Level 3 provides Leap backbone services
By: By Mark Donahue
Level 3 Communications announced today that it has deployed core network backbone services for wireless provider Leap Wireless International. These include voice termination, intercity private-line and co-location services...
Verizon puts price on collaboration
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business is betting that its large enterprise customers want to buy additional communications services to facilitate more and more efficient collaboration among their employees. ...
XO lights more cross-country fiber
By: By Ed Gubbins
XO Communications is lighting another fiber pair along its cross-country backbone network to keep up with demand for long-haul transport services, it announced today....
Sipera sounds VoIP security alarm
By: By Carol Wilson
The proliferation of voice over IP and softphones—as well as smartphones, which combine Wi-Fi access with cellular technology—poses a significant security risk for enterprise data networks, a leading security software company is saying today. ...
Verizon earnings, revenues up on wireless
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon reported strong earnings and revenue growth this morning, based in large part on Verizon Wireless’ continued strong performance ...
Ex-Qwest CEO fined, sentenced to prison
By: By Ed Gubbins
A federal judge on Friday ordered former Qwest Communications CEO Joe Nacchio to pay $52 million as part of his punishment for insider trading....
Embarq’s outlook improves
By: By Ed Gubbins
Embarq raised its revenue and earnings expectations for the year this week as it saw increased market penetration....
Muni Wi-Fi: What’s working
By: By Carol Wilson
The recent spate of negative publicity for municipal Wi-Fi projects comes, somewhat ironically, as the industry is settling into what seems to be a more rational period of deployment based on solid business cases. ...
U.S. still a drag on InfoVista
By: By Tim McElligott
Performance management will be an increasingly important market segment as carriers transition to next-generation platforms, but as Paris-based software company InfoVista showed today through its earnings call, better days may still lie ahead...
EarthLink posts Q2 loss
By: By Mark Donahue
EarthLink reported a second-quarter loss today as its revenues fell to $312.2 million--down 6% compared to the same period last year--linked largely to a drop in subscribers and the company’s ailing joint wireless venture, Helio...
Integration woes hamper Level 3
By: By Ed Gubbins
Level 3 Communications struggled to keep up with sales demand in the second quarter as it worked to integrate several recent acquisitions...
WiMAX will threaten incumbents’ bundles
By: By Carol Wilson
Telecom service providers and cable operators are going head to head in assembling quadruple-play service bundles with which they hope to lock up the consumer market. The cable industry has already spent billions to upgrade its networks, while both AT&T and Verizon are now pouring billions into their access networks to be able to deliver video...
Convergys still adjusting in Q2
By: By Tim McElligott
Handcuffed by what company leaders called short-term challenges, Convergys reported second quarter earnings today and promptly lost 10% of its share price...
Zhone’s business shifts overseas
By: By Ed Gubbins
Zhone Technologies’ business shifted internationally in the second quarter, as half of the company’s $44 million in revenue came from outside the United States...
AT&T posts second-quarter gains
By: By Mark Donahue
Buoyed by wireless and IP-based services growth, AT&T reported second-quarter revenues of $29.5 billion—up from the $15.8 billion it posted in the same period last year. But the numbers reflected only a small taste of what could (or could not) come from iPhone sales...
FCC asks for comment on Telcordia petition
By: By Tim McElligott
The Federal Communications Commission today asked for public comment on a petition by Telcordia Technologies to reopen the market for number portability administrative services to competition...
Tellabs' BellSouth FTTC spending picks up
By: By Ed Gubbins
Spending from AT&T and its constituent companies improved in the second quarter but haven’t yet returned to the levels seen before last year’s merger with BellSouth, according to Tellabs...
Updated: American Broadband to acquire TelAlaska
By: By Tim McElligott
Another family-owned rural telephone company has agreed to sell its assets to Charlotte, N.C.-based American Broadband. TelAlaska, the third largest independent phone company in Alaska, will become the latest acquisition in American Broadband’s quest to compile 100,000 access lines around the U.S....
In the spotlight: 8x8’s Huw Rees
By: By Carol Wilson
SunRocket’s well-documented financial collapse and Vonage’s continued financial and legal problems have cast a long shadow over the pure-play VoIP market. Huw Rees, vice president of marketing and sales at 8x8, which operates the Packet8 VoIP service, spoke to Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson about his company’s prospects...
Paetec uses Oracle SOA to automate ordering
By: By Carol Wilson
Oracle and Paetec Communications today announced that Paetec has deployed Oracle’s Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications, enabling the competitive service provider to more efficiently automate the full service delivery process, from sales and contracts right through to provisioning the service...
AT&T expands Video Share to 160 markets
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T announced today that it has expanded its Video Share product to 160 markets, up from the three announced in June, enabling its wireless users to share live video while on a voice call...
Device management becomes more critical
By: By Carol Wilson
As wireless data becomes a more important and widely used business tool, device management becomes a key market opportunity for service providers, according to an independent study of CIOs conducted for Mformation Technologies, a provider of device management capabilities...
Report: Tellabs mulls offer from Nokia-Siemens
By: By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs is mulling a $7-billion acquisition offer from Nokia Siemens, according to a report this weekend from TheStreet.com....
WiMAX truly disruptive if marketed well, study says
By: By Carol Wilson
A new study by two industry veterans states that WiMAX technology, if deployed and marketed correctly, is a truly disruptive technology that could unseat the telco-cable duopoly and provide consumer choice in broadband services and devices...
Sycamore outshines its acquisition
By: By Ed Gubbins
Sycamore Networks continued to grow revenue in its fiscal third quarter while the company it acquired last fall, Eastern Research (ERI), continued to contribute less...
Google makes $4B pledge to 700 MHz
By: By Carol Wilson
Google said today it has promised to spend a minimum of $4.6 billion in bidding for spectrum in the FCC’s upcoming 700 MHz auction – provided the commission agrees to Google’s version of auction rules...
Ericsson awaits more Cingular spending
By: By Ed Gubbins
Slow spending from the former Cingular Wireless (now AT&T) dragged down Ericsson’s North American business in the second quarter, but analysts expect a rebound in the second half of the year...
OPASTCO: Job No. 1 remains USF reform
By: By Tim McElligott
For their customers, members of OPASTCO (the Organization for the Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies) are focused on delivering broadband and whatever services that may entail...
Report finds consumer mobile e-mail a good bet
Mobile messaging growth will shift over the next 18 months with the transition of enterprise mobile e-mail to mobile e-mail on mass-market consumer phones, consulting firm Frost & Sullivan is predicting...
‘ooma’ promising home telephony revolution
By: By Carol Wilson
A new VoIP company is bringing peer-to-peer technology and social networking to home telephony in a new way, promising to sell home phone replacement systems that enable customers to avoid paying any voice calling fees...
