VON: EarthLink expands line-powered voice
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--EarthLink is expanding its line-power VoIP offering to nine new cities, adding Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego and Washington...
VON: Connect123 partners with Perimeter
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--Connect123.net, a Raleigh, N.C.- based provider of VoIP services in 915 U.S. markets, announced today it is using Perimeter Networks Unified Threat Management suite of managed security services to offer its small to mid-sized business customers...
VON: AOL dresses up AIM Phoneline
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--AOL is opening up its AIM Phoneline interface to outside developers, hoping to build a compelling product that can compete in the crowded VoIP space with Google, Yahoo!, Skype and others...
VON: Broadwing, XO merger rumored
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--Rumors that competitive service providers Broadwing Communications and XO Communications are about to announce a merger are whistling through the VON trade show...
VON: Start-up hopes to be more than a blip
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--A New York-based start-up is trying to get ahead of the video-on-the-Internet wave, hoping not to get swamped...
VON: TV over IP about to explode
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--While telecom service providers scramble to launch IPTV, the TV over the Internet movement is taking off on its own, promising to bring diverse programming to PCs and television sets everywhere. So hot is TV over IP that it took over the opening keynote session of the VON conference...
Savings wars: Cable, telco lobbyists tout consumer benefits
By: By Carol Wilson
Feeling any richer? According to cable and telco lobbyists, we should all soon reap billions of dollars in benefits from their competition...
Pro-neutrality folks say momentum is shifting
By: By Carol Wilson
Net neutrality proponents say grassroots support for Congressional action to prevent tiered service offerings from major network operators is growing and beginning to influence members of the U.S. Senate...
Juniper boosts broadband router capacity
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks is boosting the capacity of its E320 broadband services router this month, keeping a promise made last year...
Global Crossing enters VoIP peering market
By: By Carol Wilson
Global Crossing this morning threw its hat into the VoIP peering ring, launching VoIP Community Peering, which brings its end-to-end IP connectivity to service providers...
Flanigan retires from TIA
By: By Carol Wilson
Matt Flanigan is retiring as president of the Telecommunications Industry Association and will be replaced by Grant Seiffert, the group announced today...
AT&T tackles disaster recovery challenge
By: By Carol Wilson
Disaster recovery has been very much on people’s minds a year after Hurricane Katrina, but for AT&T, disaster recovery and business continuity have been an ongoing challenge that isn’t associated with any single event but with many. Click here to read this business continuity special report...
Minneapolis picks US Internet
By: By Carol Wilson
The city of Minneapolis has chosen US Internet to build and operate its citywide wireless network. The decision is a blow to EarthLink, which was the other finalist participating in a trial held in July...
California legislature passes video reform
By: By Carol Wilson
California is poised on the verge of statewide video franchises after the General Assembly passed a video franchise measure Thursday by a vote of 66-6...
A Telephony Podcast: Business Continuity
With so many businesses vulnerable to disruption and data loss in the wake of disasters, business continuity and disaster recovery have emerged as critically important parts of service providers’ strategies. Join Telephony’s Carol Wilson and Jason Meyers as they discuss what the concept of business continuity means and how service providers in different categories are approaching it...
Verizon’s got gamers
By: By Carol Wilson
Some see Verizon as a stodgy telephone company and others see it as an evil empire, but the company is earning props from one cutting-edge group of customers. Gamers are applauding Verizon’s new PlayLinc service and online community Web site...
In the spotlight: MegaPath’s Greg Davis
By: By Carol Wilson
Three months after Netifice and MegaPath merged, creating the new MegaPath as a national provider of managed IP services, the company said this week it is making an equity investment in DSL.net, a broadband service provider operating out of 350 collocation spots in 12 New England and Mid-Atlantic states. The acquisition is a bit of a departure for MegaPath as DSL.net operates its own DSLAMs, taking the managed service provider into the facilities-based business. Editor-at-Large Carol Wilson spoke with Greg Davis, vice president of marketing for MegaPath, on the pending acquisition...
Verizon rescinds post-USF 'surcharge'
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon today said it is rescinding a surcharge the company imposed on its DSL customers, rather than lower rates when the Universal Service Fund requirement was lifted. ...
Pressure mounts on Verizon over USF fees
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon is coming under increased pressure to pass on to its DSL customers the Universal Service Fund fee it no longer has to collect on its high-speed Internet access lines....
Verizon adds features to DSL command center
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon has enhanced the residential communications command center it sells with its DSL service to include e-mail access, enriched weather maps, the latest entertainment news, sneak peaks at upcoming movies, wireless home networking, the latest lottery results and the ability to transfer cell-phone photos to the Verizon One phone....
MegaPath makes bid for DSL.net
By: By Carol Wilson
Managed services provider MegaPath today announced plans to extend its reach by investing in DSL.net, with plans to buy the competitive carrier....
Verizon, MS add Windows Live to broadband portal
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon today said it is extending its ongoing relationship with Microsoft to add Microsoft Windows Live to the co-branded portal the two companies have operated since 2003...
RCN adds wireless
By: By Carol Wilson
RCN today announced it has added wireless service to its bundled offering, partnering with MobilePro initially in its Boston market....
Nextlink expands footprint, reach for XO
By: By Carol Wilson
Nextlink Wireless, the fixed broadband wireless arm of XO Holdings, today announced three new markets for its service, as well as a plan for XO Communications to use Nextlink’s wireless service in all nine of its markets....
California PUC relaxes regulations
By: By Carol Wilson
The California Public Utilities Commission acted yesterday to remove many regulatory requirements on its largest incumbent telephone companies, enabling greater pricing flexibility for AT&T, Frontier, SureWest and Verizon....
