GLG News by Communications Equipment Sellers (North America)

3 Network and Skype launched a new service, taking advantage of Skype's presence. contact list, and global reach with 3's mobile network. The technology is still circuit-based and will not provide any cost efficiency to 3.

Femtocell technology from hardware perspective is not very complex. However, from deployment perspective, there are a number of issues that need to be resolved and a ton of software that needs to be developed before femtocells see the light of day. Doing trials is one thing, getting to deployment is...

PBXs (whether traditional, hosted, PBX-based, or Centrex-based) were not highly utilized in many organizations. Emergence of mobile devices as a single device for all communication needs as well as penetration of Skype within business users were taking a lot of traffic off of PBXs in favor of other...

Core of Cingular's (Now AT&T) network for long distance transport has always been based on IP technology. A natural next step would have been to extend IP to the next level of switching layer which is the serving MSC. The upgrade for Nortel is a "fork lift" than simply making a small change in hardware...

With mobile markets saturating and next generation of services not showing compelling uptake, pure mobile carriers like Vodafone are making some bold moves outside the environment that they were comfortable with. Offering fixed line services is a natural outcome of becoming full service provider in...

1. Cisco has not been able to effectively compete in the telecom carrier market where sales cycles are long and complex. 2. Wide area networking of WiMAX or any other RF equipment will require sophisticated engineering knowledge along with professional services for build out of cell sites and RF optimization....

Microsoft wants to force users to use Vista. Turning over IT systems to Vista is not necessarily what end user consumers want. Microsoft, although duly invested in selling updates for profit can not force IT departments to max out their software budgets on a new operating system when the old one works...

Airave, the indoor Femtocell-based service, launched by Sprint Nextel is only useful for voice services, and potentially not with full feature transparency. Broadband data over Airave is not supported on the devices provided by Samsung. Location-based services remain a major question mark as well since...

iPhones were too expensive: Apple did not get the pricing correct at the beginning. Apple made a bad decision limiting the service to one carrier - A T and T. Apple is making poor marketing decisions which may not only cost the company sales in the short term but may have a negative impact on the...

Majority of large mobile carriers will most likely evolve their GSM/3G radio access networks to LTE/4G. The announcement from Verizon Wireless and Vodafone further proves that WiMAX is not going to have significant penetration in the traditional mobile carriers. Radio is only one piece of convergence...