GLG News by VOIP Experts (North America)

1.      The concern level over the enterprise business has reached a higher level at Verizon as major financial firms are struggling. 2.      There is greater amount of concern over the possibility of a major crimp on commercial spending. 3.     ...

Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint is focusing on the customer service and new wireless product aspects to help turn his failing business around.  He is also moving forward with a joint WiMax venture with Clearwire, supported by financing from Comcast, Time Warner, Brighthouse, Intel, and Google. ...

ATT needs to offer as close a package/service bundle as they can to their CATV competitors' offerings.  HD is a major service product and has much interest from TV/Video customers, and up until now, ATT can only offer 2 HD streams to the home simultaneously feeding two different HD TV sets.  The...

This article refers to Qwest moving away from video over internet protocol in several cities where they have it in play now, instead opting to use DirecTV to provide video and lock down customers away from cable.  ATT, however, is building the same video IP platform and appears to be sticking...

Restructuring its Optical Business Unit and stopping development of LTE is a major indication that Nortel is in dire need of cash, in this depressed valuation time. New management must streamline the operation and bring focus to the areas where Nortel can effectively compete.

Nortel announced that it is revisiting its 4G strategy, yet another time, in less than 3 months! What changed in these short few months that made Nortel rethink its 4G/LTE strategy? What about Motorola? When are they going to pull the plus on their 4G/LTE development?

1.      Manufacturers always have at least a slightly different recipe for making their optical lasers. 2.      Getting a little edge on technology can help, but it hardly results in a high margin business in the telecom space   3.     ...

1.      This announcement from Verizon feeds the notion that the industry will see the market arrival of 100G in 2010. 2.      Although there will be obviously be a natural progression to go from 40G to 100G, as has been pointed out in previous articles,...

GenBand announced the widely speculated acquisition of Nextpoint, a company that was itself a merger of two sub performing companies of Nextone and Reef Point in the VoIP security product lines! With the planned exit of AudioCodes from the Session Border Controller (SBC) market and financial struggles...

Google’s free consumer Gmail has gained a large and loyal following.  Google would like to leverage that to dethrone Microsoft Exchange in enterprises.  While Microsoft should be careful not to underestimate the threat, Google faces formidable challenges, not least of which is security.