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Barcelona’s LTE Product/Services Love-In
A large chunk of the world’s wireless industry is gathering in Barcelona, Spain, this week for the annual ritual of the Mobile World Congress. Based on the flow of information emanating from the show, it might be more apt to call it the Wireless Broadband Congress because, for the first time, the clear... [read more]
Business Browser Users Chase After The (Fire)Fox
Enterprise users are abandoning Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) browser at what’s apparently a far faster rate than the Internet community as a whole, defecting primarily to the open-source Firefox, according to a TelecomWeb Web-based survey. Many overall market estimates have put the erosion of IE’s market share, until now in the high 90th percentile, at about 20 percent. That... [read more]
Guest Blog: Kerry Shih -- Framing The User Bill Of Rights
The User Bill of Rights is something that’s needed by everyone involved in combining data and voice (and with increasing frequency video and presence) on IP networks to deliver the benefits of unified communications, including the end customer who is...
Posted on Wednesday, November 7, 2007
NEW To MarketFull Story LTE ng (Net-Gen) Apps Program Debuts In Spain The ng Connect Program, launched this week by Alcatel-Lucent at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, is “dedicated to establishing a rich and diverse ecosystem of infrastructure, devices, content...
COMPANIES To WatchFull Story Zayo Readies Another Acquisition War Chest Zayo Group, the Louisville, Colo.-based outfit that emerged from nowhere fewer than 24 months ago to buy a string of small broadband providers and their networks, has put together a new war chest to snap up...
PEOPLE To WatchFull Story People To Watch 02/17/09 Verizon Business President John Killian will be promoted to executive vice president and CFO of Verizon Communications. He replaces Doreen Toben, who will retire mid-year. Verizon plans to name a replacement...
DEAL SheetFull Story EXFO Snaps Up 40/100 Gb/s Scope Specialist Canadian test-equipment house EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering bought four-year-old Swedish test and measurement startup PicoSolve, picking up what’s touted as the broadband industry’s fastest...
Fiber/FTTxFull Story 500 Mb/s Broadband Is Coming…To Latvia The residents of Riga, Latvia, are about to get the world’s first 500Mb/s broadband service. Lattelecom, the incumbent operator in Republic of Latvia, has turned to Israel’s ECI for the...
Presidential Politics: Obama Vs. McCain On Broadband There’s little doubt that the presidential elections are not going to be decided by how voters feel about broadband issues, given the current financial, military and other huge issues now under debate. Still, both candidates for president do have somewhat extensive platforms dealing with the...