Comcast luring DSL customers with triple play
By: By Carol Wilson
Comcast may have come late to the VoIP party, but the U.S.’s largest cable company is making up for lost time--and doing so at the expense of its telephone company rivals...
AT&T suffers major DSL outage
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T Internet services today suffered a major DSL outage in the upper Midwest, affecting thousands of customers...
Cingular, DSL boost AT&T beyond expectations
By: By Carol Wilson
Cingular’s success continued to drive AT&T’s financial success, but improved data revenues and greater success in the small to mid-sized business market also helped...
Is AT&T a new muni-network friend?
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T is now actively working with municipalities on their broadband projects, where those projects involve public-private partnerships....
Gun owners, librarians unite against Bells
By: By Ed Gubbins
A diverse and perhaps unlikely group of political activists and associations assembled today to voice opposition to a U.S. House bill that it says would impede Internet innovation by undermining network neutrality....
Pulver launches contest to save the Net
By: By Tim McElligott
Fed up with deep-pocketed lobbying efforts influencing Congress in their shaping of the Internet's future, Jeff Pulver, CEO of pulver.com, has called on the Internet community to combat those efforts with creativity in the form of a marketing contest....
Cable: Telcos no threat
By: By Carol Wilson
Cable executives don't fear competition from the telcos, but they are worried that Wall Street is too concerned about the potential loss of video revenues...
Cingular, data drive BellSouth up
By: By Carol Wilson
The rising tide of Cingular continued to lift BellSouth’s boat, as the company reported an increase in both revenue and quarterly profit. (Photo by: JOHN DICKERSON/UPI/Landov)...
AT&T, Yahoo dress up e-mail
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T and Yahoo today unveiled a beta version of their enhanced WebMail service, featuring an RSS reader and other user-friendly features. ...
Oracle aims at telcos with service delivery platform
By: By Carol Wilson
Oracle today unveiled a new service delivery platform aimed at increasing its penetration into the telecom service provider market....
Southern Telecom, First Mile team on Atlanta wireless
By: By Carol Wilson
Wholesale infrastructure provider Southern Telecom is teaming up with wireless operator First Mile Communications to bring new wireless broadband services to businesses in Atlanta. ...
AT&T Homezone goes Akimbo
By: By Dan O'Shea
AT&T and Akimbo Systems have forged an agreement under which the carrier deliver the vendor's video-on-demand service to subscribers of AT&T’s Homezone TV service, scheduled to launch this summer. ...
Yipes takes Ethernet SLAs to microseconds
By: By Ed Gubbins
Yipes is offering new service level agreements (SLAs) for its global Ethernet services in a move it says is advancing Ethernet’s evolution to a more carrier-grade service....
XO extends VoIP PBX offering
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications has moved its up-market VoIP service to a nationwide platform, announcing today that its XOptions Flex package of business VoIP services is now available for businesses with up to 160 employees per location, in 50 major metropolitan markets....
Level 3 to buy ICG
By: By Carol Wilson
Level 3 Communications today continued its acquisition spree, announcing that it will acquire ICG Communications for $163 million in cash, including $127 million in Level 3 stock and $36 million in cash...
EarthLink completes NewEdge buy
By: By Carol Wilson
EarthLink has completed its acquisition of NewEdge Networks, the two companies announced late Thursday....
3 Rivers choose Pannaway for rural broadband
By: By Dan O'Shea
Fairfield, Mont., telephone cooperative 3 Rivers Communications has selected Pannaway Technologies' broadband access system to deliver next-generation services to its rural subscribers accounting for 20,000 access lines across 29 exchanges. ...
BellSouth offers weather alerts
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth is offering first-of-its-kind service that uses forecasts from The Weather Channel to trigger severe weather alerts to its customers....
NCTA: Ad model set to change
By: By Carol Wilson
ATLANTA--Advertising-supported television isn’t going away anytime soon, but it will be dramatically changing, executives at the National Cable & Telecommunications show said today...
NCTA: Cablevision exec says Verizon not competitive
By: By Carol Wilson
ATLANTA--Cablevision is taking much more business away from Verizon than it is losing, Chief Operating Officer Tom Rutledge said today. ...
NCTA: Cable confident of its competitive position
By: By Carol Wilson
b>ATLANTA--The cable industry remains supremely confident of its ability to compete with telcos in all areas but two: hype and lobbying power...
Alltel, Valor name industry's new RLEC
By: By Ed Gubbins
The company formed through the merger of Valor Communications and Alltel's wireline business will be known as Windstream Communications, it announced today....
Can policy management solve Net Neutrality dilemma?
By: By Carol Wilson
IP software provider Caspian has put together an approach to solving the Net neutrality debate that uses multimedia traffic management to assure fairness to network operators and to content providers and consumers of broadband access...
Motorola offers cable wireless alternative
By: By Carol Wilson
Cable operators now have a new weapon in their arsenal for addressing business customers. Motorola on April 6 announced a version of its Motorola MOTOwi4 Canopy wireless broadband solution specifically aimed at the cable industry....
Arcadian launches national wireless data network
By: By Carol Wilson
A new national service provider is moving out of stealth mode today, offering a private broadband wireless data network for companies with dispersed assets, including rural areas....
