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Calling for a more concerted effort by governments to bring broadband Internet access to remote and disadvantaged populations, the International Telecommunications Union issued a goal of giving one-half of the world’s population access to broadband service by 2015. That ambitious goal would require a huge buildout of high-speed connections not only in poor and developing nations, but in the rural ...

By David Byrd, VP of Sales and Marketing, BroadvoxI was planning on a making a very special dish this weekend but was blindsided by a mother-daughter thing. My wife and her daughter decided to spend the day together at the Dallas Museum and, well, it’s not really a lot of fun to cook just for yourself. So, Sunday ended up ...

If you thought the U.S. wireless industry was competitive, the Julius Genachowski-led FCC says, think again. For the first time in seven years, the agency has concluded that mobile competition in America is, as Commissioner Michael Copps put it, “seriously endangered” by consolidation. Several carriers since 2003 have gone through intense M&A, among them AT&T Inc. (T) and Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ). ...

Search-engine and advertising giant Google Inc. (GOOG) is causing fear and paranoia among telecom service providers, who must quickly adapt to and exploit Google’s emerging role in both mobile services and IP-based telephony, or be overwhelmed, according to a new report from research firm Ovum. More than any other Web company or VoIP provider, Google poses a threat to the basic ...

With the huge surge in sales for smartphones driven by a wide range of customer apps delivered from a handheld mobile platform, it may not be too surprising to see optimistic, if not wildly enthusiastic, projections for the smartphone market, but global market research and consulting firm MarketsandMarkets has pegged total worldwide smartphone sales to hit $150.3 billion – yes, ...