EMC to acquire Document Sciences
By: By Tim McElligott
Information management and storage company, EMC, will pay $85 million in cash to acquire Document Sciences Corp., a public company that provides document output management (DOM) software to facilitate personalized, multi-channel communications between business partners....
FairPoint awaits Maine decision after Vermont rejects Verizon sale
By: By Tim McElligott
FairPoint Communications continues to battle resistance in its bid to acquire 1.6 million access lines in the New England area from Verizon Communications. Regulators from Maine’s Public Utility Commission delayed a scheduled hearing today until some time next year. ...
France Telecom reportedly Alvarion’s big WiMAX customer
By: By Kevin Fitchard
WiMAX vendor Alvarion earlier this week said it had landed its first Tier I carrier deal for Mobile WiMAX equipment, refusing to name the provider itself, but Israeli media have pegged the customer as France Telecom. If the tie-up between one of Europe’s largest telcos and Alvarion proves true, the small Israeli broadband wireless company could be propelled to the top ranks of the highly competitive WiMAX market....
Analyst: AT&T may replace some FTTC with FTTP
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T may deploy fiber to the premises where it previously planned — and even now has — fiber to the curb, according to Simon Leopold, an analyst for Morgan Keegan....
Syniverse CEO talks about BSG acquisition
By: By Tim McElligott
It took nine months--a nice round figure for a full-term pregnancy but a little longer than anticipated for Syniverse Technologies to close its acquisition of Billing Services Group’s wireless business...
Cisco’s IPoDWDM may be tough sell to some
By: By Ed Gubbins
In recent years, Cisco has been turning up the volume on its promotion of the benefits of optical and IP integration in its CRS-1 carrier core routing platform. But it’s unknown to what extent carriers are buying that pitch...
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)...
Femtocells hit the market, but is anyone buying?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In the last few months, the market has been flooded with femtocells targeting every conceivable radio interface and frequency. But in truth the industry is far from any kind of large-scale deployment on the home base station technology...
Bridgewater talks about its IPO
By: By Tim McElligott
It has been a while since software start-ups in the telecom industry had the confidence in the market and themselves to launch an initial public offering. But as Tyler Nelson, vice president of marketing for Bridgewater, said of his 10-year-old company: We are no start-up. On Dec. 14, the company closed its IPO at $5.50 per share. The company had been hoping for more, but it’s done, it was successful and it is time to move forward. So far, they’re down a dime, but raised $20 million. Nelson spoke with Telephony’s Tim McElligott about the IPO and what comes next...
Provo, Utah, overhauls iProvo muni fiber model
By: By Ed Gubbins
The city council of Provo, Utah, is conferring with consultants it hired this month to help determine why its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network isn’t performing as hoped and to overhaul the model...
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...
UBS: Alcatel faces mobility decline, culture clash
By: By Ed Gubbins
After revenue declines last year and this year, Alcatel-Lucent’s mobility division will likely see shrinking revenue again in 2008, according to UBS Investment Research analyst Nikos Theodosopoulos...
WiMAX Forum to begin mobile certification—no, really
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The WiMAX Forum today said its lead certification lab in Malaga, Spain, is now ready to begin accepting Mobile WiMAX equipment for interoperability testing and certification...
ZTE handsets debut in North America
By: By Sarah Reedy
ZTE USA, the United States subsidiary to Chinese company ZTE, today announced that MetroPCS has signed an agreement to purchase ZTE’s CDMA PCS and AWS handsets. The agreement marks the company’s first handset customer in the United States....
NetCracker takes NExT step at France Telecom
By: By Tim McElligott
For NetCracker, getting a software contract from a company the size of France Telecom is one thing. Getting certified two years later as the corporate de facto standard is another...
Can Hesse stop the bleeding at Sprint?
By: By Carol Wilson
Industry analysts agree Dan Hesse faces a significant challenge in his new job as chairman and CEO of Sprint Nextel, but generally believe he could well be the man for the job...
Motorola launches first large-scale WiMAX network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola’s first commercial WiMAX network went live today in 22 cities in Pakistan, making it the first of its three high-profile nationwide network contracts to launch...
Turin Networks sees CDMA upside in Carrier Access buy
By: By Ed Gubbins
Turin Networks today announced its intent to acquire Carrier Access for $92.7 million in cash, planning to exploit products in the latter’s development pipeline as well as expand its gear into CDMA networks...
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...
Leap Wireless’ growth falters
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Leap Wireless’s fast growth in 2007 has slowed down to a trickle. After adding 318,000 net subscribers in the first quarter and 127,000 in the second, Leap tacked on only 36,500 subscribers to the total in the third quarter. ...
Tussle for alternative wireless widens to ‘white spaces’
By: By Rich Karpinski
Dell, Google, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft this week led the formation of a new group to encourage the FCC to make available the “white spaces” between digital TV channels for use for wireless broadband services....
On-demand ad market untapped (for now)
By: By Sarah Reedy
New advances in dynamic ad insertion for video-on-demand (VOD) services will be a key driver of the $6 billion in VOD revenue awaiting U.S. multichannel service providers over the next five years, according to research released by SNL Kagan....
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...
LG Voyager more searched than iPhone
By: By Sarah Reedy
With the holidays rapidly approaching, the LG Voyager may be the more popular gift to give than Apple’s iPhone this year...
Sprint to offer MySpace Mobile for free
By: By Kevin Fitchard
MySpace’s isolation on the Helio and AT&T content decks has come to an end. Today Sprint announced it would include MySpace’s WAP site in the Sprint Vision portal along with News Corp.’s other mobile-enabled Web properties, Fox Sports and IGN...
Ciena boasts PBT win, booming metro sales
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena today claimed its first sale to a major carrier of products based on Provider Backbone Technology (PBT) as sales of metro optical equipment overall boosted the company’s quarterly revenue beyond expectations...
Microsoft, Experian tackle identity management
By: By Tim McElligott
As a proof of concept, it may not be ready for this holiday season, but Microsoft and Experian have developed an identity management solution using Microsoft’s Windows CardSpace that streamlines the identity authentication process and makes it more secure...
Nokia declares first victory in Qualcomm phone wars
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm’s attempt to get Nokia GSM phones banned in the U.S. was halted today as an administrative law judge with the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled that Nokia violated none of Qualcomm's patents...
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...
