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    1. MetroPCS takes a generational Leap to 4G

      Explore TELEPHONY Online (Jan 2 2012) Mobility

      MetroPCS takes a generational Leap to 4G MetroPCS has a little extra incentive to deploy Long-Term Evolution (LTE) over its competitors. Unlike most of the major wireless operators in the US, MetroPCS has no 3G network, making it the first operator in the world to make the jump from 2G directly to 4G. So while other operators are looking to LTE for a more efficient and higher capacity network, MetroPCS wants to bring mobile broadband to its customers for the first time ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   LTE   Samsung   Verizon Wireless

    2. Eurotech: Get ready for devices-as-a-service

      Explore TELEPHONY Online (Dec 31 2011)

      Eurotech: Get ready for devices-as-a-service Eurotech, developer of machine-to-machine technology and m2m device manufacturer, wants to open its offerings to a broader market. To do so the company is promoting the idea of devices-as-a-service—and if the company’s vision is correct, there could be significant opportunities for communications service providers and data center operators in the DaaS approach. “It’s the logical next step,” said Robert Andres, corporate marketing director for Eurotech Group, at a press and analyst event ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   AT&T   IBM   Hitachi

    3. Verizon debuts cloud computing service

      Explore TELEPHONY Online (Dec 31 2011)

      Verizon debuts cloud computing service Verizon Business (NYSE: VZ) unveiled its much-anticipated cloud computing service today, which the company calls Computing as a Service, a deliberate departure from the approach taken by cloud innovators such as Amazon -- one that is tailored more for large and mid-sized enterprise customers. Like other cloud offerings, Verizon’s CaaS allows customers to pay for data-center resources such as storage and application hosting dynamically based on the amount of resources they consume. Using a Web ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com

    4. IPTV vs. Cable - What's the difference?

      Explore TELEPHONY Online (Dec 26 2011) Applications

      IPTV vs. Cable - What's the difference? The early knock on telephone company TV efforts was that the service they were providing looked too much like what consumers were already buying from a cable or satellite company, forcing telcos to compete too much on price. With the most recent developments, however, including those from this week's Consumer Electronics Show, IPTV is definitely getting a competitive edge from new capabilities that integrate Internet content, features and functionality into the TV set. Having ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Microsoft   Motorola   AT&T

    5. Will Bill Stone amp up MediaFLO?

      Explore TELEPHONY Online (Dec 25 2011) Business Models , Mobility

      Will Bill Stone amp up MediaFLO? At Amp’d Mobile, Bill Stone wasn’t able to realize his vision of creating a new type of mobile media company before bankruptcy got in the way. But he’s getting a second shot at Qualcomm. The mobile chipset giant has appointed Stone President of MediaFLO USA, Qualcomm’s quickly growing but still-struggling mobile TV arm, where he’ll have the benefit of more resources and much more solid financial backing. Stone is replacing ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Qualcomm   AT&T   George W. Bush

    6. Court lends an ear to complaints against FCC's efforts on special access reform

      Explore TELEPHONY Online (Dec 21 2011) Applications

      Court lends an ear to complaints against FCC's efforts on special access reform A coalition promoting the need for special access reform led by competitive local exchange carrier association Comptel is getting some serious attention from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court this week issued an order asking for additional materials from the coalition, from the FCC and from the nation’s largest incumbent carriers—AT&T, CenturyLink and Verizon—which have the most to lose from any special access reforms. The coalition in July ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   AT&T   TW Telecom   Comptel

    7. Intellifiber thrives within Windstream fold

      Explore TELEPHONY Online (Dec 20 2011) Marketing

      Intellifiber thrives within Windstream fold When Windstream purchased competitive carrier Paetec earlier this year (CP: Windstream's Paetec purchase aimed at bolstering business market focus), it gained an important asset in Paetec’s high-speed Intellifiber network. Connected Planet checked in recently with Sean Baillie, who is now general manager for the fiber network unit within Windstream, to discuss the unit’s unique account approach, the low-latency and cloud markets, Ethernet over copper and more. Although the Intellifiber brand is (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Sonet   Windstream   LEC

    8. LightSquared adds money woes to GPS and Falcone problems

      Explore TELEPHONY Online (Dec 20 2011)

      LightSquared adds money woes to GPS and Falcone problems LightSquared earned just $30 million during the first nine months of this year and registered a $427 million net loss during the period, Reuters reported today, after gaining access to a financial statement. If the hopeful 4G network doesn't figure out a way to bring in new funds, said the report, it could run out of money during the second quarter of 2012. "There is a need to raise substantial capital beyond the beginning ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Clearwire   LTE   Sprint Nextel

    9. Oracle aims to flatten mobile silos, simplify billing

      Explore TELEPHONY Online (Dec 15 2011) Applications , Business Models , Marketing , Mobility

