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As telecom carriers evolve, Carrier Evolution tracks the important developments in telecom and broadband which drive that evolution, including IP voice, unified communications, collaboration and consumer applications. Carrier Evolution offers original and curated content from external sources.

Dish Focuses on Clearwire Acquisition: Unique Spectrum Has Strong Appeal

6/19/13 at 11:56 AM by Joan Engebretson

Dish Network now appears to be out of the running to acquire Sprint, announcing late yesterday that it would not issue a revised bid for that company. But Dish vowed to focus its “efforts and resources on completing the Clearwire tender offer.” Both Dish and...Learn More

EarthLink Launches 4G Wireless Internet-on-the-Go Service

6/19/13 at 9:18 AM by Telecompetitor

ATLANTA, GA - June 19, 2013 — EarthLink, Inc., a leading IT services and communications provider, today announced the launch of its new 4G Internet-on-the-Go wireless mobile Internet plans for consumers. Powered by Clearwire’s 4G mobile broadband service via a wholesale agreement announced last September,...Learn More

Hughes Makes Satellite Home Phone Service Push

6/18/13 at 9:58 AM by Telecompetitor

Germantown, Md., June 17, 2013—Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), the global leader in broadband satellite solutions and services, today announced the launch of HughesNet® Voice, its feature-rich home Voice over IP (VoIP) solution. It is already available to subscribers in the U.S. Bundled along with...Learn More

C Spire Focuses on Wi-Fi

6/18/13 at 9:30 AM by Telecompetitor

RIDGELAND, Miss.- June 18, 2013 — C Spire Wireless, the only U.S. wireless provider that offers consumer and business customers personalized services, announced the launch today of WiFi On, a free app that gives users a fast, easy and automatic connection to the world’s largest...Learn More

C Spire and Wireline Sister Company Pursue Convergence Opportunities

6/18/13 at 1:00 AM by Joan Engebretson

The C Spire name, traditionally associated with wireless service, will soon appear on fiber-based digital broadband services from C Spire’s sister company Telepak, a competitive carrier with a fiber network throughout a large part of the southeastern United States. The news was part of a...Learn More

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Peering pressure: The secret battle to control the future of the internet
June 19, 2013
There is a fierce battle going on to control the future of the internet, and consumers are the innocent bystanders. Reports have been filtering in during the last few days that consumers on Verizon an …

Gigabit Wi-Fi is here, but device makers can go faster if they want to
June 19, 2013
Aurich Lawson The Wi-Fi Alliance has begun certifying network hardware, chips, smartphones, PCs, and tablets for the new “Gigabit Wi-Fi” standard. But while the certification program covers hardware w …

The Trajectory of Television—Internet rebellion and hardware renaissance
June 19, 2013
Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock Though television has existed for well under a century, its mark on culture and society is indelible and undeniable. Last week, we described how TV got to where it is today: …

IXC Upgrades Its Softswitch
June 19, 2013
System responds to major trends in changing VoIP market

Small Cells are Getting a Grip in Cellular Nets
June 19, 2013
The Small Cell Forum is an organization that supports the wide scale adoption of small cells. Its mission is to accelerate small cell adoption to change the shape of mobile networks and maximize the p …

Telcos: Feeling a Wee Bit Insecure about WebRTC?
June 19, 2013
WebRTC Single Page Application (Photo credit: Tsahi Levent-Levi) I think there’s a bit of “insecurity” going on within both the last gen and next gen telco providers when it comes to WebRTC. And hones …

Six nations ask Google for answers on Glass privacy
June 19, 2013
Canada, Oz, NZ, Mexico, Switzerland and Israel send ‘Dear Larry’ letter 36 Privacy Commissioners from around the world have written to Google to ask, in the polite-but-firm language of international d …

Ubuntu phone OS has eight carriers signed on to boost development
June 18, 2013
Canonical has formed a “Carrier Advisory Group” of eight mobile operators who will collaborate to influence the development of Ubuntu for smartphones. Canonical said the first members of the group are …

Zayo Polishes Off Anoka County Network
June 18, 2013
Today Zayo announced the completion of its buildout up in Anoka County, to the north of Minneapolis. This project was one of the company’s BTOP awards, under which they got $13.4M in stimulus funds fo …

BYOD Spurs Growth of Security Market—Gartner Says
June 18, 2013
IT research firm Gartner, Inc. says that in 2012, BYOD has fueled the growth of the worldwide security software market by 7.9 percent per year. And in four years, Gartner estimates that the global sec …

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