BellSouth goes unwired in two more markets
By: By Dan O'Shea
Continuing its strategy to roll out broadband wireless access in more markets, BellSouth this week said it will launch service in select parts of Albany, Ga., and Paducah, Ky., by later this month...
AT&T launches Internet content hub
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T is moving deeper into Internet content, creating its own content hub, to include a new online gaming site...
AT&T adds DSL tier and new pricing
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T today announced new simplified consumer broadband pricing that includes month-to-month rates and added a new speed tier at 6 Mb/s downstream...
Burger King gets its way with MegaPath
By: By Carol Wilson
Managed service provider MegaPath will provide a national network to connect Burger King Corp. with its more than 500 restaurant franchisees in an end-to-end high-speed secure network...
California to issue video franchises
By: By Dan O'Shea
California late last week became the latest state to create a statewide video franchise program, a move that had been expected since both sides of the state legislature and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had earlier expressed support for such a law...
Survey: Consumers will pay for convergence
By: By Carol Wilson
Some new research by an independent telco in South Carolina shows broadband customers do want new convergence features and are willing to pay for them...
Nortel: The Lab Rat
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nortel Networks is aching for a rumble. Or, to use Nortel’s new WiMAX general manager Peter MacKinnon’s more domestic imagery, it’s ready to pit its WiMAX gear against any other vendors in a “competitive bake-off” to see whose is superior. Part two of a six-part online series...
Integra touts high poll numbers
By: By Carol Wilson
There is an undeniable trend within the telecom service provider industry to automate, to centralize and to streamline operations to attempt to serve customers well and save money in the process....
Verizon details FTTP cost curves and ROI
In a lengthy presentation Wednesday morning, Verizon Communications chief financial officer Doreen Toben illuminated the future trajectory of costs and returns associated with the company’s FiOS fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) deployment....
Verizon: National video franchises unnecessary
Though Verizon Communications has helped wage a legislative battle this year to enable nationwide franchising for video service, the carrier claims not to need a federal franchise to meet its video market penetration goals....
Verizon touts FiOS market, cost-cutting success
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon today issued its own report card for its FiOS fiber-to-the-premises network and services, seeking to show the investment community that the $18 billion, six-year investment strategy deserves an ‘A.’...
MVNOs gear up marketing
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Amp’d Mobile announced its second distribution deal this week, extending its retail presence to 600 Circuit City stores in addition to its distribution deal with Best Buy and its own online sales portal....
Turin adding staff after Broadwing win
With a nationwide U.S. carrier as a new customer, equipment vendor Turin Networks is hiring. As part of a five-year contract, Broadwing began deploying the largest version of Turin’s Traverse multiservice transport platform ...
Report: Cable bundles a big triumph
By: By Carol Wilson
Cable service bundles are not only luring telephone service customers, but they have helped stem the tide of video customers to satellite services...
Motorola acquires another VOD vendor
Motorola today announced another acquisition meant to bolster its video-on-demand (VOD) portfolio today, purchasing software vendor Vertasent for an undisclosed sum. ...
Verizon planning local content unit
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon is beginning to assemble an editorial staff for a new FiOS TV channel that will feature highly local content...
AT&T takes back 2000 DSL tech support jobs
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T is returning 2000 previously outsourced DSL technical support jobs to its own payroll, the company announced...
NCTA-funded study claims $100 billion in savings
By: By Carol Wilson
A study commissioned by the National Cable and Telecommunications Association is claiming consumers and small businesses could save up to $100 billion over the next five years because they now have a choice for local telephone service...
Adelstein assures rural telcos at NECA Expo
By: By Tim McElligott
FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein reassured the rural telecom community that the commission is working to ensure their ability to compete and deliver broadband services to their markets during his address yesterday to more than 800 attendees at the NECA Expo in Las Vegas...
FiOS TV reaches Indiana
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Tuesday announced plans to deploy FiOS TV in Fort Wayne, Ind., in 2007, marking its first video service in that state...
BellSouth signs DirecTV partners
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth is aggressively pursuing bundled services for multi-dwelling units, signing agreements with two DirecTV Master System Operators to jointly market and deploy to apartments, condos and new developments within its service territory...
VoIP changing business continuity
By: By Carol Wilson
Voice-over-IP technology can play a significant role in enabling businesses to stay up and running in the face of diverse disasters, but only if those businesses have planned in advance to use the best of what’s available today. Read this continuing business continuity special report here...
Verizon uses DirecTV for MDUs
By: By Ed Gubbins
Verizon Communications will partner with DirecTV to deliver video service to customers in multidwelling units (MDUs), the carrier announced today....
AT&T inks first cable content deal
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T and Comcast have signed a distribution deal that will enable AT&T to deliver Comcast video channels over its U-verse IPTV service...
VON: Level 3 gets new look
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--While its buying binge may not be over, Level 3 Communications is already looking like a different company and exploring some of its new options...
