MetroPCS Northeast expansion begins 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

MetroPCS officially flipped the switch on its Advanced Wireless Service (AWS) network in Philadelphia today, marking the beginning of a northeast expansion that will almost double the size of its footprint and expand into three of the largest metro regions in the US by 2009....

DigitalBridge WiMAX goes mobile in Wyoming 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Earlier this month the first WiMAX network in the US to support true mobility went live commercially, but it wasn’t a Sprint or Clearwire network. DigitalBridge Communications gains that honor...

MetroPCS lures Sprint, Verizon subs with ‘bring your phone’ 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

MetroPCS is trying a new tactic to lure customers away from Verizon Wireless and Sprint. It’s offering to re-flash customers’ CDMA phones for use on the MetroPCS network...

Alltel upgrades 3G networks for fast uploads 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Alltel today said it would begin to upgrade its 3G EV-DO network from revision 0 to revision A, adding upstream capacity and lower latency to the broadband network in select markets....

NXTcomm08: Pet care among the possibilities of home networks 

By: By Ed Gubbins

LAS VEGAS--In the future, will telecom providers care for your dog when you travel?...

Flex-play priority one for rural telcos 

By: By Sarah Reedy

While the traditional concept of quad play as the bundle of voice, data, Internet and wireless offerings is often the simplest way to define it, for independent telecom service providers operating in rural markets, the flex play is usually always more important. Adding additional revenue-generating services is often the most feasible and profitable path to take, according to a panel of industry vendors speaking Monday at Telephony’s Insights conference...

What’s your telecom business worth? 

By: By Joan Engebretson

Owners of Independent telecom companies should have their businesses valued by a company that specializes in that task five years before they want to sell it. That was the advice of Allen Oppenheimer, president of business brokerage A.M. Oppenheimer, addressing attendees of a VIP lunch at the Insights conference presented by Telephony Magazine at NXTcomm on Monday...

The SezMi option 

By: By Carol Wilson

SezMi, the company formerly known as Building B, is aggressively pursuing Independent telcos that are offering broadband services with a unique video solution that includes everything but broadband...

TWC'S VoIP flap 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Time Warner Cable is taking a North Carolina co-op regulator to court...

Dossier: Rice Belt Telephone's Robert C. Pierson 

I worked for an accounting firm that specialized in telecom, and Rice Belt was one of my accounts. The original owner, Roy Wiles Jr., had nobody to take over the company, and one day he said, "Why don't you buy the company?"...

IBM advocates community networks 

As a partner in IBM's Global Business Services Communications Sector, P.K. Prasanna works with telco clients to develop new revenue streams...

Pushing fiber into field and future 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Twin Lakes Co-op brings fiber into the mix for upcoming services...

Insight into the future 

By: By Rich Karpinski

After Time Warner Telecom and others invaded its turf, a new financial reporting and budgeting system helped Texas-based GVTC's executive team improve customer service and compete...

Broadband expansionist 

By: By Joan Engebretson

SureWest CEO Steve Oldham is sold on the triple play -- and buying other carriers has given him a head start...

VoIP on the verge, FTTP spending strong 

By: By Joan Engebretson

Although Independent telcos that have deployed voice over IP are in the minority today, that won't be true much longer...

Rural telecom's original investment 

By: By Sarah Reedy

BEK Communications provides local content delivery with a flair all its own...

Right-sizing IPTV middleware 

By: By Dawn Bushaus

The unique requirements of small telcos have driven a flurry of new software development...

Embarq outsources NOCs to NSN 

By: By Carol Wilson

In a major move that could be the start of a North American trend, Nokia Siemens Networks today announced that as of the fourth quarter of 2008, it is assuming ownership of the Embarq voice network operations center (NOC) and will provide that functionality to Embarq on an outsourced, managed services basis...

Calix promises more bandwidth and flexibility 

By: By Carol Wilson

Two new products announced today by Calix are aimed at helping service providers address the surge in demand for bandwidth by increasing both capacity and flexibility at the edge of the network....

Zayo closes seventh acquisition, eighth to follow 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Zayo Group has closed its seventh acquisition and is working on eight, the regional network provider announced today...

Verizon may expand FiOS, rural wireless 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Verizon Communications is considering expanding its fiber-to-the-premises network beyond its original target of 18 million homes, according to the company’s chief financial officer...

Sprint Clearwire JV has broad implications 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Sprint and Clearwire’s renewed engagement didn’t just boost WiMAX’s profile in the U.S. According to global vendors, it enormously benefited WiMAX worldwide, giving operators who were on the fence about WiMAX the confidence to deploy their networks...

Zayo lights Northeastern ‘express lane’ 

Zayo Bandwidth has stitched together networks from three different acquisitions to light a new optical network in the Northeast that the company claims will offer lower latency because it takes an especially direct route...

Aricent takes Celltop global 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Aricent today said it has begun selling its Celltop widget-based user interface software worldwide, ending the exclusivity Alltel had on the platform. The mobile software developer said it has retooled the platform for Java as well as BREW and is conducting global trials with operators...

Rural operators petition FCC to end handset exclusives 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Rural operators are challenging the exclusivity agreements that Tier 1 carriers sign with handset vendors, saying such deals unfairly limit consumer choice, decrease competition and violate federal law...