Howard Solomon

Before the auction started, a Yankee Group analyst said the move to make room for new entrants won't be enough by itself to spur competition. Although high bids are over $4 billion, he hasn't changed his mind

Foreign-based call centres and organziations that need U.S.-based phone numbers may find VoIP calls blocked by long-distance carriers. BandTel, a provider of SIP trunking services, says it has a solution. An industry analyst says it may work for large customers

A Montreal maker of link load balancers is about to improve its product by adding the ability to aggregate all paths within mulitple links. As a result, it says, the speed of virtual private networks should increase

Service provider Iristel is offering IP Mobility, which gives phone users the ability to switch calls back and forth from landlines to mobile phones and keep one phone number. The service is carrier-independent

Bidding in the AWS spectrum auction has passed $4 billion, with no sign of slowing down. However, one industry analyst wonders if some bidders can afford to pay the price for the licences

The Supreme Court of Canada has swept aside bondholders objections to the $51.7 billion privatization of BCE. However, industry analysts say negotiations with the lenders funding the deal may delay closing it for several months. Meanwhile businesses wait for Bell to be overhauled

Sun Microsystems has released MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition 6.3, the latest version of its high-availability open source database, for carrier grade telecom environments. It is aimed at subscriber data management systems (HLR, HSS) and service delivery platforms. The new release enables service providers and network equipment providers to deploy larger database applications and provide data availability across geographies in case of site-level failure. This version of MySQL is a real-time, shared-nothing clustered database system offered in subscriber data management systems by Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia, Siemens Networks, Nortel and others.