http://www.telecomweb.com TelecomWeb.com en-us 2008 Fri, 16 May 2008 9:29:52 EDT Business use of hot spots nearly doubled in the last half of 2007, and the total use of hot spots in Europe is poised to overtake the United States, according to the latest semi-annual analysis of the market by mobility management expert iPass.   iPass, in part using data gleaned from its management of... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/idtv/260357.html Wed, 16 Apr 2008 0:00:00 EDT A majority of Americans who currently use cellphones or smartphones now say it would be hard for them to give up their mobile devices, but three out of five are ready to trash their landlines, according to a new study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.   The Pew findings, which clearly... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/idtv/260198.html Wed, 26 Mar 2008 0:00:00 EDT The average entry level price for broadband around the world crept up in the final quarter of last year, according to research house Point Topic. The increases, for the most part, were relatively tiny but still just enough to bear closer scrutiny. The biggest jump came in cable broadband, with the average... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/idtv/260012.html Wed, 5 Mar 2008 0:00:00 EST The number of both xDSL and cable broadband ports shipped in the final quarter of 2007 surged, salvaging what could have been a disastrous year for both technologies. According to estimates by Ovum RHK, Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) port shipments were up 3 percent compared with 3Q07... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/idtv/259929.html Fri, 22 Feb 2008 0:00:00 EST The onslaught of Carrier Ethernet has begun, according to a Web-based survey of TelecomWeb readers, and not even one in five say his or her company “never expects” to adopt the technology. In contrast, just shy of 40 percent said their companies expect to be using Carrier Ethernet by the end of... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/idtv/259801.html Wed, 6 Feb 2008 0:00:00 EST Perhaps envious of the BlackBerry crowd, mobile-phone users surveyed recently by Webcredible indicated the services they’d most like to get on their cellphones. One was pretty obvious, but the other came as somewhat of a surprise.     Almost one third (33.17 percent) of those surveyed by... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/idtv/259711.html Thu, 24 Jan 2008 0:00:00 EST A surprisingly large 41.5 percent of TelecomWeb readers, in a Web-based poll conducted during the past month, say they now think hosted IP PBX services are appropriate for companies of any size.   When asked “what is the maximum-sized company that should consider hosted VoIP rather than... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/idtv/259590.html Wed, 9 Jan 2008 0:00:00 EST With heavy hitters IBM and Microsoft among the many vendors offering enterprises the tools with which to implement several different flavors of enterprise social networking, exactly how many staffers actually take part in any such activity – blogging, message boards, chat rooms and the like -- on or... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/idtv/259470.html Tue, 18 Dec 2007 0:00:00 EST Average residential DSL downstream speeds surged between the second and third quarters of this year in several regions in the world – North America wasn’t one of those regions – driven by the introduction of new very high speed services according to a study by Point Topic.   “The... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/idtv/25857.html Mon, 3 Dec 2007 0:00:00 EST The percentage of online American adults has inched up a tiny 2 percent in the past 17 months to 79 percent, according to a new survey by Harris Interactive, which found Internet usage increasing across all economic and educational strata and age groups.   There now are 178 million U.S. adults who go... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/idtv/25720.html Thu, 15 Nov 2007 0:00:00 EST The User Bill of Rights is something that’s needed by everyone involved in combining data and voice (and with increasing frequency video and presence) on IP networks to deliver the benefits of unified communications, including the end customer who is adopting the infrastructure that gives them new... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/idtv/25656.html Wed, 7 Nov 2007 0:00:00 EST The global enterprise Ethernet service market is exploding, growing by 32 percent last year to $9.81 billion and continuing on a 21-percent-per-year growth curve to reach an expected $31.268 billion in 2012, according to a new analysis by research house Ovum RHK.   Even the most pessimistic view, Ovum... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/idtv/25634.html Mon, 5 Nov 2007 0:00:00 EST DSL continues to dominate the world broadband picture, with a 65.87-percent market share, according to research done by Point Topic for the DSL Forum, which says the percentage is virtually unchanged from a year ago.   Cable broadband comes in a fairly distant second at 21.89 percent, and most of that is... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/idtv/25514.html Wed, 17 Oct 2007 0:00:00 EDT Back in the bad old days, there was a phone company un-affectionately dubbed by some as “USWorst,” with customer disservice derided as “Mountain Bull” – but that was before the CEO from a lot of those bad old days was convicted.   That guy may still get off on appeal, or... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/idtv/25492.html Tue, 16 Oct 2007 0:00:00 EDT Rural American telcos now are dishing up broadband using nearly every technology known to man or beast, according to a study by the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA). The association, which represents almost all of the smaller telephone companies in the United States, surveyed its... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/idtv/25389.html Wed, 3 Oct 2007 0:00:00 EDT Decision makers in all sizes of companies are considering using professional services between 2008 and 2010 to help them adopt the right Voice over IP (VoIP) and convergence assets. This increased interest in professional services is most likely the result of the speed of change in the voice systems and... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/idtv/25390.html Wed, 3 Oct 2007 0:00:00 EDT There’s nothing like a nice lightning storm to destroy what must have been tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of modems and other electronic goodies around the neighborhood where I live, a situation that, of course, creates an instant customer-service crisis for the local carriers – in my... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/idtv/25188.html Sun, 9 Sep 2007 0:00:00 EDT This is one of the most predictable times of the year here in Washington. Most of the decision-makers are gone, the staffs are trying to catch up on the various piles of work that have accumulated over the past few months while still leaving early and taking Fridays (and sometimes Mondays) off.   And... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/idtv/25068.html Thu, 30 Aug 2007 0:00:00 EDT A cable operator has broken into the top tier of the hotly competitive business Ethernet business for the first time, research house Vertical Systems Group said in a mid-year look at the market that reveals shifting shares and only seven large players left with decent shares, but with a plentitude of new... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/idtv/24971.html Wed, 22 Aug 2007 0:00:00 EDT I’m about to risk the life of my computers by plugging their Ethernet ports into the electric power outlets in my house. Let me explain. I’ve been writing about broadband over powerline (BPL) extensively for almost three years now. In general, my coverage has been supportive of the theory behind... http://www.telecomweb.com/news/idtv/24724.html Wed, 15 Aug 2007 0:00:00 EDT