Updated: Paetec acquires McLeodUSA
By: By Ed Gubbins
Still integrating its acquisition of US LEC, Paetec has agreed to acquire another fellow CLEC, McLeodUSA, for $557 million in stock, it announced this morning...
Leap rejects MetroPCS offer with a few parting shots
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Leap Wireless has turned down MetroPCS’ merger proposal, saying the operator is offering too little, but the Leap board hinted it was definitely interested in the deal of MetroPCS if the company would reach a little further into its pocketbook...
Zombies threaten ISPs
By: By Carol Wilson
Zombie computers are the single biggest threat to ISPs, according to an annual security survey conducted by Arbor Networks, as compromised PCs are being used to spew out spam, launch distributed denial-of-service (D-DOS) attacks and perpetrate identify theft and phishing schemes...
RipCode transcodes long-tail on-demand video
By: By Sarah Reedy
RipCode, the Texas-based video equipment manufacturer, today announced the availability of its RipCode V4 video transcoding appliance, which delivers on-demand video content to any viewing medium, while reducing server hardware, storage and energy use. RipCode also released the name of its first client – MySpace, which recently completed a trial run with the company...
Global Tower acquires AT&T cellsites
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Global Tower Partners today said it has bought 549 cellsites in urban areas across 27 states from AT&T, though it did not disclose their specific locations or cost...
AT&T picks legacy gear for new video network
By: By Ed Gubbins
NEC America scored a surprising win in the second quarter, with a significant sale of legacy optical equipment to AT&T...
Carriers, mobile absent from top social networks list
By: By Rich Karpinski
Nielsen/NetRatings this week delivered its regular monthly list of top social-media sites, with Facebook and LinkedIn tabbed as the strongest gainers of users...
Qualcomm gets chip-ban reprieve
By: By Kevin Fitchard
A U.S. appeals court stayed the U.S. International Trade Commission’s ban on Qualcomm technology imported into the U.S., but only lifted the prohibition on third-party devices not Qualcomm’s own chipsets...
Verizon Wireless challenges 700 MHz rules in court
By: By Carol Wilson
In what could be the opening salvo in a long legal battle, Verizon Wireless has asked a federal court to set aside the Federal Communications Commission’s rules requiring open-access rules for one portion of the 700 MHz spectrum being auctioned beginning in January...
Google integrates mobile, Web text ads
By: By Rich Karpinski
Ad buyers who purchase Google text ads will soon start seeing their ads show up on mobile devices in addition to the Web...
Kickback allegations oust U.S. Signal execs
By: By Carol Wilson
Regional CLEC U.S. Signal has undergone an abrupt change in management, as three of its key officials are being investigated for allegedly stealing millions of dollars in the form of kickbacks on overpriced construction projects, according to the Grand Rapids Press...
Alcatel-Lucent flattened by wireless spending cuts
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel-Lucent today lowered its revenue expectations for the year based on discussions with North American wireless carriers...
Verizon taps ‘Webtop’ vendor Laszlo for new e-mail client
By: By Rich Karpinski
Verizon has tapped Web application vendor Laszlo Systems to build a new branded Webmail application for its FiOS fiber-to-the-home customers—and eventually all of its broadband Internet users...
VTap takes Web video browsing mobile
By: By Sarah Reedy
A new service from Veveo aims to make it easy for mobile users to browse the Web’s videos on their handsets...
Verizon Business targets retail, branch offices
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business is going after retail outlets, branch offices and other smaller remote locations of large corporations with new managed service offerings that extend the reach of services already used at headquarters and larger offices...
Amedia Networks evicted
By: By Ed Gubbins
With only a handful of employees left, equipment vendor Amedia Networks has been evicted from its Eatontown, New Jersey, offices for failing to pay its rent...
NTP takes carriers to court
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Fresh off its record win over Research in Motion, push-messaging patent-holder NTP is setting its sights on bigger fish, or whales rather. This time it’s taking on the giants of the telecom industry, suing AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Sprint...
New AT&T campaign one step forward
By: By Carol Wlison
AT&T’s new marketing initiatives are one step forward toward creating a more mobile identity for a brand once considered the stodgy bastion of the telecom establishment, said one of the advertising executives charged with creating that identity...
Former Qwest exec joins private equity firm
By: By Sarah Reedy
Barry Allen, retired executive vice president of operations for Qwest Communications, announced today he has been named a senior advisor to Providence Equity Partners...
UBS: Tellabs’ merger prospects cool
By: By Ed Gubbins
Despite recent reports of merger discussions, Tellabs is unlikely to be acquired by another telecom equipment vendor any time soon, according to UBS Investment Research...
Apple sells 1M iPhones
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Apple’s price slashing of the iPhone last week sent sales of the smartphone over the 1 million-unit mark on Sunday, allowing Apple to claim a highly successful launch for its first wireless product...
Google targets enterprise with Apps
By: By Rich Karpinski
Making office-style apps available over the Web is one thing. Getting large enterprises to bet their business on them is quite another. Recognizing this reality, Google said it will work with IT consulting firm CapGemini to deliver Google Apps to enterprise desktops...
Muvee and Orca bring Live Photos to IPTV
By: By Sarah Reedy
A picture may be worth 1000 words, but when not presented well, it is practically worthless. This is the logic behind Muvee’s automatic movie-making application Live Photos, now available over IPTV platforms in partnership with middleware provider Orca Interactive...
Optical equipment startup raises $45M
By: By Ed Gubbins
Matisse Networks has closed a $45 million funding round, bringing the optical networking equipment startup’s total funding to $80 million...
Revenue leakage: Are carriers raising white flag?
By: By Tim McElligott
A survey conducted by Analysys Research and commissioned by revenue assurance provider Subex Azure revealed last week that fraud has contributed to a global increase in lost revenue for carriers...
Optical sector OK as wireline spending stalls
By: By Ed Gubbins
Compared with last year, spending by North American wireline carriers was down more than 5% in the second quarter and down nearly 7% in the first half of this year, according to Ovum-RHK...
Google phone rumors hit new heights
By: By Rich Karpinski
Ready for a new phone? As currently rumored, the Google "GPhone" -- new details of which turned up in a series of reports online last week -- not only signals a new entrant in the wireless market but a potentially market-changing one...
Nokia looks beyond hardware
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia's launch of the Ovi mobile Internet services portal has prompted questions such as "Will Nokia kill the service provider?" from IMS Research, and statements such as "Nokia is placing a very large bet in a very high-profile way" from Ovum...
Adderton vows return
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Peter Adderton isn't done with the mobile industry not just yet. The founder of Amp'd Mobile and Boost Mobile is aiming to take up where he left off...
IPTV captivates Europe
By: By Carol Wilson
More than 60 IPTV services were available in Europe at the end of the second quarter of 2007, according to Screen Digest Television Intelligence...
