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Until recently, just about all the news had been good for proponents of voice/data convergence--the enterprise voice over IP (VOIP) segment was one of the few bright spots in an [...]

Consider Gerard Gouillou's position. The general manager and chief information officer of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup Association wanted a network for the 2002 FIFA World […]

There's good news and bad news concerning trends in data-services pricing: First, the bad news: Tariff rates for private line and frame relay service have continued to rise over the [...]

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 [...]

There are surprisingly very few bargains to be found in terms of price among the new Internet protocol telephone/fax services being offered. What is even more surprising is that these services continue to attract attention despite the inferior sound quality of Internet-carried voice communications and the ever-present possibility of fax transmission disruptions caused by Internet delays. IP telephone and fax traffic constitute only a fractional part of the total worldwide telecommunication market yet predictions for their astounding growth are being touted by many analysts., Except to some developing countries, a dime any time is about as good as it gets Practically any long distance service looks good when per-minute rates are compared against the [...]

With churn rates in excess of 20 per cent, and more providers set to enter the market, mobile operators must find effective, long-term approaches to keep their existing customer base. […]

Wouldn't it be great if vendors always got their standards together before shipping products? Sometimes this happens; sometimes it doesn't. When it does, as with USB 1.0 and 2.0, adoption […]

Neil Rickard Opinion Voice over IP technology is in daily use in the core backbones of large telecom carriers. It is good enough for people not to notice that it […]

Reportedly the world's first demonstration of a live, online gaming application, simultaneous with voice, video and data services, over a fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network happened Tuesday at the second Fiber-To-The-Home Council […]

The British Antarctic Survey has taken the first steps in the implementation of a 24x7 IP link between its Cambridge headquarters and its scientific research stations in the Antarctic with […]

What do non-interoperable wireless interfaces mean when there's the possibility of increased wireless data sales and when an erstwhile rival is reentering the mobile telecom market? Not a thing for […]

Byline: Vince Vittore In 1996 when Twin Valley Telephone purchased some cable systems from Galaxy Cable, Mike Foster, the telco's president and general manager, knew he wasn't getting much in [...]

BUTTE, MONT. - The long-distance arm of Touch America has shifted from the old way of supporting voice services to an IP-based platform that can support existing services and a […]

I agree with David Willis in his July 8 column, "How Will We Justify VoIP?" (page 33), in that the instrument used to make calls should be improved. However, the […]

In the wake of ruling last week by a U.S. bankruptcy court, and in accordance with its agreement Adelphia Business Solutions, SBC Communications [SBC] is transferring and providing voice and […]

While K-12 public schools typically aren't known for their cutting-edge networks, many education IT professionals are learning quickly the ABCs of voice over IP through early deployments. Public school districts […]

At the Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York, a voice-over-IP migration pilot underwent baptism by fire when the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 prompted a more aggressive approach […]

Byline: Lynnette Luna Sprint PCS' long-anticipated launch of what it's calling 3G service may give the wireless industry a much-needed boost in lagging subscriber additions for the rest of the [...]

Voice technology, applications and services provider Gemini Voice Solutions and Internet services provider RioLink on Monday signed a market deployment agreement calling for RioLink to market and sell IP telephony […]

UTStarcom [UTSI] will deploy its PAS (personal access system) and IP-based PAS citywide wireless access system in several cities in northern and southern provinces of China under contracts with China […]

THESE DAYS, EITHER Dayne Sampson, vice president of IT at Emeryville, Calif.-based Internet search company Ask Jeeves, or someone on his staff is in daily contact with WorldCom, the troubled […]

High-speed network vendor SwitchPoint Networks and voice technology company Gemini Voice Solutions completed field trials that operated Gemini's broadband voice IP telephony system over SwitchPoint's digital switched data network technology. […]

Microsoft has teamed with AT&T Wireless to deliver new business services over the carrier's high-speed wireless network in an effort to boost usage of wireless data services by large companies […]

Stratos, a provider of remote satellite communication services, has launched a suite of Inmarsat voice and data communications service. Stratos will augment the Inmarsat service with its proprietary communication application […]

The federal government is entering a new era for telecommunications services as it embraces competitive market dynamics and a mission focused on security and reliability. This shift is evident in […]

As the pool of telecommunications service providers shrinks, equipment manufacturers are looking to cable operators to inject competition into the entrenched telephone market. Analysts doubt, however, that cable companies will […]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD UK telecomms company BT has launched PC 2 UK, a mass market Internet telephony service. The new service - utilising both VoIP and Session […]

Byline: Jim Barthold Liberty Cablevision in Puerto Rico last week launched a limited cable telephony trial with voice-over-IP provider Net2Phone with hopes of expanding the service throughout the island within [...]

Byline: Jim Barthold While hardly tossing caution to the wind, Verizon Communications is advancing the IP PBX cause this summer with a commercial launch in Chicago. Working with GoBeam, Verizon [...]

China Unicom [CHU] will pay $15 million for Nortel Networks [NT] to deploy a metro network based on Nortel's Optera Metro Multiservice Platform in seven cities in Guangdong province - […]

Wireless broadband technology developer SOMA Networks will collaborate with systems design and integration firm Science Applications International to offer end-to-end telecommunications systems to service providers worldwide. San Francisco-based SOMA will […]

In researching a new study on packet voice markets for DSP, we contacted the major cell phone and cellular infrastructure manufacturers, the major DSP chip suppliers and several operators to […]

Byline: Jim Barthold Entertainment television over ADSL is starting to emerge in the out-of-the-way locales that ferment innovation during even the worst of times. Rural network providers see video as [...]

Verizon Wireless this week announced a flat-rate calling plan for its third-generation wireless network customers, in an attempt to woo enterprise customers who download large amounts of data on their […]

You can hide your voice and data cables under floors, over ceilings and inside closets, but you can't put the idea of data, voice and video on one network out […]

For years, people in the industry have talked about providing fully integrated voice, video and data services through the same network equipment. Few fully integrated services actually exist, however. Because […]

The convergence of voice and data networks in the home and office will foster demand for a new set of networking professionals to support the converged networks, leading to the […]