New face in space
By: By Ed Gubbins
After building the ground infrastructure for satellite broadband provider WildBlue, ViaSat believes it's learned enough about the business to voyage into space itself...
Mixing satellite TV into the wireline triple-play
By: By Sarah Reedy
Where terrestrial triple-play services are not economical (in rural areas, for example), the lingering question for telcos becomes: How can they seamlessly integrate a partner’s satellite TV service with their own terrestrial services such as video-on-demand (VOD)?...
Video sales may stumble on customer service woes
By: By Carol Wilson
Telecom service providers in a rush to sell new video services could stumble badly if they don’t work harder to properly set customer expectations and do a better job of helping customers make the transition, a customer service consultant is warning...
SureWest: No need to own wireless for quad play
By: By Ed Gubbins
Providers of quadruple-play services need not own the wireless part of the bundle, Steve Oldham, president and chief executive officer of SureWest Communications, said this week...
Level 3 execs forego bonuses
By: By Carol Wilson
Level 3 Communications executives have put their money where their mouths are: Chairman and CEO James Crowe and his top four executive team members will not get bonuses for 2007 because of the company’s disappointing performance...
In the spotlight: Brian Rose of Cox Communications
By: By Carol Wilson
Brian Rose joined Cox Communications as product development manager after seven years with BellSouth and has found selling Ethernet services can be more fun when you aren’t cannibalizing your existing base of data services. Just after the Vertical Systems Group report credited Cox with fourth place nationally in the sales of Ethernet ports with 10% of the market, Rose spoke with Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson...
Broadband Census launches grassroots effort
By: By Carol Wilson
A veteran journalist is attempting to determine for himself just how accurate the Federal Communications Commission’s rosy reports of competitive broadband services really are. Drew Clark set up his own limited liability corporation, Broadband Census LLC, to try to answer the question of how much broadband access is really available in the U.S....
Nokia delivers Ovi Share for social networking
By: By Rich Karpinski
Nokia today launched a key part of its Ovi Internet services strategy with a revamped multimedia-driven social network dubbed "Share."...
What MS+Yahoo means for service providers
By: By Rich Karpinski
If the telecom and Web worlds are merging, then a mega-merger on one side -- Microsoft’s proposed $44.6 billion acquisition of Yahoo -- surely affects the other. But how?...
700 MHz Auction: Open access assured
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In today’s opening round of the 700 MHz auction, a bidder pushed the C-block nationwide license over the $4.6 billion reserve price set by the FCC, ensuring that whichever bidder wins the license must launch an open-access network that will support any competitor’s device or application...
Qwest CEO: It’s the interface, stupid
By: By Carol Wilson
Edward Mueller’s view of the future sets him apart from most telecom CEOs. He’s not building Qwest into a company that will deliver its own voice, data, video and wireless services to its consumer customers. Instead, Mueller is pointing Qwest toward a different kind of future...
700 MHz Auction: As open access nears, bidders back off
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The price of the nationwide C-block license in the 700 MHz auction ticked upward today, but it got nowhere near the $4.6 billion reserve price necessary to trigger the open-access provisions of the highly valuable spectrum property...
Mobile social networking firms fight for pocket space
By: By Sarah Reedy
The social networking phenomenon, given credence by Web giants MySpace and Facebook, has taken hold of the mobile market, and every company wants a piece of the action...
U-verse comes to Chicago suburbs
By: By Sarah Reedy
Residents in most Chicago suburbs now have another option for video, as AT&T today announced it will begin installing its IPTV service, U-verse, in parts of 175 northeastern suburbs. This Illinois launch marks the largest U-verse rollout to date in any AT&T market...
The “next Google” gears up
By: By Sarah Reedy
Ooyala CEO and co-founder Bismarck Lepe shared with Telephony’s Sarah Reedy what the founders learned from Google and how they are taking that knowledge to change the Internet landscape...
Verizon sees no slowdown
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon today confirmed what AT&T said last week -- if there is an economic slowdown taking place, it isn’t having a major impact on the telecom business...
Advertising chaos
By: By Carol Wilson
Telecom service providers are entering the advertising game
just as this multibillion-dollar market appears to be coming apart at the seams...
Taking the retail view to telecom
By: By Carol Wilson
New CEO Ed Mueller brings a unique perspective and a very different strategy to Qwest...
CLECs heat up new year
By: By Carol Wilson
Competitive service providers started 2008 with a flurry of announcements, indicating a determination to push hard for market share...
IPTV adds to the business plan
By: By Sarah Reedy
It wouldn't be television without advertisements, and they wouldn't be advertisements without a solid money-making plan behind them...
700 MHz auction starts with bangs, whimpers
By: By Kevin Fitchard
As Auction 73 shut down after its first week, things didn’t look good for the planned public safety/private network. After attracting a $472-million bid in the auction’s opening round, it has languished through round 4 as the other nationwide band, block D, and the individual market licenses attracted all of the attention...
Slow economy doesn't faze AT&T
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T is expecting a strong 2008, with consolidated revenue growth in the mid-single digits, a significant expansion in margins and continued double-digit growth in earnings per share -- even if the U.S. economy continues to struggle, Senior Executive Vice President and CFO Rick Lindner told financial analysts today...
TDS following in Sprint's footsteps - TDS and Madison WiMAX
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Telephone and Data Systems has launched a WiMAX network in Madison, Wis., tapping into the economies of scale generated by Sprint's upcoming Xohm launch...
IPTV standards effort moves ahead
By: By Sarah Reedy
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) begins work this week on the next phase of its efforts to establish global standards for IPTV, hoping to increase simplification and integration for IPTV manufacturers, service providers and consumers...
Security firm Arbor buys Ellacoya
By: By Carol Wilson
Security technology firm Arbor Networks today announced it has acquired Ellacoya Networks, a pioneer in the increasingly crowded field of deep packet inspection...
