Buyer/supplier linkages crossing traditional lines
By: By Carol Wilson
New service demands and the rapid pace of industry change push service providers into closer arrangements with vendors. Click here to read the full-length version of this story...
Megamergers end a bad week
By: By Ed Gubbins
The two biggest mergers currently pending in the telecom industry are facing new doubts from Wall Street this week for entirely different reasons....
Judge extends merger review
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T and Verizon will have to wait until July 25 to find out if a federal judge will call new witnesses in his review of the mergers they closed months ago...
TIA: Video franchising bill must pass
By: By Dan O'Shea
The Telecommunications Industry Association, whose membership consists of many network equipment manufacturers that cater to both telcos and cable TV companies, wants see national video franchising legislation be approved quickly by the U.S. Senate, or it may run the risk of slowing broadband deployment....
Cable tops J.D. Power telephony survey
By: By Carol Wilson
Consumers think the best telephone companies are actually cable companies, according to the J.D. Power & Associates 2006 Residential All-Distance Telephone Customer Satisfaction Study...
Tut warns of another earnings shortfall
By: By Ed Gubbins
Video equipment vendor Tut Systems warned today that its second-quarter revenue and gross margin will be lower than previously indicated....
Mergers face new scrutiny
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T and Verizon will make arguments today in federal court that they hope will convince Judge Emmet G. Sullivan to approve what was once considered a routine consent decree as part of the AT&T-SBC and Verizon-MCI mergers...
Incumbents back number-based USF funding
By: By Carol Wilson
An unusual set of incumbent bedfellows, including the lobbying organizations for the telephone, wireless and cable industries, has come together to back a plan to adopt a numbers-based system for collecting Universal Service Fund money...
BellSouth offers mid-band Ethernet
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth today unveiled new Mid-Band Metro Ethernet Services that will make Ethernet access more available to smaller businesses and branch offices of larger businesses...
Comcast offers triple play for $99
By: By Carol Wilson
Comcast is ratcheting up the competition for bundle discounts, starting in San Francisco with a $99 promotional offer for the first year of voice, data and video services...
Municipal networks threaten incumbent revenues
By: By Carol Wilson
A new report from Pike & Fischer’s Broadband Advisory Services says municipal broadband networks do pose a threat to incumbent service providers, particularly where Wall Street and the investment community is concerned...
Broadband jazzes jukebox business
By: By Carol Wilson
The jukebox may seem to be a vestige of an earlier time, before iPods and ringtones were the hot music markets. But don’t say that to Jason Rubin, president of A.J. Video Amusements in Baltimore, Md.. ...
Motorola may face wireless/wireline crossroads
By: By Ed Gubbins
Motorola’s acquisition of broadband wireless equipment vendor NextNet Wireless this week comes as the vendor’s wireline broadband business may be approaching a crossroads. (Photo by: Frank Polich/Bloomberg News/Landov)...
Intelsat, PanAmSat merger creates global leader
By: By Carol Wilson
The completion of the $6.4 billion deal that combines Intelsat and PanAmSat creates the largest global satellite entity and one capable of serving diverse markets cost-effectively, according to the man who will lead the new Intelsat...
Cloudmark makes Internet safe from spam, viruses
By: By Sarah Reedy
Eighty-five percent to 95% of all e-mail traffic is some form of spam, service providers now say...
Verizon teams with Aruba to manage wireless LANs
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business today added management of wireless Local Area Networks to its portfolio of managed services, becoming the first major service provider to do so. The company said it will partner with wireless LAN vendor Aruba Networks for its initial product offering....
Second time around IPTV Warwick goes with Pannaway
By: By Tim McElligott
As an early player in VDSL technology, Warwick Valley Telephone Co. learned important lessons about its application and limitations. ...
Caspian brings service granularity to Gig E
By: By Carol Wilson
Caspian Network today announced new software for provisioning premium Internet services that delivers guaranteed service quality from a media controller for 10 Gigabit per second Ethernet networks, enabling the introduction of tiered services for both consumers and content providers. ...
AT&T uses Globalcomm to outline bandwidth plans
By: By Carol Wilson
One of the real question marks surrounding the Globalcomm 2006 trade show in Chicago this month was the participation of service providers, now that USTelecom, the major service provider organization, is running a separate trade show in March...
The Net effect of consolidation
By: By Carol Wilson
Telecom will have a new look as mergers like last week's Nokia/Siemens deal take hold, but is it better?...
In the Spotlight: John Roese, Nortel Networks’ new CTO
By: By Ed Gubbins
A day after being named Nortel Networks’ new chief technology officer, John Roese spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins about his background and credentials and how he sees the future of communications technology. On big companies: I’m not a startup guy. I’ve not done that type of activity in my career, nor do I find it all that interesting. ...
DSL continues global surge
By: By Carol Wilson
Global growth of DSL continues to surge, with 11.5 million new customers coming on line in the first quarter of 2006, according to industry analyst Point Topic. In its quarterly report to the DSL Forum, the company said DSL usage jumped 39% for the 12 months ending March 31, 2006. ...
Nielsen: Broadband use nears 75% in U.S.
By: By Carol Wilson
Almost three-quarters of active U.S. Web users logged on using a broadband connection in May, according to Nielsen/NetRatings, up from 57% a year ago. Still the broadband market is not saturated, the market research firm concluded. ...
AT&T announces largest FTTP build
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T today announced its largest fiber-to-the-premises network build-out to date, reaching a 20,000-home master-planned community near Houston, as part of Project Lightspeed....
AT&T brings competitive video service to North Chicago, Ill.
By: By Sarah Reedy
Marking a milestone in AT&T’s push for video franchising rights, the North Chicago, Ill., City Council announced last night their agreement with AT&T to deliver next-generation video and broadband services to the North Chicago area. ...
