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  issue highlights May 5, 2008 | A Penton Media, Inc. Publication  
Protecting IP Services from the Latest Trends in Botnet and DDoS Attacks

Mergers, Migrations, and MetaSwitch: How One Communications Built its Next-Generation Network

Alcatel-Lucent's Olivier Coste on DVB-SH and mobile TV

Ericsson North America sales get a boost

Moto looks to WiMAX, simplified phone platforms for future growth

Nokia promises integration of devices and services strategies

Alcatel-Lucent: As CDMA declines, W-CDMA steps up

Microsoft poised to take Yahoo bid hostile

Tragedy draws attention to VoIP 911 flaws

iPhone coming to Canada

Samsung shows strategic mobile phone for Europe

IPTV, Content Getting Prime Time Prominence at NXTcomm08


editor's perspective

Repeating history

May 5, 2008, by Carol Wilson
There seems to be one lesson that the telecom industry keeps relearning, and it is simply this: Without a business plan that includes profits, the best technology won’t succeed.

The best example came during the Internet boom of the late ‘90s, when there was a rush to build fiber networks in anticipation of tremendous e-commerce traffic. Unfortunately, most of the Web sites expected to fuel that traffic went belly up because no one was certain how to make money selling things on the Internet. Since that issue was resolved, Internet sales have taken off, and just now we are seeing that the network capacity built in the ‘90s has been consumed and is generating profits.

In the U.S., the municipal Wi-Fi boom/bust cycle was pretty much the same story. A few years ago, every town wanted a citywide wireless network to provide broadband for “economic development.” The problem is, there was no way to pay for all that broadband, and so, for cities that counted on advertising revenues or subscriber dollars, Wi-Fi was an expensive bust.

These are just two examples of the failure of what is now commonly ridiculed as the “build it and they will come” strategy.

It’s apparently a lesson Nokia could learn. The company is defending its strategy of giving away music to owners of its “Comes With Music” phones. After buying a CwM phone, owners can download as much music as they want from two major catalogues -- Universal Music and Sony BMG -- and keep it after a year.

The problem is, according to The Register, the song downloads will cost Nokia 70 cents each in royalties, and since the phones cost an average of $123 today, the CwM service could cut mightily into Nokia profits.

The idea is to compete with the iPhone by subsidizing the cost of the music to attract young consumers. Unless Nokia limits this feature to very expensive phones, however, it’s hard to see how the CwM feature will be anything but a loss leader -- that just leads to losses.

E-mail me at cwilson3@telephonyonline.com


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Mergers, Migrations, and MetaSwitch: How One Communications Built its Next-Generation Network

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top international news

Alcatel-Lucent's Olivier Coste on DVB-SH and mobile TV

Recently, Alcatel-Lucent announced it would trial the new hybrid satellite-terrestrial mobile broadcast technology with DISH Network in the United States kicking off this month. To shed light on the technology issues surrounding the satellite network, Associate News Editor Sarah Reedy spoke with Olivier Coste, head of Alcatel-Lucent’s mobile broadcast activities.
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Ericsson North America sales get a boost

While its overall outlook for mobile infrastructure sales may be flat, Ericsson may have found a bright spot in North America, traditionally the region at the bottom of the vendor’s revenue chart.
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Moto looks to WiMAX, simplified phone platforms for future growth

Motorola’s mounting losses dominated the financial news in wireless recently, but the beleaguered vendor pointed toward two strategic shifts that might ultimately pull the company out of the mire, though neither would likely bare results until 2009 when it plans to split into two separate companies.
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Nokia promises integration of devices and services strategies

Nokia’s new services strategy has yet to bear fruit financially, but on the company’s earnings call, Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said Nokia is not only committed to services and applications as the future of the company, but it also plans to build more devices surrounding its growing services portfolio.
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Alcatel-Lucent: As CDMA declines, W-CDMA steps up

Alcatel-Lucent doubled its sales in Wideband CDMA in the first quarter as the synergies of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies' UMTS portfolios begin to emerge, company officials said.
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more news from the web

Microsoft poised to take Yahoo bid hostile

From Times Online (UK)
Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, is reportedly poised to take its bid for Yahoo! hostile.
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Tragedy draws attention to VoIP 911 flaws

From The Globe and Mail (Canada)
An ambulance was dispatched in response to a 911 call about a toddler in distress, but the Internet phone service said paramedics went to the address it had on file — a home in Mississauga — not the Calgary residence where the distraught family waited in vain.
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iPhone coming to Canada

From DSL Reports
Canadian broadband provider Rogers has confirmed that the company will be offering the iPhone "later this year."
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Samsung shows strategic mobile phone for Europe

From Korea Times
After the European Union chose DVB-H as the mobile-television standard over other versions of the technology in March, Samsung Electronics has unveiled a handset supporting the new format as a pre-emptive measure.
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nxtcomm08 news

IPTV, Content Getting Prime Time Prominence at NXTcomm08

In 2007, IPTV was the most requested keyword selection on NXTcomm’s website. In response to the demand for more information, NXTcomm08 will feature an IPTV/Content Studio Product Pavilion on its Show Floor in Las Vegas (June 17-19) for industry professionals interested in learning more about the technologies, applications and companies evolving to meet consumer demands. The IPTV Content Studio will also provide service and content providers a venue to demonstrate state-of-the-art content-related technologies and advances in voice, music, games, photos and video. The studio is expected to attract the attention of wireless, wireline, LEC and internet service providers.
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