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Hill
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The telecommunications industry is undergoing
metamorphosis. Mergers and acquisitions, deregulation,
inexpensive bandwidth, and consumers demanding
more and more mobility, with all the services
they have come to expect, leave providers with
a huge challenge: evolving their businesses while
remaining profitable. Industry professionals now,
more than ever, must stay current in many areas
of telecommunications to help their organizations
stay competitive.
The
Hill Associates newsletter, blog, and podcasts
are your portals to this information. People all
over the country have witnessed the value our
instructors bring to the classroom, taking complex
concepts and making them clear and accessible.
Now we extend this value beyond the classroom.
The newsletter will direct you to websites and
articles with our instructors' analyses to help
you keep abreast in this ever-changing world.
Do not get left behind. Check out the newsletter
today.
Paul
President & CEO
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Analysis
Franchising
in the entertainment industry
As
AT&T, BellSouth, Qwest, and Verizon expand into the
entertainment industry, one of the major challenges
is the current franchising requirements to offer video
services. Currently, local franchise agreements are
required with each municipality. The time to file for
and receive a franchise agreement can be a very long
and protracted affair. Consequently, the phone companies
have been lobbying for franchise agreements at the state
and national level. In this interview FCC Chief
Kevin Martin talks about the franchising issues and
offers his perspective.
Thinking
strategically about security
Security
was the number one talking point for customers in 2005,
and it is again in 2006. Business continuance and disaster
recovery planning are key organizational concerns. Computer
viruses are not a company’s only security concern anymore;
it must also be concerned about regulatory and corporate
compliance, the hurricane forecast, and the Avian Flu
pandemic. This article discusses such issues and is a must read for anyone who wants
to engage in the strategic discussions surrounding security
today.
What is
driving the wireless industry?
IMS,
EV-DO, HSDPA, MVNO, and WiMAX are just a few of the
acronyms of the wireless industry. Gaming, television,
kid-friendly phones, and ESPN on your phone are the
new services that should lead the carriers to fame and
fortune. With all this activity, the basic question
is still: What is driving the wireless industry? This article looks at twenty trends that will shape
the wireless industry in the months to come. The overarching
trends are wizardry and worth.
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the News
Now, get
security on your cell phone
IBM
has announced a new technology called SecureBlue, which provides hardware-based
security for portable devices including cell phones,
PDAs, and laptops. This is exciting news, as cell phones
and PDAs have long been a security challenge. They just
don’t have the CPU power to perform much encryption/decryption.
Hopefully this technology will be a power conscious
solution to this problem.
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Talk
RFID: Truth
or speculation?
RFID
is here, and there is nowhere to hide! Anyone with even
a minimal amount of technology will be able to gather
untold amounts of personal information about anyone
else—all with a radio frequency reader. Is RFID the
newest way to enhanced supply chain management and inventory
tracking, and the technological breakthrough that will
improve the level of healthcare and lower the costs?
Or is RFID Big Brother’s newest attempt at invasion
of privacy? How much about RFID is truth and how much
is speculation? Visit the Hill Associates Podcasts site to find out.
IMS: Any
service, any time, any where
The
IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) is a term we will hear
more and more, as it transforms the way service providers
offer service to their customers. It promises to deliver
the ultimate: any service, any time, any where. Hear
what author Stephen Shepard (IMS Crash Course, McGraw-Hill)
has to say about IMS in an
interview conducted by Trevor Hindson, a senior
member of technical staff at Hill Associates.
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