AT&T stock is down on news that earnings took a 23.6 percent tumble in the recently reported quarter.  However, the earnings were largely affected by strong sales of the iPhone which AT&T subsidizes at a hefty cost and increased costs from operations. AT&T added 1.9 million new iPhones in the 4th quarter, 40% of which were [...]

In what is surely a sign of the times, the Obama administration will appoint a national “Cyber Advisor” who will report directly to the president.  While the term “Cyber” is already dated, the idea of focusing efforts to track Internet security and related threats is a much needed adjustment for the Department of Homeland Security.  Much of [...]

At the end of December, we wrote about Nortel’s race to zero, today we hear word that the company has filed Bankruptcy protection in Canada, the US, and Europe along with several of its affiliates.  It will be a struggle for Nortel to reorganize and return from the stiff requirements of bankruptcy in this economy. [...]

I hate top ten lists, don’t you?  They are like zombies from the past which occasionally rise from the dead to eat our brains. Yet, here I find myself, dirty shovel in hand, writing out a list of last year’s top telecom news items - inked in the blood of the victims of 2008. Last year, [...]

Are the big telecoms punishing their customers for failing to upgrade to next generation services?  Ed Gubbins of Telephony Online details the tactics that some carriers may be using to get customers to upgrade.   Gubbins claims that Verizon may be neglecting DSL as it rolls out fiber.  That Qwest DSL customers may be receiving [...]