Global Crossing makes bid for Fibernet
By: By Carol Wilson
Global Crossing is making a bid to expand its U.K. operations, offering $96.1 million for Fibernet Group, a competitive service provider. ...
Redefining business continuity
By: By Carol Wilson
Like all major telecom service providers, AT&T got a wake-up call in 2005, when a series of hurricanes wiped out networks throughout the Southeast and forced many businesses to consider a more serious approach to disaster recovery and business continuity than they had taken in the past...
Calls for unity at CoBank conference
By: By Tim McElligott
Acknowledging the strength in numbers, independent and cooperative telecom companies and their financiers spoke this week at the 2006 CoBank Executive Forum in Beaver Creek, Colo., about the need for a more unified front to regulators and equipment vendors...
AT&T favors HomePNA over MoCA
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T has selected HomePNA 3 as the preferred in-home distribution technology for its fiber-to-the-node triple-play offering...
New Edge adds CoS to MPLS
By: By Carol Wilson
New Edge Networks today announced new class-of-service features for its nationwide multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) network, aimed at helping the EarthLink subsidiary compete more aggressively for business services...
Verizon brings bandwidth on demand to wholesale
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon's wholesale organization today said it will trial what is believed to be the industry's first bandwidth-on-demand solution for carrier customers next week in New York City. ...
Cisco buys Arroyo Video Solutions
By: By Carol Wilson
Cisco Systems Monday night announced it has acquired Arroyo Video Solutions, a maker of video networking software, as it develops a major video strategy...
Analysis: DVR battle just beginning
By: By Carol Wilson
EchoStar Communications has won permission, for the time being, to continue selling its digital video recorder services, after a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., issued a temporary hold on a Texas court order that block those sales...
Juniper touts sliding market share
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks this week touted having held its place as the world's number-two supplier of service provider routers in the second quarter, even as its share of that market slipped sequentially....
RCN divests S.F. system
By: By Carol Wilson
RCN announced today that it sold its San Francisco cable system to Astound Broadband, as part of the company's strategic plan to focus on its Northeast and Chicago properties....
Level 3 lands MySpace
By: By Carol Wilson
Level said today that social networking site MySpace.com had signed a multi-year agreement for high-capacity IP service. ...
Homezone invades San Diego
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T said this morning that San Diego will be the next market for its Homezone service, which ties DISH network satellite video services into a home network with AT&T’s DSL Internet access and voice services...
Cavalier teams with Perimeter on security
By: By Carol Wilson
Cavalier Telephone today announced a new on-demand security service for its small to mid-sized business customers, based on a partnership with Perimeter Internetworking....
SureWest bumps up DSL speeds
By: By Carol Wilson
SureWest announced late Tuesday that it will increase the speeds of the Internet access service it sells to long-time Roseville, Calif., customers. ...
XO beefs up email security
By: By Carol Wilson
XO today launched a new email protection service, designed to help businesses both protect and control the costs of email by combating junk email, denial of service attacks and viruses. ...
Paetec, US LEC to merge
By: By Carol Wilson
US LEC and Paetec, both competitive service providers, are the latest to join the consolidation wave, announcing this morning that they will merge to form “New PAETEC,” a company worth about $1.3 billion...
Survivors turn hunters in telecom jungle
By: By Carol Wilson
As competitive carriers get financially healthy, speculation grows as to how they'll spend their millions...
Global Crossing charts a new course
By: By Carol Wilson
The one-time high flyer gets practical--and profitable--in the post-boom telecom reality...
New York City key victory for AT&T
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T is viewing its new contract with the City of New York as a major milestone for the company and a potential model for business in cities where it is not already an incumbent provider....
Moffat leaves New Edge
By: By Carol Wilson
With the company he founded safely ensconced inside EarthLink, telecom industry veteran Dan Moffat is taking some time off to ponder his next opportunity. Moffat announced today that he is leaving New Edge Networks and will be taking some personal time to travel...
Global Crossing earnings on track
By: By Carol Wilson
Global Crossing’s second quarter earnings lived up to advance billing, as the company was able to post its first sequential growth in consolidated revenue for three years, as well as positive adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) status for the month of June. ...
SureWest continues operational revamp in Q2
By: By Tim McElligott
With two quarters under his belt as CEO, SureWest's Steve Oldham is looking to the future and a long-term payoff to his cost-cutting initiatives and operational changes. ...
BellSouth announces virtual Metro Ethernet
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth today added new classes of service to its Metro Ethernet offering, creating Virtual BellSouth Metro Ethernet Service, designed to meet specific business needs....
Cable Labs finalizes DOCSIS 3.0 specs
By: By Carol Wilson
Cable Labs yesterday released its final specifications for DOCSIS 3.0, the latest generation of cable modem technology. The much-anticipated specs will allow cable companies to better compete against fiber optic initiatives....
Yankee: Triple Play a $143 billion opportunity
By: By Carol Wilson
Cable and telephone companies are chasing about up to $145.3 billion in service revenue as they try to attract new triple play customers over the next three years, according to new research from the Yankee Group. ...
