Experts wonder: Is telecom dead?
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CANNES, FRANCEÂ -- There was one question on the minds of technology leaders attending the Etre conference in Cannes on Tuesday: 'Is telecom dead?'
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Life expectancy is no longer a business concern merely for insurance companies and undertakers. A telecommunications company has more than a passing interest now that it offers a lifetime of unlimited calls over the Internet for &#36;999.
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Is Charter Communications a value play, or was the ouster of its CEO just the latest trouble?
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Once thriving, call centers now are shrinking, a trend that could threaten thousands of jobs. Because of lower wages overseas, technological advances and new do-not-call regulations, call
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Mobile phones were meant to  revolutionize the subscription music business. But if that  revolution were to be televised today, it would consist of  nothing but dead air.
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IT manager pilot fish at a hospital gets a call from a remote clinic reporting that its network is dead. "We traced a cable going through a wall," he says. "The other side of the wall was several feet away -- with no cable."
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After a call for a boycott from a Roman Catholic archbishop, hundreds of complaints and one lawsuit from customers, the Canadian phone company Telus abandoned a service that allowed cellphone customers to buy soft-core pornography. Telus, based in Vancouver, began offering pornography to its five million wireless customers along with more conventional downloads like music and ring tones last month. Jim Johannson, a spokesman for the company, said the decision to end the service was based in part on âcustomer feedback.â Mr. Johannson, however, did not rule out a change in policy. âWe operate in a really, really competitive business,â he said. âIn this environment, itâs very difficult to predict the future.â.
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Long distance is dead. The last of the big-three long-distance carriers, MCI Inc., yesterday agreed to a $6.7 billion takeover by Verizon Communications Inc. The move comes two weeks after AT&amp;T Corp. agreed to sell out for $16 billion to SBC Communications Inc. Meanwhile, Sprint Corp. is taking a hard turn into a chiefly wireless future through a planned $36 ...
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When the Internet phone company Skype went offline for nearly two days last week, Tim Legrand was frustrated and inconvenienced. But he has no plans to switch back to a traditional telephone line.
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Europe has been slow to adopt 3G mobile-phone services, and now the opportunity for cashing in may have passed. A new Wi-Fi design from a British company threatens to cut away the ground 3G has gained. By Wendy Grossman.
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The airwaves that carry billions of calls, text messages and e-mails have become one of the hottest corporate properties. Not only are they in demand  by a nation of 240 million mobile-phone users, they are also in short supply.
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Should investors connect with this troubled telecom?
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Meta Group senior analyst David Willis said that he doesn&#39;t expect the Baby Bells to bow down just yet. &quot;I don&#39;t think VoIP is going to remain entirely unregulated over the next several years,&quot; Willis said.
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It might be the end of the Internet as we know it. Do you feel fine?
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Is it time to look for a high-speed data plan? Good luck trying to get information to make a rational decision -- the carriers have made information about these services hard to come by.
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On the surface, the frenzy of telecommunications mergers in the past few weeks raises relatively clear-cut questions for lawmakers and regulators who will be weighing the deals: Will consumers and businesses be harmed if long-distance choices disappear when AT&T and MCI are swallowed by telephone giants SBC and Verizon?
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First person: What's a telecommuter to do when the Web telephony service vanishes?