Adtran recently announced a deal with Covad, a vendor of voice and data communications, making Adtran their exclusive network termination products provider.
The mutually beneficial deal will put Adtran products in over 2,000 Covad locations, according to Wall Street Equity Research, which noted that the deal "has also led to shares jumping 19 percent since the end of May."
In other recent company news, TMC noted that Adtran has been selected by WNM Communications to provide its Adtran's Total Access 5000 Multi-Service Access and Aggregation Platform for enhanced broadband deployment, Carrier Ethernet delivery, and next-generation services migration. Financial details were not available.
The product will be used for Broadband DLC applications using ADSL2+ combo cards, company officials said adding that voice services will use industry standard GR-303 switch connections currently, with an upgrade path to SIP in the future with a simple provisioning change.
Adtran officials said the product will also allow Carrier Ethernet applications for business customers, as well as "the flexibility to support ATM and Gigabit Ethernet transport options.
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Once giant-like Internet service provider AOL has unveiled a new smartphone portal, m.aol.com, "optimizing" AOL for any mobile device.
Raise your hand if you'd kind of forgotten AOL was still around. Sorry, we did too.
AOL's hitching much of its future on Android, as company officials say the company's increasing their focus on the Android operating system with the launch of the AOL app for Android, giving users a way to access dozens of AOL's properties, and the DailyFinance app for Android.
The company's renewed focus on mobile apps and content comes on the heels of the arrival of David Temkin, the company's new Vice President of Mobile.
"The company, which is working hard to transform into an Internet-content provider, is making a big bet on mobile to compete for eyeballs with Google, Facebook and Twitter," notes industry observer Clint Boulton, adding that "many users are accessing the Web on the go from smartphones fitted with full HTML Web browsers. Google, Facebook and Twitter now are vying to show these mobile users online ads."
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In order to optimize revenue from new Web 2.0 and wireless 3G and 4G applications, telecom service providers need to better understand communication patterns and subscriber behavior.
To this end, suppliers like Volubill are looking at ways to enhance their offerings with information such as connection times and the services used. Based on this real-time network intelligence, their telco customers can optimize services and customer experience.
And this results in the holy grail: higher revenue per user and lower churn.
Volubill sells charging, policy management and control applications for fixed and mobile service providers to help operators manage bandwidth. The company's CHARGE-IT suite delivers on-the-network convergent charging and control for data services such as VoIP, broadband, content and messaging, over any access technology including 3G, EDGE, IMS, fixed, Wi-Fi and WiMAX.
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If the only reason you keep a landline phone -- even with today's E911 hosted solutions -- is to call 911 in an emergency, you're not alone. And Californians may soon have the option of discarding that entirely.
The Los Angeles Times has reported that California's telephone companies "are lobbying the Legislature to let them abandon large portions of the state's 911 emergency calling system."
"Providing this service under current law is costly and burdensome to the industry, local governments as well as the state," State Sen. Curren Price, D-Los Angeles, said, contending that low-income residents can get low-cost phone telephone service.
AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications - in other words, 90 percent of California's wired phones - are backing a bill to "change a 1995 law that requires them to keep so-called warm lines, capable only of calling a 911 center."
State legislators "unanimously support the telephone companies," The Times reports, adding that the Senate has passed the measure and the Assembly's Utilities and Commerce Committee voted for it.
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