Tag: telecom
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Viodi View – 09/29/21
Teacher: Johnny, use the words rug and Lamborgini in a sentence. Crypto Student: I was rugged before I could buy a Lambo. To outsiders (and probably some insiders) the cryptocurrency industry seems like a giant casino. As with the early days of the Internet, there are businesses based on hype, instead of substance. Still, the…
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A Multi-Dimensional Broadband Network or Is This Just Pie in the-Sky?
[Added 5/17/20: The above video was modified from the original to include an additional animation of satellite-to-satellite communications via lasers, as described below.] Could Starlink’s launch later this year signal the creation of a new Internet?¹ But, before we get there, the limiting factor for Starlink and its competitors might be the cost of the…
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2013 Telecom Council TC3 Part 1: Start-up Pitches and SPIFFY Award Winners
Introduction: Telecom Council Carrier Connections (TC3) – the Telecom Council’s annual summit- was held Sept 18-19, 2013 at Juniper Networks in Sunnyvale, CA. The event provides an opportunity for start-ups, network equipment vendors, and application developers to interact with telecom carriers (telcos) and global network operators. In addition, several carrier-vendor success stories were were told…
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Global Telco Capex May Surprise on the Upside in 2013!
After several years of disappointments, global telco capital expenditures (capex) might increase stronger than expected next year. That might breath new life into the struggling telecom equipment and module market, which has been in the doldrums since at least 2001 with ever shrinking profit margins for telecom infrastructure gear makers. Light Reading reports that European telcos might…
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Viodi View – 08/24/12
Same stuff, different day is the cleaned up song title that comes to mind when reviewing some of our recent interviews with folks who bring a bit of an international flavor to this issue of the Viodi View. Whether it is access to content on terms that are comparable to what can be had by…
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Telecom Death Spiral Continues with ZTE’s Steep Profit Drop
Sluggish telecom operator infrastructure spending, mobile device price wars and roadblocks in several western markets have all combined to cause China’s ZTE to report an 85% drop in profits (year over year) in the latest quarter that ended in June. Net earnings for the first half dropped 68 per cent to Rmb245m, in line with a warning issued last…
