Comptel: MetaSwitch/Calix tout joint solution, customers
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--Calix and MetaSwitch used Comptel to announce the first fruits of their joint development partnership, including two customers and completion of joint H.248 interoperability testing...
Comptel: XO launches national bandwidth services
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--XO Communications is capitalizing on its recently completed national fiber optic backbone to offer high-capacity services to enterprises and other carriers with built-in guarantees on price and installation, along with a 90-day risk-free trial offer...
Comptel: Verizon wholesale seeks national service
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--Verizon Partner Solutions, the company’s wholesale arm, is responding to customer demand by creating a national wholesale service with uniform pricing...
Lafayette win could have broad impact
By: By Carol Wilson
More than 18 months after citizens of Lafayette, La., voted in favor of a municipally owned fiber-to-the-home network, the Louisiana State Supreme Court has reversed a court challenge to that network, paving the way for construction of the network...
OEN launches FTTP triple play in Houston
By: By Carol Wilson
Optical Entertainment Network (OEN) today said its fiber-based triple-play service is now ready for delivery to 5000 homes in the northwest side of Houston...
AT&T snags GM contract
By: By Dan O'Shea
AT&T said it has been awarded a five-year global networking contract worth nearly $1 billion by General Motors...
Deadline pressure drives CALEA compliance
By: By Tim McElligott
With one CALEA deadline having come and gone last week and another looming in three months, procrastinating service providers are scrambling to comply....
Microsoft’s CSF gains service provider traction
By: By Carol Wilson
Two announcements from Microsoft this morning show the company is gaining traction among service providers for its Connected Services Framework and its Telco 2.0 initiative...
Industry teams up on child safety
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T, Qwest, major cable players, two large social networking sites and other technology companies have joined together in a new effort to keep kids safe online and empower their parents in the process...
Qwest posts milestone year
By: By Carol Wilson
The year 2006 was a milestone for Qwest Communications, as the company was able to post its first full year of earnings per share and net income in each of the four quarters, based largely on strong sales of data and Internet services...
Time Warner Telecom charts growth
By: By Carol Wilson
Time Warner Telecom topped a year of growth with a quarter of growth, as its revenues increased to $238.8 million, up from $184.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2005...
FCC OKs extension on ICO satellite program
By: By Mark Donahue
ICO Global Communications announced this week that the FCC had granted its request for a five-month extension on milestones to construct and launch its geostationary satellite ICO G1...
NTCA: Start-ups target rural indoor market
By: By Tim McElligott
ORLANDO--Two start-ups, Home Phone Tunes and iControl Networks, were among the newcomers to the show floor at the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association’s annual meeting this year...
Helio booms, EarthLink’s profits bust
By: By Carol Wilson
Helio, the virtual mobile network operator jointly owned by EarthLink and SK Telecom, said today it will hit 100,000 subscribers in its youth demographic in April and is generating monthly revenue at a rate that exceeds $100 million a year...
NewStep lands BT
By: By Carol Wilson
Convergence software maker NewStep announced today that BT will roll out an enterprise fixed/mobile convergence service based on its CNS30 product...
Verizon Business combats DOS attacks in Europe
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon is stepping up its global managed security services by extending the reach of its denial-of-service (DOS) Defense Mitigation service to 11 European countries and offering a new secure gateway network-based firewall that allows customers to provide security for both private networks and secure tunnels through the Internet...
TIA study: 2006 U.S. telecom's strongest year
By: By Dan O'Shea
The good news is that, according to the Telecommunications Industry Association's recently released 2007 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast,...
Meet the new NOC
By: By Carol Wilson
Imagine you are sitting in Starbucks, sipping a latte, while a nicely dressed gentleman at the next table works on his laptop. If the man is Paul Floyd,...
AT&T gets ‘Smart’ about office parks
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T is taking an approach to serving new office parks within its 22-state local franchise territory that gets the company in on the ground floor--or lower...
Broadband advocate outlines eight steps to national plan
By: By Ed Gubbins
The Baller-Herbst law firm, a vocal broadband advocate best known as a supporter of municipal broadband, has published an eight-step plan to achieve a national broadband strategy...
TIA study: Global telecom market at $3 trillion
By: By Dan O'Shea
The Telecommunications Industry Association this week issued its “2007 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast” for the global telecommunications industry...
Another year, another big merger
By: By Carol Wilson
It really shouldn’t be a big surprise to discover that the merger of AT&T and SBC is going better than planned...
A Telephony Podcast: Challenges of the Carrier Megamerger
Telephony’s Dan O’Shea and Carol Wilson discuss the integration challenges wrought by large carrier mergers, including the recent rollups of AT&T/BellSouth and Verizon/MCI...
Verizon Business riding merger success
By: By Carol Wilson
The first in a two-part series reflecting on the AT&T-SBC and Verizon-MCI mergers a year later...
Cloudmark ups the ante on spammers
By: By Tim McElligott
ith its latest release of anti-abuse software for Internet service providers, Cloudmark said it can virtually eliminate spam from the world’s e-mail boxes...
