December 11, 2006
COVER STORY
The best phone company in America?
One could almost say it was SBC that gave rival Cox Communications its first leg-up into the telephone business a decision that telco might now regret....
EDITOR'S LETTER
Lost language
On the cover of this issue and in the headline of the cover story by Carol Wilson on page 28, we use some technical terminology that may seem archaic to even the telecom industry's most knowledgeable historians....
FORWARD MOTION
IMS picture isn't getting clearer
The sometimes confusing picture that is the IP multimedia subsystem standard didn't get any clearer last week at the ITU Telecom World 2006 show in Hong Kong. ...
TMW: Software in flux
Hardware innovation has been building the networks of the 21st century, but only software flexibility can allow us to fully take advantage of their capabilities....
ITU Telecom World spotlights Asia
HONG KONG The first ITU Telecom World to be held outside Geneva had a decidedly Asian feel. In addition to the fact that the vast majority of attendees were from this region....
Cable discovers carrier Ethernet
Ethernet services are a fast-growing segment of the enterprise market a fact that has not gone unnoticed by the large cable multiple service operators....
BT turns experience into a service
Knowledge is power. But if BT is right with the consultancy and implementation service it launched last week at TeleManagement World in Dallas, knowledge, particularly the first-hand knowledge of telecom business transformation that it gained through its 21st century network project, is power that makes money — and perhaps helps others along the way transition to be next-gen service providers...
Qualcomm readies for mobile TV launch
Though Qualcomm's MediaFLO network is still flying below the radar, it is attracting the attention of almost every major carrier in the industry...
Greenfield players pursue fiber land grab
Companies bringing fiber-to-the-home to master planned communities, or MPCs, are rapidly expanding nationwide, chasing a recent wave of demand in the space...
OPINION
Identity crisis
TeleManagement Forum Chairman Keith Willets began the visual portion of his keynote address last week at his forum's event in Dallas with a quote by the most infamous man in America: Borat...
American in Paris
God! Lucent is gone, Motorola CEO Ed Zander lamented at an investor conference on the eve of the Alcatel/Lucent Technologies merger's consummation...
Unlock the phones
The U.S. Copyright Office recently ruled it's legal for cell phone owners to break the most carriers place on their handsets to prevent their customers from taking them to another provider...
THE PRAGMATIST
Who should pay for broadband?
With the shift in power in the House and Senate after this year's midterm elections, it comes as no surprise that one of the Democratic members of the FCC launched a broadside at the state of broadband in the U.S....
New directions for ENUM
Most voice-over-IP calls today fall into one of two groups. Some calls are carried in an IP format end-to-end between customers of the same VoIP service provider...
WHAT'S NEXT
Virtual marketplace
Many of us will shake our heads at the prospect of people spending their time socializing online within virtual worlds, but they are, and the telecom industry needs to take notice...
