March 21, 2011 11:35 AM
Posted by: Jessica Scarpati
4G,
AT&T,
M&A,
mergers & acquisitions,
T-Mobile,
wireless broadbandIt'll be hard for any vendor or carrier at CTIA Wireless this week to trump the bombshell that AT&T and T-Mobile USA dropped on Sunday -- that the No. 1 wireless carrier in the U.S. is acquiring the No. 4 carrier for $39 billion.
It seems that few industry pundits saw this coming, as much of...
February 4, 2011 4:26 PM
Posted by: Jessica Scarpati
ddos,
managed services,
Security,
Telecom,
telecom securityA hacker is no longer just a grungy guy in his mom's basement who takes down websites to impress his friends. Cybercrime has become more like Ocean's Eleven -- organized, sophisticated and money-hungry crooks going after high-profile targets. They probably don't all look like...
July 19, 2010 5:01 PM
Posted by: KateGerwig
4G,
IMS,
over-the-top,
packet voice,
voice over LTE,
voice services,
VoIPThat packetized voice is the key to keeping voice services alive may be the duh statement of the decade, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true. I know — voice is so last century that no one talks about it as a killer app. But it still is, and i t doesn’t even take much bandwidth to...
July 19, 2010 10:25 AM
Posted by: Jessica Scarpati
4G,
LTE,
M&A,
mergers,
Motorola,
Nokia Siemens Networks,
NSN,
vendors,
wirelessNothing like starting off the week with a bang. Nokia Siemens Networks announced today it's paying $1.2 billion for some of Motorola's wireless technologies -- and perhaps just as significant, its customer base and foothold into the North American market.
Here's the rest of the details from...
June 30, 2010 3:21 PM
Posted by: Ddevine
4G,
Apple,
BlackBerry,
EVO,
HTC,
iPhone,
smartphones,
Sprint,
WiMAX,
wireless serviceWe've been keeping an eye on the market's response to the HTC EVO 4G ever since hearing that the dual-mode smartphone would be a key element in
June 1, 2010 11:41 AM
Posted by: Jessica Scarpati
4G,
LTE,
microwave,
vendors,
wireless
As noted in last week's news story on SearchTelecom.com, operators need to be mindful of the mergers and acquisitions likely to come...
May 24, 2010 7:58 PM
Posted by: KateGerwig
broadband,
fiber to the home,
FiOS,
optical networkingTalk to David Hashman about how to build out and finance fiber to the home (FTTH) and you know you're talking to someone who has drawn the plans for the trenches, been in the trenches, and knows where the fiber is buried (couldn’t pass up a lame criminal organization joke). Even if...
April 26, 2010 11:34 AM
Posted by: KateGerwig
network management,
optical networkingYou can learn a lot from another carrier's problems, and in this example, wholesaler 360networks provides the case in point. Faced with TDM-to-IP translation problems that degraded voice call quality, the wholesaler
April 19, 2010 11:34 AM
Posted by: KateGerwig
4G,
mobile devices,
Wireless networksYou’d think the wild growth in mobile device traffic would mean wireless operators are in the money, as the popular Depression song said. But the stress that traffic is putting on wireless networks is causing depression instead because the money isn’t rolling in. So much content can be...
