Nearly 18 percent of households in the United States have no traditional telephone and rely on wireless services only, which is up several percentage points from a year earlier, the government said on Wednesday
Mobile phone market to shrink in 2009
December 17th, 2008
Mobile phones sales will shrink next year at their fastest pace ever as consumers cut spending, a Reuters poll showed, with analysts increasingly concerned about unsold phones piling up in stores
Sprint unveils dual-mode modem for WiMax
December 17th, 2008
Sprint Nextel Corp announced plans on Wednesday for the first device that would work on both the high-speed WiMax network Clearwire Corp is building and on Sprint’s existing mobile network
Verizon teams with Radio Shack
May 7, 2001 12:00 PM
Verizon Wireless teamed with Radio Shack to open Verizon stores inside more than 4400 Radio Shack locations to sell phones and mobile Web services…. In a five-year, $100 million deal, Compaq will equip Starbucks Coffee stores in North America with wireless Internet access through iPAQ hand-held computers…. Worldwide sales of cellular and PCS handsets grew only 12% in the first quarter, compared with 59% a year ago, according to Strategis Group. About 38% of the 101 million units sold were to net additional subscribers, reflecting market saturation in Western Europe and certain Asian markets
Cox Business brings cable voice to SIP Forum
Jun 17, 2008 7:23 PM, By Carol Wilson
Cox Business today announced that it is the first cable MSO to join the SIP Forum, hoping to bring the needs of its business customers into the conversation around SIP trunking. Cox Business plans to add a SIP trunking service to its portfolio, enabling its customers to connect their IP-PBXs directly to the Cox IP network.
“All our efforts are ultimately focused on customers,” said Kristine Faulkner, vice president of product development and management for Cox Business. “As they look at changing providers or lowering costs, they need to know that the service provider can support their needs and the equipment provider can also. So it’s a win for the customer if we can all adopt standards for SIP trunking.”
Cable Labs has been a member of the SIP Forum, which, through its SIPConnect Initiative, is encouraging a standards-based approach to SIP trunking.
Cox Business has been part of the Metro Ethernet Forum, along with other cable operators, and has been intent on developing more advanced services for its customers, which are largely small to mid-sized businesses and larger regionally based vertical segments such as hospitals, governments and school systems.
Cox Business launched a SIP-based service, Cox Business VoiceManager in 2007 in five of its markets to deliver VoIP and hosted services for mobility, business continuity and unified messaging. The company plans to launch a fully hosted and managed IP telephony service in several additional markets by the end of this year.
Nortel could suffer most on enterprise side
Dec 30, 2008 12:18 PM, By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks has been searching for a buyer for its Metro Ethernet business unit (which also includes its optical business), implying that, if a sale were completed, the longtime telecom equipment vendor could end up looking more like a chiefly enterprise vendor, such as Cisco Systems.
But according to an analyst at investment firm Oppenheimer & Company, its Nortel’s enterprise business that could be in greater jeopardy, due to the vendor’s presently tenuous financial state.
“We believe Nortel's enterprise business could deteriorate faster than its carrier business,” Oppenheimer analyst Ittai Kidron wrote in a research note last week.
That assessment is largely due to recent reports that Nortel is considering bankrupcty, Kidron wrote, a development that -- whether or not it actually occurs -- may already be prompting Nortel’s enterprise channel partners (the companies that sell Nortel’s enterprise gear) to look for alternatives. “We expect competitors to aggressively poach Nortel's channels and enterprise business," Kidron wrote.
In particular, Kidron believes Juniper Networks is already moving quickly to convert Nortel’s partners
BroadSoft acquires VoIP platform rival Sylantro
Dec 29, 2008 2:17 PM, Rich Karpinski
BroadSoft today said it has acquired struggling fellow voice over IP application platform vendor Sylantro Systems for an undisclosed sum.
Broadsoft said it would continue to support Sylantro customers and even market and sell Sylantro’s Multiplay Application Feature Server while working on ways to technically bring the two vendor’s platforms together. Word of the deal – along with concerns about financial problems at Sylantro – had been rumored for some time, with final details of the acquisition sewed up the last week. The Broadsoft sales team began reaching out to Sylantro customers today, according to Leslie Ferry, vice president of marketing for Broadsoft.
