Telecompetitor

Motorola was the top mobile handset original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and Research in Motion (RIM), maker of the BlackBerry platform, was the top developer of smartphone platforms in the U.S. during 4Q 2009, according to comScore's latest MobiLens research service. Motorola captured 22.9% of the U.S. ...

Sprint's wholesale VoIP efforts with the cable industry are well documented. At one point in early 2009, cable companies using Sprint's wholesale IP voice service passed 31 million homes, servicing 4.5 million of them with VoIP service. Sprint served both large and small ...

Google dominance is on the rise. So much so, I'm beginning to wonder if they should slow down. Consider that Google already dominates Internet search across the globe - so much so that Google is, in effect, the gateway to the Internet for most of us. That achievement alone is ...

An administrative law judge in Illinois has written in opposition of the proposed sale of Verizon local exchange assets to Frontier. The Illinois Verizon access lines in question amount to 600k of the total 4.8 million access lines in ...

Cisco yesterday unveiled the latest in its flagship Carrier Routing System line of Internet networking platforms: capable of delivering up to 322 terabits (tbs) per second of throughput, the CRS-3 triples the capacity of the CRS-1 and offers 12 times the traffic-handling capacity of its nearest ...

Verizon Wireless is now the National Football League's official wireless service sponsor, according to news announced today.  The four-year agreement kicks off with live coverage of this year's NFL draft April 22-24. Sprint had this sponsorship in prior years. Initially broadcast across Verizon Wireless's ...

Cell phone, the cable & satellite TV industry and banks led the way as disgruntled customers filed 9.7% more complaints to the Better Business Bureau last year than they did in 2008. Amidst the tough economic and financial ...

Verizon is building out a 4G wireless network, based on LTE technology, with plans to launch in limited markets by the end of this year. They have been conducting trials in Boston and Seattle and now claim that LTE is maxing ...

The universal service fund (USF) has a legacy of bringing phone service to all parts of the country. The shift to wireless and broadband/IP as primary means for communication is putting strains on this support system, as more consumers leave traditional TDM voice service behind for ...

A recent article in the Economist highlights the changing views on technologies initially associated with so-called criminal Internet activity. Now a tool once reviled by broadcasters and media companies is showing new signs of life by being added to an already growing bag of Internet tricks. ...