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Openwave Turns Service Providers into Internet Companies

For years, service providers could see their competitors coming head on. For example CLECs and VoIP providers are pretty easy to spot and entrenched telecom providers worldwide have adopted different strategies to battle these new entrants. But that was the...

Posted on April 14, 2008 4:02 PM

Motorola's Helpful Help Desk Solution

As carriers look to add more and more services to their portfolio of products, it is apparent that support costs will continue to increase in direct proportion to the concurrent services offered. Sure, there are some services which have fewer...

Posted on March 31, 2008 9:28 PM

COTS to the Service Provider Rescue

There was a time when service providers had to purchase massively expensive proprietary equipment in order to deploy telephone service. Class 4 and 5 switches required enormous investment and could be justified as this equipment would be depreciated over many...

Posted on November 20, 2007 5:53 PM

Comcast Gets Beat up

If you haven’t been watching, you may have missed the fact that the telcos are becoming serious competitors to the cable companies. For the last few years it seemed cable companies were invincible but recently the phone companies with products...

Posted on November 8, 2007 6:34 AM

Comcast Customer Support

This morning I went to Wikipedia to look up the formal definition for the term ballistic. Most of us know there is a term “going ballistic” which basically means freaking out in a potentially violent manner. Wikipedia doesn’t have an...

Posted on October 19, 2007 5:40 AM

ITEXPO Preview on New Telephony

Here is a pre-show write-up on ITEXPO I just saw on New Telephony. Good stuff. In a pre-show meeting yesterday I was just blown away at how much content there is at this show. Certainly if you have been following...

Posted on October 5, 2006 7:49 AM

VoIP Grows 22%

I am a big believer in the fact that Vonage spends too much money on advertising. My thoughts are they are that they can cut down their expense without significantly reducung subscriber additions. But with VoIP growing at 22% and...

Posted on August 15, 2006 8:45 AM

Triple Play Symposium

People keep asking me about the Triple Play Symposium. Here are the dates:June 13 – Dallas, Texas - Omni Dallas Park West HotelJune 15 – Boston, Massachusetts - Waltham Conference CenterJune 21 – Paris, France - INSTITUT DE FRANCE, Hôtel...

Posted on May 10, 2006 11:13 AM

Triple-Play Symposium

Service providers from around the word are signing up for the second annual Triple-Play Symposium. TMC is a title sponsor of this event – The symposium is being hosted by Netcentrex and iPlay3. Light Reading and host of other media...

Posted on May 1, 2006 8:15 AM

Cable Telephony

Look no further than this article to see just how hot cable telephony is getting. Recently, Comcast showed a threefold increase in profits, largely lifted by the increases in high-speed Internet and digital phone subscriptions.In the US, phone companies are...

Posted on April 28, 2006 4:00 PM

A Competitive Telecom Proof

While it’s been decades since my last geometry class here is the first proof I have written since high school. After rereading this a few times it is obviously not a proof but still reminds me enough of one for...

Posted on March 29, 2006 8:06 AM

New Netcentrex CEO

Netcentrex has been doing a great job growing and their penetration in VoIP and triple-play solutions has increased nicely over the years. They now have a new CEO.David Michaud has been appointed new CEO with responsibility for the Americas market....

Posted on January 4, 2006 1:24 PM

Top VoIP Investments/Trends

Reprinted from the January 2006 issue of Internet Telephony Magazine.Last year in response to many requests I started a Top 10 investments list in which I outlined some of the best investments for 2005. Here is an update on last...

Posted on December 20, 2005 6:30 PM

Cisco Enters The Living Room

Cisco announced today they are buying Scientific Atlanta a global leader in set-top boxes for $43 per share. Some of the reasons for this purchase are that video is becoming a bigger market for service providers and Cisco is responding...

Posted on November 18, 2005 9:49 AM