Nortel announces two regional rural customers
By: By Carol Wilson
Nortel Networks today announced two rural deployments of its optical systems by regional development authorities...
ML: Q3 reports could be messy
By: By Ed Gubbins
As third-quarter earnings season approaches, expectations for telecom services firms’ quarterly reports are “as low as they have been for a while,” Merrill Lynch said in a report issued today...
Vanco extends contract with Smiths
By: By Carol Wilson
The contract is announced as Vanco expands its U.S. sales and marketing arm through its Universal Access acquisition, made earlier this year...
Competitors urge FCC to put conditions on mergers
By: By Carol Wilson
Six competing service providers and a group of business customers has come together to ask the Federal Communications Commission to impose conditions, including price cuts, on the proposed SBC-AT&T and Verizon-MCI mergers....
SBC chooses Lucent IMS
By: By Carol Wilson
A day after Cingular said it will use Lucent Technologies’ IP multimedia subsystem architecture, or IMS, one of its parent companies, SBC Communications, said it also is using the Lucent IMS platform. ...
Cutting the copper cord creates minor controversy
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon’s decision to remove the copper lines of homes it has connected to its FiOS network is coming under mild fire in the online community for locking customers into more expensive high-speed access options....
BellSouth joins Yahoo! party
By: By Carol Wilson
Yahoo! has now won the trifecta of large communications companies, announcing today it is forming a strategic alliance with BellSouth, which joins SBC Communications and Verizon as partners to the Internet giant...
Yankee survey: Bundling still about price
By: By Carol Wilson
The Yankee Group’s latest Technologically Advanced Family survey results have two distinct notes of caution for broadband service providers. The annual study is in its 20th year of looking at service adoption, buying behaviors and purchasing influencers of households across all demographic segments in the U.S. ...
IPTV Set-top boom won't lift all boats
By: By Carol Wilson
Shipments of IP/DSL set top boxes will grow from 1.7 million in 2004 to 16.9 million in 2009, based largely on telephone company deployments of television service, according to a new report from In-Stat. ...
Recent moves give CLECs air assault
By: By Carol Wilson
Technologies co-mingle as competitors look to unplug their traditional reliance on incumbent LECs and wage their market wars with wireless...
Video streaming at center stage
By: By Carol Wilson
Through the years, potential video services have been demonstrated in many dramatic ways...
Comptel/ALTS has new leader, faces same competitive issues
By: By Carol Wilson
Carriers agree on larger issues but not all share anti-merger viewpoint...
Clearwire goes retail
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Clearwire today announced a distribution agreement with Best Buy to offer its residential broadband wireless service at U.S. stores in markets where Clearwire has coverage...
Lucent to migrate TeliaSonera to IP version 6
By: By Tim McElligott
TeliaSonera has turned to Lucent Technologies to help manage its migration to IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol...
Pac-West goes national
By: By Carol Wilson
ORLANDO – Pac-West Telecom is expanding the reach of its wholesale voice and data operation from the West Coast to the entire U.S., beginning early next year with 36 major metropolitan areas....
Ciena backs off BLC market
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena is backing off of its commitment to the international broadband loop carrier market, chief executive officer Gary Smith said today at an analyst event, and is likely to write off some of its efforts there as good will...
Comptel: FiberNet launches new outsource unit
By: By Carol Wilson
ORLANDO--FiberNet, a fiber optic wholesaler focused in New York City, today announced a new subsidiary and a new initiative...
Comptel: Global Crossing enhances VPN product
By: By Carol Wilson
ORLANDO -- Global Crossing today announced a new round of enhancements for its IP VPN product to include migration to MPLS-based IP VPNs, support for IP v6, global multicasting, managed Voice over IP and support for Remote Access VPN that includes home offices....
Virtela offers menu of remote monitoring service
By: By Carol Wilson
Virtela today announced a suite of remote monitoring and management services designed to appeal to enterprise customers who no longer want to manage all of their IT infrastructure....
Comptel: Progress Telecom launches wireless access
By: By Carol Wilson
Progress Telecom is adding last-mile wireless service to its roster of wholesale and retail offerings and today announced its first CLEC customer....
Comptel: BellSouth adds wavelength options
By: By Carol Wilson
In the face of increasing demand for IP and Ethernet services from wireline and wireless service providers, BellSouth Interconnection Services this week unveiled new wavelength service options, in the form of channel and dedicated ring services. ...
COMPTEL: Qwest revamps wholesale pricing
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest Communications International today unveiled a new approach to pricing its wholesale IP voice terminating service that ties prices more accurately to costs...
COMPTEL: Indiana Fiber Works signs on with GigaBeam
By: By Carol Wilson
Indiana Fiber Works, a dark-fiber access provider in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Illinois, has teamed up with GigaBeam and will purchase 12 of its WiFiber wireless systems from that company to deliver Gigabit services over wireless access and backhaul links. This marks GigaBeam’s first announced CLEC customer....
France Telecom unites brands, will sell services as Orange
By: By Carol Wilson
French giant will focus on strengths of IP/IT/mobile convergence...
Burger leaves SureWest; CEO search to go into ’06
By: By Vince Vittore
SureWest Communications said today that Robert Burger, Senior Vice President and COO of the company's wireless affiliate SureWest Wireless, will be leaving his position effective tomorrow. Burger, who joined the company in 1998 to launch the wireless business, is relocating to Washington state to pursue opportunities there....
