Cingular CMO resigns
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T Wireless chief marketing officer Mark Lefar resigned from the company earlier this month while AT&T is in the middle of a massive rebranding campaign to align the former Cingular with the rest of its communications services...
Motorola ups ante in video race with Terayon
By: By Ed Gubbins
Motorola continued its IPTV arms race today by announcing an acquisition of Terayon Communications, a vendor of digital video processing equipment...
AppTrigger launches first Application Session Controller
By: By Carol Wilson
A Dallas software company today announced a new network element, designed to help service providers offer existing and new services over multiple access networks, in advance of IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) deployment...
Sony Ericsson gains market share, boosts profits
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sony Ericsson was another handset maker that gained on Motorola’s losses in the first quarter, reporting today its shipped 21.8 million handsets in the first three months of the year and increased its market share 2%...
Nacchio to be sentenced July 27
By: By Dan O'Shea
Following his conviction yesterday on 19 counts of insider trading, former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio, is scheduled for sentencing on July 27 in front of U.S. District Court Judge Edward Nottingham, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice...
BT buys Comsat
By: By Kevin Fitchard
U.K. telcom giant BT is acquiring satellite and terrestrial data communications provider Comsat, giving BT a major presence in Latin America and boosting its ability to serve multinationals operating in that region as well as cater to the regional business base...
Zhone moves into new optical trials
By: By Ed Gubbins
Zhone Technologies reported a 3% sequential revenue decline in the first quarter, as it continues to try to grow revenue from newer products faster than that from older products declines...
Nokia Q1 profits dip; handset prices stabilize
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia today managed to stop the freefall of its handset prices in the first quarter, and adjust its business to the global market catering to cheaper phones, but the measures were not enough to stop a 6.6% decline in earnings for the quarter...
Iowa telcos seek FCC pressure on incumbents
By: By Carol Wilson
A group of Iowa telcos and their conference calling partners are in Washington this week, hoping to convince the Federal Communications Commission to pressure large incumbents such as AT&T, Embarq, Qwest and Verizon to stop blocking calls and start paying about $20 million in back access charges...
IneoQuest jumps on wireless video quality
By: By Tim McElligott
Following up on the success of its Video Quality Management System, IneoQuest Technologies this week introduced a new system for reducing network operational expenses related to video deployments that uses multi-dimensional monitoring and analysis technology...
AT&T, Chase keep three-screen promise
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T and Chase Card Services today said they are delivering on the promise to offer Tim McGraw’s “Swampstock” music festival on three screens simultaneously, as the first major content advertising deal through AT&T Entertainment Services...
Updated: Avici exiting router business
By: By Ed Gubbins
Avici Systems is exiting the core router business upon which it was founded more than ten years ago to focus on software, the company announced today. ...
AT&T combines wireline, wireless for business
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T today unveiled new integrated offers that let businesses of all sizes order both wireline and wireless services from a single point of contact and at greater volume discounts. The services include both voice and data offerings and promise ease-of-use for businesses whose employees are often mobile...
VoIP pioneer says Verizon patents too broad
By: By Carol Wilson
A Washington analyst who was part of the original VoIP Forum says there is solid proof that Verizon received patents on aspects of VoIP networking that were already in existence, and that the federal district court that found Vonage in violation of Verizon’s patents used the broadest possible interpretation of the patent language...
AT&T’s U-Verse deployment gains speed
By: By Kevin Fitchard
AT&T is accelerating its deployment of U-verse triple-play services, the company said today. The carrier claims to be averaging about 2,000 U-Verse installations a week now, five times the rate in January...
RIM says BlackBerry service restored
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Research in Motion said today that BlackBerry service has been restored after a network failure caused a blackout of its push e-mail service throughout North America last night...
Agilent sets OSI free
By: By Tim McElligott
Sobha Renaissance Information Technology agreed today to acquire Agilent Technologies’ Objective Systems Integrators division. This marks the second acquisition by SRIT in the last year...
Moto Q1 sales slip as handset division takes a pounding
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Falling handset market share sent Motorola’s revenues into their first decline in four years, leading to Q1 loss of $181 million, but the harried vendor managed to beat Wall Street expectations and its own projections, sending its shares up 2%...
XO rolls out mid-band Ethernet with Hatteras
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications today announced plans to roll out a national mid-band Ethernet service using Ethernet-over-copper gear from Hatteras Networks. A multi-million dollar contract between the two companies establishes the HN 4000 and HN 400 as the exclusive platforms for XO as it extends the reach of its Ethernet services in 60 metropolitan markets...
FTTH connections double in last four quarters
By: By Tim McElligott
Of the 7.9 million homes in the U.S. that are passed by fiber optics, 1.34 million are now connected, which nearly doubles the number form March of last year...
Adtran comes out of the rough
By: By Ed Gubbins
Adtran today reported a return to healthy spending among major U.S. carriers in the first quarter despite earlier predictions of a lingering pause in their purchasing...
Broadband Forum chief calls IPTV “on the brink”
By: By Carol Wilson
The chairman of the Broadband Services Forum planned to tell the National Association of Broadcasters today that IPTV is “on the brink of a breakthrough,” according to a pre-released copy of his remarks...
Ikanos gets into FTTH
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ikanos Communications, one of the world’s top suppliers of VDSL chips, entered the fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) market this week with the introduction of a new residential gateway...
VoIP company focuses on sales channel
By: By Carol Wilson
A Canadian company is looking to make its mark selling VoIP software to service providers by helping them master the tough economics of selling to small businesses through distributed sale channels...
Game on at Microsoft
By: By Tim McElligott
Gaming continues to drive broadband adoption and usage as On Broadband Networks, a joint venture between Showtime Networks and game publisher Broadband Libraries, and Microsoft said today ...
SES Americom pumps up IP Prime
By: By Carol Wilson
With its commercial launch only weeks away, IP Prime – the IPTV satellite service developed by SES Americom – today announced major additions to its channel lineup...
HP, Kasenna announce IPTV scalability benchmark
By: By Carol Wilson
IPTV software provider Kasenna announced today that it has teamed with HP and Intel to successfully prove scalability of its Portal TV product suite to support one million customers. The benchmark testing is intended to show the Kasenna system, used with HP servers and Intel silicon, can support a large IPTV rollout...
Qualcomm buys assets from WiMAX company
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm has bought the system-on-a-chip engineering assets from WiMAX chipset maker TeleCIS Wireless for an undisclosed sum, bolstering its OFDM portfolio and giving Qualcomm a possible Mobile WiMAX portfolio if it chooses to support the technology...
Icahn blasts Motorola board in open letter
By: By Ed Gubbins
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn appealed to Motorola shareholders to elect him to the company’s board in a letter dated yesterday. In the letter, which will be mailed to shareholders along with proxy ballots allowing them to elect him for the board, Icahn pledged to apply his business expertise to improve Motorola’s management...
Iowa telcos: Stage set for showdown
By: By Carol Wilson
The stage is set for a David vs. Goliath showdown next week, when a group of Iowa rural telcos and their conference-calling partners meet with the Federal Communications Commission in an effort to force major incumbents including AT&T, Qwest and Sprint to continue paying the high termination fees that fund their free and low-cost calling business....
