NCTA Wrap-Up: A reporter's notebook
By: By Carol Wilson
There is a level of dynamism to the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's annual show that the telephone side of the telecom industry should note. ...
Siemens acquires IP video developer Myrio
By: By Jason Ankeny
Electronics giant Siemens today announced its acquisition of Seattle-based advanced video services developer Myrio. ...
BellSouth CFO: LD network unnecessary
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth doesn't need to buy a long-distance network to survive and prosper, its chief financial officer said today. In fact, Ron Dykes told the Bank of America Securities Media, Telecommunications and Entertainment Conference that shifts in both consumer choices and network technologies have made owning a long-distance network much less appealing than other potential investments....
Broadband Front Lines: Broadband wars taking toll on smaller competitors
By: By Carol Wilson
As a couple of small Texas firms are finding out, surviving in a broadband world dominated by giants can be practically impossible...
MCI not closing door on Qwest
By: By Carol Wilson
MCI’s Board of Directors will continue discussions with Qwest about its $8.4 billion acquisition offer, the company announced late yesterday...
Report: Telcos falling behind cable in broadband sales
By: By Carol Wilson
Despite having their best year yet for selling DSL service, U.S. telephone companies are falling farther behind their cable rivals in selling broadband and will have to be very price competitive to crack the video market against both cable and satellite...
Nominum gets more than nominal investment from ATV
By: By Tim McElligott
IP address management company Nominum followed up a record-setting ENUM benchmark announcement earlier this month at the VON Conference with a $16 million funding round this week led by Advanced Technology Ventures....
Global Crossing sees promise despite negative earnings report
By: By Carol Wilson
Declining revenues in the fourth quarter of 2004 is actually a good news story for Global Crossing, company executives maintain. ...
Verizon allowing ISPs access to Fios
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon is confirming a California ISP’s claim that the telco is offering other ISPs access to its new fiber-to-the-premises network....
Alcatel buys Native Networks
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel has agreed to acquire Ethernet equipment vendor Native Networks for $55 million in cash, the company announced today....
CLEC executives tighten focus on generating new business
By: By Carol Wilson
CompTel/Ascent speakers see opportunity because of mergers...
DSL creeping up on cable
By: By Carol Wilson
Cable companies continue to add broadband customers faster than their telephone company counterparts, but the lead is narrowing, according to a new report from Infonetics Research...
Juniper continues core router market gains
By: By Ed Gubbins
In a quarter that was sequentially flat for the IP services transport equipment market (and down in North America), Juniper Networks increased its revenue from IP core routers 36% sequentially, according to research analysis firm RHK...
Fiorina out at Hewlett-Packard
By: By Dan O'Shea
Carly Fiorina, the CEO of Hewlett-Packard for the last six years, has left her post at HP under pressure from the company's board. (Photo by MIKE BLAKE/Reuters/Landov) ...
Tandberg acquires Atlanta VoD vendor
By: By Dan O'Shea
Tandberg Television, the European video compression and delivery company, announced that it has acquired N2 Broadband, an Atlanta-based vendor of on-demand entertainment systems, for about $118 million in stock and cash...
KMC says goodbye to CLEC business, hello to IP services
By: By Carol Wilson
KMC Telecom is exiting the CLEC business, and selling its local service assets to Century Tel and Telcove...
Happy days are (kinda) here again
By: By Carol Wilson
Telecom equipment spending rose in 2004 for the first time since the industry bubble burst in 2000, according to the TIA's 2005 Market Review and Forecast....
Critical Telecom finds big brother in Ericsson
By: By Vince Vittore
Critical Telecom said it has signed a multi-year global agreement with Ericsson, under which Ericsson will integrate Critical's line-powered GEmini Remote Ethernet DSLAM into its Ethernet DSL Access portfolio. ...
Will SBC-AT&T live up to its promise?
By: By Carol Wilson
SBC Chairman and CEO Edward Whitacre clearly lives by the motto, "Make no small plans." For while the $16 billion acquisition of AT&T is not his company?s largest, Whitacre admits it may be among its most important. ...
SBC, AT&T make big promises
By: By Carol Wilson
(Photos: Dorman, left: Jennifer S. Altman/Bloomberg News/Landov; Whitaker, right: Diane Bondareff/ Bloomberg News/Landov)... ...
SBC to acquire AT&T
By: By Carol Wilson
(Photos: Dorman, left: Jennifer S. Altman/Bloomberg News/Landov; Whitaker, right: Diane Bondareff/ Bloomberg News/Landov)...
SBC earnings down; outlook up
By: By Carol Wilson
SBC Communications coupled its announcement today of lower earnings with the promise of 7000 additional job cuts...
Cable riding growing ARPU wave
By: By Carol Wilson
As U.S. cable companies make a major push into voice over IP, they are already reaping major rewards for their earlier ventures into cable modems and digital TV service....
France Telecom seeks rest of Equant
By: By Carol Wilson
France Telecom will apparently complete its bailout of slumping Equant, even as the latter admitted that 2005 will be "a very difficult year."...
Copper Mountain turns mole hill
By: By Ed Gubbins
Equipment vendor Copper Mountain Networks announced late Friday it would cut most of its work force by March 22, as the company continues to pursue "strategic alternatives," including the sale of the company....
