Government in China to Allow Fixed-Line Operators to Enter Mobile Market
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The official Xinhua news agency on Sunday quoted Xi Guohua, vice-minister of China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII), as saying, during a telecom forum in Beijing (the Chinese capital), that the government will grant fixed-line operators licences for mobile telecom services "at an early date". "The rapid...
Google Preparing Spectrum Bid?Reports
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The Wall Street Journal has run a report again indicating that Google is making serious preparations to bid in the forthcoming 700-MHz spectrum auction without additional partners, thus entering the wireless market on its own. Significance: Google is motivated by the aim to enable access to its services over networks and, having...
O2 Eyes Bigger Role in German Market by 2010
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European mobile operator O2 is eyeing a bigger role in the German mobile market by 2010, according to its chief executive, Peter Erskine. Speaking in a conference with investors, Erskine said he expects O2 Germany to start growing from 2008 as the intense price war among German mobile operators subsides. Dow Jones reports that...
Jasper Wireless: Rise of the Machines
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Forget for a moment, if you can, about people chatting on the phone. That's because a big part of telecom's future lies in machines talking to other machines: point-of-sales systems interacting with remote servers, security devices communicating to central monitoring stations and temperature sensors feeding data into...
Young Zayo Makes Its Fifth Acquisition
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Just a few months after its public launch, Zayo Bandwidth is making its fifth acquisition, the company announced today. A new Tier 2 and Tier 3 broadband provider, Zayo has now acquired VoicePipe Communications, a retail voice-over-IP provider, for an undisclosed sum. The acquired business, a spin-off from competitive carrier...
The Road to 100G Winds Up Carriers
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Service providers are finding themselves a bit mixed up as they make plans to upgrade their optical transport networks from 10-Gbit/s to 40-Gbit/s -- and eventually to 100-Gbit/s. "What's causing the confusion is you have 40-gig today, which is just coming out as a viable technology. But 100-gig is just around the ...
How To Survive A VoIP Outage
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Just in time for the holidays, Edgewater Networks Inc. will release an extension of its EdgeMarc VoIP survivability feature that will include Wide Area Network (WAN) link redundancy, allowing enterprise and service-provider customers to take advantage of diverse routing and dual-access link connections to enterprise locations. ...
Services Help Storage Managers With Compliance
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When the Canadian financial giant TSX Group, which operates the Toronto Stock Exchange along with a range of other trading networks, decided to revise its regulatory compliance policies, it didn't do the job alone. Instead, it hired an online service from a company called Complinet, which not only keeps TSX updated on the...
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