Juniper raises its outlook for 2007 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Juniper Networks raised its expectations for the year after reporting second-quarter earnings results Wednesday evening...

SunRocket offers customers transition to Packet8 

By: By Carol Wilson

SunRocket, the VoIP operator that abruptly ceased operations Monday, has designated Packet8 as the preferred provider for the 200,000 customers it is giving up, Packet8 operator 8x8 announced today...

3Com approached by potential acquirers 

By: By Ed Gubbins

3Com could become the next company to be acquired by a private equity player or telecom equipment vendor, according to the Wall Street Journal...

Hiwire, SES Americom announce mobile TV trial lineup 

By: By Mark Donahue

Hiwire and SES Americom announced today the initial group of TV content companies and channels that will contribute to the lineup for their upcoming mobile TV consumer trial in Las Vegas...

Muni Wi-Fi: Proceed with caution 

By: By Carol Wilson

Even as U.S. municipalities, small and large, continue to plan and build out municipal Wi-Fi networks, new independent research is challenging the return on investment those cities will reap, as well as the wisdom of assumptions being made about economic development benefits...

Adtran still waiting for AT&T’s return 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Despite a false impression left in the first quarter, Adtran is still waiting for AT&T to resume the level of spending it did before the approach of its merger with BellSouth late last year...

DavCo, New Edge to link Wendy’s locations 

By: By Mark Donahue

Wendy’s franchisee DavCo said today it will wrap up installation of a private wireless area network it hopes will improve efficiency, profits and the customer experience at its more than 160 Wendy’s restaurants in the Maryland, northern Virginia and Washington area...

Sprint to buy ZTE WiMAX CPE 

By: By Carol Wilson

ZTE USA and Sprint Nextel today announced they have signed a master purchase agreement under which ZTE will supply its WiMAX PC cards and home networking gear to Sprint for its national WiMAX rollout...

Nishi sends OPASTCO to the dogs 

By: By Tim McElligott

Roger Nishi won’t soon forget his first address as chairman to members of OPASTCO in Anchorage this week. Nor is his own son likely to ever let him...

Qwest announces ULH upgrade 

By: By Carol Wilson

Qwest Communications today said it has jumped into the ultra-long-haul pool, upgrading its national fiber-optic network to provide up to 40 gigabits of service. As part of the upgrade, Qwest has tripled the number of ad/drop ports for ultra-high-speed services, and made its QWave services available in more communities and to more customers...

Verizon launches ROADM-based service 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Verizon Business today announced a new optical networking service for enterprises based on reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) from Tellabs...

Polycom launches IMS server for conferencing 

Polycom today announced the next step in its promised rollout of conferencing services compatible with IP multimedia subsystem architecture, announcing the Proxias application server, a SIP-based system that is built to enable service providers to offer rich-media conferencing on a global, unified communications basis...

India’s Reliance acquires Yipes 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Reliance Communications, one of India’s largest telecom carriers, has agreed to acquire San Francisco, Calif.,-based Ethernet service provider Yipes Enterprise Services for nearly $300 million in cash, the companies announced today...

T-Mobile extends Nortel contract 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Nortel said this week T-Mobile USA has extended its GSM infrastructure contract with the Canadian vendor for $150 million in new equipment and professional services...

Comptel: U.S. lagging in promoting competition 

By: By Carol Wilson

By European standards, the U.S. is now lagging in promoting competition and consumer choice in the telecom industry, according to a report released yesterday by Comptel, the trade/lobbying organization that represents competitive carriers...

Moto warns of phone sales decline 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Motorola warned last night its handset business continued to suffer in the second quarter as sales of its phones declined in Europe in Asia...

Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei score Indian mobile deals 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Alcatel-Lucent today announced having won a $400 million contract to supply India’s Reliance Communications with CDMA and GSM wireless equipment, while Huawei Technologies won a $200 million contract to do the same...

Amdocs declares end to the suite-vs.-breed debate 

By: By TIm McElligott

Primary research conducted by Telecom Advisory Services and commissioned by Amdocs has found that adopting a best-of-suite approach to business support and operations support systems architectures is key to lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO) and meeting the key business challenges of service providers...

Motorola adds Leapstone to service delivery solutions 

By: By Tim McElligott

Motorola filled in the boxes on its service delivery strategy this week, agreeing to acquire Leapstone Systems, a Somerset, NJ-based platform provider for creating, managing and delivering converged video, voice and data services...

Carriers attack Martin over ‘Google block’ auction 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s comments in USA Today advocating open-access usage of license in the upcoming 700 MHz auction didn’t go unnoticed...

Alcatel-Lucent claims two of three Networx teams 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Alcatel-Lucent subsidiary LGS today touted a partnership with Qwest Communications to bid for government services as part of the multiyear, multibillion-dollar “Networx Universal” program, but the vendor also confirmed today that it is part of a team competing with Qwest for those contracts as well...

XO expands broadband wireless to 36 markets 

By: By Carol Wilson

Partnering with affiliate company Nextlink, XO Communications today announced expansion of its fixed broadband wireless service into 24 new markets, providing alternative last-mile connections to service providers and business customers...

Leap taps Huawei as third AWS equipment vendor 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Huawei has been named a vendor for Leap Wireless' expansion into new territory using spectrum the carrier acquired in the Advanced Wireless Services auction last year. Huawei joins Nortel and Alcatel-Lucent as an infrastructure vendor for the project, which requires new radio gear tuned to the 1.7 GHz and 2.1 GHz frequencies...

Sprint stands by termination of frequent complainers 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Sprint is defending its service termination of 1000 customers that called customer service frequently, saying that only the most frequent abusers of its free customer service lines were targeted and the volume of calls they generated detracted from other subscribers’ own customer experience...

Carrier Access officers decline pay amid new cuts 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Carrier Access announced new restructuring plans late Monday after disclosing preliminary second-quarter results that fell below expectations...

Leap starting AWS build 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Leap is moving forward on its network expansion plan with its new Advanced Wireless Spectrum licenses, acquired from last year’s auction...

Ericsson, Samsung cross-license wireless patents 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Ericsson and Samsung today said they have agreed to cross-license each others 2G and 3G network technology, heading off any potential intellectual property showdown like that which has consumed Nokia and Qualcomm...

Juniper shrinks broadband router 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Juniper Networks introduced a new smaller version of its E320 broadband services router (BSR) today...

iPhone activation pays off for Synchronoss 

By: By Tim McElligott

A week after AT&T’s and Apple’s big launch of the iPhone, Synchronoss Technologies, the company responsible for coordinating the activation of those phones between the iTunes interface and AT&T’s back office systems, was rewarded with a multi-year contract...

AT&T turns up first metro Wi-Fi mesh net 

By: By Carol Wilson

AT&T today announced it has turned up its first Metro Wi-Fi service, taking the first segments of the Riverside, Calif., network live with both free and fee-based service...