Last week the FCC officially announced its decision to create a national broadband policy. While it’s a great idea in theory, not everyone is cheering quite yet. According to a recent article in Telephony, service providers are expressing concern about the time, money and resources they may have to invest up front, not to mention […]
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 […]
Telephony has a nice recap of Ciena’s earnings report yesterday. In speaking about Ciena’s revenue drop and the continued decline of carrier capital expenditures, CEO Gary Smith said something that really piqued my interest. Though carriers set their annual budgets last Fall, they have apparently moved to making spending decisions “on a monthly basis.” That […]
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 […]
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., […]
The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) kicked off yesterday, but even the biggest and flashiest consumer technology show of the year isn’t immune to the economic meltdown happening around us. Attendance is down this year, for both exhibitors and attendees, and the promise of new products at the show hasn’t bolstered performance predictions for tech […]
Just shy of a year ago, I blogged about a massive undersea cable cut that crippled connectivity across much of Egypt and India, thought to be caused by a ship’s anchor. I thought for sure this not-so-natural disaster and its devastating results on communications in this part of the world would be a wake-up call […]
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 […]
As the years pass, I’m continuing to grow my “I can remember” list, containing marvelous things of the past that I can tell today’s and tomorrow’s generation of children about. Things like 8-track players, the Commodore 64 and televisions with a manual knob to change channels - things that they won’t have ever experienced and, […]
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