Verizon to shed directory unit
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon said Sunday it is exploring divestiture of its directory publishing unit, Verizon Information Services, in order to sharpen its focus on its network-based businesses in the broadband, wireless and enterprise markets. ...
BellSouth bets on better customer service
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth is about to find out how important good customer service can be...
Internet ads $$ to overtake basic cable
By: By Carol Wilson
Advertising revenue for online media companies such as Google and Yahoo! is growing so fast that these companies will soon overtake the cable industry in advertising revenue, Kagan Research is predicting. ...
AT&T, Cingular test Mobile2Home
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T and Cingular Wireless are trialing a service which gives customers unlimited wireless minutes when calling between their Cingular Wireless mobile phone number and their primary phone line...
Cogent expands into Stockholm
By: By Carol Wilson
Cogent will add Stockholm, Sweden to its European footprint, the ISP announced today at a customer event in Amsterdam. The expansion is in response to customer demand, the company said. ...
Industry assaults program bundling
By: By Vince Vittore
In a Senate hearing on indecency today, several telecom industry representatives came out against the practice of video programmers not allowing a la carte offerings (Photographers/Source:ROGER L. WOLLENBERG/UPI/Landov)...
Cox integrates voice, data and messaging
By: By Carol Wilson
Cox Communications today announced new integrated messaging tools for its voice and data customers in Georgia and Florida...
AT&T retains Olympic spot
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T announced today it is once again a major sponsor of the U.S. Olympic team and will use the upcoming Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, in its re-branding of the SBC-AT&T merger...
Telco customer service gets pricey
By: By Carol Wilson
As the volume of "free" calls mounts, service providers consider premium, fee-based support that encompasses home computers and help services...
UBS raises U.S. carrier capex estimates for 2006
By: By Ed Gubbins
American carriers will spend slightly more than previously anticipated next year, according to a research note issued this morning from UBS Investment, which upped its 2006 U.S. carrier capex prediction 3%, from $49.9 billion to $51.4 billion....
Nanotech yields faster, more efficient laser
By: By Ed Gubbins
Using nanotechnology, researchers at Stanford University claim to have created a smaller, more efficient and faster laser than those commonly used in optical communications today...
First Avenue, RCN link up
By: By Carol Wilson
Wireless access provider First Avenue Networks and cable over-builder RCN have entered into a strategic partnership that will enable each company to reach a broader customer base...
Herndon, Va., gets FiOS TV
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Monday announced Herndon, Va., as the second site of its FiOS TV rollout. The service, delivered over Verizon’s FiOS fiber-to-the-home network, made its debut Sept. 22 in Keller, Texas....
Cavalier takes video lead
By: By Carol Wilson
Virginia residents are getting a first look at the latest in telco-provided video--and it isn’t from Verizon...
'New' AT&T launches marketing blitz
By: By Carol Wilson
For its first full day of business, the “new” AT&T unveiled an updated logo, as it seeks to establish a new brand with an old name...
The 'new' AT&T debuts
By: By Carol Wilson
Within hours of getting California's approval of its merger, AT&T and SBC unveiled their new company....
Cisco buys SA for $6.9 billion
By: By Carol Wilson
Cisco Systems’ $6.9 billion acquisition of Scientific-Atlanta positions that company to be an end-to-end provider of IP video to cable and telephone companies globally, Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers said today. ...
BellSouth trials in-home PC support
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth today said it will test a new in-home support service for PCs that could become part of its DSL offering...
BellSouth intros wireless data backup
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth today introduced a wireless backup service for enterprises that combines the capability of its wireline operation and Cingular’s wireless network...
BellSouth offers faster DSL
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth today launched a 6 megabit per second DSL service, priced at $46.95, that positions its service more directly against cable modems. ...
Cbeyond posts first profits
By: By Carol Wilson
In its first-ever earnings call, Cbeyond was able to report its first positive operating profit and net profit, as well as record customer growth...
Lexington pilots SkyTel’s muni Wi-Fi
By: By Carol Wilson
Lexington, Ky., now has broadband wireless in its downtown area as part of a pilot program launched by SkyTel, MCI’s broadband wireless subsidiary...
Texas town dishes out free satellite service
By: By Carol Wilson
Clark, Texas, a suburb of Fort Worth, has agreed to renamed itself Dish, Texas, in order to gain its 125 residents 10 years of free basic satellite TV service....
Motive, Intellon team on HomePlug management
By: By Carol Wilson
AUSTIN, Texas--Intellon and Motive have teamed up to enable Home-Plug networks to be remotely managed by service providers, the two companies announced today....
North America drives high DSL shipments
By: By Ed Gubbins
Shipments of DSL equipment in the third quarter maintained the high volume seen in the second quarter, according to data released today from BroadbandTrends.com. ...
