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'MY INTERNET CONNECTION IS SLOW.' It's a complaint that's been heard by many customer service representatives. The question is, How do you respond? Verifying Delivery One of the first diagnostic [...]

This is the story of two broadband networks. Neither yet exists, but the success or otherwise of their rollout could set the pace for next-generation network construction worldwide. NGN network [...]

Good morning. Welcome to New Orleans, a town that has seen its share of challenges but also has contributed so much to American culture. It's a pleasure to be here, [...]

Rarely does a day go by without an article, blog post or podcast weighing in on the debate over how much bandwidth is enough. Most of these discussions follow the [...]

Not long after the telephone was invented in 1876, independent operating companies began providing access to telephone and advanced communications service in areas that were ignored by larger companies. Densities [...]

TODAY'S independent local exchange carriers (ILECs) have a great opportunity to leverage their residential consumer base to deliver emerging multimedia broadband services such as video on demand (VoD), gaming and [...]

FCC Commissioner Kevin Martin hails from Waxhaw, N.C., a small rural town just outside of Charlotte. Growing up, his home address was Rural Route 3. Martin realized at a young [...]

As shocking as it may seem, the long-sought 'third pipe' to the Internet already may be in your home--as well as in nearly everybody else's. In April, FCC Chairman Michael [...]

The widespread acceptance and extensive use of applications requiring significant data-networking capabilities have driven the development of many interesting enabling technologies over the past 10 years. Of particular interest is [...]

There is no doubt that we are in the midst of a global communications revolution. Fiber optics, wireless technology and the Internet are transforming the way we communicate, and transforming [...]

Networks are built to transport applications on top of them or provide services to end users. The simplest form of a service or an application is a phone call. Making [...]

The recent financial downturn in the telecommunications industry and subsequent failure of many startup service providers seeking to bring new technologies to market are forcing many companies to reexamine their [...]

The industry's breakneck race to build capacity for customers' ever-increasing bandwidth demands has driven the more recent challenges for bandwidth management. Carriers and service providers have become accustomed to several [...]

Rural areas are prime markets for the deployment of some of the industry's most innovative broadband solutions and services, and they represent revenue-generating opportunities for rural local exchange carriers and [...]

InterDigital Communications Corp.'s complementary Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) and Broadband Code Division Multiple Access (B-CDMA) technologies provide a complete wireless access package. TDMA technology in the local loop supports basic universal services in rural and remote areas. B-CDMA complements TDMA through economical access to corporate intranets and the Internet, high-speed access to Integrated Services Digital Network and bandwidth-on-demand multimedia applications., A revolution in wireless access technology is at hand. From the Kuwaiti desert oil fires in the early 1990s to the most crowded Asian and North American cities, wireless local [...]

The rugged western end of North Carolina is a good place to get away from it all. However, this isn't always a good thing; what the nearby Great Smoky Mountains [...]

The historic uses of separate mobile wireless technologies for cellular voice and for limited, low-speed data are giving way to higher-speed data services and to operator plans for even higher-capacity [...]

After years of development, technology to deliver high-speed data over the existing electric power delivery network has emerged in the marketplace. In some sections of Cincinnati and Manassas, Va., consumers [...]

A spate of new reports just released by the FCC paints a picture of telecom competition that's promising for the cable companies, mixed for the regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs) [...]

What to do when you need more bandwidth than T1 but less than T3? Try mulitlinking. For years, enterprises have complained about the lack of incremental bandwidth services between T1 [...]

InterDigital Communications Corp.'s Broadband Code Division Multiple Access (B-CDMA) technology is designed to correct the flaws of IS-95 and other digital narrowband technologies. The B-CDMA air interface avoids the negative effects of radio propagation, therefore allowing for wider coverage, better reliability and higher capacity in radio access systems. B-CDMA technology also supports enhanced wireless local loop applications., The evolution of B-CDMA[TM] technology into viable InterDigital commercial products is part of a long road of discovery. B-CDMA is designed to correct many of the inherent short-falls of IS-95 [...]

