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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 considers selling its long distance business again.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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?