NEC America back in GPON hunt
By: By Ed Gubbins
After abandoning the passive optical networking (PON) market three years ago, NEC America has thrown its hat into the ring of equipment vendors selling Gigabit PON (GPON) gear....
Charter inks Affinegy for home networking
By: By Vince Vittore
Affinegy announced today that Charter Communications is using its software package for self-installation of home networks in broadband subscribers’ homes....
New Edge flattens WAN prices
By: By Carol Wilson
New Edge Networks today announced a three-month trial of flat-rate Wide Area Network Service that will allow customers to reduce what they are paying to connect remote locations. The trial service, aimed at customers with 50 or more locations, is believed to be an industry first....
Notebaert: Qwest poised for profitable ‘06
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest Communications has cleaned up its balance sheet and is poised to be profitable in 2006, Chairman and CEO Richard Notebaert told the Citigroup Entertainment Media & Telecommunications conference. (Photo: David Scull/Bloomberg News/Landov)...
Broadwing, HGC tie VPLS knot
By: By Carol Wilson
Broadwing and Hutchison Global Communications today announced what they claim to be the industry’s first trans-Pacific inter-carrier Ethernet network over virtual private LAN services ...
Consolidated goes set-topless
By: By Vince Vittore
Consolidated Communications said today that it will use Entone Technologies Hydra IP video gateway to support its rollout of IPTV services. ...
Infonetics: Broadband data hot, but investments vary
By: By Carol Wilson
Service providers globally are making major investments to converge their service networks onto data platforms, and, in particular, are investing to offer broadband Internet, metro Ethernet and IP-VPN services, according to the latest Infonetics Research survey. ...
Ackerman addresses net neutrality, New Orleans
By: By Ed Gubbins
BellSouth Chief Executive Officer Duane Ackerman shared his thoughts on a range of subjects--including video offerings, network neutrality and the status of its network in New Orleans--in an informal question-and-answer-style presentation at the Citigroup Entertainment, Media and Telecommunications Conference this morning...
Seidenberg stands firm on FiOS
By: By Carol Wilson
Faced with a stalling stock price and vocal skepticism from some industry analysts, Verizon Chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg kicked off the Citigroup Global Entertainment, Media & Telecommunications conference Monday by insisting his company’s fiber-to-the-premises buildout is financially sound...
'Dual' fiber cut causes Sprint outage
By: By Carol Wilson
A coincidence of weather damage and a possible construction accident knocked Sprint’s Western U.S. network out of service for three and a half hours Monday afternoon. (Photo by James MacAllister)...
BellSouth lowers 3-Meg pricing
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth has lowered the price of its highest speed DSL service to $37.95 for 3 Mb/s downstream...
AT&T launches massive Web ad campaign
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T today is launching the largest Web advertising campaign in the history of the Internet to include ad spots never before provided...
CES: Motorola moves FMC into home environment
By: By Vince Vittore
LAS VEGAS--Motorola this week is unveiling at the International CES event a residential gateway that allows carriers to blend both traditional cellular service offerings with WiFi in the home while using the same device as a four-port router for high-speed Internet access....
Telecom claims 3 of 2005's 10 best small-cap stocks
By: By Ed Gubbins
Three of the ten best-performing small-cap stocks of last year belonged to telecom companies, according to data compiled by FactSet Research Systems....
BellSouth, Sprint lead wholesale market
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth and Sprint comprise a clear top tier of wholesale data service providers, according to the Yankee Group’s 2005 survey of 140 service providers, including incumbent carriers, long-distance companies, cable MSOs, ISPs, resellers and system integrators...
Verizon brands broadband gear
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon is seeking to put its brand on broadband, announcing today its plans to put the “Verizon” name on home networking equipment sold through retailers....
Motorola unveils dual-mode set-top
By: By Carol Wilson
Motorola today formally introduced the digital set-top box that Verizon began using in its FiOS TV service, launched in late 2005....
Starz goes direct to consumer
By: By Vince Vittore
Starz Entertainment Group has teamed up with Sony Connect and Microsoft to create a service that allows users to download movies to their PCs, select portable devices as well as their TVs...
CES: Motorola announces fixed-mobile home gateway
By: By Dan O'Shea
Motorola, exhibiting at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, has announced its new Residential Seamless Mobility Gateway (RSG) family, while includes broadband-powered gateways that combine four-port router and 802.11b/g wireless access point functionality with a built-in voice over IP adapter....
Muni wireless boom just beginning
By: By Carol Wilson
The coming year is likely to see a boom in municipal Wi-Fi deployment, as technology and political realities converge...
AT&T delivers world of new ads
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T plans to spice up various Dec. 31 television programs with the first ad in what it promises will be a landmark campaign to re-brand the merged AT&T-SBC ...
S&P goes negative on U.S. telecom
By: By Vince Vittore
Standard & Poor said it expects the U.S. wireline market to continue slowing over the next year as consumers continue to opt for wireless and voice-over-IP services as replacements. ...
New technology bridges wireless, wireline
By: By Carol Wilson
A form of home networking technology now on the market holds the potential to dramatically change the way wireless technology is used within a home or office...
BT signs 21CN contracts with four vendors
By: By Ed Gubbins
BT has signed contracts with four of the equipment vendors it named as preferred suppliers to its 21st Century Network project: Ciena, Huawei Technologies, Lucent Technologies and Siemens....
Under new Nortel CEO, changes keep coming
By: By Ed Gubbins
Changes continue to trickle in at Nortel Networks under , who became its new CEO in mid-November....
