Comcast phone subs up 381,000
By: By Dan O'Shea
Cable TV giant Comcast Corp reported net telephone service subscriber additions of about 381,000 during the third quarter, the company officials said on their quarterly earnings call Thursday...
Ikanos CEO steps down
By: By Ed Gubbins
Rajesh Vashist, chairman and chief executive officer of DSL chip maker Ikanos Communications, has resigned both posts, effective immediately, the company announced late Tuesday. ...
Tellabs’ sales of FTTP gear dip
By: By Ed Gubbins
Sales of Tellabs’ fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) gear dipped in the third quarter as a major customer (most likely Verizon Communications) made an “inventory correction,” making more use of the gear it had already purchased, Tellabs said...
Lucent’s Russo: Alcatel merger ‘on track’
By: By Dan O'Shea
Lucent Technologies chairman and CEO Pat Russo said during the company’s earnings call this morning for its fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year 2006 results that Lucent’s pending merger with French vendor giant Alcatel remains “on track” to close by the end of 2006...
Access line loss slows, says BellSouth
By: By Carol Wilson
In what could be the last earnings call for BellSouth as a separate company, Chief Financial Officer Pat Shannon said access line loss rates are “flattening,” as cable VoIP deployment is completed and losses to wireless substitution are reduced...
AT&T revenues jump, U-verse ‘on track’
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T reported a 74% increase in third-quarter revenues, based on wireless growth, improved wireline performance and faster-than-expected integration of AT&T and SBC Communications...
Horizon Chillicothe chooses Tandberg
By: By Dan O'Shea
Ohio-based carrier Horizon Chillicothe Telephone this week said it is deploying Tandberg Television’s iPlex video head-end for an expansion of the channel line-up for its pioneering TV over VDSL ATM network...
Redback sales to BellSouth dip
By: By Ed Gubbins
Sales of Redback Networks’ gear to its biggest customer, BellSouth, dropped in the third quarter, but the vendor expects the situation to return to normal next quarter...
Juniper CEO heralds end of carrier Ethernet
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks’ new carrier Ethernet router, the MX960, will bring about the end of the market for carrier Ethernet gear, Juniper chief executive officer Scott Kreins said during the company’s third-quarter earnings call late Wednesday...
Expansion plans hurt EarthLink’s earnings
By: By Carol Wilson
EarthLink’s sky-high ambitions have brought the company’s earnings crashing down to earth, as its Helio wireless investment was largely responsible for a third-quarter loss of $3.2 million, or two cents per share...
BellSouth partners on community portal
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth Community Technologies, a unit that deals with planned communities and multi-dwelling units, has partnered with Resident Interactive to jointly market a community portal that developers can offer to their residents. ...
Updated: Level 3 buys Broadwing
By: By Carol Wilson
Long-rumored as an acquisition target of either Global Crossing or XO Communications, Broadwing today was acquired instead by Level 3 Communications, which will pay $1.393 billion in aggregate stock and cash...
Boston launches muni Wi-Fi project
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The city of Boston became the latest municipality to give citywide Wi-Fi a try, announcing today the launch of a pilot project covering 5000 homes in the south Boston neighborhood of Roxbury...
iPass beefs up remote access portfolio
By: By Kevin Fitchard
iPass today said it has completed the integration of its recently acquired broadband arm, GoRemote, into its network of secure remote access solutions for enterprise, giving it connectivity options ranging from home Wi-Fi to wide area 3G access...
Turin wins White Rock
By: By Ed Gubbins
Turin Networks won the assets of White Rock Networks in a bankruptcy court auction last week, White Rock has confirmed. The companies expect the court to approve the deal Tuesday afternoon...
Time Warner Telecom changes its name
By: By Ed Gubbins
Time Warner Telecom is changing its name. To what, exactly, isn’t completely certain...
AT&T’s FTTP, FTTN mix in question
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T’s mix of fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) and fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) has become the subject of increasing scrutiny among industry analysts of late. One analyst maintains the company isn’t doing as much FTTP as it promised. Another predicts the company will soon do more FTTP than previously indicated...
Report: Adtran wins AT&T’s wireless backhaul business
By: By Ed Gubbins
Adtran may have turned an anchor into a sail, winning a multimillion-dollar deal to supply AT&T with optical products that dragged down the vendor’s revenue expectations earlier this year...
Comptel: TI unveils residential gateway products
By: By Carol Wilson
ORLANDO--Texas Instruments this morning announced five new solutions for manufacturers of residential gateways, based on its UR8 processor architecture. The new xDSL chips are aimed at enabling maximum flexibility and functionality in the design of residential gateway products...
Comptel: MetaSwitch, Cisco team up on CLEC solution
By: By Carol Wilson
ORLANDO--MetaSwitch and Cisco Systems have teamed up to deliver what they are calling a SIMPLE solution for CLECs, and have signed 20 customers to the offering...
Comptel: Actelis boosts CLEC standing
By: By Carol Wilson
Ethernet-over-copper provider Actelis Networks has announced that CLEC Broadview Networks is deploying its products to provide Metro Ethernet service...
Comptel: Rooftop collocation may be next
By: By Carol Wilson
ORLANDO--If broadband wireless technology proves more successful in this generation than in earlier versions, the next great frontier for collocation could be building rooftops...
Alcatel’s Ethernet switch grows, its router shrinks
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel today unveiled a larger version of its Ethernet aggregation switch and a smaller version of its services router today...
Comptel: A wholesale comeback
By: By Carol Wilson
ORLANDO--When the telecom bubble burst, the wholesale market was probably hit the hardest. The fiber glut and the demise of many CLEC customers combined to drive down prices and drive out some players...
Comptel: McLeod adds local wholesale
By: By Carol Wilson
ORLANDO--McLeodUSA today formally launched wholesale voice services, including both a UNE-P replacement product and Wholesale DLC Service on the TDM side, as well as an IP-based service aimed at Internet service providers and VoIP providers...
