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Data Revenues Will Push Mobile Biz Past $1 Trillion
The growing popularity of smartphones and high-speed wireless broadband networks are proving to be two major catalysts for the wireless industry. As a result, expect its revenues to barrel past the $1 trillion-mark by 2013, says Informa Telecom’s & Media, a London-based market research group. That compares to revenues of $208 billion in 2008... »
Here Comes Dynamic Caller ID
Flat Planet Phone Co., an Israeli VoIP startup, has developed a new VoIP technology called Dynamic Caller ID that essentially allows you to have multiple caller IDs built on the fly. These caller IDs depend on the local number being dialed. For instance, if you call someone in Orange County, Calif., from New York,... »
Droid Does, BlackBerry Doesn’t…And Vice-Versa
Yesterday I received a Motorola Milestone (the EU version of the Droid) for testing purposes kindly offered by a local store. Faithful readers should be aware I’ve been using a BlackBerry Bold lately and definitely loved it. At the same time, I’m a geek and early adopter so I’m very curious to test this... »
Massachusetts Miracle in the Making
Came across a patriotic video that will have your patriotic heart soaring – at least for the first 42 seconds. After that, how you view this video depends on how you view the current Obama administration. The premise of the video is how on April, 19, 1775 Americans first fought the British... »
Voxbone sees growth in 2009
Not everyone is blaming the recession this year, some are actually announcing good news! Belgium-based Voxbone, which provides local and toll-free phone numbers over its own private VoIP network worldwide, saw substantial growth in 2009. Voxbone’s 2009 revenue was up 60 percent over 2008. Unfortunately, since Voxbone is a private company they didn’t actually disclose... »
5 Cricketers in Pakistan Squad for the Under-19 World Cup discovered by Mobilink Hunt for Heroes
Mobilink, Pakistan’s market leader in cellular services and part of Orascom Telecom Holdings wishes all the best to the Pakistan Under-19 squad for the upcoming ICC Under-19 World Cup in New Zealand. Mobilink feels greatly honored to have discovered and groomed 5 young talents in the 15-member squad through the Mobilink Hunt for Heroes... »
My Top Information Technology for Developing Economies Predictions for 2010
Mark Beckford submits: The year started with the Mother of All Disruptions as the world teetered toward economic and financial collapse. The technology industry withered in general due to lack of demand. Intel (INTC), for example, reported its first loss in 21 years in the second quarter. As we head in to 2010,... »
Telecom Sector Showing Positive Trend – PTA Annual Report 2008-09
Out of the top four cellular players Ufone has been the biggest impetus behind the Cellular industry’s 17% growth as declared by PTA in its annual report for the year 2008-2009. Ufone’s is at the top with an astounding revenue growth of 46% during past year. The report states that cellular telecom sector in Pakistan... »
Packet8 Service Down
Almost exactly one year ago 8X8’s Packet8 VoIP service suffered a major outage due to DNS issues. It now appears that both their domains 8×8.com and www.packet8.net are down. But more importantly their VoIP phone service is down. Stay tuned while I try and find out more… Update #1: from Joan Citelli Director,... »
Views of the public sought on Australian wireless spectrum
A crucial piece of wireless spectrum needed to advance the nation’s mobile broadband services could soon be added to the government’s “digital dividend” auction block after the communications watchdog put out a public call for how the spectrum band should be best used. After the government’s announcement last week that it would auction off a... »
Australia goes wild for wireless internet
Use of wireless broadband services mushroomed during the past year to reach more than two million subscribers, driven by the popularity of wireless modems and mobile devices such as the iPhone. The Australian Communications and Media Authority’s communications report, released yesterday, revealed the use of wireless broadband services jumped 162 per cent in 2008-09, while... »
MetroPCS Stock Plunges on Subscriber-Additions Report
MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) stock took a big dive on Tuesday after the company reported 39 percent fewer customer additions for the fourth quarter than the same period in 2008. The prepaid wireless service provider’s shares plunged 10.85 percent to $6.41 by early afternoon. MetroPCS added just 317,000 new subscribers as …(147 words) ... »
MetroPCS Stock Plunges on Subscriber-Additions Report
MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) stock took a big dive on Tuesday after the company reported 39 percent fewer customer additions for the fourth quarter than the same period in 2008. The prepaid wireless service provider’s shares plunged 10.85 percent to $6.41 by early afternoon. MetroPCS added just 317,000 new subscribers as …(147 words) Related Topics: 2008,... »
PocketMac Rescues Smartphones from the Toilet
Admit it, you’ve come close to doing the unthinkable – you text on your phone and surf the web while in the bathroom and when you get up to flush, your beloved phone slips out of your hand, your shirt pocket, or pants pocket and heads toward the toilet. You see your... »
T-Mobile drops @Home VoIP service
T-Mobile has announced that they will no longer be offering their land-line replacement service @Home which allowed customers to make wireless VoIP calls over their home broadband connection. Users of the service could make calls from their mobile phones by connection to T-Mobile’s @Home HiPort wireless router–allowing for unlimited nationwide VoIP calls for $9.99... »
MagicJack ‘femtojack’ uses mobile phones to make VoIP calls
The people behind MagicJack, a plug-and-play VoIP device, have recognized the trend of consumers cutting their traditional landline voice connections like much of the telecom industry and have updated their offering to reflect that. MagicJack’s original offering was a USB device that came with a phone jack–plug your regular landline phone into the MagicJack,... »
Will 2010 Finally Be the Year of Location?
