Telecommunications Industry

$15B market for “live” SDN by 2018

$30B total potential market for service provider deployments, says ACG

Verizon: US gov’t made 320,000 requests for customer info in ’13

Law enforcement requests to Verizon far exceed those made to other tech companies

Google uses YouTube performance to rate ISPs

To get the highest rating, an operator's networks has to serve users with good quality HD content 90 percent of the time

Verizon posts quarterly gains from mobile, broadband

The company's mobile and Fios revenue are up significantly

Fon working with Qualcomm on new router and chip integration

The company has also received new funding from the chip maker as well as Google and Deutsche Telekom

Globalstar offers pre-paid satellite telephony with new subscription

Users can make calls for a!0.48 per minute while sailing or hiking in remote areas

Obama’s NSA reform proposals spark disappointment from some

Some digital rights groups wanted an end to the NSA phone records program, but President Obama wants a transition to something similar

Obama proposes changes to NSA surveillance

Why even ISPs will regret the end of net neutrality

A U.S. appeals court struck down the FCC's net neutrality rules. Here's why we're all going to pay the price.

Yahoo’s COO Henrique de Castro leaving

A replacement for de Castro has not been named