XO shakes up pricing models
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications continued its aggressive assault on the competitive services market today with a new pricing strategy that lets customers pay strictly for bandwidth and not for a specific number of access lines...
Triple-play prices grow more elastic
By: By Ed Gubbins
As competition heats up for triple-play telecom services, the prices for those offerings are becoming more elastic—something customers are finding when they threaten to switch providers...
Pac-West bounces back again
By: By Carol Wilson
The new CEO of Pac-West Telecom is promising a financially healthier company with ambitious plans for the Western region...
New Edge brings CoS to ADSL
By: By Carol Wilson
New Edge Networks is keeping its promise to bring a better quality ADSL service to small to mid-sized businesses, announcing today it will introduce class-of-service offerings that allow customers to tag and prioritize services over ADSL lines...
Qwest charts different video course
By: By Carol Wilson
While AT&T and Verizon aggressively deploy video services via their U-Verse and FiOS TV offerings, respectively, Qwest Communications is pursuing a very different video strategy...
CES: Digital home on display
By: By Sarah Reedy
Microsoft wasn’t the only company at the Consumer Electronics Show that prominently featured the connected home. In Las Vegas this week, the digital or connected home was on display widely, and new levels of simplicity, connectivity and convergence were the focus of many companies’ announcements and plans. ...
Level 3’s Crowe sees new market emerge
By: By Carol Wilson
Admitting his company “stubbed its toe” this year, Level 3 Communications Chairman and CEO James Crowe told the CitiGroup’s 18th Annual Global Entertainment, Media & Telecommunications Conference today that the emerging IP optical and IP wireless markets are what “we’ve been planning on and hoping for, for a number of years” and Level 3 is ready to compete successfully...
CES: XStreamHD takes the theater experience home
By: By Sarah Reedy
LAS VEGAS--Although high-definition DVD suffered from the news that Warner Brothers will only be providing content in BluRay format this year, the HD market in general was in fine shape at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas...
CES: Comcast unveils ’08-model cable competitor
By: By Sarah Reedy
In what was the first keynote from a cable company executive in the Consumer Electronic Show’s history, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts told the audience that the cableco is now the fourth largest residential phone service provider in the United States, surpassing Embarq in subscribers...
Google, Facebook unite for social network standards
By: By Rich Karpinski
Competitors Google and Facebook look for common ground to allow users to control identity and content online; whither telecom industry?...
CES: Microsoft celebrates IPTV success, adds apps
By: By Sarah Reedy
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Bill Gates kicked off the Consumer Electronics Show this week with encouraging news for skeptical IPTV followers...
Broadband business wireless firm expands to NYC
By: By Carol Wilson
Its nickname is humble – BOB Broadband – but a new wireless service provider has lofty ambitions for providing wireless services to large businesses, particularly those in financial services, using licensed spectrum...
Motorola unveils stand-alone Mobile TV player
By: By Kevin Fitchard and Sarah Reedy
Motorola today took the wraps off what amounts to a mobile digital video recorder--a stand-alone large-screen handheld that renders live mobile broadcast video but can time-shift, pause and record content according to users’ wishes...
Online ads make their way into videos
By: By Sarah Reedy
ScanScout co-founder and president Waikit Lau shared with Associate Editor Sarah Reedy the keys to the company’s success moving forward as more and more videos go online...
CLEC veteran Royce Holland looks ahead
By: By Carol Wilson
On what he hopes will be the eve of a successful acquisition by Paetec, McLeod USA CEO Royce Holland is looking forward to not working full time. But he still has a lot to say about the competitive service provider space he helped create, as an early member of the Metropolitan Fiber Systems team and the founder of Allegiance Telecom (now XO Communications)...
Content, quality, convergence drive IPTV
By: By Sarah Reedy
Telephony Associate Editor Sarah Reedy spoke to Ervin Leibovici, chief executive officer of content delivery provider BitBand, to get his perspective on the trends that will drive IPTV in 2008...
Qwest not taking IPTV bait
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest Communications will invest an extra $300 million in capital to build fiber-to-the-node networks to reach 1.5 million homes in 20 markets but is not planning to deliver IPTV service over those networks, Qwest Chairman and CEO Ed Mueller told the investment community today...
Zayo buys Citynet wholesale unit
By: By Carol Wilson
Zayo Group continued its buying ways, announcing Thursday it has acquired the wholesale unit of Citynet, the Tulsa, Okla.-based service provider...
AT&T: 40,000 U-verse installs per week by 2008’s end
By: By Ed Gubbins
In AT&T’s analyst day yesterday, John Stankey, the company’s group president of telecom operations, provided some up-to-date data on AT&T’s consumer offerings as well as some aggressive goals for next year, including the quadrupling of its weekly installation rate for U-verse triple-play services...
Survey calls for customer experience overhaul
By: By Sarah Reedy
When Forrester Research asked nearly 5,000 consumers about their interactions with a variety of companies to gauge the usefulness, usability, and enjoyability of their experiences, wireless carriers kept coming up short...
AT&T CEO looks ahead to the new year
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T is seeing unprecedented growth in bandwidth demand and has transformed itself to capitalize on that trend with a seamless, IP-based global network, the company’s chairman and Chief Executive Officer told the AT&T Investor Day audience this morning...
Microsoft links Office to network ‘cloud’
By: By Rich Karpinski
Beset on all sides by online competitors to its still massively profitable Office suite, Microsoft today opened up a beta test of a new service that lets users of its desktop apps save and collaborate on documents online...
Telus to offer Jamcracker SaaS as wholesaler
By: By Carol Wilson
Canadian service provider Telus is teaming up with Jamcracker to offer U.S. service providers the ability to deliver key business applications as a service to their small to mid-sized business (SMB) customers...
AT&T hits 40Gig coast to coast
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T today said it has expanded to 40 Gb/s capacity on more than 50,000 miles of its IP/MPLS national network, as part of the latest push to meet growing demand for online video and other IP-based traffic...
Follow-up: Revisiting past story subjects
By: By Carol Wilson
Here's the latest on two start-ups that we covered earlier...
