Fast enough for you?
By: By Ed Gubbins
The telecom industry has forever wrestled with the question of how much bandwidth to deliver to residential consumers. But this year, a chorus of authoritative voices is offering new proposals for specific speed goals...
Peak8 offers customer service solution
By: By Carol Wilson
A new Web service is claiming to offer broadband service providers an opportunity to turn their current customer service problems into a revenue center with a higher quality of customer satisfaction...
In the Spotlight: Adva CTO Christoph Glingener
By: By Ed Gubbins
In January, equipment vendor Adva Optical Networking named Christoph Glingener to the newly created post of chief technology officer. The former head of Siemens’ dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) group...
Meru launches 802.11n line
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Meru Networks today unveiled a line of enterprise wireless LAN equipment based on the still-under-development IEEE 802.11n standard, joining the growing line of WLAN vendors choosing to commercially launch the robust broadband technology before it the standard is finalized...
AT&T names new CEO, chairman
By: Ed Gubbins
Ed Whitacre, the chairman and CEO of AT&T, will retire in June, he announced at the company’s annual shareholders meeting Friday. Randall Stephenson, the company’s chief operating officer since 2004, will assume both roles....
Moving fuels shift from wireline service
By: By Carol Wilson
New research is showing that almost half of all households that move shift their new telecom service to a non-traditional service provider such as a wireless operator, a cable company or a VoIP provider...
Ericsson sees global network growth
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Ericsson painted a rosy picture for future wireless infrastructure growth today, reporting moderate growth in its own network equipment in the 1st quarter and projecting mid-single-digit growth for GSM/W-CDMA networks for 2007...
Updated: Tellabs suffers from drop in FTTC sales to BellSouth
By: By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs reported a drop in first-quarter revenue today driven by weaker sales of fiber-to-the-curb (FTTC) equipment to BellSouth following that carrier’s acquisition by AT&T...
China IPTV market ready to bust out?
By: By Carol Wilson
HANGZHOU, China--The co-founder of a leading Chinese telecom equipment vendor is predicting that China soon will be the largest IPTV market in the world, with as many as 1 million subscribers by year’s end, because it has overcome the significant barriers to deployment of the new technology...
AT&T, Chase keep three-screen promise
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T and Chase Card Services today said they are delivering on the promise to offer Tim McGraw’s “Swampstock” music festival on three screens simultaneously, as the first major content advertising deal through AT&T Entertainment Services...
Updated: Avici exiting router business
By: By Ed Gubbins
Avici Systems is exiting the core router business upon which it was founded more than ten years ago to focus on software, the company announced today. ...
AT&T combines wireline, wireless for business
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T today unveiled new integrated offers that let businesses of all sizes order both wireline and wireless services from a single point of contact and at greater volume discounts. The services include both voice and data offerings and promise ease-of-use for businesses whose employees are often mobile...
AT&T’s U-Verse deployment gains speed
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T is accelerating its deployment of U-verse triple-play services, the company said today. The carrier claims to be averaging about 2,000 U-Verse installations a week now, five times the rate in January...
XO rolls out mid-band Ethernet with Hatteras
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications today announced plans to roll out a national mid-band Ethernet service using Ethernet-over-copper gear from Hatteras Networks. A multi-million dollar contract between the two companies establishes the HN 4000 and HN 400 as the exclusive platforms for XO as it extends the reach of its Ethernet services in 60 metropolitan markets...
Broadband Forum chief calls IPTV “on the brink”
By: By Carol Wilson
The chairman of the Broadband Services Forum planned to tell the National Association of Broadcasters today that IPTV is “on the brink of a breakthrough,” according to a pre-released copy of his remarks...
Both sides now
By: By Carol Wilson
As a journalist, I’m always supposed to be objective, but everyone knows that can sometimes be impossible. In the recent dispute between a group of Iowa telephone companies and industry giants such as AT&T and Qwest, however, it’s easy to stay objective because I can easily understand both points of view...
Game on at Microsoft
By: By Tim McElligott
Gaming continues to drive broadband adoption and usage as On Broadband Networks, a joint venture between Showtime Networks and game publisher Broadband Libraries, and Microsoft said today ...
SES Americom pumps up IP Prime
By: By Carol Wilson
With its commercial launch only weeks away, IP Prime – the IPTV satellite service developed by SES Americom – today announced major additions to its channel lineup...
Verizon Business adopts new customer service model
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business has launched an ambitious plan to change the way it handles customer service, and is exploring other options as well to bring capabilities such as fixed-mobile convergence to its customers as a network service...
Paetec announces national security service
By: By Carol Wilson
Competitive services provider Paetec today announced the national rollout of network-based firewall service designed to create hassle-free security for mid-sized to large businesses and enterprises...
Qwest points to business successes
By: By Carol Wilson
Having put its financial house in order, Qwest Communications is now polishing its image as a quality business services provider, and getting considerable help in that regard from recent customer surveys and studies...
Cable bundles leaving telcos in the cold
By: By Carol Wilson
An annual study of the battle for eyeballs between cable and telco rivals show cable companies are still winning the war, with no change expected soon...
Business data gets a touch of class
By: By Carol Wilson
Carriers are adopting more classes of service as their ability to manage service quality becomes more granular...
AT&T, Verizon outdo cable in business ratings
By: By Carol Wilson
The most recent J.D. Power and Associates study of business data customers shows AT&T leading the way for large enterprises and Verizon scoring highest with small to mid-sized businesses...
Level 3 completes AT&T asset buy
By: By Carol Wilson
Divestiture orders are spreading AT&T and Verizon fiber assets through the competitive industry. Level 3 Communications today announced that it has completed the acquisition of fiber assets from AT&T in Detroit, Hartford, Kansas City, Milwaukee, San Francisco and St. Louis...
