Verizon, Yahoo! launch cheaper Internet service
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon and Yahoo! today will formally launch the content and co-branding strategy announced last January that will allow Verizon Online’s DSL and FiOS customers to access content, applications and features developed by Yahoo! including music, anti-virus and other security programs, email and parental controls....
Lenexa uses Alvarion WiMAX
By: By Carol Wilson
Lenexa, Kan., a suburb of Kansas City, will build a city-wide wireless broadband network to connect government buildings, city vehicles, traffic signals and video cameras using Alvarion network technology. The goal is to use the WiFi technology to reduce pollution by better managing traffic flow...
Gateways knocking out DSL modems, says Yankee
By: By Carol Wilson
The Yankee Group says there is turbulence ahead in the DSL modem market, as residential gateways that can connect multiple computers take hold in the market place....
Akimbo pencils MLB into lineup
By: By Vince Vittore
Akimbo Systems, the Internet-delivered video-on-demand service, is announcing today that it signed a deal with Major League Baseball’s interactive media and Internet company, MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM) to provide premium programming....
Passave punches up silicon offering
By: By Vince Vittore
Passave today announced two new GPON devices aimed at building on the company’s success in the Asian fiber-to-the-home market....
SBC pits Motorola set-tops against Scientific Atlanta
By: By Ed Gubbins
Motorola and Scientific Atlanta will supply the set-top boxes for the video portion of SBC Communications’ fiber-to-the-node deployment, Project Lightspeed....
Glowpoint pitches outsourced video to cable
By: By Vince Vittore
Glowpoint this week has teamed up with Sony at the CableLabs Summer Conference to demonstrate an outsourced video conferencing system using Sony’s Instant Video Everywhere (IVE) service....
IPTV set-top market already overcrowded
By: By Carol Wilson
It may be early in the IPTV game, but the playing field is already too crowded, according to The Diffusion Group....
Tech companies launch Digital Communities initiative
By: By Carol Wilson
Intel this morning will unveil a new international initiative to help communities build out wireless infrastructure and expand broadband penetration...
BellSouth rolls out advanced service for small biz
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth is taking aim at its competitors for small business services with a new suite of offerings intended to make e-commerce easier and safer for its small business customers...
Qwest averts strike
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest Communications averted a strike Tuesday night by reaching a settlement with the Communications Workers of America that provides a wage increase and continues to limit overtime but requires workers to contribute to their health care....
Nortel teams with LG in South Korea
By: By Carol Wilson
Nortel announced late Tuesday that it has finalized a joint venture with Korean manufacturer LG Electronics to develop wireline, optical, wireless and enterprise communications products for the South Korean market and elsewhere....
Speakeasy gives small biz more bandwidth
By: By Carol Wilson
Broadband service provider Speakeasy today announced a new set of services for small businesses, intended to let them cost-effectively add bandwidth above the traditional T-1 speeds. ...
Nortel advocates strong Canadian telecom policy
By: By Vince Vittore
Nortel submitted a report to Canada’s Telecommunications Policy Review Panel pushing for the country’s Minister of Industry to establish regulations that recognize the multiple changing dynamics of the industry. ...
Dish launches ad initiative
By: By Carol Wilson
Satellite service provider Dish Networks is launching a major new advertising campaign aimed at luring cable TV customers with the promise of lower cost and higher quality digital programming....
MCI expands DSL into Asia, Israel
By: By Carol Wilson
MCI today announced that it is extended Internet access via DSL deeper into the Asia Pacific region and into Israel. The company has added China, Hong Kong, Thailand, the Philippines, and Singapore to its Asia PAC DSL network, which previously only served Australia....
Broadband growth slows in Q2
By: By Carol Wilson
Broadband access continues to spread, but its growth rate was sharply curtailed in the second quarter of the year, according to Broadbandtrends.com. ...
MCI liabilities could lower Verizon’s bid by $0.21 per share
By: By Ed Gubbins
MCI liabilities could potentially lower the purchase price being offered for the company by Verizon Communications by as much as $0.21 per share, according to regulatory filings made by Verizon today...
Sprint opts for 2Wire gateways
By: By Vince Vittore
Sprint announced today that is has signed a deal with 2Wire under which the telcos will offer 2Wire’s HomePortal residential gateway to its high-speed Internet access customers....
Muni nets step forward in Louisiana, step back in Congress
By: By Carol Wilson
In Lafayette, La., earlier this summer, municipal network advocates won a major victory at the polls, but those fortunes were seemingly reversed recently...
Cable rides surge in revenue from bundling, new services
By: By Carol Wilson
Recent sales growth may be the beginning of industry gold rush...
FCC's DSL ruling, Ensign bill churn telecom reform storm
By: By Carol Wilson
Winds of Telecom Act rewrite shift toward the Bells, but more will come...
Cedar Point raises $15 million
By: by Tim McElligott
Cedar Point Communications’ all-in-one voice switching solution for the cable industry brought investors back to the table this week as the company raised $15 million in additional financing ...
MOCA gains telco cred
By: By Vince Vittore
The Multimedia Over Coax Alliance (MoCA) announced that both Cox and Verizon have joined as new members, and that both will join the group’s Board of Directors...
DSL Port Sales Explode
By: By Carol Wilson
DSL port shipments hit record levels in the second quarter of 2005, as Asian and European carriers brought higher speeds and more advanced services to their customers, according to broadbandtrends.com. Global port shipments exceeded 19 million, driven primarily by upgrades to ADSL 2+ and Ethernet platforms designed to offer IPTV, said Teresa Mastrangelo, principal analyst with broadbandtrends.com....
