Editor's Corner

This is the season of quarterly financial updates, analyst reactions, and then some more strategies. Competition is heating up. Shares of service provider Qwest fell despite a profitable quarter. Analysts want the Denver-based telco to invest in its network to fend off rival Comcast. Verizon lowered its Voicewing price and undercut Vonage by 4 cents. Venture capitalists are visibly upset with the lack uniqueness in the telephony space.

IMS promises to bring in the much required breath of freshness required to easily provision revenue-generating applications and tear apart the money-losing ones. This provides the technical innovation but with an eye on the tight money purse. This vision has caught on like wild fire and is creating buzz all over the industry--this week Time Warner Cable demonstrated FMC via IMS, and BridgePort Networks and Siemens entered into an IMS reseller partnership.

What better time than now to update you on our FierceMarkets IMS Executive Summit in Washington, D.C., August 29-30. The agenda is coming together nicely with newly added speakers from high-profile companies such as Verizon, IBM, MetaSwitch and more to address IMS from both the technical angle and the marketing/business case perspective. Check out the agenda and don't forget to register! - Leena