IP Business News

How the Global Telecom Busines...
A few statistics will illustrate just how much has changed in the global telecom business since 2000. Prior to the turn of the century, most lines in service used wires and carried voice.

Mobile
Wi-Fi Replaces Ethernet i...
Given that less than one-third of enterprise employees work in large corporate headquarters any more, most work these days is in branch offices, remotely from the field or at home offices.

Policy
Local Resellers Sue AT&T...
Local resellers of AT&T ILEC services have sued AT&T over the treatment of promotions offered by AT&T companies to new retail customers.

Broadband
The State of Rural Broadband
Is it possible that rural broadband penetration actually is pretty close to the penetration of Internet users?

Bandwidth
RCN Metro - Way to Go!
Broadband development has been selective and bumpy and there is still much to do, but the industry has been steadily growing over the past decade in many ways and directions.

Trends
83 Percent of Enterprises...
About 83 percent of 745 North American enterprise and mid-market executives have unified communications capabilities in place, or are planning to, while 17 percent report they still are not interested, says Henry Dewing, Forrester Research analyst.

Telcos Inch Up, but Multi...
AT&T and Verizon are slowly gaining share in the U.S. multi-channel video market, while satellite providers DirecTV and Dish Network are holding their own, with Comcast and Time Warner Cable under a bit of pressure, but possibly facing more erosion over t...

The State of SME Communic...
Cutting costs, consolidating data centers and building IP contact centers are top concerns for SMBs in 2009

What Enterprises Are Buyi...
It always is dangerous to make predictions about what enterprises will do when extrapolating from what they did last year, and what executives say they will do in the coming year.

Editorial
Unified Communications Co...
Although businesses continue to tighten their belts when budgeting for spending on information technology and communications services, unified communications is one of the few business solutions that tops the priority list of enterprise investment, says A...