Telecommunications (International Edition) articles from November 2003

Telecommunications (International Edition) archives from November 2003

Broadband: a painful birth?(Commentary)
November 1, 2003... To coincide with the Telecom World 2003 event held in Geneva last month, the ITU launched a new and weighty report entitled 'The Birth of Broadband'. And, almost inevitably, it raises more questions than answers. For one thing, from the...

Tele2 enters the UK market.(Global News Analysis)
November 1, 2003... UK Tele2, the Swedish alternative operator, has launched fixed-line consumer services in the UK. The service will be carried on Thus' network and follows the recent introduction of carrier preselect in the UK. Over time, Tele2 will also...

Tiscali sees stability and opportunity; Tiscali views itself as different. What sets the company apart from the rest of the ISP market, according to Stephane Huet, COO of Tiscali, is its "good financial stability and growth".(View from the Top)
November 1, 2003... "We are ahead of the game, given that we have been EBITDA positive since 2002 and are still on target to see at least 20 per cent growth in revenues in 2003," says Huet. "That relates back to our business model. We are unique in the sense that...

Who's afraid of VoIP? Voice over IP (VoIP) is both a threat and opportunity to mobile and fixed-line operators.(Carrier Services)
November 1, 2003... Voice calls that by-pass the PSTN are clearly a threat to incumbents. If alternative operators use IP infrastructure to deliver long-distance calls to their customers, or enterprises themselves elect to piggy-back voice on their data network,...

Can ethernet punch above its weight? Ethernet is making inroads into the MAN and WAN but there are still question marks over its 'carrier class' credentials.(Carrier Services)
November 1, 2003... In much the same way as a middleweight boxer would find it difficult to compete against a heavyweight, ethernet is discovering that life in the MAN/WAN is pretty tough. For the past thirty tears, ethernet has been the undisputed champion of the...

A question of trust: sophisticated network management tools and integrated SLAs mean IP convergence no longer requires a leap of faith.(Carrier Services)
November 1, 2003... If it ain't broke, don't fix it--a thought dear to many CIO and IT director hearts. And, if you look back at the last ten years, you can see why. Costly, 'siloed' investments have, for many corporates, led to fiendishly complex communications...

Access all services: Multi-service access networks reach the customers that other access solutions do not.(Carrier Services)
November 1, 2003... For nearly a hundred years, telecom access networks were built with the aim of delivering one, single service: voice. Today, network operators need to deploy a host of different services and these are not necessarily suited to the...

A risky business: telcos looking to implement cost-effective IT security measures need to know about risk management.(Carrier Services)
November 1, 2003... According to the Telecommunication Industry Association's market review, published in April this year, the industry is expected to grow at 10.1 per cent in 2003 to US$ 1.4 trillion, reversing declines during 2001 and 2002. Fuelled by the growth...