BellSouth offers ‘Net security suite
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth today unveiled a new set of security services to help its Internet customers avoid the growing problems of spyware, viruses and other PC attacks...
Comcast signs three for voice connectivity
By: By Carol Wilson
Comcast is sharing the wealth, signing up not one but three national service providers to augment its private network in delivering Comcast Digital Voice...
High-investment costs hand Covad loss
By: By Carol Wilson
Covad Communications today posted a second-quarter loss and forecast further losses for the immediate future, based on the investment required to expand its voice-over-IP business and two high-profile deployments—AOL’s high-speed Internet access service and EarthLink’s line-powered voice access trial...
Incumbents cheer Ensign’s reform bill
By: By Carol Wilson
Incumbent telephone companies lined up quickly to applaud Sen. John Ensign’s introduction of telecom reform legislation this morning. Ensign (R-Nev.), chairman of the Commerce Committee’s Technology, Innovation and Competitiveness Subcommittee, unveiled his Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act of 2005 in the Senate Press Gallery...
Comcast to count on AT&T
By: By Carol Wilson
Comcast has extended its contract to buy wholesale services from AT&T to support its Comcast Digital Voice offering. ...
Robbins retires at Cox
Cox Communications yesterday announced a sweeping changing of its executive guard, triggered by the retirement of long-time CEO James Robbins. ...
HomeNet departure doesn’t rattle iProvo
By: By Carol Wilson
The departure of its initial service provider has brought negative publicity to iProvo, one of the more high-profile municipal fiber optic networks now under construction...
Hughes taps Covad
By: By Carol Wilson
Covad Communications will be the primary DSL broadband supplier to Hughes Network Systems’ new Direcway Unified Broadband service, the two companies announced today....
2Wire adds FTTN and FTTP to lineup
By: By Vince Vittore
2Wire today announced that it has started shipping fiber-to-the-node and fiber-to-the-premises versions of its residential gateways....
Cisco seals home network with KiSS
By: By Carol Wilson
Cisco Systems, the dominant player in corporate networks, is moving further into home networks as well with the acquisition of KiSS Technology A/S--of Horsholm, Denmark--for $61 million in cash and stock. The acquisition is the second for Cisco’s Linksys consumer networking division, and adds a new dimension to that operation...
McLeodUSA fails to find a buyer
By: By Ed Gubbins
McLeodUSA is negotiating with its lenders to restructure the company’s capital after a four-month search to find a buyer or strategic partner failed...
UAC changes maintenance model
By: By Carol Wilson
One company has quietly changed the business model for corporate telecom network maintenance by shifting a largely regional business into a national operation that competes with--and is a large customer of--service providers across the country...
SBC earnings mixed
By: By Carol Wilson
SBC Communications delivered a mixed bag of second-quarter earnings as its earnings per share fell, due to the cost of its two mergers, but still exceeded Wall Street expectations. In addition, the company posted slightly better than expected revenues, growing 22% to $15.49 billion, but didn’t attract as many new DSL customers as expected with its low-cost new customer option...
Cogent courts cable
By: By Carol Wilson
Cogent Communications is launching a U.S. initiative to attract cable companies as customers for its gigabit Ethernet service...
Survey says: IT spending drives revenues
By: By Carol Wilson
Juniper Networks today released a study that shows enterprises that place the most importance on information technology and are willing to adopt new technology do better financially...
Yankee Group: Bundle sale a complex process
By: By Carol Wilson
Selling services as a bundle will change consumer buying patterns, and service providers need to recognize this and make changes themselves, according to a Yankee Group study released today...
BellSouth chooses pricing simplicity
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth is bucking the “buy it cheaper here” syndrome currently running rampant through the broadband community, announcing today that it is eliminating three- and six-month introductory pricing for its residential DSL service and going instead to a simplified pricing plan that puts basic DSL at $32.95 a month....
BigBand expands business with Adelphia
By: By Carol Wilson
BigBand Networks today announced that Adelphia Communications will use its BigBand Digital Simulcast to upgrade its Los Angeles system to digital technology, while maintaining its analog video offerings...
MCI, Akamai team up on Sun software solution
By: By Carol Wilson
Facing burgeoning demand for its software in China, India and Europe, Sun Microsystems turned to MCI Communications and Akamai Technologies to beef up its software download capabilities, the companies announced today...
Sereniti going for peace of mind in home networking
By: By Vince Vittore
A new service launched this week by a New Jersey-based start-up is targeting broadband users who set up home networks, often leaving themselves vulnerable to viruses...
Equant targets small business VPNs
By: By Carol Wilson
Global service provider Equant is targeting small branch offices and retail locations where there are multiple sites needing capabilities such as supply chain management and customer relationship management, the company said...
France Telecom, Equant, Cisco bring VoIP to Airbus
By: By Carol Wilson
France Telecom, its subsidiary Equant and equipment vendor Cisco Systems will build what is being called the largest single deployment of voice over IP to date for airplane manufacturer Airbus at its campus in Toulouse, France...
Wireless mesh net creates shuttle watch
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth and Nortel are providing high-speed wireless data service for the media attending tomorrow’s launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla....
Cogent expands in U.S., Europe
By: By Carol Wilson
Cogent Communications is expanding the geographic availability of its optical Ethernet service in both the U.S. and Europe...
