Netifice, MegaPath combine
By: By Carol Wilson
Continuing the consolidation trend in the competitive service provider segment, Netifice Communications and MegaPath Networks today announced that they are merging to form one company with $125 million in revenue in managed services. ...
WEB EXTRA: Unwiring Minneapolis
By: By Carol Wilson
William E. Beck is deputy chief information officer and director of business technology development for the city of Minneapolis. He has also headed up the city’s broadband wireless initiative, begun in mid-2004. Beck spoke with Editor-at-Large Carol Wilson about that initiative...
Competitive pricing pressures ease for now
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest executives last week joined a chorus of voices claiming that competitive service pricing has stabilized, affording service providers better opportunity at profits...
CLECs merge to beat bigger mergers
By: By Carol Wilson
The spate of recent CLEC consolidation is a clear signal that competitive carriers are repositioning in a business market now dominated by two national players...
WEB EXTRA: The Grant County Case
By: By Ed Gubbins
To those longing for more competition and choice than that provided by incumbent carriers, the case of Grant County, Wash., offers an age-old warning: Be careful what you wish for...
Infonetics charts spending shift
By: By Carol Wilson
Service provider spending on core and edge IP gear is booming, while multi-service switch sales decline, a new report from Infonetics said Thursday...
Verizon, AT&T face local video franchising opposition
By: By Carol Wilson
Representatives of local governments and cable operators stood shoulder to shoulder Wednesday to oppose efforts by Verizon and AT&T to convince Congress to lift the current local franchising requirements for video services....
Qwest positive despite growing loss
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest Communications is making significant progress toward sustainable profitability and should be profitable in 2006, Chairman and CEO Richard Notebaert told the investment community today....
Choice One, CTC merge
By: By Carol Wilson
Consolidation within the CLEC industry continues unabated. Today, Choice One Communications and CTC Communications announced their intention to merge as equals into a CLEC with more than 100,000 customers and $550 million in annual revenues...
ANALYSIS: War of words on net neutrality
By: By Carol Wilson
The battle lines in the net neutrality war are getting clearer...
Burns launches USF initiative
By: By Carol Wilson
Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) Wednesday introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate that would revise the Universal Service Fund to require recipients to invest in broadband services and seek to stop waste and abuse of USF funding and improve use of telecom technology to improve rural health care. ...
EarthLink earnings up, revenue down
By: By Carol Wilson
EarthLink earnings dipped slightly in the fourth quarter, but rose for 2005 overall, the company reported today. Revenues were down for both the quarter and the year, however, as the company’s dial-up business continued to shrink and its new service initiatives did not make up the difference....
In-Stat: Business data revenues face decline
By: By Carol Wilson
Most service providers reported growth in data revenues for 2005, but that picture will start changing within two years, according to a new In-Stat report...
NTCA: Copps calls for new push on USF, broadband
By: By Vince Vittore
SAN DIEGO—If Americans are living in rural markets are to partake in the future growth of the global economy, they must be given the same access to affordable broadband as urban counterparts, said FCC Commissioner Michael Copps during a keynote address today....
TWT trims losses on revenue growth
By: By Carol Wilson
Time Warner Telecom increased revenues and trimmed losses based on what its leaders called successful execution of a disciplined focus on the enterprise market...
Verizon draws on MCI international leadership
By: By Carol Wilson
Drawing heavily on MCI’s former international leadership team, Verizon Business today announced its new international business organization, to be headed by Rory Cole as chief operating officer....
MEF begins carrier Ethernet QOS testing
By: By Ed Gubbins
The Metro Ethernet Forum began the next phase in its year-old carrier Ethernet certification program today by commencing testing equipment for quality of service characteristics....
Skype, Google join investors in global Wi-Fi venture
By: By Dan O'Shea
Skype, Google and Sequoia Capital joined funding round leader Index Ventures in investing $21.7 million in FON, a three-month-old company based in Madrid, Spain, that intends to build a globally networked infrastructure of Wi-Fi hot spots...
Small telcos gang up on video
By: By Carol Wilson
A group of Oklahoma and Missouri telephone companies is tackling the high cost of head-end equipment through a unique agreement that lets them share expenses...
Rural broadband under the microscope
By: By Carol Wilson
Bell Canada, with help from Nortel, launches Project Chapleau, hoping to create a blueprint for other small towns ...
Big telco initiatives not the whole broadband story
By: By Carol Wilson
When it comes to grabbing headlines or making an impression on Wall Street, major fiber initiatives are certainly the ticket...
Muni broadband war rages on in '06
By: By Carol Wilson
The battle over whether municipalities can offer broadband services continues to rage in 2006, showing no signs of abatement...
Comcast not tops in telephony
By: By Carol Wilson
Comcast reported fourth-quarter 2005 earnings that proved confusing more than anything. (Photographers/ Source: Bradley C. Bower/Bloomberg News/Landov)...
Huber goodbye costs Broadwing $400K
By: By Ed Gubbins
Broadwing will pay its departing chief executive officer David Huber a severance fee of $400,000 (equal to his annual base salary), the company disclosed in regulatory filings Wednesday....
Perimeter expands security to include anti-phishing
By: By Carol Wilson
Perimeter Internetworking today announced it has acquired Red Cliff Solutions, to add anti-phishing capabilities to its managed security offerings...
