Mobile and fixed network service providers are, by now, used to competition. And, by now, there are some standard competitive responses to new competition, in either the mobile or fixed services realm. Typically, incumbent service providers are attacked on the…
The network neutrality issue has taken an interesting new turn in the United Kingdom, where a number of the leading Internet service providers have agreed to a voluntary code of practice with interesting implications. The code generally requires them to…
U.S. spending on unified communications technologies will increase by an average of 10 percent per year, led by spending on hosted IP telephony services, which will almost triple between 2011 and 2016, estimates InfoTrack. Among U.S. enterprises, defined as firms…
Anyfi Networks thinks it can help fixed network service providers add a “mobility” or “untethered” capability outside the subsciber’s home, using software. The easiest use case is a service provider that operates both a network of public Wi-Fi hotspots and…
Some 10 years ago, some executives might have been forgiven for believing that U.S. cable TV operators would not be much of a force in either the enterprise or small and mid-sized business VoIP and IP telephony markets. At this…
Almost seven out of 10 UK businesses will be using VoIP telephony services by 2013, a survey sponsored by Telappliant and conducted by Vanson Bourne has found. The study of 100 U.K. businesses from a variety of industries found that…
Businesses continue to migrate to VoIP on their premises, but when it comes to calling outside their business, legacy technologies are not disappearing any time soon: T1 lines are still the most commonly used trunking service today, and will be…
Over the next five years, all of the major US telcos and cable TV companies are expected to lose small business customers to independent hosted IP telephony providers, according to Insight Research Corp. In early 2012, hosted PBX revenue might…
There are some interesting conclusions one might draw about the relative importance of several service provider products, in the latest communications industry revenue forecast published by the Telecommunications Industry Association. The most-obvious take away is the dominance and importance of…
It’s hard to tell precisely what is happening in the U.S. residential VoIP market. According to the most recent Federal Communications Commission data, there were 32 million VoIP subscriptions in service at the end of 2010, representing a growth rate…
Republic Wireless has launched a limited beta program of its $19-a-month hybrid wireless service using, to start, the LG Optimus smartphone running Android 2.3. Aside from the low price, Republic Wireless is going to test consumer demand for a “Wi-Fi-first”…
When Aberdeen polled more than 100 organizations in their use of telecom, it found that the top 20 percent of telecom end-users in terms of performance, which Aberdeen defines as “Best-in-Class” companies, had five percent of the downtime and one-fourth…
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