Samsung sees record handset news 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Samsung shipped a record 42.6 million handsets in the third quarter, scoring significant gains in the U.S. and Europe...

Paetec acquires SMB PBX vendor Allworx 

By: By Sarah Reedy

Competitive service provider Paetec continued its acquisition spree today with its announcement that it will acquire New York-based Allworx, a move that will strengthen Paetec’s position in the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market...

Telephony LIVE: DSL needs SLAs, says New Edge head 

By: By Carol Wilson

DALLAS--The telecom industry needs to develop better service level agreements, especially for small to mid-sized businesses that use DSL and high-speed T-1 connections, Linda Beck, president of New Edge Networks, said this week...

Oracle offers BEA $6.7 billion 

By: By Tim McElligott

Oracle revealed today that it made an offer to BEA Systems on Tuesday, proposing to buy the company for approximately $6.7 billion...

AT&T: Sigman retires, de la Vega takes over wireless  

By: By Kevin Fitchard

AT&T today said that Stan Sigman, CEO of AT&T Mobility, is retiring effective immediately...

Sony Ericsson’s revenue, volumes slip  

By: By Sarah Reedy

Despite an improvement in margins, mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson reported a decline in third-quarter revenue and volumes, based in large part on its decision to sell cheaper handset models at lower than average prices...

Telephony LIVE: Verizon CTO on IMS, FMC and Web 2.0 

By: By Ed Gubbins

DALLAS--Verizon Chief Technology Officer Mark Wegleitner offered roadmaps for several of the carrier’s coming technology decisions in a keynote presentation here at the Telephony LIVE show this week, including its view of debates surrounding IP multimedia subsystem (IMS), fixed/mobile convergence (FMC) and Web 2.0...

Telephony LIVE: Megacarrier RFPs loom large over tech innovation 

By: By Ed Gubbins

DALLAS--Major carrier consolidation is adding both price and time pressure to equipment suppliers, raising questions about the prospects for technological innovation, according to attendees here at the Telephony LIVE show....

Martin rebuffs VZW’s open access demands 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin today said he would not give in to Verizon Wireless’ demands to remove the open access requirements from the upcoming 700 MHz auction...

High-capacity circuit price decline not wholly XO’s fault  

By: By Sarah Reedy

As competition in the wholesale industry has ramped up in the past 12 to 18 months, the price of high-capacity circuits has been dropping at an equivalent pace. Many are quick to blame XO Communications...

AT&T loads up on 700 MHz with Aloha purchase 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

AT&T said today it has agreed to acquire Aloha Partners and its valuable portfolio for 700 MHz licenses for $2.5 billion in cash...

Comptel: Qwest offers 10G wholesale service 

By: By Carol Wilson

DALLAS--Qwest Communications today announced new dedicated Internet access wholesale offerings at speeds from 2 Gb/s to 10 Gb/s, with the promise of 40 Gb/s on the horizon...

ECI Telecom introduces new broadband access features  

By: By Sarah Reedy

ECI Telecom, the Israeli equipment vendor, today introduced new broadband access features to its Hi-FOCuS-5 Multi-Service Access Node product line, aimed at enhancing IPTV and video services...

Zhone mines fertile copper Ethernet market overseas 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Zhone Technologies is taking advantage of a fertile market overseas for Ethernet over copper (EoC) equipment, introducing more EoC gear today and hailing what it claims is the world’s largest EoC deployment to date...

Comptel: CLEC vets give FCC an earful 

By: By Carol Wilson

DALLAS--The Federal Communications Commission has become a bureaucratic morass, incapable of enforcing the Telecommunications Act of 1996, three competitive industry veterans said yesterday...

Sprint CEO Forsee resigns 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Sprint chairman and CEO Gary Forsee stepped down today amid growing shareholder pressure over Sprint’s poor financial and operational results and media reports that the company was already in search of a replacement CEO...

Kineto releases UMA femtocell software 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Kineto said today it is releasing a femtocell software solution based upon unlicensed mobile access (UMA), the GSM tunneling architecture it uses to deliver voice calls from a Wi-Fi hotspot to the cellular core...

Verizon expands wholesale portal 

By: By Carol Wilson

Verizon Business today announced enhancements to the Web portal it offers its wholesale customers that the company said should speed up service delivery as well as cut Verizon’s costs...

Global IPTV base exceeds 8 million 

By: By Sarah Reedy

The number of global IPTV subscribers at the end of the second quarter was up 179% from a year earlier, with over 8 million people now using IPTV services, according to an announcement today by the DSL Forum at the European Broadband World Forum in Berlin...

mSpot develops customizable ringtone tech 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Mobile media company mSpot today said it has created an application that will allow customers to edit music ringtones on their phones, allowing them to pick and choose the elements of a specific song they want to play over their handsets rather than settle for the pre-packaged ringtone sold by the carrier or record company....

XO attacks enterprise market 

By: By Carol Wilson

XO Communications is taking on the big boys, going right after AT&T and Verizon in courting enterprise and larger business customers...

The meaning of Xohm 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Barry West, chief technology officer for Sprint, is fond of joking about what people think is the meaning of Xohm, the name of Sprint's new WiMAX network...

DPI: Service savior or devious device? 

By: By Carol Wilson

The proliferation of deep packet inspection technology is being met with suspicion in some quarters and relief in others...

Interop test bed gets permanent home 

By: By Tim McElligott

The MultiService Forum launched a permanent test bed last week at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory ...

Telcordia's French connection 

By: By Tim McElligott

France Telecom taps vendor for service quality management...

Sequans puffs out its chest 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

WiMAX World was definitely Motorola's party, but tiny Sequans Communications almost stole the show...

HotSpot@Everywhere 

By: By Carol Wilson

Although municipal networks have lost their glossy hype, they are still being built and they still present an opportunity for consumers to cut down on...

Getting in the FLO 

By: By Sarah Reedy

Qualcomm's MediaFLO gains momentum with the help of Motorola...

Q&A: Verizon's Terry Denson 

Terry Denson, vice president of FiOS TV content strategy and acquisition for Verizon, spoke at the Fiber-to-the-Home Conference in Orlando last week...

Funding the exaflood 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Data-rich services may push up the price of broadband access...