Lead Story:

Mobile Messaging at an innovation tipping point

A US$212 billion market opportunity by 2013, says report

By Doug Allen

Good news for messaging providers in particular and the ailing telecom industry in general: a perfect storm of subscriber adoption patterns is combining to drive revenues for mobile messaging to US$212 billion by 2013.

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Standards Update:

IMS Forum takes on billing and security interoperability

Group is confident that Plugfest 4 was a success

By Doug Allen

The IMS and the NGN (Next Generation Network) Forum announced the results of their recently concluded (February 25-29) interoperability testing at VON.
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Product Profile:

Tekelec scales up the SMS stack

Takes modular approach to meet growing demands

By Sean Buckley

If wireless operators want to effectively scale their SMS networks, they can't continue to use the same SMSC (short mobile service center) platforms that existed when cell phones looked like bricks, says Tekelec.
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Commentary:

Wireless and the single golfer

Etiquette aside, bad reception's as rare as a birdie

By Jim Barthold

I had a bad phone conversation the other day on the golf course. Since most of the time my phone conversations are with people who want a piece of my flesh, it's not unusual for me to have a bad conversation. But this was different.
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CTIA 2008: IP/MPLS Forum creates wireless backhaul blueprint

MMBI initiative provides bridge to next-gen backhaul network

In this special Audiocast edition chronicling the CTIA wireless show in Las Vegas, Sean Buckley, Editor in Chief of Telecommunications, talks with David Scinicrope, VP of the IP/MPLS Forum and senior product manager at Redback Networks.

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