Telecommunications (International Edition) articles from August 2005

Telecommunications (International Edition) archives from August 2005

The great turn on? Crucially, the industry will need to match mobile TV peak demand with available capacity.
August 1, 2005... Are there signs of desperation over the prospects for mobile TV? Not, it seems, if the mobile industry and market researchers have their way. Perhaps, say it and it will come. Industry watchers reckon that if 2005 was declared to be the Year of...

ULCHs for mobile growth.(ultra low-cost handsets)
August 1, 2005... It's an ugly acronym, but an important issue: ULCHs are ultra low-cost handsets. In the struggle to make mobile communications affordable in the developing world, such devices are key--and in making handsets ultra low-cost, manufacturing scale...

Keeping tags on RFID.(radio frequency identification tags installation)
August 1, 2005... In mid-2003, WalMart, the retail chain, announced that it was to ask its top 1 O0 suppliers to start using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on products and pallets. The deadline for installation was 1 January 2005. Now, the RFID...

Intersputnik sees upward lift; the general director of Intersputnik argues that satellite is still the best 'last mile' option for many geographical regions.(Vadim Belov)
August 1, 2005... "Intersputnik satellites cover a territory stretching from the US East Coast to Kamchatka, and from Russia's Far North to South Africa and Australia," says Vadim Belov, general director of the Russia-based satellite operator. "In many of the...

The mobile SLA puzzle: are SLAs on mobile data performance key to wooing the enterprise customer?(service level agreements)(Cover Story)
August 1, 2005... Asking questions about emerging industry trends is a lot easier than coming up with convincing answers. The world of mobile is no exception, particularly when it comes to SLAs (service level agreements) for the enterprise customer. What...

Fraudulent ways: there are many ways of illegally extracting cash from telecom operators and more to come.(Network diagnostics)(Editorial)
August 1, 2005... Pssst! Fancy a used telecom network? If only telecom fraud were that simple. The telecom industry has certainly seen scams on an epic scale, thanks to the late nineties boom. But it's not just 'C' level executives who like a gold-plated...

Watch your KPIs and KQIs: if mobile network operators are to maximise 3G revenue, they will need to look beyond traditional key performance indicators (KPIs) to key quality indicators (KQIs).(Network diagnostics)
August 1, 2005... The mobile game is getting hotter as IP-based services in 3G networks up the stakes. Pushing exciting new services to end-users, securing their adoption, and sustaining their appeal are critical to operators who must optimise revenues to ensure...

An eagle's eye view: when offering hosted applications, service providers need to consider application and service level monitoring as an integral part of their offering.(Network diagnostics)
August 1, 2005... In 2004, IT developers at a major North American bank modified a standard query procedure in one of the bank's database applications. The application in question produced updates on changes made to the database's information. These updates...

Combating the zombie army: PCs hijacked by spammers to act as proxy e-mail servers--so-called 'zombie computers'--are the latest threat to ISPs.(network diagnostics, Internet service providers)
August 1, 2005... SPam is the bane of our email lives. It is irritating for users, causes downtime for businesses and presents an ongoing challenge for internet service providers (ISPs). Spammers aim to grab as much money as they possibly can through...