by Pivot
Month: January 2011
FCC: VoIP Represents 15% of U.S. Residential Lines and Growing
Interconnected U.S. VoIP subscriptions rose 22% while PSTN switched access lines decreased 10% resulting in a 6% combined annual decrease from 162 million to 153 million total wireline retail local telephone service connections in 2009,…
Physical Media Still Rules for Video Entertainment Rentals/Sales
Despite all the attention that has been given to network delivery of digital video content in recent months, physical forms of video content continue to represent the vast majority of home video entertainment spending, according…
WiMAX 2 Standard Moves Forward, Looks to 2012 Launch
Last week’s CES shined a bright light on LTE, primarily due to Verizon unveiling its 4G ecosystem and roadmap, which will see the carrier launching several LTE enabled devices in 2011. LTE’s main competing 4G…
Sprint and Smoothstone Partner for Cloud Services
Louisville, Ky. & Overland Park, Ks. – Jan. 6, 2011 – Smoothstone, the leading provider of cloud-based enterprise communication applications and services, and Sprint (NYSE: S) today announced the availability of Smoothstone’s cloud-based voice solutions…
Rural Broadband Cooperative Forming in Rural Massachusetts
A group of towns in rural western Massachusetts are fed up with broadband availability in their towns and are doing something about it. Muninetworks.org points our attention to WiredWest Communications Cooperative, a project where several…
More Mobile Broadband than Wired Broadband?
Mobile broadband subscriptions will double this year having breached the half-billion mark in 2010, Ericsson estimates. The Asia-Pacific region is expected to lead the way with some 400 million subscriptions by year-end 2011 followed by…
Hughes Launches Business VoIP
Germantown, Md., January 10, 2010―Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), the global leader in broadband satellite networks and services, and a leading provider of managed network and application services, today launched its managed Voice-over-IP (VoIP) solution…
Mosaic Telecom Selects NSN for 4G LTE
Cameron, Wisconsin, USA – 10 January 2011 – Subscribers of Mosaic Telecom, a rural service provider in the United States, will soon enjoy ultra-fast wireless broadband services. The operator has selected Nokia Siemens Networks’ Long…
Qwest Upgrades Enterprise Ethernet Offer
DENVER, January 11, 2011 – With the launch of Qwest iQ® E-Line service, Qwest Communications (NYSE: Q) has responded to the enterprise customer’s need to increase business value and improve quality of bandwidth connectivity. The…
Verizon CDMA iPhone: Is it Exclusive to Verizon?
Verizon held a press conference today outlining the long rumored news that the iPhone is coming to Verizon. The move breaks the AT&T iPhone monopoly which they had for a little over three years. The…
4G LTE: A Rural Perspective
Much of the attention surrounding 4G has been on the moves of large national carriers like Verizon and Sprint. Last week’s CES show shined even more light on the plans of these wireless behemoths. But…
T-Mobile UK Says “Use Your Fixed Line for Video”
“If you want to download, stream and watch video clips, save that stuff for your home broadband,” T-Mobile U.K. says. On February 1, 2011 T-Mobile U.K. will be realigning its fair use policies so that…