http://telecomweb.com TelecomWeb.com en-us 2008 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:05:06 EDT While hosted IP PBX is all the rage in some quarters, nearly half of the companies surveyed in a recent TelecomWeb Web-based Quick Poll aren’t interested, and fewer than 10 percent actually have a hosted service in place today.   A huge 40.6 percent of those responding to the poll said they... http://telecomweb.com/news/tpr/261202.html Mon, 11 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Comcast Corp.’s management of its broadband Internet networks, which contravenes federal policies that protect “the vibrant and open nature of the Internet,” got what amounts to a slap on the wrist from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)... http://telecomweb.com/news/tpr/261199.html Sun, 10 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), indicted last month by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia of seven counts of making false statements related to financial-disclosure forms, has been granted a pretty fast-tracked Sept. 24 trial date. U.S District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan in Washington, D.C., is... http://telecomweb.com/news/tpr/261200.html Sun, 10 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT by Hugh Carter Donahue, Ph.D.   With publicity approaching promotion of the second season of “Mad Men,” the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) singled out Comcast as a bad actor for offensively discriminating against its Internet subscribers’ access to the lawful Internet content... http://telecomweb.com/news/tpr/261201.html Sun, 10 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Wireless location-solutions provider TruePosition Inc. says the U.S. District Court in Delaware has issued a permanent injunction prohibiting Andrew Corporation, a division of CommScope Inc., from “making, using, selling or offering to sell control channel Uplink Time Difference of Arrival (U-TDOA)... http://telecomweb.com/news/tpr/261196.html Sat, 9 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT As reported a week ago (TelecomWeb news break, Aug. 5), T3i Group LLC, an investor-backed company formed by financier Richard Dorfman, is the new owner of TelecomWeb policy's parent company the Telecom Intelligence Group, which includes TelecomWeb, Tarifica, TelecomTactics and InfoTech. As such, the new... http://telecomweb.com/news/tpr/261197.html Sat, 9 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT The number of wireless broadband users will top 2.1 billion by 2015, according to new predictions by U.K. research house Analysys Mason. A vanishingly tiny 2 percent of global revenues will come from WiMAX, while Long Term Evolution (LTE) is growing fast. A majority still is using HSPA/HSPA+, which will by... http://telecomweb.com/news/tpr/261198.html Sat, 9 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Market-researcher Gartner, in a report on home broadband penetration worldwide, now figures there will be 499 million residential subscribers by 2012, by itself a healthy estimate and up from 323 million at the end of 2007. But the real news is that Gartner is figuring the United States will regain some of... http://telecomweb.com/news/tpr/research/261195.html Sat, 9 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT It’s taken the better part of a month for formal word to drift out but, the IEEE’s P1901working group has finally confirmed it: The working group’s controversial attempt to set a broadband over powerline (BPL) standard has once again failed, following a tally of voting at a P1901 meeting in... http://telecomweb.com/news/tpr/261173.html Wed, 6 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT In its recently filed petition to deny, AT&T and all of its iterations say the Federal Communications Commission isn't following the rules in its treatment of the Sprint Nextel/Clearwire WiMAX proposal. Earlier this year, Sprint Nextel and Craig McCaw's Clearwire petitioned the FCC to assign or transfer... http://telecomweb.com/news/tpr/261107.html Mon, 28 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT >>New York   Cheektowaga Town Board members have extended the moratorium on wireless communications towers, saying the town needs more time to review the proposed changes in regulations that govern companies that want to erect a cell tower or other telecommunications facility in the town. Local... http://telecomweb.com/news/tpr/261097.html Sun, 27 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT The end of Canada's advanced wireless spectrum (AWS) auction has opened the door to what could end up being at least four and possibly five new carriers.   The sale, which lasted eight weeks and 331 rounds, raked in more than $4.2 billion from 15 surviving bidders out of an original clutch of 26 players... http://telecomweb.com/news/tpr/261098.html Sun, 27 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT While it didn't garner as much attention as did talk about suspending the gas tax, bipartisan legislation aimed at enacting a five-year moratorium on new or increased taxes on wireless infrastructure and services has been introduced in the Senate. A similar bill was introduced in the House in April and, last... http://telecomweb.com/news/tpr/261099.html Sun, 27 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT On Oct. 29, as part of the SDR 08 Technical Conference and Product Exposition “SDR 2.0 - Entering the Mainstream” set for Washington, D.C., the Phoenix-based SDR Forum will host a workshop to explore the regulatory challenges inherent in software defined and cognitive radio, and to look at ways... http://telecomweb.com/news/tpr/261100.html Sun, 27 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT Small-business owners apparently aren’t pleased with the inaction of the federal government, according to a poll commissioned by American Management Services, a provider of turnaround services to small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) and conducted by Suffolk University.   The Suffolk University... http://telecomweb.com/news/tpr/261101.html Sun, 27 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT Nokia and Qualcomm apparently have buried the hatchet, signing off on a new agreement they say will end all their court battles. The deal covers various standards including GSM, EDGE, CDMA, WCDMA, HSDPA, OFDM, WiMAX, LTE and other technologies, and it settles all litigation between the companies, including... http://telecomweb.com/news/tpr/261082.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT The Communications Workers of America (CWA) has ramped up its lobbying efforts on the Hill, calling on House and Senate leaders to support legislation aimed at developing a national broadband policy. The union - which represents 700,000 workers in the communications, media and other sectors - has been joined... http://telecomweb.com/news/tpr/261018.html Tue, 15 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT The final vote on the contentious and highly partisan (even though the compromise was written by both Republicans and Democrats) reauthorization of the FISA bill (H.R. 6304, the FISA Amendments Act of 2008) was taken in Senate chambers July 9, and the count assures U.S. carriers they no longer have to sweat... http://telecomweb.com/news/tpr/260991.html Mon, 14 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT >>California   Two new laws dealing with the use of wireless telephones while driving went into effect July 1. The first law prohibits all drivers from using a handheld wireless telephone while operating a motor vehicle. Motorists 18 and older may use a hands-free device. The second law prohibits... http://telecomweb.com/news/tpr/260986.html Sun, 13 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT More than a year after they were introduced, federal rules intended to keep wireless towers operating during natural disasters still aren’t in effect. if(window.yzq_d==null)window.yzq_d=new Object()... http://telecomweb.com/news/tpr/260988.html Sun, 13 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT