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  • M2M Business Briefing 2013: Safety in numbers

    26 Mar 2013

    There has been an unprecedented number of alliances and partnerships in the M2M arena in recent months. Richard Irving asks why there’s safety in numbers.

  • M2M Business Briefing 2013: The High Five

    26 Mar 2013

    Capacity’s run-down of the hottest sectors in the M2M market.

  • M2M Business Briefing 2013: 2G or not 2G? That is the question

    26 Mar 2013

    Spectrum is getting as rare as hen's teeth, prompting mobile operators to start shutting down 2G networks to free up valuable space on the airwaves. But machine-to-machine customers neither want nor can afford to switch to more expensive 3G systems. So where, asks Richard Irving, will they end up?

  • M2M Business Briefing 2013: Cyber society

    26 Mar 2013

    Texting cows…crime-busting sensors… smart delivery vans - the future of mobile telephony may lie in the constant chatter of machines, not humans. Richard Irving investigates.

  • Latency Special: The great battle for the transatlantic corridor

    19 Mar 2013

    Hibernia Networks and Perseus Telecom are locked in a bitter battle for control of the transatlantic corridor. As Hibernia grapples with the politics of using a Chinese equipment supplier, Richard Irving asks what happens next.

  • Latency Special: Interview with Mike Persico, Anova Technologies

    19 Mar 2013

    Financial technology entrepreneur Mike Persico is challenging the low latency status quo through his highly specialist network operator Anova Technologies. Richard Irving talks to the chief executive about life in the fast lane.

  • Latency Special: Will wireless trump fibre in the race to zero?

    19 Mar 2013

    The world’s top firms have put their secretive but lucrative trading programmes on a fibre diet. Richard Irving finds out why.

  • Carrier M&A trends: is a new world order emerging?

    10 Mar 2013

    As European incumbents struggle to keep up with emerging market players, Kavit Majithia investigates whether the industry is witnessing the birth of a new global elite?

  • Charting future wholesale trends

    05 Feb 2013

    An unintended consequence of network innovation is that it opens the floodgates to as many threats as it does opportunities – just ask mobile operators struggling to make the economics of 4G investment stack up in a world where OTT players proliferate. Richard Irving assesses the prospects for wholesale operators.

  • Software defined networks: The future of infrastructure

    01 Feb 2013

    Few initiatives epitomise the drive to make networks more intelligent than software defined networking. And the cutting edge work, as Richard Irving discovers, is not on the ground but in the cloud.

  • Service providers fighting back against fraud

    01 Feb 2013

    A brutal war is raging in cyber space as sophisticated criminal gangs seek to harness the power of smart devices and next-generation networks to siphon data – and cash – from big business. Richard Irving finds out how service operators are fighting back.

  • Mergers and acquisitions: what's the magic number?

    01 Feb 2013

    With mega mergers seemingly off the table, competition regulators could have a trick up their sleeve and there are plenty of conjurors poised to weave some magic.

  • Renesys Wholesale Rankings 2012

    31 Jan 2013

    Using its exclusive data, Renesys provides an overview of the IP transit market in 2012.

  • The final stage of consolidation in the US metro market

    31 Jan 2013

    Twelve months ago, six premier metro fibre providers were jostling for position ahead of a final round of consolidation. Two have emerged to lead the pack, two have been snapped up and two remain as targets.

  • Women in telecoms: 10 to watch in 2013

    29 Jan 2013

    If, as Capacity magazine argued throughout much of last year, a lack of representation at board room level is failing the wholesale industry at large, then a lack of female talent is even more damning. Here, for the first time, we highlight 10 women that everyone in wholesale should seek inspiration from over the coming months.

  • Is bandwidth a tradable commodity?

    17 Jan 2013

    Epsilon's decision to reintroduce a bandwidth trading platform after widespread failures in the market over a decade ago has again brought about the age-old question: is bandwidth a tradable commodity?

  • Innovation in the Middle East: Cornering the content market

    10 Jan 2013

    A flood of activity at the end of 2012 suggests the Middle East is bolstering itself as an international content and ICT hub. Could 2013 be the year the region’s content ecosystem finally takes off?

  • Subsea Special: Subsea cable market trends

    10 Jan 2013

    Brought to you in collaboration with TeleGeography.

  • Subsea Special: Filling the digital gap

    10 Jan 2013

    Submarine cable projects that address small communities don’t always make the headlines, but nevertheless have the ability to transform lives through the power of fibre connectivity.

  • Subsea Special: Interview with Chris Wood, WIOCC

    10 Jan 2013

    Can terrestrial developments in Africa start to match its abundance of subsea capacity? Chris Wood, CEO of WIOCC, is hopeful.

  • Subsea Special: Will the subsea cable market sink or swim?

    10 Jan 2013

    A major subsea cable project sunk without a trace in 2012, raising the question: is there about to be a subsea construction lull? Guy Matthews investigates.


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