Sprint opts for 2Wire gateways
By: By Vince Vittore
Sprint announced today that it has signed a deal with 2Wire under which the telco will offer 2Wire’s HomePortal residential gateway to its high-speed Internet access customers...
Consumer advocates question FCC’s phone numbers
By: By Carol Wilson
A consumer advocacy group is asking the Federal Communications Commission to clarify numbers released in a study earlier this year that seem to indicate that there is a growing population of U.S. residents with no access to phone service, either wireless or wireline....
Sprint opts for 2Wire gateways
By: By Vince Vittore
Sprint announced today that is has signed a deal with 2Wire under which the telcos will offer 2Wire’s HomePortal residential gateway to its high-speed Internet access customers....
Major vendors resisting the urge to merge
By: By Ed Gubbins
More vendors and analysts challenge the conventional wisdom that consolidation among carriers must be repeated in the equipment sector...
Carriers start placing bets on home network technology
By: By Vince Vittore
Most still keeping options open, but early deployments will focus on coax...
Next-gen switch providers poised for deals from IOCs
By: By Tim McElligott
CopperCom gains big win with Iowa Telecom; market awaits further deals...
FCC's DSL ruling, Ensign bill churn telecom reform storm
By: By Carol Wilson
Winds of Telecom Act rewrite shift toward the Bells, but more will come...
Network VPN market bursting at the seams
By: By Carol Wilson
Complexity and the popularity of VoIP are driving sales, but competition is heating up and already pressuring price...
Bonding that binds
By: By Dan O'Shea
Circuit bonding for TDM networks hasn't generated much fanfare yet, but it could help carriers boost their Ethernet efforts and effectively support other applications as they continue to migrate to IP networks...
Birch Telecom files Chapter 11, CEO resigns
By: By Ed Gubbins
Birch Telecom has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the competitive local exchange carrier announced today...
Texas nears end of local video franchising
By: By Dan O'Shea
The House branch of the Texas legislature in a special session has passed a bill that makes cable TV and video franchising a statewide provision...
XO gains ground
By: By Ed Gubbins
XO Communications cut its net loss by 31% sequentially--and by about a third from a year earlier--to $29.5 million in the second quarter...
MCI posts profit, anticipates Verizon deal
By: By Dan O'Shea
MCI reported in its second-quarter earnings report this week that it posted a positive net income of $64 million for the quarter, the company's first profit since the former WorldCom emerged from bankruptcy, in its first financial report since MCI's board of directors agreed in May to allow the firm to be acquired by Verizon Communications...
Birch Telecom slashes workforce
By: By Ed Gubbins
Competitive local exchange carrier Birch Telecom has cut 330 employees, or more than 38% of its workforce, the company said Tuesday, citing difficulties in adapting to network unbundling regulations passed by the Federal Communications Commission earlier this year...
Cisco CEO on Nokia: Don’t confuse partnerships with M&A
By: By Ed Gubbins
Without naming it specifically, Cisco Systems Chief Executive Officer John Chambers dismissed recent apocryphal news reports of a rumor that the router giant was considering acquiring Finnish cell phone vendor Nokia...
DSL Port Sales Explode
By: By Carol Wilson
DSL port shipments hit record levels in the second quarter of 2005, as Asian and European carriers brought higher speeds and more advanced services to their customers, according to broadbandtrends.com. Global port shipments exceeded 19 million, driven primarily by upgrades to ADSL 2+ and Ethernet platforms designed to offer IPTV, said Teresa Mastrangelo, principal analyst with broadbandtrends.com....
Motorola invests in BPL chipmaker
By: By Ed Gubbins
Motorola Ventures, the equity investment arm of Motorola, has invested in Intellon, a provider of integrated circuits with a focus on broadband over powerline...
Nortel has ‘acceptable’ second quarter
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks reported $2.9 billion in revenue for the second quarter, a 10% increase from last year’s second quarter and a 13% increase from this year’s first quarter. Overall net income was about one cent per share...
ECI’s Laurel buy pays off
By: By Vince Vittore
ECI Telecom announced today that it has landed a deal with SDN Communications to provide ST200 multi-service edge routers, marking the first announced win for ECI’s router line since it bought the product line as part of its acquisition of Laurel Networks. Laurel now operates as ECI's Data Networking Division. ...
BellSouth sues AT&T twice
By: By Ed Gubbins
BellSouth recently joined other carriers in suing AT&T over two different regulatory matters, AT&T said in filings with the U.S. Security & Exchange Commission today...
Alcatel, Amdocs team up for IPTV
By: By Dan O'Shea
Alcatel and Amdocs, already working together on SBC's Project Lightspeed broadband upgrade, have signed a letter of intent to jointly develop and end-to-end solution supporting deployment of triple-play services, including IPTV, by other broadband service providers...
UBS: Fujitsu likely winner of Verizon ROADM RFP
By: By Ed Gubbins
Fujitsu Network Communications is the likely winner of a Verizon Communications contract for reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs), according to a research note issued this morning by UBS, which estimated the contract to be worth $50 million per year...
Alltel, ADC team to distribute OmniReach
By: By Dan O'Shea
Alltel Communications Products, a group within Alltel that markets equipment and services, has forged an agreement with ADC to distribute that firm's OmniReach product line as its premium FTTX solution...
Qwest narrows loss in Q2
By: By Jason Meyers
In its second quarterly earnings report since abandoning its bid to acquire MCI, Qwest Communications noted improving revenue trends in several service sectors...
MCI acquires Totality
By: By Ed Gubbins
MCI has agreed to acquire Totality, a six-year-old designer of enterprise networks and provider of remote managed services for business-critical applications...
