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New net neutrality legislation, stymied by industry lobbyists and an election cycle, remains unlikely to go anywhere before next January.

The "Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008... More...

Feb 26, 2008
Juniper Networks Inc. is making a push into wireless backhaul with a multi-access gateway appliance that can merge legacy transport technologies and push them over Ethernet alongside newer... More...
Apr 1, 2008
Following the completion of its technology survey, the Aberdeen Group has listed 100 companies that businesses cited as most important in providing value, including big-name telecom... More...
May 15, 2008
As telecoms become IPTV providers, picking the right set-top media center today could add revenue options tomorrow. Microsoft has thrown its considerable weight behind its Mediaroom... More...
Apr 8, 2008
When Barack Obama takes the stage this week to accept the Democratic nomination for president, the thousands of avid mobile phone addicts at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Denver... More...
Aug 26, 2008

Eleven telecom service providers have been recognized for excellence in providing advanced communications services by Nemertes Research in the company's first PilotHouse awards. The... More...

Apr 24, 2008
As service providers begin testing the viability of bandwidth caps and metered usage, broadband subscribers have become vehemently opposed to such restrictions, according to an IDC survey... More...
Oct 1, 2008
The tech industry that includes the telecom and the enterprise networking sectors has gone through some hard times in the last 20 years, but the author of a new economic forecast for the... More...
Nov 17, 2008
Well before its current WiMax venture with Clearwire, Sprint's history of failed partnerships with cable companies and its ill-advised merger with Nextel may have taught the company the... More...
Sep 4, 2008
Since the first telecoms began connecting calls, worker safety has been a balancing act, as companies weigh the right amount of training and equipment against the bottom line.

The old Ma Bell... More...

Aug 14, 2008
As leased-line costs grow and the demand for 3G and 4G data services ramps up, North American wireless operators might start switching to microwave technology for mobile backhaul instead.

"In... More...

Oct 9, 2008
Cisco this week announced a service provider appliance that the vendor says will help carriers better deliver on the promise of what it calls the "connected life," by bringing fiber... More...
Sep 25, 2007

Being prepared for network outages, downtime and the potential for a mass number of remote workers is become an imperative, not an option, especially for service providers. Having a solid... More...

Jul 16, 2007
After Hurricane Katrina spotlighted emergency phone service inadequacy, the FCC mandated that providers with more than 500,000 subscribers provide 24 hours of backup power to all central... More...
Nov 20, 2007

By every measure Internet security is failing, because as technology advances, security gets worse, according to security expert Bruce Schneier, founder and CTO of managed security provider... More...

Oct 24, 2007

Increased enterprise networking budgets can be good news for service provider's looking to work more closely with their enterprise customers. From that point of view, 2008 could be a winner. A... More...

Dec 10, 2007
Cisco, with the help of its new "green guru" Paul Marcoux, is pushing greener technologies, partially for idealistic reasons but also to gain a competitive advantage and deliver reduced power... More...
Jan 10, 2008

Only the most mainstream telecom news makes its way into major newspapers and magazines. Yet the initiatives that go on behind the scenes in the telecommunications industry have a profound... More...

Dec 20, 2007

Churn is the word most telecom service providers dread. Operators carefully track when customers go to a competitor, usually because service wasn't good enough for whatever reason. While... More...

Mar 11, 2008
Telecoms like Comcast and AT&T, and copyright guardians like the RIAA and MPAA, might take a lesson from colleges and universities on how to battle piracy.

Comcast has recently come under fire... More...

Jan 30, 2008
Natural disasters, the weather and other factors that contribute to network outages are usually a guessing game for communications service providers that put their infrastructure in... More...
Oct 4, 2007

Telecom equipment vendors looking at last year's profits may well find that their services businesses accounted for 20% of their revenues and are growing faster than equipment sales... More...

Mar 25, 2008
A wireless price war may be brewing now that all the major carriers have begun to offer unlimited voice plans. But in the future, carriers will rely on the Internet, mobile TV, and even advertising... More...
Mar 18, 2008
Long wary of open source software, major telecoms are now experimenting with bringing offerings like Asterisk PBX into their peripheral services as enterprise demand for open source... More...
Apr 3, 2008