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A few weeks ago, my fiancée and I went to go see the David Fincher/Aaron Sorkin Facebook epic The Social Network . On the movie poster and in the epilogue to the film itself, it is mentioned that Facebook now enjoys 500 million users. That’s quite a feat, to be sure.However,...

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To date, the debate over net neutrality has been one of extremes. The more I read about it, the more puzzled I am by the myriad points of view that swirl around it. There are those who believe insidious forces within the Federal Government want to see net neutrality erased so that they can put a...

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As demand for streaming video, social networking and low-cost telephony have skyrocketed, numerous third-party services have emerged that eat away at the revenue pie which used to be the sole property of CSPs. In the past, if you wanted to make phone calls you paid for an account with the telephone...

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Earlier this month, the VoIP provider Skype announced plans to move forward with an IPO tentatively valued at nearly one billion dollars. The offering, which was initially announced in August, won’t materialize until 2011, despite investor hopes that the company would be ready to go public before...

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Business combinations and business expansions continued to dominate BSS/OSS developments in the last month even as most other businesses in the global economy continued to struggle.CSG Systems International Inc.’s planned purchase of Intec Telecom for approximately $372 million announced in late...

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The advent of the mobile internet has been a great success, but it also appears to have opened Pandora’s box. The problem is that the surge in data consumed by users is not compensated for by an adequate growth in revenue. This is mostly due to the fact that in order to promote the mobile internet...

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Since this issue of Pipeline uses the term over-the-top (and its corresponding acronym, OTT) pretty widely, it might behoove me to take a second to define exactly what we’re talking about. We are not talking about the film from which I pulled my opening quote. Though that movie is unforgettable in...

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