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For years, networking companies have predicted that high-speed networks would raise productivity. Higher productivity = smaller payrolls.

The No. 1 wireless company won’t carry Windows Phone 7 smartphones for the holidays, but that might be a smart move on its part.

It would be hard to imagine a villain like the Star Wars icon successfully hocking products in the United States.

Broadvox’s David Byrd saw an offer he couldn’t refuse and decided to go out of his way to be sold to by a person and a company of which he had no knowledge. It changed his approach to using the Internet to generate leads and sell product.

While the massive increases in speed that 4G promises to deliver will indeed help carriers support growing data demands, I think the more interesting question is whether or not they can really deliver a 4G network experience to their subscribers.

Here's a snapshot of 11 trends ATLANTIC-ACM expects to impact the telecom market in 2011.

Is a “Digital Pearl Harbor" really pending in the networking industry?

Here’s what network providers need to do to support smart grids.

Data consumption continues to skyrocket globally, and providers are under tremendous pressure to increase capacity and manage costs, while delivering high-quality customer service. So how can one accomplish these goals simultaneously?

For business and government entities that enable e-commerce, provide a social-networking platform and critical information to the public, providing a service that just meets the minimum threshold of the “new broadband" is grossly inadequate.

In their shiny newness, femtos may just be suffering from overzealous promotion. But things seem to be settling out along the lines of: If you’ve got a voice coverage problem, think femto, if you’ve got a data capacity problem, think Wi-Fi.