Net neutrality takes two knocks
By: By Carol Wilson
FTC report, IDC study see no need for federal regulation...
T-Mobile launches fixed/mobile convergence
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The first nationwide FMC service helps T-Mobile expand its coverage and target the home...
Synchronoss in the iPhone spotlight
By: By Tim McElligott
Synchronoss Technologies is unknown no more as both the telecom and consumer electronics industries zeroed in on activation issues during the blockbuster iPhone launch last week...
Are telcos dropping the calling name ball?
By: By Carol Wilson
Accudata Technologies is once again publicly accusing telephone companies of deliberately not giving some calling name information to their caller ID customers in order to save money...
NXTcomm survey: Spending growth ahead
By: By Dan O'Shea
the second annual Tellabs/Telephony survey finds service providers upbeat...
Verizon, Comcast caught in FCC flap
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon today is refuting charges made by Comcast that the telecom giant is getting special treatment by the FCC, regarding an exemption from the agency’s ban on integrated set-top boxes...
Alcatel-Lucent, Softbank Mobile do femto demos
By: By Dan O'Shea
Alcatel-Lucent today announced that it is collaborating with Japanese service provider Softbank Mobile on a series of demonstrations of its 3G wireless in-building solutions in Japan. Specifically, the demonstrations will showcase the vendor’s Femto Base Station Router...
Alcatel-Lucent to build WiMAX in Russia
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alcatel-Lucent has landed a deal to build a nationwide rural WiMAX access network in the most rural country in the world, Russia. The mammoth deal will put Alcatel-developed Mobile WiMAX gear in 1000 Russian towns by the end of 2008...
Motorola cuts 2100 in second quarter
By: By Ed Gubbins
About 2100 employees left Motorola in the second quarter as part of a planned reduction of about 7500, the company said in regulatory filings late Thursday...
In the Spotlight: Integra Telecom's Dudley Slater
By: By Carol Wilson
Dudley Slater is chief executive officer of Integra Telecom, a Portland, Ore., based competitive services provider that began in 1996 with the acquisition of a small voice and data provider and has continued to grow via expansion and acquisition. Its most notable addition was the 2006 acquisition of Electric Lightwave. The company is now closing on its 2007 acquisition of Eschelon Telecom. Slater spoke with Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson...
Telus could be next takeover target
By: By Ed Gubbins
In the wake of an offer from private equity players to acquire Bell Canada, the country’s second biggest telecom carrier, Telus, may be the next takeover target for investors, Canaccord Adams analyst David Lambert said in a research note this week...
CRG-West rides IP content boom
By: By Carol Wilson
The transition to an all-Internet protocol network and subsequent boom in content is fueling more than one type of network business model...
Citizens Communications to acquire Global Valley Networks, GVN Services
By: By Tim McElligott
Citizens Communications Chairman and CEO Maggie Wilderotter stayed true to her recent words that small acquisitions can make as much sense as big ones by announcing last week it will acquire 100% of the outstanding common stock of Evans Telephone Holdings, the parent company of Global Valley Networks and GVN Services...
iPhone secrets revealed
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Apple has been notoriously secretive about its suppliers for the new iPhone, but this weekend, after the iPhone became commercially available, analysts, bloggers and assorted techies got their first chance to bust open the mysterious new device, revealing the components within...
SAP amends response to Oracle suit
By: By Tim McElligott
SAP AG admitted today that its subsidiary, TomorrowNow, did indeed inappropriately download material from Oracle’s Web site as charged in a lawsuit filed by Oracle in March...
Analyst revises optical commoditization views
By: By Ed Gubbins
he optical transport equipment sector is not ripe for commoditization, Nyquist Capital General Partner Andrew Schmitt wrote in a blog this week, correcting an earlier opinion...
Big River finds small cable lucrative
By: By Carol Wilson
Big River Telephone Co. started off in 2001 as a typical CLEC, targeting small to mid-sized businesses with traditional voice services, initially as a reseller of UNE-P lines but then on its own facilities, serving rural communities in southeastern Missouri...
Nokia Siemens taps Nortel exec to head U.S.
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia Siemens Networks today named former Nortel president of global services and operations Sue Spradley to head up its North America operations, replacing Mark Louison, who is returning to the Nokia mothership to lead its U.S. handset efforts...
Investors offer $1.2 billion for ECI
By: By Ed Gubbins
ECI Telecom has agreed to be acquired by a group of investors for $1.2 billion, the company announced today...
AT&T to acquire Dobson Communications
By: By Dan O'Shea
AT&T announced today that it will acquire Oklahoma City-based Dobson Communications Corp., a provider of rural and suburban mobile services, for about $2.8 billion in cash...
Sycamore cuts 10% of staff
By: By Ed Gubbins
Sycamore Networks will cut 10% of its workforce this month, or 46 employees, the company announced Friday...
VeriSign powers Live Earth SMS platform
By: By Kevin Fitchard
VeriSign will be managing the massive messaging campaign held in conjunction with the Live Earth concert series worldwide, which could generate millions of premium SMS messages globally in a 24-hour span...
IDC: Net neutrality proponents should negotiate
By: By Carol Wilson
A new report from IDC advises Web companies that are pushing for Net neutrality to instead begin to negotiate and partner with the broadband service providers whose facilities they will need for content distribution...
Mining the niches: GotVmail grows
By: By Carol Wilson
A small Massachusetts company is discovering the joys of mining the niches of the advanced services market, delivering a virtual PBX service to small businesses that is good enough to sell itself...
In the Spotlight: John Hawkins, Nortel Networks
By: By Ed Gubbins
Amid multivendor interoperability demonstrations at the NXTcomm trade show in Chicago this month, Nortel Networks announced the formation of what it called a ‘PBT ecosystem’ comprised of vendors working together to publicize Provider Backbone Transport technology, a connection-oriented layer-two-based approach to Ethernet transport. John Hawkins, Nortel’s manager of carrier Ethernet marketing, spoke about Nortel’s PBT plans in advance of the show...
Nielsen acquires Telephia
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The Nielsen Co. is acquiring Telephia, giving the media tracking giant its first direct access to consumer habits on the mobile phone...
Covad cuts staff
By: By Ed Gubbins
Covad Communications cut 8% of its workforce in the second quarter, the company announced today...
Reynolds leaves BT for New Zealand
By: By Tim McElligott
Paul Reynolds, CEO of BT Wholesale, is about to put himself through another challenging separation and transformation project. After a 24-year career at BT, the last few of which he successfully led the effort to separate businesses within the company, Reynolds today accepted the top job at Telecom Corp, New Zealand's largest telephone company...
Virtela speeds business apps
By: By Carol Wilson
Global service provider Virtela today unveiled a new suite of managed services that it says enables faster application delivery and collaboration over a wide area network...
Sylantro fuels hosted VoIP for education market
By: By Carol Wilson
Education Networks of America, a managed Internet services provider targeting the education market, today said it is rolling out a hosted VoIP service for school districts, municipal and state agencies and libraries using Sylantro Systems’ Synergy platform...
