Broadband Business Forecast articles from December 2007

Broadband Business Forecast archives from December 2007

Will 2008 Really Be The Year Of The Femtocell?
December 12, 2007... To hear some folks in the wireless broadband and cellular industry tell it, the coming year will see femtocells burst onto the scene. Will they be a panacea for the problem of "can you hear me now" indoors? A killer technology for the...

BPL Short-Circuits In Tasmania.
December 12, 2007... The local electric utility in Australia's Tasmania, Aurora Energy, has unexpectedly pulled the plug on what had appeared to be a highly successful broadband over powerline (BPL) pilot that was already serving 1,000 homes at download speeds...

Israel's TTI Buys Ukrainian Software House.(Company overview)
December 12, 2007... Israeli operations support systems (OSS) supplier TTI Team Telecom International Ltd. is buying Ukrainian software house Telesens LLC in a move both to expand its geographic reach and to save money on software development costs by going...

Ofcom On The "Digital Dividend," VoIP 911 & A Spectrum Auction.
December 12, 2007... U.K. regulator Ofcom has released a study of what to do with all that nice wireless spectrum that's going to be freed between 2008 and 2012 as the U.K. ends the broadcast of analog television - and what Brits seem to want the most is, in two...

People To Watch 12/12/07.
December 12, 2007... Ethernet optical transport house Matisse Networks has appointed Ross Ireland to its board. Ireland is the former senior executive vice president of services and CTO at SBC Communications (these days the "new" AT&T). European enterprise...

Cable-Modem Guru Opens Broadband Research Center.
December 12, 2007... Rouzbeh Yassini, who is credited with inventing the cable broadband modem - a signal accomplishment that was the genesis of today's battle between the telco and cable industries - has opened what he brags is the "nation's first independent...