Telecommunications (International Edition) articles from January 2005

Telecommunications (International Edition) archives from January 2005

Planning for recovery?(commentary)(Column)
January 1, 2005... Recessions are strange things: after a while, no one can remember the good times or, if they can, they appear to have a dream-like quality. So it is in global telecom, which has been mired in enough depression in the past three years to last a...

War or peace in Russian mobile?(global news analysis)
January 1, 2005... Russia has a lot of pithy, no-nonsense, proverbs. 'Truth is good, happiness is better' or 'naivety is worse than thievery' obviously have equivalents in English, but, though the sentiments are broadly the same, the cheerful insouciance of a...

Mobile content: where's the value?(global news analysis)
January 1, 2005... Mobile operators in Western Europe are failing to generate significant revenue from the content value chain. And unless they make their billing models easier to understand and the services easier to discover and use, it will be a continual...

Future visions.(CEO PERSPECTIVES)(Cover Story)
January 1, 2005... As we look to 2005 and beyond, it's clear that operators from around the world--and from different sectors of the industry--are grappling with the same problem: how to increase revenue while simultaneously lowering costs. A selection of senior...

Indonesia: new services, new markets.(Industry Overview)
January 1, 2005... What does it take to supply the communication needs of one of the world's largest countries? And what does it take when the country is rapidly deregulating and opening up major opportunities for new service providers? In a special supplement,...

The utility factor: are telecom operators in a low-margin utility business, or can they command the returns of value-added service providers?(Growth strategies)
January 1, 2005... The telecom industry has seen steep price falls since deregulation. It is also undergoing a profound technological shift. In the place of multiple switched networks, such as ATM or Frame, dedicated to different services, IP networks are being...

In search of level playing fields: regulatory certainty is required for a successful ISP marketplace.(Growth strategies)(local loop unbundling )
January 1, 2005... It is a truth that appears to be universally acknowledged in telecom: regulatory certainty encourages investment, investment leads to innovation. With innovation you then have the basis for an evolving and--hopefully--prosperously competitive...

Do you see what I mean? Converged networks can obscure application performance visibility, even when class of service is used. Closer monitoring and analysis of IP packets can clear up the problem.(IP network monitoring)(Column)
January 1, 2005... At the beginning of 2005, companies know even less about the performance of their key applications than they did in 1994. Even the deployment of wide area network (WAN) technologies, such as multi-protocol label switching (MPLS)--that are...