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When your phone rings, the copyright police may come calling
Jul. 02, 2009
A digital rights group is contesting a U.S. music industry association's assertion that royalties are due each time a mobile phone ringtone is played in public.

After Gmail, Google wants to search your voice mail too
Mar. 12, 2009
Google has begun testing a service that will make transcripts of voice-mail messages and make them searchable.

Weak pound boosts Vodafone results
Feb. 03, 2009
Vodafone Group's revenue rose 14.3% year on year for the quarter ended Dec. 31, in large part thanks to a weak pound. Excluding the favorable exchange rate and acquisitions, revenue would have declined by 1%, the mobile ...

XO unveils bandwidth-based voice pricing scheme
Jan. 16, 2008
XO Communications announced today that it will start charging for converged IP services based upon bandwidth use rather than the total number of voice lines.

Verizon nears convergence goal
Jun. 20, 2007
CHICAGO -- Verizon Business will announce vendors it has selected for its converged core router architecture and its next-generation multiservice access edge in the third quarter, according to officials interviewed at ...

Foreclosures, consumer cutbacks freeze carrier spending on VoIP
Nov. 20, 2008
Home foreclosures and a generally bad economy are driving down demand for wired phone lines, which will freeze much carrier spending on VoIP infrastructure until 2011, according to a new Infonetics report.

What are critical issues with VoIP service?
Jul. 31, 2008
A look at the VoIP industry's most pressing issues, including SIP interoperability, TDM-to-SIP transition services and VoIP security issues.

Vodafone CEO Sarin steps down, to be replaced by Colao
May. 27, 2008
Vodafone Group CEO Arun Sarin will step down from the top job at the mobile operator in July, the company said Tuesday.

XO expands Ethernet footprint
May. 01, 2008
XO Communications announced today that it has expanded the reach of its Ethernet services to include more than 500,000 businesses in 75 major metropolitan markets.

Peeling the layers off the UC onion
Mar. 17, 2008
The fire has been lit, and the frequency with which the term 'unified communications' appears in discussions concerning enterprise technology today only adds fuel to the flames. To ignore it would be akin to closing an ...

Converged services opinions

Beyond E911: 21st century emergency services
Jun. 20, 2007
Johna Till Johnson's Eye on the Carriers: All telecom service providers should be required to provide E911 services, even VoIP companies.

Vertical lessons from over the water
May. 31, 2007
Anyone who travels outside the United States quickly realizes that the people "over there" know a lot more about us than we do about them.

BellSouth unveils IP Centrex
May. 21, 2004
BellSouth has unveiled its first network-based VoIP service: Centrex IP throughout its nine-state Southeast region.

Is FMC the 'real' convergence?
May. 08, 2006
VoIP convergence used to mean a bunch of softswitches, media gateways, replacing Class 5 switches and - not accidentally - spending telecom dollars that used to be spent on traditional TDM on VoIP voice instead. Not ...

Assessing the year ahead in telecom
Jan. 09, 2006
The great thing about tracking the telecom industry is that it's never boring. In my last column I highlighted just a few of the seismic shifts that occurred last year. My prediction for 2006? More of the same. A few ...