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Grande’s Texas triple-play network goes up for sale
By: By Ed Gubbins
Texas cable overbuilder Grande Communications announced today it was pursuing “strategic alternatives,” potentially selling its fiber network and triple-play business...
Anticipation grows for Tellabs M&A
By: By Ed Gubbins
After having cooled in the second half of last year, expectations for a Tellabs acquisition are rising once again with the start of the new year...
Verizon COO: No consumer ‘softness’ here
By: By Ed Gubbins
Verizon Communications is not seeing the same slowdown in consumer markets that AT&T reported this week, according to Denny Strigl, Verizon’s chief operating officer...
Citizens CEO: No consumer ‘softness’ here
By: By Ed Gubbins
Citizens Communications is not seeing the same economic “softness” in residential markets that AT&T reported yesterday, according to Maggie Wilderotter, Citizens’ chief executive officer, who spoke late yesterday at the same investor conference...
What Nokia Siemens will acquire next
By: By Ed Gubbins
With two acquisition announcements in the last three months, Nokia Siemens Networks is clearly in M&A mode, though its next move is anyone’s guess...
Analyst: BT’s 21CN rollout may be slowing
By: By Ed Gubbins
British Telecom may have slowed spending on its 21st Century next-generation network initiative recently, according to Simon Leopold, an analyst with Morgan Keegan...
Provo, Utah, overhauls iProvo muni fiber model
By: By Ed Gubbins
The city council of Provo, Utah, is conferring with consultants it hired this month to help determine why its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network isn’t performing as hoped and to overhaul the model...
Turin Networks sees CDMA upside in Carrier Access buy
By: By Ed Gubbins
Turin Networks today announced its intent to acquire Carrier Access for $92.7 million in cash, planning to exploit products in the latter’s development pipeline as well as expand its gear into CDMA networks...
Zayo buys Citynet wholesale unit
By: By Carol Wilson
Zayo Group continued its buying ways, announcing Thursday it has acquired the wholesale unit of Citynet, the Tulsa, Okla.-based service provider...
CLECs milk public markets
By: By Ed Gubbins
Several trends are brightening the outlook of investors...
SureWest enters Kansas City through acquisition
By: By Ed Gubbins
SureWest Communications has agreed to acquire Everest Broadband for $173 million in cash in a deal that will roughly double SureWest’s triple-play subscriber base...
Cincinnati Bell buys Midwestern CLEC eGIX
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cincinnati Bell has agreed to acquire eGIX, a competitive local exchange carrier based in Indiana, for about $18 million...
Former Motorola CTO joins Cisco
By: By Sarah Reedy
Cisco Systems today announced that former Motorola Chief Technology Officer Padmasree Warrior will be joining the company as its new CTO, just days after her resignation from Motorola...
Embattled Occam CEO gets 21% raise
By: By Ed Gubbins
Occam Networks gave its chief executive officer a 21% raise in base pay six weeks after angry investors called for the CEO to resign...
Northeastern CLEC Broadview going public
By: By Ed Gubbins
Broadview Networks, a Northeastern competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), is going public...
Eagle’s Houston fiber network for sale
By: By Ed Gubbins
Eagle Broadband is showing its Houston-area fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network to prospective buyers this week, having hired a broker to help sell the assets...
In the Spotlight: Zayo CEO Dan Caruso
By: By Carol Wilson
Telephony Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson spoke to Zayo Chief Executive Officer Dan Caruso about his company’s meteoric rise...
XO seeks to raise up to $900M
By: By Ed Gubbins
XO Communications is seeking to raise up to $900 million in debt and equity, the carrier said in regulatory filings today...
Technology debates fueled OEN’s demise
By: By Ed Gubbins
Executives at Optical Entertainment Network haven’t been available to talk about what led the company to suddenly announce it was discontinuing all services this month. But sources close to the company say a combination of technology debates, deployment challenges and management turnover kept the company from finding the additional financing it needed...
Router start-up Anagran beefs up sales staff
By: By Ed Gubbins
Shortly after naming a new chief executive officer, edge router start-up Anagran is bolstering its sales ranks...
Small telcos feel merger pressure
By: By Ed Gubbins
In the wake of major-carrier consolidation, merger activity among small and regional telcos is escalating and should continue next year...
Eagle Broadband enters Chapter 11
By: By Ed Gubbins
Eagle Broadband entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday as its former chairman submitted an asset seizure order to its primary bank...
Occam’s losses multiply
By: By Ed Gubbins
Occam Networks reported sharp declines in revenue and net income during the third quarter, in accordance with warnings the company gave last month...
XO slashes loss despite flat revenue
By: By Ed Gubbins
XO Holdings dramatically cut its losses on relatively flat revenue in the third quarter...
Falling prices tempt RLEC consolidators
By: By Ed Gubbins
While integrating its acquisition of CT Communications, executives of Windstream Communications reiterated the case for future acquisitions this week, and some analysts say recent changes in the market could encourage further consolidation among rural carriers...
