SureWest will launch HDTV in Q3
By: By Carol Wilson
SureWest Communications yesterday announced its second quarterly profit in a row, based in part on cost controls, as well as reduced losses for its broadband unit...
Cox bundles sell but income falls
By: By Carol Wilson
Cox Communications saw the same burst of growth in its advanced services as other cable companies, but nonetheless posting lower income based on debt extinguishment and the sale of some small cable systems...
Entitlement management systems: Next-generation management for broadband services and content
By: By Armando Martinez
A critical, yet often undervalued, back-office management function is entitlement. Entitlement is the process of authorizing a service (a music or broadcast TV channel, pay per view, etc.) or content (a movie, program, game or special event) to a customer...
Marconi responds to Huawei acquisition report
By: By Ed Gubbins
Marconi has issued a formal statement this morning in response to a Sunday London Times report that the equipment vendor is in discussions with its partner, Huawei Technologies, to be acquired...
ECI’s Laurel buy pays off
By: By Vince Vittore
ECI Telecom announced today that it has landed a deal with SDN Communications to provide ST200 multi-service edge routers, marking the first announced win for ECI’s router line since it bought the product line as part of its acquisition of Laurel Networks. Laurel now operates as ECI's Data Networking Division. ...
Telefonica chooses powerline technology
By: By Carol Wilson
Telefonica will use broadband power line technology to distribute its IPTV signal within the home, the company’s supplier, Corinex, announced today. Telefonia is in the process of building a national Ethernet network to serve both business and residential customers. The company will be using Corinex 200 Mbps AV Powerline technology to connect IPTV set-top boxes within the home to the video signal being delivered via ADSL 2+. ...
The CALEA component
By: By Carol Wilson
At the same time it was deregulating open access to DSL, the Federal Communications Commission was adding a different regulatory requirement – the need for CALEA support....
FCC gives rural telcos option
By: By Carol Wilson
Rural carriers get special treatment under the Federal Communications Commission’s recent ruling to classify DSL as an information service. ...
CLECs stoic on FCC DSL decision
By: By Carol Wilson
Competitive carriers who depend on access to DSL lines from Bell companies are putting the best face possible on Friday’s Federal Communications Commission decision to dismantle regulations which require DSL resale, at least pending the issuance of the final order. ...
Labor relations clouds sunny results from Telus
By: By Tim McElligott
Canadian carrier Telus Corp. achieved solid growth and market-leading EBITDA across its wireless and wireline businesses in its second quarter despite a heated battle with labor unions that has resulted in strikes and lockouts...
FCC ‘frees’ DSL service
By: By Carol Wilson
As expected, the Federal Communications Commission today voted unanimously to declare DSL an information service, not a telecommunications service, thus lifting requirements for telcos to share their DSL lines with other Internet service providers...
DirecTV explores wireless broadband
By: By Carol Wilson
DirecTV is exploring broadband wireless opportunities, a company spokesman confirmed today. ...
Will they or won’t they: The FCC and DSL
By: By Carol Wilson
Speculation continues to swirl that the Federal Communications Commission will deregulate DSL services offered by incumbent telephone companies as early as today, thus removing requirements that telcos open their existing services to other Internet Service Providers. ...
Muni nets require phased approach, says Yankee
By: By Carol Wilson
Municipalities that want to build their own broadband networks can reduce the financial risk of doing so by taking a phased approach that carefully ties investment to community demand for services, according to a new Yankee Group report...
CopperCom taps IPCC exec as new CTO
By: By Tim McElligott
Manuel Vexler, the marketing and technical strategy force behind the industry’s primary softswitching forum and chair of the SIP Forum Service Provider Working Group, re-entered the vendor community today as chief technology officer at CopperCom....
Iowa Telecom access lines down, DSL up
By: By Carol Wilson
Iowa Telecom posted lower revenue and operating income, as its access lines also continued to decline. The company announced revenue of $58 million, down almost 8% from the second quarter of 2004, but attributed the decrease to one-time revenue recognized a year ago....
Alcatel, Amdocs team up for IPTV
By: By Dan O'Shea
Alcatel and Amdocs, already working together on SBC's Project Lightspeed broadband upgrade, have signed a letter of intent to jointly develop and end-to-end solution supporting deployment of triple-play services, including IPTV, by other broadband service providers...
Classes begin for Verizon metro Ethernet
By: By Ed Gubbins
Verizon Communications launched “class of service” offerings for its metro Ethernet customers in Washington D.C. and New York late last month, the company announced yesterday, with plans to extend the offering across its entire footprint by the end of the year...
Time Warner Cable posts double-digit gains
By: By Carol Wilson
Time-Warner Cable today announced double-digit growth in its revenues and the sales of its enhanced digital services and its high-speed Internet access services ...
VPNs, security services hot commodities
By: By Carol Wilson
Virtual Private Networks and security services are hot territory for service providers and will remain so going forward, according to an Infonetics Research report. Worldwide, VPN service revenue will hit $29.8 billion in 2009, and worldwide security service revenue will rise to $8.1 billion in 2009....
How many petabytes do you have?
By: By Carol Wilson
Level 3 Communications announced Tuesday that it is now carrying 3.0 petabytes, or quadrillion bytes, of Internet Protocol traffic daily, or the equivalent of transmitting the entire Library of Congress print collection more than 300 times a day....
Comcast revenues up, on digital products
By: By Carol Wilson
Comcast is reaping the rewards of its network investment and new service initiatives, today reporting major increases in revenue and operating income...
Time Warner Telecom sees enterprise revenue boost 
By: By Carol Wilson
Time Warner Telecom reported increased revenue in its enterprise customer segment, and a narrower loss for the second quarter of 2005, even though carrier revenues decreased...
Citizens stalls IPTV, stays the course on wireless, VoIP
By: By Vince Vittore
As part of its second quarter earning report today, Citizens Communications said it would delay a planned rollout of an IP video service until 2006 because of several factors...
Broadwing's earnings jump on data, broadband
By: By Carol Wilson
Broadwing posted significant revenue growth and a smaller net loss for the second quarter of 2005, based on the inclusion of Focal Communications’ revenue and growth of its own data and broadband services....
