Qwest announces ULH upgrade
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest Communications today said it has jumped into the ultra-long-haul pool, upgrading its national fiber-optic network to provide up to 40 gigabits of service. As part of the upgrade, Qwest has tripled the number of ad/drop ports for ultra-high-speed services, and made its QWave services available in more communities and to more customers...
Comptel: U.S. lagging in promoting competition
By: By Carol Wilson
By European standards, the U.S. is now lagging in promoting competition and consumer choice in the telecom industry, according to a report released yesterday by Comptel, the trade/lobbying organization that represents competitive carriers...
XO expands broadband wireless to 36 markets
By: By Carol Wilson
Partnering with affiliate company Nextlink, XO Communications today announced expansion of its fixed broadband wireless service into 24 new markets, providing alternative last-mile connections to service providers and business customers...
Juniper shrinks broadband router
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks introduced a new smaller version of its E320 broadband services router (BSR) today...
NXTcomm highlights
By: A Telephony staff report
The brand new trade show provided a venue for what's next in telecom, including new thinking about the customer experience...
Net neutrality takes two knocks
By: By Carol Wilson
FTC report, IDC study see no need for federal regulation...
Verizon, Comcast caught in FCC flap
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon today is refuting charges made by Comcast that the telecom giant is getting special treatment by the FCC, regarding an exemption from the agency’s ban on integrated set-top boxes...
In the Spotlight: Integra Telecom's Dudley Slater
By: By Carol Wilson
Dudley Slater is chief executive officer of Integra Telecom, a Portland, Ore., based competitive services provider that began in 1996 with the acquisition of a small voice and data provider and has continued to grow via expansion and acquisition. Its most notable addition was the 2006 acquisition of Electric Lightwave. The company is now closing on its 2007 acquisition of Eschelon Telecom. Slater spoke with Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson...
CRG-West rides IP content boom
By: By Carol Wilson
The transition to an all-Internet protocol network and subsequent boom in content is fueling more than one type of network business model...
IDC: Net neutrality proponents should negotiate
By: By Carol Wilson
A new report from IDC advises Web companies that are pushing for Net neutrality to instead begin to negotiate and partner with the broadband service providers whose facilities they will need for content distribution...
Mining the niches: GotVmail grows
By: By Carol Wilson
A small Massachusetts company is discovering the joys of mining the niches of the advanced services market, delivering a virtual PBX service to small businesses that is good enough to sell itself...
Virtela speeds business apps
By: By Carol Wilson
Global service provider Virtela today unveiled a new suite of managed services that it says enables faster application delivery and collaboration over a wide area network...
Sylantro fuels hosted VoIP for education market
By: By Carol Wilson
Education Networks of America, a managed Internet services provider targeting the education market, today said it is rolling out a hosted VoIP service for school districts, municipal and state agencies and libraries using Sylantro Systems’ Synergy platform...
FTC sees no need for Net neutrality
By: By Carol Wilson
Opponents to Net neutrality legislation applauded today’s release of a Federal Trade Commission report which urged the federal government to proceed with caution on any new Internet rules...
XO announces bandwidth on demand solution
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications today announced a new wholesale service offering that will enable its ISP, international, wireless and other telecom customers to buy bandwidth at bulk rates and have it provisioned on-demand across XO’s national footprint...
Intelliverse lays Brix on VoIP
By: By Carol Wilson
Hosted VoIP provider Intelliverse today said it is adding customer-monitoring to its services, using converged service assurance capabilities from Brix Networks...
AT&T adds two U-verse markets
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T announced today that it has added the Ohio cities of Akron and Cleveland to its U-verse roster, bringing the total number of IPTV markets to 23...
Verizon links with Softbank
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business said today it has entered into a strategic alliance with SoftBank Telecom to share networks and services for multinational customers doing business in Japan...
BT spins off content customization company
By: By Carol Wilson
BT announced this week it is spinning off a new venture, Real Time Content, to capitalize on technology it developed that enables real-time customization of video content for personalized advertising and content delivery...
AT&T offering $10 DSL
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T is keeping a promise it made to the Federal Communications Commission to make broadband more affordable by launching a $10 DSL service, available to new customers who sign a one-year contract...
Telecom issues going nowhere in Washington
By: By Carol Wilson
Not only is major telecommunications reform completely unlikely in Washington this year, but significant issues that once seemed headed for action now are languishing, overshadowed by larger developments such as the war in Iraq and immigration...
NXTcomm: Verizon launches FMC portfolio
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon this week launched a portfolio of fixed/mobile convergence products targeting the enterprise segment and drawing on the capabilities of both Verizon Business and Verizon Wireless...
Four service providers earn Communications Innovators Awards
By: By Dan O'Shea
CHICAGO--Towerstream, AT&T, Yipes Enterprise Services and Verizon Communications were the winners of the first Communications Innovators Awards at a Leadership Forum held during NXTcomm and co-hosted by Telephony and consulting firm New Paradigm Resources Group...
NXTcomm: AT&T takes Homezone high-def
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T today announced that its Homezone service, which integrates AT&T Yahoo! DSL broadband with DISH Network video, now will feature its High Definition content line-up, with more than 30 national HD channels and additional local HD content...
Clearwire partners with Echostar, DirecTV
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Clearwire today said it has signed mutual distribution deals with EchoStar and DirecTV, allowing Clearwire to sell the two satellite providers’ TV services and allowing EchoStar and DirecTV to sell Clearwire’s broadband wireless service...
