Earlier this week AT&T announced plans to add 3,000 jobs in 2009, investing $17 - $18 billion this year, with two-thirds of those funds dedicated to expanding wireless and broadband networks.
The focus of this expansion comes as no surprise. Between President Obama’s recent $8 billion broadband pledge and the ever increasing demand for 3G services […]
In this week’s Telephony e-newsletter, Carol Wilson examines the threat vs. opportunity of Internet video. Her analysis is short and sweet, but right on the money - growing consumer demand for high-bandwidth services like on-demand Internet video presents an enormous opportunity for carriers to generate new revenue, but only provided they can support its delivery. […]
This week Telephony wrote about some new figures Analysys Mason released on the cost of 4G, bringing in one of the firm’s analysts to weigh in on it. The data concludes that an LTE network can deliver data 3 times as cheaply as some of today’s HSPA networks but Terry Norman, the analyst quoted, so wisely […]
In this month’s issue of Telephony, Kevin Fitchard explores a topic that is near and dear to my heart - flat network architectures. The article examines how many carriers are moving toward this structure as a way to more efficiently process the deluge of data that needs to flow through their networks, for the simple […]
Record numbers of people descended on the nation’s capital yesterday to witness history, but despite preparations by some of the nation’s largest wireless carriers, networks didn’t seem up to the task of handling all of the visitors and the network traffic they brought with them.
AT&T spent $4 million to increase network capacity in Washington, D.C., […]
In The Economist’s recent technology quarterly, one of the articles presented differing opinions on whether the world’s networks are prepared to handle the coming “exaflood” of data (an exabyte is one billion gigabytes). Currently, global Internet traffic ranges from five to eight exabytes a month. Nemertes and other research organizations are predicting the demise of […]
Barack Obama is expected to be our country’s most tech-savvy president ever, and his campaign had a strong focus on technology as a means for the U.S. to stay competitive. The tech and the telecom communities at large are both poised to see what will top Obama’s agenda after he takes office next month, and […]
A few weeks ago I read an article that didn’t surprise me very much, given the habits of my teenage kids – it seems text messaging has finally surpassed call volume. The data, released in late September by Nielsen Mobile, found the average mobile user sends 357 text messages per month, while those in the […]
When Apple released the iPhone many in the industry wondered if it would really be a game changer, or just a flashy consumer favorite. Then Google entered with the Android and now BlackBerry has offered its answer: the BlackBerry Storm. While news has been circulating about the device for a week or so, nothing was […]
Google has entered the wireless space with the help of T-Mobile, and there seems to be a lot riding on this deal for both. T-Mobile has to be thinking about how they can capitalize on this opportunity to pull some market share back from giants like AT&T and Verizon, and last week, Google released the […]
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