May 28, 2010 2:04 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Broadband,
Congress,
legislation,
regulation,
Telecom Act,
Telecommunications Act of 1996If you listened to the media, you'd think Congress was about to rewrite the Telecom Act.
To be sure, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is one of the...
May 25, 2010 12:04 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Cloud computing,
e-commerce,
IBM,
mergers & acquisitionsIn a move that could signal a major change in the cloud computing dynamic, IBM announced it was buying Sterling Commerce in a $1.4 billion all-cash acquisition. Sterling is a B2B service...
May 24, 2010 4:14 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
AT&T,
churn,
FCC,
Federal Communications Commission,
iPhone,
net neutrality,
Verizon,
wireless competition,
wireless voice,
wirelineThe FCC released its required annual report on mobile wireless competition, and the report seems to show an industry where the rich are getting richer, which leads many FCC-watchers (including us) to...
May 21, 2010 3:54 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Cisco,
optical transportCisco is buying a packet optical transponder vendor (CoreOptics, Inc.) in what most believe is a preparatory strike into the
May 20, 2010 1:22 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Cisco Telepresence,
standards,
unified communicationsJust what we need -- another standards effort! This one, the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum (UCIF) may be a reaction to Cisco’s attempts to bring some interoperability...
May 17, 2010 4:27 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
4G,
Adobe,
Apple,
HP,
mobile devices,
Palm,
rich media,
service provider networks,
smartphone OS,
smartphones,
social applications,
social computing,
tablets,
telecom service providers,
Wireless broadbandWe're confronting several classic "forest and trees" problems in the marketplace today. We have sweeping changes in handsets, apparent power shifts in the software that will be used on tablets, revolutions in
May 14, 2010 4:19 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
cable operators,
mobile service,
quadruple playCox will be the first cable company to offer true mobile services, launching in three markets over the summer and expanding over the next 18 months to cover about three-quarters of its total footprint,...
May 10, 2010 5:55 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Broadband,
fiber to the home,
FiOS,
FTTH,
Ivan Seidenberg,
mobile services,
telecom networks,
telecom service providers,
Verizon,
Verizon FiOS,
wireless,
wirelineVerizon CEO Ivan G. Seidenberg is no shrinking violet, as we all know. His recent comments on the...
May 7, 2010 7:19 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Broadband,
broadband access,
FCC,
Federal Communications Commission,
Julius Genachowski,
net neutrality,
telecom service providersThe FCC today released a number of comments from individual commissioners on the regulation of broadband access. None of these statements represents a firm policy, which the FCC can develop only through a very specific public process, but together, they reflect the goals of the public process the...