On-line broadband multimedia services will enable subscribers to use local telephone or cable networks for accessing desired data. Computer users who intend to download files from computer networks have to wait a while before the information finally arrives even if they are using the fastest modem available in the market. The vast fiber and hybrid-coax network bandwidth will revolutionize the access and use of computer networks such as the Internet., THE THREE LARGEST COMPETITORS AREN'T WAITING FOR THE NETWORK TO GO BROADBAND. THEY'RE DEVISING MULTIMEDIA STRATEGIES AND APPLICATIONS TODAY. Brian Ek's problem was familiar to Internet denizens. While cruising the [...]

CORPORATE IT UPDATE-(C)1995-2010 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Florida Rural Broadband Alliance (FRBA), an organisation formed to deploy 'Middle Mile' infrastructure to link large-scale service providers with local, retail service providers in the [...]

CORPORATE IT UPDATE-(C)1995-2010 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Converged access solutions provider ADTRAN Inc (Nasdaq:ADTN) announced on Monday that WNM Communications (WNMC) has selected its Total Access 5000 Multi-Service Access and Aggregation Platform [...]

CORPORATE IT UPDATE-(C)1995-2010 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Privately held telecoms carrier 123Net yesterday announced that it has acquired several hundred Internet customers from 20/20 Communications, a company based in Ann Arbor which [...]

CORPORATE IT UPDATE-(C)1995-2010 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Broadband network solutions provider Sandvine (TSX:SVC) (AIM:SAND) announced on Wednesday that it has won six new service provider customers. No financial details were disclosed. The [...]

Byline: Ed Gubbins This year Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) will finally complete the fiber-to-the-premises network it began building in 2004, and it is already focusing harder on customer penetration within that [...]

I hope all of you are as glad to see 2009 go as I am and also as excited about the possibilities we all have in 2010. While the recession [...]

When the FCC in early December put out a call for comments on the industry's move to an all-IP network (see FCC note here, in PDF form), it shouldn't have [...]

With wireless firmly established in a dominant position in the communications ecosystem, many telcos and their competitors are in a race to provide consumers with compelling applications and services integrated [...]

It's too soon to say how well the first broadband stimulus fund awards will represent the awards that follow (they represent less than 10% of the first-round funds, and the [...]

Talk to any service provider or vendor these days and they'll excitedly tell you about a thousand new ways telcos will soon be offering all types of new services. And [...]

The increasing use of in-home wireless gear to handle everything from mobile voice to video has me thinking about a conversation I had this fall with Paul Evans, CEO of [...]

Of the 1130 applications submitted to the federal government for last-mile broadband stimulus funds, more than a quarter were filed by WiMax operators looking to capitalize on the program to [...]

As a mobile broadband technology, CDMA2000 has been largely written off as dead or dying for the past few years. To be clear, with nearly 500 million subscribers at the [...]

To date, the discussion on femtocells has always centered on indoor coverage--providing a better signal and more capacity for a handful of people at home or at work. But this [...]

There's something different about AT&T's new Microcell from the other femtocells being offered in the U.S. by Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ, NYSE:VOD) and Sprint (NYSE:S). Not only does the Microcell support [...]

(Part 1 of 2) This week the Department of Energy awarded $3.4 billion in stimulus funding to one-fourth of the 400 smart grid stimulus applicants spanning 49 states. The funding [...]

While most North American 3G operators are scrambling to upgrade their backhaul networks to meet the increasing capacities of their radio networks, Telus (NYSE:TU)has done the opposite. The western Canadian [...]

The recession has 'unambiguously arrived' for Verizon (NYSE:VZ), according to Bernstein Research analyst Craig Moffett, but it is not all bad news. Verizon today reported shrinking revenues across its wireline [...]

Broadband is going prime-time. That's the message from a new report today from deep packet inspection vendor Sandvine, which analyzed traffic from 20 networks and more than 24 million subscribers [...]

U.S. cities need the aid and cooperation of telecom service providers if they are going to compete globally with Singapore, Seoul, Beijing, Bangalore and others, Chicago CIO Hardik Bhatt told [...]

The $7.2 billion in Broadband Stimulus prize money in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) is creating quite a buzz around the telecom race track. With its [...]

The U.S. National Broadband Policy needs to solve the country's adoption problem, not just its access problem, and do so without unnecessary regulation that would slow down private investment in [...]

Verizon Chief Executive Officer Ivan Seidenberg took the stage on the first morning of the Supercomm trade show Wednesday to blast network neutrality regulations currently proposed by the Federal Communications [...]