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Ah yes. That beautiful, classic tale. Phone meets wire. Boy meets phone. Phone ditches wire. Boy and phone go gallivanting around the countryside. Wire doesn't get to come along. The ol' wireless love story.

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Can you believe that the summer is almost over? We certainly can't. These last few weeks of summer are often a busy time, as everyone tries to cram in everything they didn't finish before the fall hits us with holidays, school, and new responsibilities. The telecom world is no different. We have plenty of news for you that covers mergers and acquisitions, AT&T's decision to move its headquarters, and even a brand new and unexpected issue for Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft.

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Pipeline: The BBWF Europe website advertises that the event will help attendees "recognize the market potential of the latest broadband content, entertainment, applications, and services for the enterprise and home..." Can you give us a bit of a preview and perhaps some specific examples of what that means to our readers?

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Our world of communications just keeps getting bigger. So too does our job of managing this burgeoning world. Once upon a time we managed big network switches. Then we managed connections and, of course, the CPE that terminated the connections. More and more different types of CPE were invented, all staying physically connected to the network. Then came a very different concept: intermittent connections - dial up communications to computers...

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There are very few places that sell anything that won't accept a credit or debit card, even on a remote island like Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands. After snorkeling, you can walk up the beach into Foxy's and buy the whole bar a round of rum punch with the swipe of a card. Foxy's doesn't have a floor, or walls for that matter, but it has a digital cash register and a POS terminal. Eight years ago Jost Van Dyke didn't have a road or a cell tower, but today it has one of each. Chicago has many roads, cell sites...

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As the new digital media commerce and service applications chains emerge, there is an explosion of isolated solutions. There are lots of new devices in the value chain and many more are coming. The devices are of many different types and employ a variety of methods to connect to each other and to applications to deliver the services needed by their users. There are also multiple protocols that have evolved to manage the devices. Enterprise customers, service providers, consumers, network...

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As Communications Service Providers (CSPs) worldwide are adjusting their business plans to align with the increasing overlap of wireless, wireline, cable, broadcast, and Internet communications, they are finding themselves having to introduce new, unfamiliar services at an unprecedented rate. Some of these services are information-rich and many, like streaming video, Web 2.0 applications and multi-player gaming, can require 100 times or more the network bandwidth of traditional voice to support them.

Mobile operators in today's saturated markets are introducing smartphone devices at an ever increasing rate to lure subscribers away from competitors. As a result, they're rushing new devices through the product development cycle.

The Managed Service Syndication Business Model Managed Service Syndication is a new business model that allows Telcos, service providers, and even software vendors to pool their assets, specialties, and core competencies to create compelling new service offerings.

"I do not think that the wireless waves I have discovered will have any practical application."

Well, even wise men are sometimes very, very wrong. Today, wireless technology (albeit a different sort than anything investigated by Hertz) is ubiquitous and ever-evolving. Users are clamoring for newer, faster, and better services all the time.