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Articles in Dec, 2003 issue of Telecommunications International

• Do you need to own the network? VNOs claim that by not owning a network they can enjoy competitive advantage. Facilities-based carriers profoundly disagree
  by Ken Wieland
• SIP: a signal success: is SIP the winner in the battle of the real-time session signalling protocols? The SIP Forum, as you would expect, certainly thinks so
  by Trefor Davies
• IPv6 may never happen; IPv6 may be the preferred protocol destination for peer-to-peer applications, but it will be a longer journey than expected and the industry may never get there
  by Ovida Taaffe
• The outsourcing conundrum
  by Stephen McClelland
• MPLS: more packets less sweat? End-users appear to be clamouring for MPLS—even carriers that resisted it now concede that they can lose business without it. However, is MPLS all it is cracked up to be?
  by Ouida Taaffe
• Level 3 goes on the offensive
  by Ken Wieland
• Any takers for GPRS remote access? Fixed-line service providers are adding GPRS to 'complete' their remote access portfolio but take-up, so far, has been subdued
  by Ken Wieland