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...
Comcast revenues up, on digital products
By: By Carol Wilson
Comcast is reaping the rewards of its network investment and new service initiatives, today reporting major increases in revenue and operating income...
ECI Telecom up 26%, looks to IPTV future
By: By Tim McElligott
Israel’s ECI Telecom reported a 26% increase this week in second-quarter revenues as it generated $153 million. The company also announced a contract with a major European carrier to deliver IPTV services...
Citizens stalls IPTV, stays the course on wireless, VoIP
By: By Vince Vittore
As part of its second quarter earning report today, Citizens Communications said it would delay a planned rollout of an IP video service until 2006 because of several factors...
CenturyTel earning rise on strong broadband
By: By Vince Vittore
CenturyTel today reported second-quarter revenue of $606.4 million, a slight increase from $603.6 million in second-quarter 2004...
Alcatel: North America back-end-loaded in ‘05
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel reported a drop in revenue from North American customers in the second quarter as major carriers reported dips in net broadband line additions...
High-investment costs hand Covad loss
By: By Carol Wilson
Covad Communications today posted a second-quarter loss and forecast further losses for the immediate future, based on the investment required to expand its voice-over-IP business and two high-profile deployments—AOL’s high-speed Internet access service and EarthLink’s line-powered voice access trial...
Siemens pairs with General Bandwidth
By: By Ed Gubbins
Siemens Communications is partnering with General Bandwidth, increasing its investment in the six-year-old equipment vendor and reselling its G6 media gateway...
Calix feeling like a million
By: By Vince Vittore
Calix announced today that its telco customers have deployed more than one million fiber and copper ports. ...
Tellabs switches over to Vinci ONTs
By: By Ed Gubbins
After a successful second quarter with better-than expected revenue (with revenue up 52% year-over-year to $463 million), equipment vendor Tellabs faces several product migration trends: Its access business is moving more toward fiber than copper, its traditional crossconnects face competition from packet-based alternatives and, most immediately, it is trading its old optical network terminals (ONTs) for new ones this quarter....
Verizon ups spending on wireless, FTTP
By: By Ed Gubbins
Verizon Communications raised its capital spending estimates for the year to address better-than-expected growth in wireless and ongoing efforts to deploy fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP), the company announced in its second-quarter earnings call Tuesday...
Hughes taps Covad
By: By Carol Wilson
Covad Communications will be the primary DSL broadband supplier to Hughes Network Systems’ new Direcway Unified Broadband service, the two companies announced today....
BellSouth leans further on Cingular
By: By Ed Gubbins
BellSouth traded big-business customers for small businesses in the second quarter amid continuing price pressure in the high-end market and traded lower-speed broadband users for higher-speed ones...
Converged access is where the action is in telecom
By: By Rob Munoz
The convergence of communications and computer access technologies is emerging as a growing market force sweeping across each of the two industries. This convergence is happening on a large scale within wireline and wireless access infrastructure equipment...
OPASTCO: Rural groups unite on grassroots messaging
By: By Vince Vittore
BOSTON--Four rural telco organizations have joined forces to create a unified message to Congress and regain a positive image of small telcos...
ADC acquires FONS
By: By Vince Vittore
ADC today announced it will acquire Fiber Optic Network Solutions for $172 million in cash. FONS, which provides passive optical components and fiber cable packaging, will becoming part of ADC’s Global Connectivity Group after completion of the deal...
Westell shares pummeled after soft guidance
By: By Vince Vittore
Westell Technologies reported first fiscal quarter revenues of $75.6 million, a 35% jump from the same quarter last year...
