Of several questions that might be raised about the Harbinger Capital plan to create a new national wholesale fourth-generation mobile network using the Long Term Evolution air interface and satellite backhaul, nothing is more important than the ability to attract enough capital to build the network, and the ability to get at least a few
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Only half of the homes and businesses in the three Tasmanian towns involved in stage one of the Australian National Broadband Network rollout have chosen to connect to the network. The connection is free, and puts into place the network that will completely replace the old copper network within eight years. The connection also is the equivalent of a “dark fiber” connection at the moment.
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Fiber Connections: Australian Company Can’t Give Them Away
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The deal would result in the French company getting a key foothold in the U.S. service provider market.
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Verizon, Technicolor move toward router deal
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Cox offers service free to business Internet customers, and AT&T adds a certification program.
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Cox, AT&T bolster security offerings
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Small businesses have dramatically increased their spending on search advertising over the past year, up 159 percent, in fact.
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Typical Small Business Search Advertiser Spends $2231 Per Year
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A new study from Validas promises to delve deeper into the story of AT&T and Verizon’s data battle.
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No winner yet in mobile data consumption
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Most people, despite the reliance placed on their mobile phones, likely would say there are times when call quality isn’t very good and calls get dropped. Most users of business-grade IP telephony and consumer VoIP might also agree that there are times, especially on multi-party conference calls, when quality also is not good, despite the measures taken to control each discrete set of resources. Unfortunately, for all the good things that loosely-coupled systems make possible (faster innovation, greater creativity, lower end user prices), one of the downsides is inability to control session quality end-to-end. The old AT&T monopoly might not have been so good at innovation and pricing (slow innovation and high prices) but it was very good at ensuring high quality
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Voice Quality Isn’t What It Used to Be
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IP Telephony needs a hero: Hosted IP continues to face challenges, particularly in gaining the loyalty of the masses. A recent Research and Markets report points out that “Despite the promises of lower capital expenditures, ease of use, and flexibility, hosted IP telephony has failed to gain mass adoption so far.” News release . Cable gains favor with SMBs: Despite their lousy reputation for customer service and a closed-off corporate culture, U.S.
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Week In Research: Hosted IP struggles to gain traction; cable gains friends in small business market
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