http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com TelecomWeb.com en-us 2009 Fri, 9 Jan 2009 17:04:27 EST According to a survey released by Siemens Enterprise Communications, more than half of all large U.S. enterprises have embraced unified communications (UC), either already using or planning to use UC systems.   According to “Unified Communications in the Enterprise,” performed for Siemens by... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/news/tpr/262118.html Mon, 8 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST A consortium led by U.K.-based analyst group Analysys Mason, including the economic consultancy DotEcon and the law firm U.S. law firm Hogan & Hartson LLP, won a contract to produce a study by the European Commission (EC) called “Exploiting The Digital Dividend – A European Approach.”... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/news/tpr/262119.html Mon, 8 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST In early October, Judge Jonathan Jasper of the Tenth District Court in Minnesota ruled that Minnesota cities have the authority to issue bonds to finance community fiber-optic networks. In this case, the small Minnesota town of Monticello was fighting with Bridgewater Telephone Co./TDS, the ILEC serving... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/news/tpr/262120.html Mon, 8 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST Bidding finally closed on Australia’s planned government-subsidized $9 billion fiber-to-the-node (FTTn) National Broadband Network (NBN) after a year of political hassles and maneuvers that helped bring down the former government after it insisted WiMAX was the answer to the country’s broadband... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/news/tpr/262101.html Sun, 7 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST Last week, the Washington, D.C.-based Advanced Television Systems Committee Inc. (ATSC) awarded its specification for Mobile Digital Television “Candidate Standard” status, thus clearing the way for a service cutover sometime next year.    The Mobile DTV Candidate Standard was designed... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/news/tpr/262102.html Sun, 7 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST The Femto Forum, an independent U.K.-based industry and operator association that supports global femtocell deployment, released a new study saying in part that femtocells have the potential to deliver “an order of magnitude more capacity” than the macro network alone when used in dense... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/news/tpr/262103.html Sun, 7 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST Stanford University’s Clean Slate Internet Design Program, a “nothing-is-sacred research effort to rethink the globe’s ossified communications infrastructure,” has created the Clean Slate Lab with global sponsors Deutsche Telekom and NEC.   Launched in March 2007, the Clean Slate... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/news/tpr/262104.html Sun, 7 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST >>Missouri   The St. Louis County Emergency Communications Commission has asked the county council to put a $0.01 sales tax to pay for a countywide public-safety communications system on the April 7, 2009, local elections ballot. The tax, which would raise some $15 million per year, would finance... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/news/tpr/262105.html Sun, 7 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST The much-heralded marriage of Clearwire and Sprint’s proposed mobile WiMAX venture closed last week but with the startling disclosure the network Clearwire will build will be carefully tailored for a possible future conversion/upgrade to Long Term Evolution (LTE).   And the name Xohm is dead... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/news/tpr/262057.html Mon, 1 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST Heralding the latest milepost in broadband growth and using numbers provided by industry analyst Point Topic, the Broadband Forum heralded estimates that the number of broadband subscribers in the world has just passed the 400-million mark.   That’s up from a tiny 57,200 only a decade ago and on... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/news/tpr/262012.html Mon, 24 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST The SDR Forum has created a new group to address test guidelines and requirements for secondary spectrum access of unused TV spectrum, also known as “white spaces” (TelecomWeb news break, Nov. 5).   Established in 1996, the Washington, D.C.-based SDR Forum is “a non-profit... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/news/tpr/262017.html Mon, 24 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST A recent request made by the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP) that Bell Canada “cease the traffic-shaping practices it has adopted for its wholesale Gateway Access Service” has been denied by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).   Moving... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/news/tpr/262021.html Mon, 24 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), a senior member of the Senate Committee on Banking, are urging their Republican colleagues to put politics aside and help America’s entrepreneurs stressed by a... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/news/tpr/262022.html Mon, 24 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST >> Georgia   Writing to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin prior to the commission’s open meeting earlier this month, Georgia Public Service Commissioner Doug Everett urged the FCC to “slow down and proceed with caution” on proposed rules that would change the way telecommunications... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/news/tpr/262008.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST The Broadband Forum has released a new version of BroadbandSuite, its third so far. As promised, it’s an updated version that sets out standard practices for delivering IP video over additional broadband technologies.   Version 2 of the suite, released last year, had supported ITPV over ADSL2+... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/news/tpr/262009.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST What do companies do with all those outmoded wireless handsets of all sorts as they re-tool for true enterprise mobility? Tangoe Inc., a leading global provider of enterprise communications lifecycle management software and technology-enabled services, has a solution, saying its new CommCare Mobile Recycling... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/news/tpr/262010.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST A week ago, Sprint Nextel reseller iPCS dropped court action that would have blocked Sprint’s spinoff of its Xohm mobile WiMAX unit into a joint venture with Clearwire, recently vetted by the FCC (TelecomWeb policy, Nov. 10).   This surprise move hints Sprint is about to get nicked for yet another... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/news/tpr/262011.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST Respondents to a recent poll taken by U.K. giant BT say they will look for help in implementing Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) from multiple types of vendors, but especially those that demonstrate technology leadership and the ability to integrate products from multiple vendors.   As... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/news/tpr/261940.html Mon, 17 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST Qualcomm has stopped work on its own home grown Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB) technology, which it once had hopes would be the 4G upgrade path for CDMA, and instead is going to plow its resources only into Long Term Evolution (LTE).   The decision, disclosed yesterday afternoon by Qualcomm CEO Paul... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/news/tpr/261938.html Fri, 14 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST It’s hard to believe Charles Giancarlo, soon to move up from interim CEO to chairman of Avaya’s board (TelecomWeb news break, Oct. 31), may have made his last stage appearance in front of a telecom crowd, because he gave a flawless performance.   In a keynote speech that flowed like a... http://www.telecomweb-infotech.com/news/tpr/261926.html Wed, 12 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST