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ISP appeals verdict that temporarily closed Pirate Bay
Sep. 14, 2009
Swedish ISP Black Internet has decided to appeal in the Stockholm district court the verdict that led to it closing file-sharing site The Pirate Bay's data connection.

Voice-to-text deal could spur new mobile services
Sep. 12, 2009
Two vendors of mobile voice technology have teamed up to power carrier services that transcribe voicemail messages and conference calls into text.

Vodafone gets on mobile hotspot bandwagon
Sep. 10, 2009
Vodafone said Thursday that it is getting set to launch Novatel's mobile hotspot, the MiFi, in Europe.

Orange takes step toward better mobile voice quality
Sep. 10, 2009
Orange will launch what it claims to be the world's first mobile telephone service offering improved sound quality using the AMR-WB (Adaptive Multi Rate-Wideband) speech coding technology, it said on Thursday.

Upcoming technology promises improved mobile TV
Sep. 09, 2009
The GSM Association is getting behind the emerging mobile broadcast technology IMB (Integrated Mobile Broadcast), it said on Wednesday. The technology opens the door for more mobile TV channels and better picture ...

Mobile carriers sign up to EU in-car accident alert system
Sep. 09, 2009
E.U.'s mobile-phone industry on Wednesday signed up to eCall, a Europe-wide road accident alert system designed to reduce fatalities and serious accidents on the continent's roads.

Recession leads to sluggish global broadband growth
Sep. 09, 2009
Broadband growth is still reeling from the economic downturn, but there are also tentative signs of a recovery, according to market research company Point Topic.

Verizon operations chief Strigl to retire
Sep. 04, 2009
Verizon Communications President and Chief Operating Officer Denny Strigl will retire by the end of this year, the company said Friday.

China iPhone pictures posted on news site
Jul. 31, 2009
A Chinese news Web site has posted pictures that it claims show the iPhone model being tested for release in China, adding to expectations that the phone will launch there soon.

NTT DoCoMo plans LTE launch in late 2010
Jul. 30, 2009
NTT DoCoMo plans to launch high-speed cellular data services based on LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology in December 2010, it said Thursday.

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.

Supporting the virtual workplace becoming SOP
Apr. 12, 2007
You may have noticed a subtle but significant change in your organization over the past few years. I'm talking about the increasing shift toward a virtual workplace in which employees and their bosses (or peers) operate ...

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 ...