      Oracle aims to flatten mobile silos, simplify billing Oracle’s new Connected Digital Lifestyle solution, announced this week, gives communications service providers a unified platform for mobile content management, delivery, advertising - and billing. The product is designed to enhance an operator’s service delivery platform, enabling them to leverage network assets to deliver revenue-generating applications. Essentially it is an end-to-end digital content retailing platform that allows service providers to increase revenue and customer loyalty acr (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Oracle

    10. Motorola Mobility TV barometer points to 'change' -- is there a storm coming?

      Explore TELEPHONY Online (Dec 14 2011) Applications

      Motorola Mobility TV barometer points to 'change' -- is there a storm coming? Research house Vanson Bourne, on behalf of Motorola Mobility, conducted the company’s third mobility media engagement survey of TV trends in 16 countries, surveying 9000 customers across all major regions of the world. It found a customer hungry for social media, connectivity and "anytime, anywhere" entertainment. While TV and video viewing is still on the rise, accounting for 15 hours a week globally, Germans and Americans are top of the TV viewing list at ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Vanson Bourne   Motorola Mobility

    11. A.T. Kearney's Crystal Ball 2012

      Explore TELEPHONY Online (Dec 13 2011) Marketing

      A.T. Kearney's Crystal Ball 2012 If it’s not one discontinuity, it’s another. Eurozone headaches, U.S. debt woes, and budget deficits of accelerating magnitudes. However, such man-made turbulence is not new to the tech and telecoms arena—it’s simply business as usual. Welcome to the fourth annual Crystal Ball edition of trends and predictions, both big and small, seasonal and structural. Trends are undeniable and always right, at least eventually. Predictions? Well, we can be a bit ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Telefonica   Google   AT&T

    12. LightSquared denies 4G network still endangering GPS

      Explore TELEPHONY Online (Dec 13 2011)

      LightSquared denies 4G network still endangering GPS LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja called foul Monday on portions of internal analyses of test results that were leaked to Bloomberg News. "It is apparent that this leak was intended to damage LightSquared’s reputation, spread false information in the marketplace, and prejudice public opinion against LightSquared before a full and complete analysis of the testing results had been presented to ExCom, NTIA, or the Federal Communications Commission," Ahuja said in a widely circulated letter addressed ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Securities and Exchange Commission   Defense   Transportation

    13. Carrier IQ says it found bugs, never intentionally captures keystrokes

      Explore TELEPHONY Online (Dec 13 2011) Marketing

      Carrier IQ says it found bugs, never intentionally captures keystrokes Carrier IQ has released a report reiterating what its software does and doesn't do and acknowledging a few bugs have been found — and corrected. The report comes as a response to a recent wave of critical attention following a video report from security researcher Trevor Eckhart. Eckhart found the company's software, which wireless network customers install on handsets to help them track their services' performance, was monitoring keystrokes, capturing text messages and obtaining ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Federal Communication Commission   Carrier IQ

    14. Why Price Certainty Works

      Explore TELEPHONY Online (Dec 13 2011) Marketing

      By Phil Britt Consumers want to know exactly what they will pay for their goods or services, rather than getting a surprise—often a shock—when the bill arrives. Such uncertainty and consumer complaints about it were the driving force behind the decision by CTIA, in its agreement with the Federal Communications Commission, to advise its member companies to provide consumers with alert notifications when they exceed their monthly limit on wireless minutes, text or (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Federal Communication Commission

    15. Verizon's McAdam says video key to LTE and smartphone adoption

      Explore TELEPHONY Online (Dec 9 2011)

      Verizon's McAdam says video key to LTE and smartphone adoption Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam, speaking Dec. 7 at the UBS Media and Communications Conference, expanded on Verizon's $3.6 billion agreement with SpectrumCo (CP: Verizon gains LTE spectrum, helps Time Warner, Comcast, into carrier space), its better-than-expected LTE rollout, rising smartphone penetration, the importance of application development, new 3G opportunities and what has him excited. Verizon plans to phase out its LTE partnership with DirectTV and will stop its FiOS TV and Internet buildou (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   LTE   Motorola   Time Warner

    16. Connect America Fund order details access charge reforms

      Explore TELEPHONY Online (Dec 8 2011) Applications , Business Models

      Connect America Fund order details access charge reforms The FCC’s Connect America Fund order, adopted in late October and made public shortly before Thanksgiving (FCC adopts Universal Service and inter-carrier compensation reform order), details a plan not only for transitioning today’s voice-focused Universal Service fund to focus instead on broadband; it also lays out a plan for phasing out per-minute access charges, which have been a key source of funding for communications networks. In addition, the order clarifies a long-standing issue ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Federal Communication Commission

    17. FCC workshop participants: Interconnection critical to PSTN phase-out

      Explore TELEPHONY Online (Dec 7 2011)

