A Telephony Podcast: ITU Telecom World Preview
The ITU Telecom World show commences for the first time in Hong Kong next week. Telephony Editor-at-Large Carol Wilson discusses how she expects the event’s Asian debut to be different as she prepares to cover the show...
Verizon lands McCoy’s with satellite package
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business today is trumpeting its successful courting of McCoy’s Building Supply, a Texas-based retailer and former AT&T customer which operates 85 retail centers in five Southern states...
Democrats likely to change reform direction
By: By Carol Wilson
The reassertion of Democratic control in Congress will impact key telecom issues currently under debate in Washington, including Net neutrality, universal...
BPL freedom from unbundling no panacea
By: By Ed Gubbins
The FCC moved to level the regulatory playing field between broadband over powerline, or BPL, and other forms of broadband this month, though BPL is not...
Clearwire launches first major market
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Clearwire has entered its first major metro market, announcing today it has rolled out services in the greater Seattle-Puget Sound area. The metropolitan region covers Seattle, Tacoma and Everett, Wash., and contains roughly 2 million people...
Microsoft to support metro Wi-Fi
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Microsoft is getting into the municipal Wi-Fi business, announcing this week a partnership with MetroFi to bring content and advertising to the service provider’s free Wi-Fi public access network in Portland, Ore...
Motorola acquires Netopia
By: By Ed Gubbins
Motorola will acquire Netopia for about $208 million in cash, the companies announced today...
AT&T debuts optical bandwidth-on-demand
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T today announced a new optical service that delivers bandwidth-on-demand, enabling customers to use AT&T’s self-service portal to administer their Sonet networks...
Verizon unveils integrated portal
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business today announced a new integrated customer portal that ties together the previous efforts of Verizon and MCI Communications and adds new features and tools as well...
ABI: Media servers rising
By: By Carol Wilson
Media server technology will play a growing role as digital content and distribution is increasingly a multi-platform affair, reports ABI Research. As a result, a media server strategy is increasingly a required part of major platforms for both the retail and service provider markets, according to ABI’s report, “Home Media Servers and Entertainment Hubs.”...
A Telephony Podcast: TelcoTV Recap
The recent TelcoTV conference in Dallas was the place to be to discuss the deployment status and technology progression of IPTV. Telephony's Ed Gubbins and Dan O'Shea analyze who's who in IPTV, the importance of personalized programming and why YouTube took center stage...
XO narrows loss on cost control
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Holdings reported higher adjusted EBITDA and a narrower loss, despite lower revenues for its primary unit, XO Communications. For the third quarter, the company had $352.3 million in revenue, $33.9 million in adjusted EBITDA and a net loss of $23.0 million...
AT&T adds games to blue room
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T has added online gaming to its AT&T blue room site, hoping to lure the growing gamer crowd to its content portal. Parks Associates has predicted that gaming will be a $4.4 billion industry by 2010...
Worldwide cable surging
By: By Carol Wilson
Cable TV operators are slowly growing their base worldwide but more importantly are improving their reputation for service, according to In-Stat’s annual survey of cable operations...
TWT narrows loss
By: By Carol Wilson
Time Warner Telecom announced improved results from a third quarter that included major financial events including closing of its acquisition of Xpedius, the metro fiber optic service provider TWT bought for $576 million...
TelcoTV: Content developer acquisitions unlikely
By: By Dan O'Shea
DALLAS--Content company executives for the most part don’t believe in the possibility that telcos could acquire or invest in studios and other content developer to help them create exclusive content for their IPTV efforts...
TelcoTV: MoCA announces certifications, new member TI
By: By Dan O'Shea
DALLAS--The Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) announced at the TelcoTV conference and expo here that it recently certified its seventeenth product interface. The agency also said that Texas Instruments had become its latest member...
Cable companies make a comeback
By: By Carol Wilson
The cable industry, led by Comcast, made a significant comeback in selling cable modems in the third quarter, according to Information Gatekeepers Inc., an industry analyst firm that has been predicting DSL growth will overtake cable modem deployment...
Verizon launches Private IP at Layer 2
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business today expanded its Private IP service portfolio, giving enterprise customers an option for using its multi-protocol label switched (MPLS) backbone network without surrendering control of their IP routing...
Surewest fights line loss with broadband
By: By Ed Gubbins
Surewest Communications reported revenue and net income growth in the third quarter as broadband growth offset access line losses...
Merger approval in limbo at FCC
By: By Carol Wilson
The $80 billion dollar merger of AT&T and BellSouth, which sailed through the approval process at the state level and the Department of Justice, has temporarily run aground at the Federal Communications Commission. ...
Verizon, Intel team on TV gaming
By: By Carol Wilson
In its latest initiative in the gaming arena, Verizon has now teamed with Intel to make Verizon Games On Demand available via Intel’s Viiv technology platform, which makes PC-based content viewable on a TV set...
Broadwing logs best quarter
By: By Carol Wilson
Broadwing, soon to become part of Level 3 Communications, posted its strongest quarter to date, with an increase in revenues and adjusted EBITDA, and a narrowing of both operating and net losses...
In the Spotlight: Matt Desch, Iridium Satellite
By: By Jason Meyers
Matt Desch--former CEO of Telcordia, 13-year veteran of Nortel’s executive ranks and a long-time fixture in the mobile and broadband worlds--was recently named CEO of Iridium Satellite. Telephony’s Jason Meyers talked to Desch about Iridium’s legacy, the capabilities of its network and what the future holds...
AT&T Homezone goes wide
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T today took the wraps off its Homezone service, announcing the integrated DSL/satellite TV home networking service is now available in 12 of its 13 states, the exception being Connecticut...
