Covad banking on hosted VoIP
By: By Carol Wilson
Hosted VoIP services represent Covad's growth engine of the future, President and CEO Charlie Hoffman says, and the broadband wholesaler has laid the groundwork for that engine to start moving forward (Photo by Robert Houser)...
Current, TXU build Texas BPL network
By: By Ed Gubbins
Current Communications has agreed to design, build and operate a broadband-over-powerline network using the existing power grid of Texas energy utility TXU, the companies announced today...
Global DSL posts record growth
By: By Carol Wilson
MCI adopts ITIL standards
By: By Carol Wilson
MCI Communications announced this morning that it has adopted the Information Technology Infrastructure Library within its Global Managed Network Services operation, and has already gone through extensive evaluation of its service management processes wit ITIL authority Pink Elephant....
SureWest looks inside for new CEO
By: By Vince Vittore
SureWest Communications today announced that Steve Oldham, a member of its Board of Directors has been named as the company’s new president and CEO....
All in the family tier, says TW
By: By Carol Wilson
Time Warner Cable has drawn the first line in the sand where family programming tiers are concerned. The cable company said it will offer a programming tier that includes kids' shows, educational programming and news. ...
Verizon wins first NY video franchise
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon has apparently won the latest skirmish with Cablevision in New York, although the war is probably not over...
AT&T dips toe in content pool
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon lifts covers on VOD
By: By Vince Vittore
Verizon is opening up, ever so slightly, on its FiOS TV service, announcing that it is using SeaChange’s IP Video System as the basis for the video-on-demand portion...
AT&T advises customers to 'bundle up'
By: By Carol Wilson
The new AT&T today launched its first service bundle, seeking to sell more broadband and wireless service to AT&T customers living in states served by the former SBC....
AT&T customers get Web security news
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T has developed a new value-added service for its security customers – a 24-hour security news Web channel that distributes information about Internet threats and how customers should respond. ...
MCI, Microsoft expand on consumer PC calling
By: By Tim McElligott
When MCI and Microsoft announced their collaboration on web conferencing in May 2004, MCI CEO Michael Capellas said they would eventually expand that relationship to bring voice to the desktop...
Thomson acquires Thales unit
By: By Vince Vittore
Thomson announced an agreement to acquire the Broadcast & Multimedia unit of Thales in a move that positions the vendor to play a more significant role in the emerging IPTV and mobile video worlds...
EarthLink buys New Edge Networks
By: By Carol Wilson
EarthLink today announced that it is acquiring New Edge Networks, the Vancouver, Wash., based CLEC known for its small to mid-sized enterprise data services...
AT&T does business DSL at 6 Meg
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T is rolling out new 6 megabit per second DSL service, targeting small to mid-sized businesses that want more bandwidth without the expense of a T-1 line....
FiOS TV gains Texas momentum
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon today is rolling out its FiOS TV service to portions of six Texas communities, in its first use of that state’s new video franchise law. ...
MCI tests ultra long-haul 40G
By: By Carol Wilson
MCI said today it successfully transmitted 40 Gigabits per second signals over 3,040 kilometers of fiber optic cable in its Dallas metro area network, marking the first field demonstration of technology from Xtera Communications, Mintera and Juniper Networks to support high-bandwidth traffic over Ultra Long Haul distances. ...
Managed security gets serious
By: By Carol Wilson
Telecom service providers go comprehensive to gain footing in the competitive race to make IP networks more secure...
Verizon video will tap multiple technologies
By: By Carol Wilson
Company also planning first GPON deployment by end of 2006...
IPTV landscape changes, again
By: By Vince Vittore
Several recent announcements from traditional video outlets, Internet portals and the consumer electronics world have the potential to reshape a telco TV landscape in which plans seemed to be gelling just three months ago...
Cable penetration hits 13-year low
By: By Carol Wilson
Cable MSOs lost 1.4 million subscribers in the year ending November 2005, and its market penetration hit a 13-year low of 64.8%, according to the Television Bureau of Advertising, an industry trade group...
BellSouth adds conferencing to VoIP
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth has added Cisco Systems’ media conferencing capabilities to its premises-based managed VoIP offering, the company announced today...
BellSouth testing IPTV but not sold yet
By: By Vince Vittore
MCI unveils security risk management service
By: By Carol Wilson
MCI Communications today announced a comprehensive security risk management service designed to help enterprise customers tailor their security services to the value of specific network assets, and change those services in real-time as their networks change. ...
Cisco beefs up CRS-1 with IPoDWDM
By: By Vince Vittore
Cisco Systems today announced the introduction of support for IP over dense wavelength division multiplexing (IPoDWDM) on its CRS-1 Carrier Routing System (Photographers/Source: Noah Berger/Bloomberg News/Landov)...
