“White Space” is the new cause for musicians to worry about. The unused bands of wireless spectrum between the assigned sections is known as White Space.  The biggest chunk of this space is the spectrum currently used by analog television and which will soon be vacated when the US switches to digital TV. The technology [...]

The telecommunications industry has long been considered recession proof. After all, everyone needs to communicate, right? But lately many companies have become debt heavy due to extensive network build outs for enormously burgeoning bandwidth demands, hardware and technology costs involved in transitioning service to VoIP and lost revenue due to a volatile consumer market attracted [...]

Small telecom companies are pushing ahead, while larger ones are having a tougher time finding traction. That’s what it seems like this week, as most telecom stocks rose on Wednesday in the face of an expected interest-rate reduction by the central bank but the best motion has been from the smaller guys. Level 3 and [...]

AT&T has just notified all iPhone users via SMS that they will now receive free Wi-Fi at thousands of AT&T hotspots nationwide. This includes most corporate owned Starbucks coffee shops.  For more information, iPhone users can visit www.att.com/attwifi. This has been an on again off again story for quite some time.  AT&T has twice posted [...]

We are in the middle of a major change in the way wireless carriers and others handle their Early Termination Fees (ETFs).  Until recently, if you ended a Wireless or Internet contract early, you’d be charged an average fee of $200 (or more) to cancel your account.  An inability to get out of contract with a carrier who [...]

As VoIP/SIP Trunking ties the telecommunications industry closer to the IT field, is the fate of the tech industry in the current economic climate a bellwether for the telecom industry? Hard to say for sure. The tech industry  is certainly taking some hits from the economic perfect storm that continues to walk across the globe.  [...]

Nearly a third of US companies were unprepared for the current economic crisis; however, an average 80% of European companies were prepared.

It was one of those weeks where for every step you take forward, a monkey jumps on your back and eats your brains.  A lot of us are having that week.  But Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, is really the guy that you don’t want to be right now.  Everything seems to be working against him at the moment. [...]

Halloween is just a few short weeks away, but the scary season has been with us for months. Banks are failing, companies are finding credit hard to come by, contracts are tightening up or in some cases disappearing altogether, the stock market has recently had “historic” days (in a bad way) . . . and our supply of wooden stakes and garlic is getting pretty low. But all things are cyclical. Today’s challenges are also opportunities for a better future. Don’t dig yourself into the grave out of fear.