AT&T Mobility CEO: 3G chase is over
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T Mobility President and CEO Ralph de la Vega said that AT&T has finally caught up to its CDMA competitors in 3G coverage and data services penetration...
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...
In the Spotlight: Bill DeMuth, SureWest Communications
By: By Ed Gubbins
Last week SureWest Communications announced the acquisition of Everest Broadband, a move to double its triple-play subscriber base by adding to its existing fiber-to-the-home network in Sacramento, Calif., a hybrid fiber/coax network in Kansas City, Mo. SureWest’s Chief Technology Officer, Bill DeMuth, spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins last week about strategies to integrate the two businesses and what lies ahead...
Nortel adds muscle, multicasting to PBT
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks has updated its metro Ethernet portfolio with new hardware and software to add muscle to its Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) platform and give it the ability to manage multicast traffic...
Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent score wireless wins at XO, MetroPCS
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel-Lucent will be the vendor of MetroPCS’s expansion out East. Metro said today it has selected Alcatel-Lucent’s CDMA kit for its new network on the Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) frequencies, extending its earlier contract with the vendor for CDMA infrastructure on the PCS airwaves...
Go2 Media gets on deck with Verizon
By: By Sarah Reedy
Mobile media company Go2 Media today announced that Verizon Wireless has included Go2’s local content in Verizon Mobile Web 2.0 portal...
Juniper opens Junos OS to third-party developers
By: By Ed Gubbins
Juniper Networks has created a software development kit (SDK) that will allow third-party application developers to create applications for the router vendor’s Junos operating system...
Sprint to soft-launch WiMAX before Christmas
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Within the week, Sprint will turn live its WiMAX networks in Chicago and Baltimore-Washington D.C., Sprint officials said today...
Verizon boosts VoIP options
By: By Carol Wilson
In two separate announcements made this morning, Verizon Business introduced capabilities that will make it easier for enterprise customers to use its voice-over-IP services...
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...
NTCA throws support behind Adelstein
By: By Tim McElligott
President Bush announced on Friday he would re-nominate Democratic commissioner Jonathan Adelstein for another five-year term at the Federal Communications Commission. Representatives for rural telecom providers are all smiles...
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...
700 MHz: Google in; Time Warner, Comcast out
By: By Rich Karpinski
AT&T and Verizon are in the mix too, as bidders line up for January's wireless spectrum auction...
VZW's future network
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CTO Dick Lynch discusses how Verizon Wireless isn't changing its business model, but pursuing two separate ones...
CLECs milk public markets
By: By Ed Gubbins
Several trends are brightening the outlook of investors...
Follow-up: Revisiting past story subjects
By: By Carol Wilson
Here's the latest on two start-ups that we covered earlier...
Nokia World: Preaching to the customer
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia World, the handset maker's annual customer and analyst extravaganza, doesn't come off as the typical vendor showcase...
Advertising goes mobile
By: By Sarah Reedy
The mobile ad market is ready to explode--with or without the help of carriers...
Telcordia gets back to basics
By: By Tim McElligott
Telcordia held a conference last month for press and analysts in San Francisco, bringing in customer representatives from around the world...
New extra-flexible fiber put to the test
By: By Ed Gubbins
In October, Connexion Technologies which deploys wholesale fiber-to-the-premises networks became the first company to deploy a new type of fiber from Corning...
Blowtorch hopes to catch fire
Blowtorch Entertainment came on the scene this fall armed with more than $50 million in initial funding and a goal to create a media company for a young-adult audience...
Faster, cheaper broadband not enough
By: By Carol Wilson
U.K. broadband customers are paying less and getting higher speeds, but they are still not happy, according to the latest J.D. Power and Associates 2007 U.K. Broadband Internet Service Provider Satisfaction Study...
SureWest enters Kansas City through acquisition
By: By Ed Gubbins
SureWest Communications has agreed to acquire Everest Broadband for $173 million in cash in a deal that will roughly double SureWest’s triple-play subscriber base...
MegaPath sings national ‘Duet’
By: By Carol Wilson
Competitive service provider MegaPath is taking its converged voice and data offering, known as “Duet,” to its national footprint, the company announced this week...
Veraz does its part in Onemax network
By: By Tim McElligott
When Alcatel-Lucent handed the proverbial ribbon-cutting scissors to Raoul Fontanez, Chief Executive Officer of Onemax, at the launch of the world’s first WiMax Rev-e network in the Dominican Republic in October, Amit Chawla, vice president of global solutions and engineering at Veraz Networks, watched as the company basked in the glory of driving the implementation...
New network ties Savvis acquisitions together
By: By Carol Wilson
A year after announcing its upgrade plans, Savvis is coming to market with a new network offering based on integration of its data centers into a global network serving about 20% of Internet routes...
Cincinnati Bell buys Midwestern CLEC eGIX
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cincinnati Bell has agreed to acquire eGIX, a competitive local exchange carrier based in Indiana, for about $18 million...
Start-up launching bonded cable-DSL
By: By Ed Gubbins
A British start-up is planning to launch managed broadband services in the U.S. that will bond ADSL lines as well as broadband lines from multiple providers...
NSN to do lab trials of LTE with VZW
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AMSTERDAM--Nokia Siemens Networks will conduct lab trials of its Long Term Evolution gear in the U.S. for Verizon Wireless, NSN head of customer and market operations Christoph Caselitz confirmed today...
