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Business 2.0 online columnist Paul R. La Monicasays that Investors are hoping that AT&T, MCI and Sprint may soon get acquired…they’ll have to keep waiting. AT&T’s reported a $7.1 billion third-quarter loss due to a write-down in the value of its long-distance network, many expect the consolidation to start soon, but La Monica doesn’t think [...]

Business 2.0 reports Firefox is becoming a problem for Microsoft. But FF is not just a problem as a browser; its potential as a platform is significant. From the article: ‘It all adds up to a business opportunity for startups, established software companies, and Web giants alike. Though Ross and the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation don’t [...]

I have read more broadband-over-powerline stories this weekend than ever before. Barrons, Telephony, and every single magazine/newspaper is buzzing about BPL, despite the fact that most of the trials of this technology have not worked out. FCC obviously has done a great job to refocus the media from its FTT-X disaster to BPL. Funny thing [...]

The Carphone Warehouse has teamed up with EMI Music to offer the first Multimedia Memory Cards (MMC) for mobile phones featuring the new CD from Robbie Williams. The MMC card will have some video content for use with PDAs such as the iPAQ and will cost around $40. I think it is a truly dumb [...]

If you paid any attention to Nextel’s third quarter earnings, then you could have picked up enough clues to see that that Flarion deployment would happen much sooner than expected. Nextel is ramping up its capital expenditure, because the network is getting crowded as more folks are signing up for Nextel’s service. iDEN is not [...]

The uptake of VoIP in small communities is going to be a bit of problem because of E911 issues. Even though the industry is working hard to overcome these issues, it is a nagging issue for first responders. Case in point, Northland county in Minnesota.
Few people in the Northland are ditching their home phones yet, [...]