Search

Telecom Act welcomes new startups, but will power customers get stuck with losses? THE OLD ADAGE ABOUT INNOVATION STILL HOLDS TRUE: "You can tell the pioneers by the arrows in [...]

Increasingly we will live in more than one 'place' at once - in communities on the earth and in 'telecommunities' in cyberspace. 'Telecommunities' are a new phenomenon made possible by [...]

Summary: Telephone and cable television companies have been forming alliances and taking other steps to ready themselves for the interactive TV market. But the overriding questions are whether consumers really [...]

Bridges, tunnels, airports, high-speed-rail systems, and telecommunications networks are among global super projects creating new links among the world's peoples. Global development projects are revolutionizing people's lives. They are the [...]

Collaboration is a sign of maturation. A child is nurtured at home before venturing into the world. An idea is first developed then introduced to a larger community. We work […]

Three years ago Denise Gore was a sales executive managing 3,000 salespeople in five states out of her Nashville home. Then she discovered a way to continue her education at [...]

Intelligent networks are the glue that holds the Internet and traditional telephony together IP-based networks will speed up the decentralisation of intelligent network (IN) architectures. But the paradox is that […]

Gerald Taylor, President and Chief Operating Officer of MCI Communications Corporation, spoke with EUROPE Editor-in-Chief Robert J. Guttman about the MCI-British Telecom alliance, CONCERT, the telecom revolution, and telecom deregulation [...]

FOR as long as the modern computer industry has existed, seers have forecast its convergence with the telecommunications business--and been proved wrong. But fundamental changes in the way PCs are [...]

New age technology is obliterating geography. By redistributing economic power around the world, it is creating a footloose economy that permits firms to locate in a variety of nontraditional venues. [...]

It is always good to look into your neighbor's backyard and see what is going on. At present, our colleagues in the telecommunications industry are excited about the possibility of […]

Byline: Sarah Reedy CHICAGO - With a monkey and Mozart to illustrate his points, Dr. Jeong Kim, the president of Bell Labs for Alcatel-Lucent, reminded Telephony LIVE attendees that Bell [...]

The telecommunication revolution continues to move forward with the continual push for increased wireless technology.

Reach anyone, buy anything, find out everything you ever wanted to know, and have time left over to have a live. That is the future promise of the Communications Era. [...]

Three years ago, Portland, Ore., officials were working to expand Internet-based functions, while also struggling to keep up with the increasing demand for bandwidth. That demand was growing at a [...]

It is quite clear today that the broadcast landscape is rapidly changing. With the convergence of higher performance chip technology and the digitizing of television technology, it is apparent that […]

AT THIS YEAR'S Midem Festival, in Cannes, representatives of the international music industry gathered in that legendary city to network and hopefully establish new collaborations as well as to take [...]

The explosive growth of high-speed digital communications over switched public telephone lines has fostered a dire need for digital interfaces. Many systems--local networks, mainframes, modems, PBXs, and even communications satellites--depend […]

Optical fibers are taking over telecommunications Looming before me, some three stories high, is a structure that looks like a scaled-down space rocket. The name painted on its surface, 'Pioneer [...]

Navy and Air Force scientists with the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) are creating a communications system that's based in the clouds. Using 180 antennas in the Alaskan [...]

SONET has been targeted as one of the key core transmission technologies for telephone companies as they build video dial tone networks and for cable companies as they move to […]

Robert Frost's poem, 'The Road Not Taken,' paints a portrait of a person facing a very difficult choice because he recognizes the finality of his decision. The need to make […]

For the first time in aviation history, the airlines have an opportunity to offer their passengers the communication options and entertainment amenities they have come to expect in their homes, [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C.--Business, government regulators, and the courts inched ahead with the foundation of the 'information superhighway' in an elaborate series of proposed mergers, done deals, compromise agreements, and legal challenges. […]

AFTER YEARS of hype and hope, the old communications barriers of time and distance are beginning to crumble as dramatically as the Berlin Wall. The digital era of communications is [...]

Besides the copier, the telephone has long been the office staple a company could least afford to be without. It is the company's life line, providing a link to customers […]

The long debate over when personal communications services (PCS) will be available to the public and on which radio frequencies could soon be settled. The issue will be on the [...]

Digital cellular telephone technology is getting closer by the minute. By mid-decade, we might be using cellular telephones that aren't based on practically obsolete analog methodology, as the current ones […]

SOME scientists are dissatisfied with electrons. This seems ungrateful. Electrons have served mankind well as carriers of energy; they have become adept as shufflers of information. Some of their attributes, [...]

Why Is Cable So Gung-Ho on PCN? With so many unanswered questions surrounding personal communications networks, the biggest puzzle may be why the cable industry's enthusiasm for PCN exceeds anything [...]

Until recently, only large companies could take advantage of online collaboration tools (also known as e-conferencing or Web conferencing solutions) and their associated benefits. Prohibitively high technology costs and the […]

Seeing by wire is the latest improvement in modern conditions, according to information that comes from Brussels. Dr James Sylvestre, an American, is said to have given practical tests there [...]

Beam it up, Scottie According to basic geometry, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. But when it comes to telecommunications, a straight line isn't always the [...]

Intelligent Nets Create New Voice/Data Phone Systems Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) represents one phase of the ongoing consolidation of data and voice communications in the telecommunications world, a consolidation […]