The market is flooded with pink RAZRs, super-thin Samsung sliders, and $900 Nokia phones with accents "found in luxury timepieces." Are fashion phones a fad? How long will the trend ...

The end of the year provides a prime time to consider what lies ahead for the evolution of the mobile network. It's easy to be general and be correct. ...

Teligent, WinStar, and XO Communications, lead licensees of fixed wireless broadband spectrum in the 1990s, are making a comeback with new names, new identities, and a strong investor push fueled ...

Last week's 3G World Congress saw lots of new product announcements, vendor tie-ups, etc. A lot of news, however, went unannounced. That doesn't make it any less important. ...

It's time for equipment makers to expose details about their IMS product portfolios. With carriers on the verge of deploying services, suppliers can no longer simply describe their IMS portfolios ...

The recent Telecom '05 event in Las Vegas generated a great deal of publicity for triple-play applications such as IPTV. However, the event also demonstrated that current niche technologies such ...

While peer-to-peer technology is not necessarily a threat to other enterprise voice communications architectures, it presents a potentially disruptive business model. ...

The recent Broadband World Forum Europe helped crystallize the latest critical developments within the broadband industry, especially in relation to triple-play services. What are these developments that vendors and carriers ...

The future of carriers and equipment makers is riding on the successful transition to an IMS-based service delivery platform. The upcoming MSF-sponsored interoperability test gives vendors and carriers a chance ...

Open source software provides a new breed of PBX developers with a starter kit for quickly entering the market with a basic set of deliverables. Existing suppliers should expect more, ...

The metro core ROADM is heating up - vendors vary in their strategies, and while some are stagnant, others are boasting growing momentum. Which is the best way to ...

These marketing blunders caused the downfall of products, portfolios, and companies. Made in a different environment, each was avoidable, but had repeatable fundamental underlying causes. Avoid making new mistakes for ...

The pressure is on for SBC and Verizon to execute their video service plans, but local franchise licensing presents a potentially crippling hurdle. The Texas legislature sets precedent and hands ...

ADVA's support for 4G wavelengths for 4GFC was very early relative to market opportunity, but to good effect despite small short-term opportunity - helping illustrate the "pros and cons" of ...

The RAZR's slim case showcases strong design, but its user interface is mediocre. Motorola isn't alone; nearly every phone on the market fails in some area of basic usability. ...

PON has characteristics of a young, emerging market despite its age, defying consolidation, and reaping seemingly bottomless funding despite evolving technology and very real competitive risks. Why, and what ...

The nascent IP Centrex market is ramping up, and vendors can no longer dismiss the hosted IP telephony threat. The "no-CapEx" pitch from IP Centrex service providers threatens the ...

Chinese DSL vendors, led by Huawei, constitute the strongest threat ever to the established vendors in this sector. All hope is not lost, however. Alcatel has effectively provided ...

Products in the fixed configuration switching market are by and large created leveraging merchant silicon. This shifts the focus of the products away from speeds and feeds to software ...

Telco acquisitions are rampant in the Nordics in 2005 and they are reaching beyond the region itself. This is likely to continue for some years. However, what does ...