Telecom can be a difficult industry to traverse alone and ILECs have had a particularly tough row to hoe for the last decade or so.  Telephony & The Independent’s one-day summit: INSIGHTS for Next-Generation ILECs is designed specifically for Independent telephone companies looking for new revenue and service opportunities and greater insight into their own industry and marketplace. Continue reading “ILECs: You Are Not Alone!”

Most of the conversations and publicity leading up to NXTcomm08 has been focused on delivering content and services to consumers’ homes, but there has been less discussion about how consumers are to distribute the content around the house. Coaxial cable is fairly common in US households, but it rarely reaches every room in the home and often needs to be extended to the places people want to use the bandwidth.  Not too long ago, CAT5 looked like the Holy Grail but uptake of this versatile but delicate cable type has been slow. Fiber has an ideal range and interference immunity but is even more delicate and difficult to install in walls-especially in retrofit applications. Continue reading “Forget the Last Mile: What About the Last 20 Feet?”

Much of the NXTcomm08 show floor and conference program is dedicated to the wireless industry, video on demand (VOD) and the intersection between the two.  As carriers try to meet consumers’ ever growing demand for bandwidth and content, the future of handheld VOD in the US remains somewhat unclear.
  Continue reading “Can Mobile VOD Survive in the US?”