Alcatel, Amdocs team up for IPTV
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Vince Vittore
Westell Technologies reported first fiscal quarter revenues of $75.6 million, a 35% jump from the same quarter last year...
Texas Senate takes pass on video franchise issue
By Vince Vittore
The Texas Legislature came close to enacting a law that would have given Verizon, SBC and all other telcos the ability to build video networks without getting franchises in every municipality, but once again failed to pass the legislation...
SBC earnings mixed
By Carol Wilson
SBC Communications delivered a mixed bag of second-quarter earnings as its earnings per share fell, due to the cost of its two mergers, but still exceeded Wall Street expectations. In addition, the company posted slightly better than expected revenues, growing 22% to $15.49 billion, but didn’t attract as many new DSL customers as expected with its low-cost new customer option...
IOCs go IP with Occam
By Carol Wilson
Occam Networks today announced three new customers for its Internet protocol-based broadband loop carrier system...
Lucent wireline income surges
By Ed Gubbins
Lucent Technologies turned a profit in its wireline business (which it calls INS) on essentially flat revenue there, posting a $64 million income for the segment in its third fiscal quarter after posting a $12 million loss there in the second quarter...
