Bells: DSL subs and speeds rising
By: By Ed Gubbins
The Bells’ broadband efforts fared better in the third quarter than in the second. AT&T, BellSouth, Qwest Communications and Verizon Communications gained a combined 1,179,000 broadband subscribers in the third quarter, up 17% from the second quarter...
Qwest stays on profitability track
By: By Carol Wilson
Despite a second dip in revenues, Qwest Communications posted its third straight profitable quarter, based on improved sales of higher value products and continued cost containment...
Wireless keeps Verizon growing
By: By Carol Wilson
Buoyed mostly by its Verizon Wireless unit, Verizon today reported a 25% increase in revenues and a 2.8% increase in profits that also reflected broadband and data sales. The revenue increase reflects its integration of MCI, which is proceeding on schedule, Chief Financial Officer Doreen Toben said today...
In the spotlight: John Grady, Nextlink Wireless
By: By Carol Wilson
Nextlink Wireless is a sister company to XO Communications, focusing on last-mile broadband wireless access using LMDS spectrum licenses in the top 75 U.S. markets. As a carrier’s carrier, Nextlink sells to both wireless and wireline operators as well as large entities such as the federal government. John Grady, director of marketing for Nextlink, spoke to Editor-at-Large Carol Wilson about the role his firm can play in business continuity planning...
AT&T launches remote home video monitoring
By: By Carol Wilson
&T today announced a new home monitoring service that allows customers to view what is happening at their homes from a remote PC or a Cingular wireless phone...
Three vying to buy AT&T divested assets
By: By Carol Wilson
In a filing this week with the Federal Communications Commission, AT&T revealed that Time Warner Telecom, Level 3 Communications and AboveNet are all vying to buy some of the network assets it is divesting as part of the AT&T-SBC Communications merger...
BT acquires Counterpane
By: By Carol Wilson
BT today announced that it has acquired managed security service provider Counterpane Internet Security, a privately held Silicon Valley company...
Net neutrality enters merger debate
By: By Carol Wilson
The coalition of groups backing Net neutrality is asking the Federal Communications Commission to use the merger of AT&T and BellSouth as an opportunity to impose stricter conditions on non-discriminatory use of the Internet than the FCC has today...
AT&T revenues jump, U-verse ‘on track’
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T reported a 74% increase in third-quarter revenues, based on wireless growth, improved wireline performance and faster-than-expected integration of AT&T and SBC Communications...
Cisco introduces telepresence system
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems today introduced what it calls a “telepresence system” that provides realistic, remote “face-to-face” meeting experiences over video. Though most people would call it video-conferencing, Cisco would prefer they don’t...
Expansion plans hurt EarthLink’s earnings
By: By Carol Wilson
EarthLink’s sky-high ambitions have brought the company’s earnings crashing down to earth, as its Helio wireless investment was largely responsible for a third-quarter loss of $3.2 million, or two cents per share...
BellSouth partners on community portal
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth Community Technologies, a unit that deals with planned communities and multi-dwelling units, has partnered with Resident Interactive to jointly market a community portal that developers can offer to their residents. ...
Updated: Level 3 buys Broadwing
By: By Carol Wilson
Long-rumored as an acquisition target of either Global Crossing or XO Communications, Broadwing today was acquired instead by Level 3 Communications, which will pay $1.393 billion in aggregate stock and cash...
Merger rhetoric heating up
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T and BellSouth have made public a list of conditions the two companies have suggested to the FCC to pave the way to approval of their merger, but at least one merger opponent is saying those conditions amount to short-term salves to long-term problems the merger will create...
AT&T-BellSouth merger faces longer delay
By: By Carol Wilson
The $81 billion merger of AT&T and BellSouth won’t take place for at least another 10 days, after the Federal Communications Commission vote scheduled for today was postponed by the two Democratic commissioners, Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein...
CLECs challenge AT&T 'back-room lobbying'
By: By Carol Wilson
Two competitive carriers – NuVox Communications and XO Communications – this morning filed an emergency motion with the Federal Communications Commission, asked the agency to disclose all communications it has had with AT&T in the final hours before the FCC’s vote on the AT&T-BellSouth merger. ...
FCC opens video inquiry
By: By Carol Wilson
The Federal Communications Commission today said it will conduct an assessment of competition in the video market, to include the impact of Internet-based video and IPTV...
FCC merger vote delayed
By: By Carol Wilson
The Federal Communications Commission has delayed its vote on the AT&T-BellSouth merger, originally scheduled for today, prompting speculation that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is still trying to convince the panel’s two Democrats to approve the merger...
Comptel: Wayport goes beyond hot spots
By: By Carol Wilson
ORLANDO--Wayport is probably best known as the company who provides Wi-Fi networks to hotels and airports, but as Wi-Fi becomes ubiquitous, it has plans for much more than hotspots...
Comptel: Rooftop collocation may be next
By: By Carol Wilson
ORLANDO--If broadband wireless technology proves more successful in this generation than in earlier versions, the next great frontier for collocation could be building rooftops...
Comptel: A wholesale comeback
By: By Carol Wilson
ORLANDO--When the telecom bubble burst, the wholesale market was probably hit the hardest. The fiber glut and the demise of many CLEC customers combined to drive down prices and drive out some players...
Comptel: Qwest ups wholesale ante
By: By Carol Wilson
ORLANDO--Qwest today unveiled a new wholesale service offering aimed at making it easier for CLECs to buy a package of local exchange services...
Comptel: Vanco unveils virtual service portal
By: By Carol Wilson
Virtual network operator Vanco has unveiled a Web portal through which service providers and enterprise customers can gain rapid access to broadband pipes and guaranteed bandwidth on a global basis...
Comptel: Nextlink opens wireless channel
By: By Carol Wilson
ORLANDO--Nextlink, the broadband wireless arm of XO Holdings, today announced a reseller program to make wireless connections for both backhaul and last-mile connections easier to access...
FTTH Con: Muni broadband advocate sees ‘rosy picture’
By: By Ed Gubbins
LAS VEGAS--After years of fighting to protect the rights of municipalities to provide broadband and other telecom services, Jim Baller, an attorney with the Baller-Herbst Law Group, has to admit he’s breathing a lot easier these days...