For most of the first decade of the new century, we all talked about the emergence of location-based services. These services, leveraging GPS chips, were going to revolutionize the world. I remember hearing numerous pitches that envisioned Starbucks offering coupons when you walked by the store. But the future, it seemed, was taking its... »
Will 2010 Finally be the Year of Location?
For most of the first decade of the new century, we all talked about the emergence of location-based services. These services, leveraging GPS chips, were going to revolutionize the world. I remember hearing numerous pitches that envisioned Starbucks offering coupons when you walked by the store. But the future, it seemed, was taking its... »
Court Unconvinced of FCC’s Authority to Punish Comcast
Federal judges spent much of Friday hearing arguments for and against the FCC’s 2008 hand-slapping of Comcast Corp. for slowing peer-to-peer Internet traffic – the court’s ruling will help determine how much authority the FCC holds over net neutrality decisions. So far, judges’ reactions indicate the FCC is in for …(288 words) Related Topics: 2008,... »
BT Global Services Hires Jeff Kelly as CEO
BT’s global services unit got a new CEO on Friday.Jeff Kelly, a U.S. citizen, comes to the Britain-based telecom service provider from Electronic Data Systems Corp. Kelly ran that $10 billion company, which was bought by Hewlett-Packard Co. in 2008. Kelly replaces Hanif Lalani who said he’s leaving BT to …(247 words) ... »
BT Global Services Hires Jeff Kelly as CEO
BT’s global services unit got a new CEO on Friday.Jeff Kelly, a U.S. citizen, comes to the Britain-based telecom service provider from Electronic Data Systems Corp. Kelly ran that $10 billion company, which was bought by Hewlett-Packard Co. in 2008. Kelly replaces Hanif Lalani who said he’s leaving BT to …(247 words) Related Topics: 2008,... »
Court Unconvinced of FCC’s Authority to Punish Comcast
Federal judges spent much of Friday hearing arguments for and against the FCC’s 2008 hand-slapping of Comcast Corp. for slowing peer-to-peer Internet traffic – the court’s ruling will help determine how much authority the FCC holds over net neutrality decisions. So far, judges’ reactions indicate the FCC is in for …(288 words) ... »
Fonality Serves up 1 Billion Cloud VoIP Calls?
Today, Fonality announced it has served up its 1 billionth cloud call on their hosted VoIP platform called UNBOUND. UNBOUND is Fonality’s fully hosted cloud phone system and VoIP service solution and starts at $24.99/mo. Of course, Fonality also offers fully premise-based IP-PBX solutions as well. I like Fonality and the Fonality team, including Chris... »
NII Holdings: Strong Growth, Low Valuation
Chuck Carnevale submits: NII Holdings, Inc, (NIHD) formerly known as Nextel International, has been on a tear. The stock rose over 100% in 2009, which was four times better than the general market as represented by the S&P 500. (See Figures 1 & 2 below) So far this performance has continued in 2010, as NII Holdings... »
Cell Phones Do a Body (& Mind) Good
Well, well well – it appears that cell phone radiation isn’t all that bad; brain cancer be damned! You see, a recent study showed that electromagnetic radiation exposed to mice actually reversed Alzheimer’s disease and improved cognitive capabilities. So you see, you are smarter the more you use your smartphone. According to... »
No One’s @Home: T-Mobile Axes Landline Replacement
T-Mobile USA said Thursday it will no longer sell its @Home landline replacement service, although it will continue to support the customers already using it. The Deutsche Telekom-owned wireless service provider introduced T-Mobile@Home in July 2008; for $10 per month, the product – a box plugged into a broadband connection …(119 words) ... »
8×8 launches HD voice for its Virtual Office product
8×8’s small business and enterprise VoIP product ‘Virtual Office’ now has HD voice. HD audio quality will be available for the company’s branded IP phone models 6753i, 6755i, and 6757i. HD calls double the regular VoIP sampling rate from 8K to 16K samples per second making calls clearer and more detailed. Current 8×8 customers will... »
Asterisk’s Growth Shines at ITEXPO
Asterisk just may be the #1 transforming VoIP company for the now past ’00s “aughts” decade, which is quite appropriate when you consider Asterisk in many respects costs $0 dollars due to being open source. Of course, nothing is truly free in this world. If you download and install Asterisk yourself for your company... »
Joanna Stern Debuts in New York Times In Writing
Some of you will remember my Phweety, Joanna Stern, when the two of us had a voice call about 18 months ago over GoGO, back when they were saying "no way could you make a voice call" using Phweet. Or you may recall her from her Queen of the Netbooks role at Laptop Magazine where... »
Avaya Reveals Roadmap for Nortel Enterprise Assets at ITEXPO
Rich Tehrani and I are both excited to hear the future roadmap Avaya has in store for Nortel’s enterprise assets that Avaya recently acquired. Will Avaya slowly phase out these Nortel enterprise products, continue the product line with the Avaya brand, integrate best-of-breed technologies from Avaya and Nortel and offer new SMB products? The... »