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Verizon Communications said it wants to test 100 Gbps optical transport gear, apparently seeing demand for that kind of long-haul transport bandwidth fairly far ahead of other telcos. The company also acknowledged that it’s nearing a decision on its vendor for a so-called “God box” multi-service edge device, despite launching the RFP only this summer.

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Comcast chief operating officer Steve Burke said the cable TV giant sees Verizon as more of a competitive threat than AT&T in the TV market. He noted that Verizon has taken some of its cable TV customers, and that AT&T may be a future threat, though he also said the customers lost to the telco […]

This morning, some big news comes out of the small, but much publicized, Vudu, whose long-awaited TV set-top box is capable of downloading movies from the Web to TVs in consumer homes. It’s not a new idea. In fact, it sounds a lot like a service Netflix launched recently, close to what Apple is trying […]

T-Mobile has submitted a wireless router for testing by the Federal Communications Commission, several reports indicate. The extrapolation is that T-Mobile intends to extend its wireless hub and HotSpot VoIP capabilities into a full-fledged VoIP service.

HotSpot@Home, launched in June, allows T-Mobile cell subscribers to transfer calls between the cell network and a WiFi hotspot in […]

At last year’s 3GSM World Congress, Skype announce plans to put its service on mobile phones. A month ago, the company essentially said, “Well, maybe not so much.” GSM is not the friendliest environment for wireless VoIP; EDGE networks are really too slow to support VoIP, and true 3G GSM networks won’t be available for […]

When we last left the story, regulators were blocking VoIP service and forcing everyone to use the two legacy telcos. That’s a significant problem in a country with a large expatriate population. Now that VoIP has been pretty well squashed, a top official of legacy carrier Etisalat acknowledges that VoIP cuts into his revenues but […]

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Wireless/IP convergence that can offer seamless hand-off of a dual-mode phone call from a WiFi network to a cellular network may take off with specialized WiFi access points (APs) designed to support VoIP. These APs provide VoIP’s cheaper services to cellphone users within range of their WiFi transmitters. They may also offer better-than-cellular indoor coverage. […]