      FCC workshop participants: Interconnection critical to PSTN phase-out Before the traditional phone network can be phased out, steps should be taken to ensure that the networks replacing it are interoperable, said several stakeholders who participated in an FCC workshop convened yesterday to explore issues associated with a PSTN phase-out—an idea floated by AT&T a couple of years ago that is now gaining momentum. Ensuring interoperability is no easy task, considering that the tightly integrated and monolithic phone network of yesteryear has ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   LTE   AT&T   Craig Moffett

    18. Cisco puts service providers at center of cloud

      Explore TELEPHONY Online (Dec 6 2011)

      Cisco puts service providers at center of cloud Cisco today laid out its full cloud strategy, giving the effort a name (Cisco CloudVerse) and a clear direction that puts cloud service providers of all sorts and sizes directly at the center. As it did in the networking market, Cisco sees itself as an “arms supplier” in the cloud wars, rather than a cloud provider itself. Several rivals, including IBM and HP, seem intent on playing both sides of the fence, delivering enabling technologies ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Telstra   Cisco   IBM

    19. FTC asked to investigate Carrier IQ practices

      Explore TELEPHONY Online (Dec 6 2011)

      FTC asked to investigate Carrier IQ practices The Carrier IQ controversy continues to snowball, with U.S. Representative Edward Markey joining Senator Al Franken in calling on the Federal Trade Commission to look into whether the software violates consumer privacy rights and two class-action suits being filed against Carrier IQ, HTC, and in one instance also Samsung. Carrier IQ is a company and a software that's installed on mobile phones to provide performance feedback to mobile network operators. On Nov. 28 ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Rich Karpinski   Samsung   AT&T

    20. Amazon Kindle Fire causing chaos in Android tablet market, says report

      Explore TELEPHONY Online (Dec 5 2011) Marketing

      Amazon Kindle Fire causing chaos in Android tablet market, says report Amazon's Kindle Fire has already leapfrogged the Samsung Galaxy Tab and will finish the fourth quarter as the number-two tablet worldwide, behind the Apple iPad, according to new projections from IHS iSuppli. More than a strong new competitor, however, the Kindle Fire is able to compete in ways that tablets from traditional manufacturers can't, which has "created chaos in the Android tablet market," IHS senior manager Rhoda Alexander explained in a Dec. 2 ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Samsung   Apple   HTC

    21. IMS equipment sales set to grow by 50 percent. Will it matter?

      Explore TELEPHONY Online (Dec 2 2011)

      IMS equipment sales set to grow by 50 percent. Will it matter? IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is a classic. Several years ago it hit the news as the ‘next big thing.’ Then, in time honored traditional it all but disappeared. Now Infonetics predicts that the IMS equipment market is on track to gain over 50% in global revenue in 2011, compared to 2010. Behind the growth are telco giants China Telecom, China Unicom, and Deutsche Telekom who are undergoing significant ‘Class 5’ replacement projects, while other huge ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   China Telecom   IMS   AT&T

    22. What service providers must know about the Connect America Fund order

      Explore TELEPHONY Online (Dec 1 2011) Applications

      What service providers must know about the Connect America Fund order The Connect America Fund order adopted by the FCC in late October and released to the public just before Thanksgiving is poised to impose big changes on the voice-focused Universal Service program that has been in place for decades. This week and next, Connected Planet will recap what communications service providers need to know about the order, which aims to transform the high-cost Universal Service program into a broadband-focused program dubbed Connect America while also ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   CAF   Federal Communication Commission

    23. Analysis: Is Carrier IQ controversy the perfect storm to destroy operator trust?

      Explore TELEPHONY Online (Dec 1 2011)

      Analysis: Is Carrier IQ controversy the perfect storm to destroy operator trust? A few days ago, we published excerpts from a discussion we had with Allison Cerra, an Alcatel-Lucent exec whose new book examines issues of online identity and trust (CP: ALU: Navigating the 'shifting' identity landscape) One of the key findings of the massive ALU research effort that underpins the book was that although consumers don’t necessarily their network operators, they trusted them much more than other players that might make use of their location ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Vodafone   Google   AT&T

    24. Amdocs, Bridgewater target mobile data 'experience'

      Explore TELEPHONY Online (Nov 30 2011) Marketing

      Amdocs, Bridgewater target mobile data 'experience' Fresh off its acquisition of policy vendor Bridgewater, Amdocs this week delivered a new pre-integrated offering that aims to find the ‘sweet spot’ where mobile networks, policy and IT come together. Aimed at the exploding mobile data market, the solution and new division is more about the experience than the data. There is a need for “telcos to be able to define plans quickly and intuitively,” according to Ann Hatchell, director of data experience marketing ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   LTE   Amdocs