Israeli vendor ECI Telecom used the Supercomm show to introduce a new set of network design services to complement and extend its equipment business...
Genband and Kineto Wireless are conducting one of the first trials of the proposed voice over LTE via the generic access network, or VoLGA, standard...
U.S. cities need the aid and cooperation of telecom service providers if they are going to compete globally with Singapore, Seoul, Beijing, Bangalore and others, Chicago CIO Hardik Bhatt...
ISPs have a significant role to play in helping stem the tide of pirated content that is clogging broadband pipes and costing U.S. jobs, NBC Universal Executive Vice President and General Counsel Richard Cotton...
The telecom business is growing increasingly complex as it expands to encompass a range of related industries, said Hamid Akhavan, chief operating officer of Deutsche Telekom Group. But despite this, one of service providers’ key missions must be to hide that complexity from customers....
Nokia Siemens Networks this week released a new version of its subscriber data management platform that introduces a new common data model that makes it easier for service providers to aggregate user data and profiles and deliver new customized services...
Tomorrow’s networks require and Verizon is building a converged services delivery infrastructure that will minimize network costs supporting more open development approaches...
Actus Networks, a four-year-old South Korean vendor of carrier Ethernet access gear, is making its public debut in North America this week at the Supercomm trade show...
Despite conversations with equipment vendors for the past 18 months, NTT doesn’t yet see the “promising product” that will solve the growing demand for bandwidth, said Kazuhiro Gomi, chief operating officer for NTT America...
CopperGate comes into this year’s SUPERCOMM riding a wave of change that includes a major new product line and a new corporate identity, following last week’s acquisition by Sigma Designs...
The Obama administration is eager to form public-private partnerships with telecom service providers to address critical societal issues such as improving health care IT and medical care...
Last week Alcatel-Lucent’s research arm, Bell Labs, conducted a field test in Berlin of a technology it calls coordinated multipoint transmission, or CoMP, which connected a device to the network with transmissions from two separate towers. ...
Why T-Mobile, Sprint combined is good for competitors
Sep 25, 2009 4:31 PM
There have been rumors in the past week that T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telecom is mulling an acquisition of third largest US carrier Sprint as part of a spending spree aimed at reviving its struggling T-Mobile brand....
Companies are making the transition to IP-based networks and application-based services and are offering both bundled and Internet-like service models. These rapid shifts put pressure on competing operators to bring advanced services to market and cater to each customer’s individual demands. The key for operators that wish to remain competitive...
Service providers stand to gain significantly by
migrating subscribers from legacy TDM switching
equipment to next-generation architecture. Key
benefits include the ability to quickly and easily
deliver a leading-edge, converged services
offering over a streamlined and flexible network,
dramatically reducing operating expenses and
greatly simplifying operations....
