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Monthly Archives: October 2004
Local Competition in Canada
So how do you gauge the success of Call-Net Enterprises Inc. in the local telephony market? The company added about 34,000 new customers in the third-quarter, which brings its subscriber base to about 370,000. It's not a bad number but barely registers when you consider there are about 12 million residential households in Canada. One [...]
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Wireless Porn
Looks like the telecom carriers in their search for new revenue sources are looking to jump on the porn bandwagon. In a new report, the Yankee Group suggests that revenue from “adult content” will climb to US$90-million in the U.S. and US$1-billion globally by 2008. In the U.S., the carriers will have to [...]
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Wireless TV
I'm into new technology as the next guy and willing to concede there are all kinds of tech toys destined to be popular that I would never find useful. One of these items may be a wireless phone that can received high-definition TV signals. Texas Instruments Inc. has apparenetly come up with a new chip, [...]
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Is Telecom Doomed?
This may be an extreme position but a fundamental part of the telecommunications industry appears to be doomed.
The culprit is Internet-based technology, otherwise known as IP, used to send bits of information along high-speed networks.
While IP technology will provide new and innovative services to residential and business customers, it will also increase competition dramatically and [...]
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Motorola: Good News, Bad News
Motorola Inc. may have taken the air out of the telecom equipment industry's recovery hopes when it talked about slower growth in the fourth-quarter – after posting slightly better-than-expected third-quarter profits and a 26% sales increase. The company said it expects to boost its share of the wireless phone market with the introduction of 17 [...]
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Local Competition According to the ILECs