After a four year delay, LLU in the UK is gathering pace in response to BT's LLU price cuts. SDSL initially takes centre stage, but further off, ISPs are ...

The Norwegian telecom market is now really starting to see old and new players developing and promoting VoIP or VoB services. Over the next six months, Norwegian customers will ...

Vodafone's teeth gnash, the competition shudders and 3G data card prices and tariffs tumble astronomically in Germany and Spain. Land-grab aside, does anyone out there have a game plan to ...

Companies planning to migrate from circuit-switched digital to IP telephony have a somewhat confusing range of deployment options to consider. The race is on among suppliers of IP telephony solutions ...

The commercial launch of VoIP in Switzerland kicks the door wide open for competition in the national voice market and is picking up speed. The challenge for fixed operators will ...

French network operators should wine, dine, and promote "the right' MVNO candidates, selecting candidates who will complement their own marketing strategies. Not all MVNOs make for comfortable bed fellows. ...

18 months after the buzz began, operators are still trialing PoC solutions and vendors are still wrangling over PoC standards. A new study points to the importance of OMA-based systems; ...

P2P VoIP applications show potential to alter the German voice market in a way that parallels Napster's rise to fame - free software, free on-net calls and universal availability. Yet, ...

The integration of mobile services with enterprise telephony systems has generated a lot of talk but very little action-much to the frustration of corporate managers weary of mobile-worker anarchy. It's ...

With VoDSL now readily available to the Dutch, providers of fixed telephony, broadband Internet, cable and even mobile access will all be forced to realign their sales tactics to reflect ...

A nasty little SMS price war is developing unchecked in the Dutch market. All players must keep their heads cool and learn from the bitter Nordic price war experience, in ...

WiMax offers speed and coverage unimaginable by today's standards, yet it will continue to be a tough sell in Germany. Lack of approved products aside, DSL penetration, customer numbers and ...

Protecting children from mobile adult content is a concern for mobile operators, as is appeasing public anxiety. But it is a concern outweighed by the lucrative revenue the adult ...

Businesses are adopting MPLS VPNs but rather than get locked into a single carrier, customers want to use multiple providers for cost-effective global MPLS VPNs with end-to-end QoS. Carriers ...

Chapter 11 emergence of global behemoths, competition and selling on "price' will continue to commoditise wholesale services. Survivors will be those that can offer higher-end solutions and expand their markets ...

Push To Talk has been successful in the US market and now European mobile operators are keen to deploy the services to squeeze more revenue from subscribers. To achieve ...

Business solutions clients increasingly seek a fully integrated services solution, which might include access bundled with customised IP solutions to raise efficiencies and lower costs. Are carriers ready to respond? ...

Broadband voice services, making voice calls over a cable or DSL connection using VoIP, have the potential to disrupt even the competitive UK PSTN market. Regulatory and market conditions ...

The launch of 3G/GPRS data cards highlights mobile operators' renewed interest in the business market. But the bundled software utilities all put the operators' brand onto the corporate desktop, a ...

While the national PWLAN markets are likely to fall into the hands of PTTs, the global market is wide open, given the patchy coverage, weak roaming and billing. This ...