Verizon Business integrates metro Ethernet, IP WAN
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business today announced an expansion of its Ethernet footprint nationally and globally, as well as the first integration of former MCI wide area network data service with Verizon's metro Ethernet. ...
$30M richer, Hammerhead hiring
By: By Ed Gubbins
Hammerhead Systems announced $30 million in new funding today, bringing the four-year-old equipment vendor's total funding to $80 million....
Independents diving into local content
By: By Vince Vittore
More than half of all independent operating companies (IOCs) are now providing some form of local video content, according to a survey by Viodi, LLC. ...
Qwest launches new IP wholesale services
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest this week is formally announcing a new suite of wholesale services that bring new IP flexibility to that market...
Level 3 acquires Progress Telecom
By: By Carol Wilson
Level 3 Communications continued its expansion plans, buying Southeastern-based wholesaler Progress Telecom for $137 million, equally divided between cash and company stock....
India awaits a broadband breakthrough
By: By Dan O'Shea
When it comes to telecom market potential, India, the second-most populated country in the world, is often overlooked in the shadow of its larger, more populated neighbor to the northeast...
Nortel makeover may leave Lucent envious
By: By Ed Gubbins
The ongoing overhaul of Nortel Networks' corporate management staff at the hands of its new chief executive may spark envy among employees and investors at the company's rival, Lucent Technologies...
Extreme not executing
By: By Ed Gubbins
Extreme Networks reported disappointing revenue for its second fiscal quarter, which ended Jan. 1....
BellSouth profits fall on hurricane repairs
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth revenues were up, due in large part to Cingular Wireless’ growth, but profits fell 55 percent for the fourth quarter, as the cost of hurricane recovery increased....
Verizon expands FiOS TV in NY, Massachusetts
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon today launched its FiOS TV service in Massachusetts and New York, adding those two states to the three – Texas, Florida and Virginia – where the TV service is available....
Tello launches with big-name appeal
By: By Vince Vittore
almost two years in stealth mode, Tello, a company with backing from wireless pioneer Craig McCaw, former Apple CEO John Scully, VoIP leader Jeff Pulver and industry banker Michael Price, today officially launched service...
IPDR.org calls for IPTV initiative
By: By Tim McElligott
With carriers working the bugs out of IPTV through trials and controlled rollouts, the Internet Protocol Detail Record Organization (IPDR.org) is calling for an industrywide forum to address accounting and settlement issues for the service....
Same-day repair for DSL debuts at BellSouth
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth is promising its small business DSL customers that it will fix any service outage within a day or make monetary amends....
Verizon unwraps new business unit
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon is taking the wraps off its new Verizon Business unit, announcing both a global integrated product portfolio and new integrated wireless/wireline service offerings. (Photographers/Source: Rick Maiman/Bloomberg News/Landov)...
IPTV era begins to take shape
By: By Vince Vittore
Though not typically a telco show, the International CES is quickly becoming a hot venue for carriers launching new services...
The next new economy is someone else's responsibility
By: By Dan O'Shea
The managed services trend is currently sweeping through every sector of the telecom industry. Let's hope we get it right this time....
Once more into the breach
By: By Carol Wilson
Industry veteran Royce Holland takes up his sword to save McLeod...
Getting to know you: AT&T network integration
By: By Carol Wilson
The real secret to successful managed services isn't just having the full portfolio of potential solutions to customer problems--it's being able to identify and meet specific and highly variable customer needs, and do so cost-effectively...
Neutrality nets scapegoat as rhetoric rises
By: By Carol Wilson
The murky waters of Internet neutrality grew even murkier last week, as a group of major consumer groups called for government intervention...
IPTV puts home networking under fire
By: By Vince Vittore
Note to proponents of any particular home networking technology: Don't get too comfortable, and prepare for battle...
Broadband's fun and games
By: By Carol Wilson
Gaming is emerging as one of the hot markets in the broadband world, as both cable operators and telcos develop competitive product offerings...
BellSouth may leapfrog to front of IPTV world
By: By Vince Vittore
While not creating the same noise as its peers AT&T and Verizon in the IPTV market, BellSouth is working on a plan that could move it to the head of the pack in the U.S. ...
Internet regulation decried
By: By Carol Wilson
A day after a trio of consumer groups called for new Congressional action to kept the Internet open, a non-partisan group promoting individual freedoms has called on lawmakers to avoid any new Internet regulation....
Consumer groups target "double dipping"
By: By Carol Wilson
Bolstered by a survey that shows consumers want to keep the Internet open and the backing of Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps, a trio of consumer organizations today called on the U.S. Congress and the FCC to act more decisively to protect Internet neutrality....
Bell Canada to integrate sales compensation program
By: By Vince Vittore
Bell Canada announced it would use Callidus Software to bring together its various sales compensation programs across all of its product lines....
