XO to deploy Convedia servers
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Interactive, a major provider of hosted Interactive Voice Response services, will deploy Convedia CMS-6000 media servers in its national Voice over IP network to develop new IP-based services for its customers and for its parent company, XO Communications....
Video54 makes a Ruckus
By: By Vince Vittore
Video54, which has been concentrating on smart antenna systems for wireless LANs, today is re-launching the company with an infusion of cash, a new name and the unveiling of its first publicly announced service provider customer....
Rural associations cautious on Act rewrite
By: By Vince Vittore
Four associations representing rural telcos gave a tentative thumbs-up to a draft rewrite of the Telecom Act released by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R.-Tex.)....
House releases draft of telecom reform
By: By Carol Wilson
The House Energy and Commerce Commission today released a staff working version of legislation to reform U.S. telecom laws that, like this summer’s Ensign bill, leans heavily toward deregulation. ...
Verizon Wireless to do global 3G roaming with Vodafone
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless is capitalizing on its links with the old country, launching a new 3G data card service with Vodafone, the multinational GSM carrier that jointly owns the U.S. operator with Verizon Communications. ...
ATIS gathers IPTV troops
By: By Vince Vittore
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions today announced that it has completed the first meeting of its IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF), forming four separate task forces to tackle specific issues. ...
Cisco grows cable play abroad
By: By Tim McElligott
When not closing acquisitions, as it did six times in its most recent quarter, Cisco found time to close a few sales for its BTS 10200 Call Control Softswitch, the latest, announced today, is with Romanian cable provider Astral Telecom....
MSN, AOL reportedly ready to merge
By: By Carol Wilson
Microsoft is reportedly in talks with Time-Warner to buy a stake in AOL and merger the online giant with its own MSN service....
BroadSoft makes a buy on the client side
By: By Tim McElligot
Voice-over-IP application platform provider, BroadSoft, acquired Australian application developer Carbon Twelve this week to expand its portfolio of network-based solutions to include the applications it support....
MCI unveils storage utility service
By: By Carol Wilson
MCI today unveiled a new on-demand storage service that allows customers to expand and contract the storage capacity they buy, using a shared storage facility, and pay as they go for what they use....
Verizon's got game
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon today launched its own subscription-based game service as part of its broader effort to build broadband content and sell more high-speed service. ...
Pannaway pushes into back office
By: By Vince Vittore
Pannaway Technologies, which has been most known as an access vendor for the independent telco market, is launching a new version of its element management system that puts the company more into the provisioning and management market....
Sycamore: Former employees falsified records
By: By Ed Gubbins
Sycamore Networks filed restated financial reports for the fiscal years 2000 through 2004 to increase net losses this week, after an internal investigation of stock option grants issued between 1999 and 2001 revealed that some employee records were deliberately falsified to affect the value of stock option grants....
CTC buys Connecticut Broadband
By: By Carol Wilson
New England-based competitive service provider CTC Communications announced today that it has acquired Connecticut Broadband, a voice and data service provider in that Connecticut....
Minerva playing up “independent” status
By: By Vince Vittore
Like virtually every other vendor in the IPTV market now, Minerva is playing up its ability to play nice with others and interoperate. The latest, announced at the start of the IBC Show in Amsterdam today, is an alliance with i3 micro technology....
Muni nets can work to incumbents' advantage, Yankee advises
By: By Carol Wilson
A leading broadband analyst is urging telephone companies and cable companies to consider the advantage of working with –not opposing – municipal broadband networks....
Cisco puts video in starring role
By: By Vince Vittore
Cisco Systems is using the IBC show next week as a sort of coming out party for its position in the IPTV market. ...
ITC^Deltacom adds up hurricane costs
By: By Ed Gubbins
ITC^Deltacom is working to assess the effect of Hurricane Katrina on its business, the competitive local exchange carrier reported to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today, but the total cost is unknown....
GigaBeam hooks up two campuses with wireless fiber
By: By Kevin Fitchard
GigaBeam today said it has installed its Gigabit Ethernet high-frequency wireless point-to-point equipment at two new college campuses, Boston University and Oklahoma State University....
Verizon ponders FiOS expansion in Texas
By: By Carol Wilson
The Texas cable-franchising bill enacted today will speed up Verizon’s rollout of video services on its FiOS fiber to the premises network, and could prompt further fiber buildouts in that state, according to company officials. But Verizon is still not saying when it will offer video over existing FiOS networks, nor what the service will cost....
Asian telcos likely to dominate IPTV
By: By Vince Vittore
Telecom providers around the world will capture about 32 million video users by the end of 2009, according to a report today from In-Stat. ...
Oz signs Bell Canada, developing multimedia IM
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Instant Messaging application developer Oz said today the company has landed another North American customer, Bell Mobility in Canada, and is pursuing multimedia support for its core IM platform by linking directly into carrier’s MMS infrastructure....
BellSouth sets early Katrina price tag
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth will spend between $400 million and $600 million to restore the network damage done by Hurricane Katrina, the company estimated today. That includes both expenses and capital costs, but is just a preliminary estimate, according to the company....
Scaling the edge
By: By Ed Gubbins
Carriers and vendors tackle tough questions about what the new edge of triple-play networks should look like....
New Orleans' switching facility survives
By: By Carol Wilson
Faced with a massive restoration effort along the Gulf Coast, BellSouth is still in damage assessment mode, and the news isn’t all bad....
