Muni nets require phased approach, says Yankee 

By: By Carol Wilson

Municipalities that want to build their own broadband networks can reduce the financial risk of doing so by taking a phased approach that carefully ties investment to community demand for services, according to a new Yankee Group report...

Alltel hits five-year ARPU high 

By: By Carol Wilson

A 16% jump in wireless revenues drove a solid quarter for Alltel, which hit a five-year high in average revenue per wireless customer as well. Wireline revenue was down two percent and wireline income was off eight percent, however, despite the addition of 36,000 DSL customers and a slight one percent increase in wireline ARPU. ...

CopperCom taps IPCC exec as new CTO 

By: By Tim McElligott

Manuel Vexler, the marketing and technical strategy force behind the industry’s primary softswitching forum and chair of the SIP Forum Service Provider Working Group, re-entered the vendor community today as chief technology officer at CopperCom....

Iowa Telecom access lines down, DSL up 

By: By Carol Wilson

Iowa Telecom posted lower revenue and operating income, as its access lines also continued to decline. The company announced revenue of $58 million, down almost 8% from the second quarter of 2004, but attributed the decrease to one-time revenue recognized a year ago....

Time Warner Cable posts double-digit gains 

By: By Carol Wilson

Time-Warner Cable today announced double-digit growth in its revenues and the sales of its enhanced digital services and its high-speed Internet access services ...

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...

Time Warner Telecom sees enterprise revenue boost  

By: By Carol Wilson

Time Warner Telecom reported increased revenue in its enterprise customer segment, and a narrower loss for the second quarter of 2005, even though carrier revenues decreased...

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...

Broadwing's earnings jump on data, broadband 

By: By Carol Wilson

Broadwing posted significant revenue growth and a smaller net loss for the second quarter of 2005, based on the inclusion of Focal Communications’ revenue and growth of its own data and broadband services....

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...

Robbins retires at Cox 

Cox Communications yesterday announced a sweeping changing of its executive guard, triggered by the retirement of long-time CEO James Robbins. ...

HomeNet departure doesn’t rattle iProvo 

By: By Carol Wilson

The departure of its initial service provider has brought negative publicity to iProvo, one of the more high-profile municipal fiber optic networks now under construction...

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....

McLeodUSA fails to find a buyer 

By: By Ed Gubbins

McLeodUSA is negotiating with its lenders to restructure the company’s capital after a four-month search to find a buyer or strategic partner failed...

Survey says: IT spending drives revenues 

By: By Carol Wilson

Juniper Networks today released a study that shows enterprises that place the most importance on information technology and are willing to adopt new technology do better financially...

Verizon-MCI merger problematic, says NY-PSC staff 

By: By Carol Wilson

A New York Public Service Commission staff report concludes that allowing Verizon and MCI Communications to merge without imposing serious conditions would reduce competition in the mass market, enterprise, transport and special access markets...

Zhone to acquire Paradyne 

By: By Vince Vittore

Zhone Technologies announced today that it will acquire Paradyne Networks in an all-stock transaction....

Google, Goldman backing BPL 

By: By Carol Wilson

Current Communications, which is conducting the largest broadband-over-powerline deployment in the U.S., today announced a new round of financing of about $100 million from investment firm Goldman Sachs & Co., search engine leader Google Inc., media giant The Hearst Corp. and its existing investors, Liberty Associated Partners and EnerTech Capital...

Munis hit back at Heartland 

By: By Carol Wilson

A Heartland Institute study challenging the financial viability of municipal broadband networks is rife with “mistakes, misinterpretations, unsupported and insupportable claims, irrelevancies, innuendos, key omissions and obvious untruths,” according to Jim Baller of The Baller Herbst Law Group...

Eagle Broadband goes after ‘naked shorting’ 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Eagle Broadband believes illegal securities trading known as “naked shorting” is partly to blame for the decline in its stock price in recent months...

Heartland report challenges Lafayette plan 

By: By Carol Wilson

A new Heartland Institute study claims that the city of Lafayette, La., is greatly underestimating the marketing and content acquisition costs it will face in building and operating services over a fiber-to-the-home network...

UAC buys some of NextitaOne's enterprise voice biz 

By: By Dan O'Shea

United Asset Coverage, a provider of integrated telecommunications and data networking maintenance services, announced this week that it is acquiring a portion of the enterprise voice maintenance business of NextiraOne, an enterprise IP service provider. ...

SBC, WilTel enter into new service agreement 

By: By Carol Wilson

SBC Communications will pay WilTel Communications $236 million dollars to terminate its previous service agreement and enter into a new master service agreement to use WilTel’s fiber optic backbone network to provide redundancy and off-net even after it completes its merger with AT&T, the two companies announced today...

Broadband Front Lines: Not-for-profit targets new ways to fund muni nets 

By: By Carol Wilson

A new not-for-profit organization is taking a fresh approach to aiding municipalities in building broadband networks, creating an unusual public-private partnership built primarily on community involvement. ...

Competitors shuffle in shadows 

By: By Ed Gubbins and Carol Wilson

With Verizon winning MCI and SBC getting AT&T, Qwest continues to look for mega-merger love while BellSouth and Sprint plot their own strategies...