dead yet
Pyramid Research senior analyst Ozgur Aytar was preparing for a speech at the MVNO Sustainable Business Models Conference when the untimely news began...
The cost of FiOS is falling
Verizon last month shed a lot more light on the math behind its fiber-to-the-premises initiative. In a typical market, for example (one with 25,000 phone...
SIP now packing the trunks
Newer services that offer session initiation protocol trunking are taking hold in the marketplace this year, even as service providers continue to deal...
A new life for an all-optical technology
F. Scott Fitzgerald said there are no second acts in American lives. Seven-year-old Calient Networks seems out to prove the same isn't true of American...
Verizon invades the desktop
Verizon Business this week is taking its information technology management service down to the desktop, adding 24-hour management and maintenance of PCs,...
FTS turns billing into business
Herzliya, Israel-based Formula Telecom Solutions, a provider of billing and customer relationship management solutions, last week unveiled its concept...
The new Supercomm
It looks like the USTelecom and TIA have come to their senses. After two years of trying to go it alone with separate trade shows TelecomNext and Globalcomm...
Butt Set
If AT&T's recent decision to take back 2000 DSL tech support jobs was regarded as a victory for the Communications Workers of America, it's the kind of...
INNOVATION
Optical networks get brighter
Telecom service providers have been driving costs out of their network through automation since the switch replaced the switchboard. But new technology,...
OPINION
To Secure and Protect
Telcos are evolving into managed security service providers, but face an uphill battle to become leading MSSPs....
Growing VPNs take the MLPS route
As service providers strive to boost margins and find new revenue sources by moving up the customer value chain, some of their best opportunities could...
Listen to Yogi
Most of the music world is over the whole Elvis thing. But still, diehard fans run around in sideburns and white jumpsuits acting as if their idol is...
WHAT'S NEXT
Social networking goes mobile
The enabling of verbal user-generated content in the form of telecom-based communications has always been at the core of telecom. For converged, quad-play...
OTHER
Correction
A story in the Sept. 11 issue of Telephony which highlighted the efforts of charitable foundations operated by carriers incorrectly stated that Verizon...
