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Analyst: Carriers set to introduce usage-based mobile data pricing

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This year may well be the year that wireless operators adopt usage-based pricing models for their heavy-volume mobile data users, according to analyst firm Deloitte.

Qwest shops its long distance network again (with local attached)

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Qwest considers selling its long distance business again.

Applying 3G lessons to LTE

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One thing we've learned (or should have learned) from the various generational deployments is the year a wireless technology officially emerges isn't necessarily the year we see that technology's benefits.

Smart grid: Definition, road map and breadth of this grand challenge

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A smarter electric power grid promises greater efficiency, reliability and security leading to greater use of renewable energy sources that positively impact our environment.

The State of IP

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It's been years since IP slowly but surely began infiltrating into mainstream carrier networks. In 2010 it's poised to make its biggest impact ever.

Mobile core wars

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The mobile packet core is emerging as the new battleground in wireless, pitting the big mobile vendors against a new generation of specialty core suppliers.

What the first broadband stimulus awards tell us about how to win

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It is too soon to say how well the first broadband stimulus fund awards will represent the awards that follow, but given how publicly the White House touted these first picks, it would seem they're intended to be exemplary, to some degree, of what the administration wants in an applicant.

Mobile data set to explode

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Mobile Internet usage is quickly growing to be at least twice as large as the desktop Internet in terms of subscriber numbers, according to Morgan Stanley.

Should users finance fiber-to-the-home?

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If we're paying for broadband deployment with federal taxes anyway, should we be able to buy our own fiber connections?

Where are all the bad actors?

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The Network Neutrality debate has been raging since at least 2002; buildings full of lawyers in Washington have been scrutinizing service provider behavior; by the Federal Communications Commission's own admission over "100,000 pages of input in approximately 40,000 filings" have been reviewed; organizations like Free Press have ratcheted into rhetorical overdrive; and the best we can come up with is ... Madison River?

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