E3: Motricity launches cross carrier community platform
By: By Kevin Fitchard
LOS ANGELES—Motricity has enhanced its Fuel 5 community platform to support multiple carriers simultaneously, allowing content providers and willing carriers to launch interest-based content communities extending beyond the limited sphere of a single carrier’s own subscriber base...
Renamed Deltacom off to rocky start
By: By Ed Gubbins
A month after shortening its name from ITC^Deltacom to Deltacom, the competitive carrier’s first-quarter earnings came up short as well. ...
E3: Sony, AT&T to launch broadband gaming
By: By Kevin Fitchard
LOS ANGELES--AT&T said today it is launching a new broadband gaming practice focused on hosting the growing number of multi-player gaming matches and communities online. To kick off the new division, AT&T announced at the E3 gaming expo its first and certainly crowning customer, Sony Online Entertainment...
BellSouth teams with Samsung on digital devices
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth today announced a strategic agreement with Samsung Telecommunications America to market and co-brand broadband devices for consumers and businesses...
Insider buys $42M in Redback stock
By: By Ed Gubbins
In advance of a proposed public offering of the company's stock, a group led in part by one of Redback Networks' directors is purchasing nearly $42 million in the company's stock, regulatory filings revealed this week....
XO revenues fall, loss grows
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications saw growth in its commercial and wholesale segments but posted a higher net loss on slightly lower revenues for the first quarter of 2006. ...
Global Crossing posts loss, looks to second half of ‘06
By: By Carol Wilson
Global Crossing posted a $109 million loss, compared to an $80 million loss in the fourth quarter of 2005, but is still on track to be adjusted EBITDA positive by June and cash flow positive by the second half of 2006, company officials said...
E3: Verizon revamps broadband gaming portal
By: By Kevin Fitchard
LOS ANGELES--Verizon Communications said today it is launching a new set of community and online gaming features for its Verizon Gaming Network portal, using a new investment in Super Computer International to create a broadband gaming client it plans to distribute to all of its DSL and FiOS customers...
Time Warner: JV may bid in AWS auction
By: By Dan O'Shea
Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt told the audience at the company's investors conference today that Time Warner and its fellow cable TV partners in a multimedia joint venture with Sprint may bid on wireless spectrum that will be available beginning June 29 in the Federal Communications Commission's Advanced Wireless Services auction....
IGI: Bells on track to take broadband lead
By: By Carol Wilson
The Bell companies are still on track to overtake cable in broadband deployment by the end of this year, according to an industry analyst. ...
The 'new' MegaPath launches
By: By Carol Wilson
Managed service providers Netifice and MegaPath have completed their merger and will retain the MegaPath name, the new company announced today....
BellSouth explores home monitoring options
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth is offering customers a free home monitoring camera if they sign up for DSL service at 1.5 Megabit per second or above. The company also is trialing its own home monitoring service, and new customers can chose to become part of that trial....
Verizon Business offers comprehensive resilience service
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business today unveiled the first of what it says will be a set of end-to-end solutions, launching a Business Resilience Solutions portfolio designed to help mid-sized to large businesses maintain continuity during large disasters or small service outages...
AT&T expands broadband reach
By: By Carol Wilson and Dan O'Shea
AT&T is expanding its trials of fixed broadband wireless technology, launching test sites in Nevada and Texas, AT&T Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre announced today....
BellSouth boosts business broadband, pushes bundling
By: By Carol Wilson
In two separate announcements, BellSouth said today it is speeding up broadband service delivery for business customers and offering special promotional rebates for consumer customers who buy service bundles...
Enterprise sales could boost Level 3 earnings
By: By Carol Wilson
New Metro Networks business will attract higher-margin enterprises, customers to generate revenue...
TelePacific buys Mpower
By: By Carol Wilson
The consolidation waves continue to ripple through the competitive telecom industry. TelePacific Communications announced today that it will acquire Mpower Communications for $204 million in a cash transition...
Verizon extends public interest programming
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon has agreed to offer public interest programming and national organizations focused on civil rights and diversity as part of the video-on-demand package for its FiOS TV service...
TW Telecom continues enterprise gains
By: By Ed Gubbins
Strong sales of data and Internet services to enterprise customers helped Time Warner Telecom overcome weakness in its biggest business, dedicated transport, and narrow its first-quarter loss....
Qwest posts profit on data growth
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest Communications posted a five cent per share or $88 million profit in the first quarter and is on track to be profitable for 2006, as the company manages its costs while seeing growth in data revenues and sales of service bundles....
Measure may stall '06 telecom reform
By: By Carol Wilson
The sweeping nature of the telecom reform measure introduced yesterday by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) may reduce the chances that a national video franchise bill passes this year...
Verizon revenue up, income down
By: By Carol Wilson
Revenue was up but income was down at Verizon in the first quarter, due in part to the costs in integrating MCI Communications....
Level 3 buys TelCove
By: By Carol Wilson
Level 3 Communications continued its expansion, spending $1.2375 billion to acquire regional CLEC TelCove....
UPDATED: SOMA licenses Qualcomm's OFDM patents
By: By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--SOMA Networks, exhibiting at the Broadband Wireless World conference here, said it has signed an agreement with Qualcomm to license the company's OFDM/OFDMA patents....
Covad's quarter 'best ever'
By: By Carol Wilson
Covad Communications recorded its best-ever quarterly revenue in the first quarter of 2006 and was EBITDA positive for the period, posting a net loss of $9.3 million or three cents a share....
