Entone goes off-the-shelf with new VOD server
By: By Vince Vittore
Entone today announced that it has collaborated with HP to launch what it claims is the world’s highest performing video on demand server that also is built on standard processors. ...
FCC to consider video franchise issue
By: By Carol Wilson
The FCC today issued a notice of proposed rulemaking concerning its possible jurisdiction over video franchises...
Comcast earnings strong
By: By Carol Wilson
Comcast continued its earnings winning streak, announcing not only higher revenues but also sharp increases in operating income and cash flow, from the sale of advanced services. The company also said it would add one million digital voice customers in 2006....
Sprint Nextel, cable companies come together
By: By Carol Wilson and Kevin Fitchard
As long rumored, Sprint Nextel today announced a joint venture with Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable and Advance/Newhouse Communications to accelerate wireless-wireline convergence to the more than 75 million homes passed by the four cable companies...
EarthLink picks IP Unity for voice mail, messaging
By: By Carol Wilson
EarthLink announced Monday that it is using IP Unity technology to offer voice mail for its new voice services, and will later use the same systems to deliver unified messaging...
Level 3 scaling up with WilTel buy
By: By Carol Wilson
In a move that caught many by surprise, Level 3 Communications today announced that it will acquire WilTel Communications Group from Leucadia National for 115 million shares of Level 3 common stock and $370 million cash, or about $380.5 million...
Siemens shoving its way into IPTV
By: By Vince Vittore
Siemens Communications said today it has now installed it Surpass Home Entertainment portfolio in more than 75 U.S. regional operators, making it the most widely deployed IPTV system in the country. On an access line count basis, the vendor claims it now covers more than 38 million broadband lines....
Cogent, Level 3 patch peering dispute
By: By Carol Wilson
Cogent and Level 3 Communications have settled their Internet peering spat, agreeing to continue exchanging traffic on a settlement-free basis...
Mergers move ahead on DOJ consent decree
By: By Carol Wilson
The U.S. Department of Justice today approved the mergers of SBC-AT&T and Verizon-MCI, provided the two companies agree to lease fiber optic facilities in some cities to a third competitor. Both SBC-AT&T and Verizon-MCI have already agreed to the stipulations in a consent decree, the companies announced. ...
Verizon rides wireless, broadband
By: By Carol Wilson
Riding strong results from Verizon Wireless and a record quarter in broadband, Verizon today posted a 4% increase in third-quarter profits...
Bub-bye SBC: AT&T brand to prevail
By: By Carol Wilson
As expected, SBC Communications today announced that it will adopt the AT&T brand once it completes the merger with its former parent company. The company also said it will launch a new logo for the company, and a new stock ticker, once the merger reaches its expected conclusion in late 2005, and will launch a major multimedia advertising campaign to promote its new status as well....
Martin promises telcos help on franchise rules
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--The Federal Communications Commission is prepared to act on making sure video franchises are available to telephone companies as early as November, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin told a Telecom ’05 audience today...
MetaSwitch launches system, gains customer
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--MetaSwitch announced both a new product and a new customer. CTC Communications, a competitive service provider based in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states, will use MetaSwitch’s distributed softswitch to offer hosted business services, the two companies announced today...
BelAir Wi-Fi targets cable
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--BelAir Networks today announced a new version of its Wi-Fi mesh technology specifically designed to enable cable TV companies to add wireless capabilities to their service bundles, and also revealed a new round of funding, led by Comcast Interactive Capital. ...
SBC seeks smarter OSP
By: By Carol Wilson
SBC Communications is talking with vendors about new outside plant technology that could help the company begin the process of consolidating Central Offices and retiring some legacy switches....
Robbins chastises industry for unfair competition
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--With retirement only two months away, Cox Communications President and CEO Jim Robbins didn’t mince words in challenging the telecom industry to fight fair on the regulatory front, as telcos “scramble to get into video.”...
Ocean Beauty looks to MCI Private IP
By: By Carol Wilson
Ocean Beauty, a large seafood processing firm in the Pacific Northwest, is turning to MCI Communications to solve the complexity of linking 23 locations via virtual private networks...
Broadwing expands video network again
By: By Carol Wilson
Broadwing Communications is finding success in providing high-capacity networks for live video feeds and today will announce that it is almost doubling its Media Services Network to now reach 37 cities, to keep up with demand for high-quality real-time video feeds in high-definition TV format. ...
Ceterus offers Ethernet-only access over T1
By: By Carol Wilson
Ceterus Networks today announced a new member of its Ethernet-over-TDM family of products, focusing its UTS810 Ethernet Access Platform at wireless network backhaul, as well as for schools, medical centers and other distributed enterprises needing 5 Megabits per second to 10 Mbps connectivity....
Broadwing builds coverage for Media Services Network
By: By Carol Wilson
Broadwing Communications will announce today that it is almost doubling its Media Services Network to now reach 37 cities, to keep up with demand for...
New competitors still drawn to U.S. business telecom field
By: By Carol Wilson
RCN, Vanco among the latest to chase enterprise customers...
AT&T posts strong final quarter
By: By Carol Wilson
In what may prove to be AT&T's last earnings call as an independent customer, Chairman and CEO David Dorman and Vice Chairman and CFO Tom Horton were able to report stronger results than many expected, posting a $520 million profit despite the expected continued decline in sales. ...
Cable poised for explosive revenue growth
By: By Carol Wilson
The cable industry is poised to dramatically increase its average revenue per customer, using today’s digital cable platforms, according to a new report from Kagan Research...
Alltel launches DISH, assesses fate of wireline group
By: By Vince Vittore
Alltel today announced that is now offering DISH Network satellite TV service as part of a bundle that includes its voice and broadband offerings in 15 states...
SBC profits slide despite data growth
By: By Carol Wilson
Despite record DSL sales and 10% growth in wireline data revenues, SBC Communications saw profits slide 40% in the third quarter...
