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...
Ciena antes up Ethernet for packet optical game
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena is beefing up the Ethernet capabilities on its CN 4200 multiservice transport platform by adding Layer 2 Ethernet aggregation and switching, ratcheting up Ciena’s strength in the packet optical networking space...
CES: Comcast unveils ’08-model cable competitor
By: By Sarah Reedy
In what was the first keynote from a cable company executive in the Consumer Electronic Show’s history, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts told the audience that the cableco is now the fourth largest residential phone service provider in the United States, surpassing Embarq in subscribers...
AT&T CEO decries consumer market slowdown
By: By Ed Gubbins
Addressing an investor conference today, Randall Stephenson, AT&T’s chief executive officer, complained of a current slowdown in the company’s consumer business but expressed optimism that its enterprise business would be less affected by the same overall economic trends...
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...
Fujitsu wins Verizon packet optical bid
By: By Ed Gubbins
Fujitsu Network Communications appears to have won a prized contract to supply Verizon with packet optical transport equipment, according to Simon Leopold, an analyst with Morgan Keegan...
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...
Cisco’s IPoDWDM may be tough sell to some
By: By Ed Gubbins
In recent years, Cisco has been turning up the volume on its promotion of the benefits of optical and IP integration in its CRS-1 carrier core routing platform. But it’s unknown to what extent carriers are buying that pitch...
CLEC veteran Royce Holland looks ahead
By: By Carol Wilson
On what he hopes will be the eve of a successful acquisition by Paetec, McLeod USA CEO Royce Holland is looking forward to not working full time. But he still has a lot to say about the competitive service provider space he helped create, as an early member of the Metropolitan Fiber Systems team and the founder of Allegiance Telecom (now XO Communications)...
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...
WiMAX Forum to begin mobile certification—no, really
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The WiMAX Forum today said its lead certification lab in Malaga, Spain, is now ready to begin accepting Mobile WiMAX equipment for interoperability testing and certification...
Motorola launches first large-scale WiMAX network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola’s first commercial WiMAX network went live today in 22 cities in Pakistan, making it the first of its three high-profile nationwide network contracts to launch...
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...
Qwest not taking IPTV bait
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest Communications will invest an extra $300 million in capital to build fiber-to-the-node networks to reach 1.5 million homes in 20 markets but is not planning to deliver IPTV service over those networks, Qwest Chairman and CEO Ed Mueller told the investment community today...
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...
Ciena boasts PBT win, booming metro sales
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena today claimed its first sale to a major carrier of products based on Provider Backbone Technology (PBT) as sales of metro optical equipment overall boosted the company’s quarterly revenue beyond expectations...
AT&T: 40,000 U-verse installs per week by 2008’s end
By: By Ed Gubbins
In AT&T’s analyst day yesterday, John Stankey, the company’s group president of telecom operations, provided some up-to-date data on AT&T’s consumer offerings as well as some aggressive goals for next year, including the quadrupling of its weekly installation rate for U-verse triple-play services...
Survey calls for customer experience overhaul
By: By Sarah Reedy
When Forrester Research asked nearly 5,000 consumers about their interactions with a variety of companies to gauge the usefulness, usability, and enjoyability of their experiences, wireless carriers kept coming up short...
In the Spotlight: Bill DeMuth, SureWest Communications
By: By Ed Gubbins
Last week SureWest Communications announced the acquisition of Everest Broadband, a move to double its triple-play subscriber base by adding to its existing fiber-to-the-home network in Sacramento, Calif., a hybrid fiber/coax network in Kansas City, Mo. SureWest’s Chief Technology Officer, Bill DeMuth, spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins last week about strategies to integrate the two businesses and what lies ahead...
Nortel adds muscle, multicasting to PBT
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks has updated its metro Ethernet portfolio with new hardware and software to add muscle to its Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) platform and give it the ability to manage multicast traffic...
Juniper opens Junos OS to third-party developers
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks has created a software development kit (SDK) that will allow third-party application developers to create applications for the router vendor’s Junos operating system...
CLECs milk public markets
By: By Ed Gubbins
Several trends are brightening the outlook of investors...
New extra-flexible fiber put to the test
By: By Ed Gubbins
In October, Connexion Technologies which deploys wholesale fiber-to-the-premises networks became the first company to deploy a new type of fiber from Corning...
Special Report: Telephony's Best and Worst of 2007
We spent 2007 writing about the news and talking to news-makers. Now Telephony's editors tell you their highlights -- and lowlights -- of the year that was...
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...
