Rita sweeps Delcambre Tel into IP Age 

By: By Vince Vittore

Flood wipes out circuit switch forcing a quick change...

Past hurricanes teach Florida carriers a lesson 

By: By Dan O'Shea

There were very few people along the Gulf Coast and Florida who came away from last year's biggest hurricanes unscathed, but solid preparation kept the damage at a minimum...

Dossier: Adam Cavazos, Dobson Telephone 

We bring [both ILEC networks] through OC-192s and OC-48s to a host switch, the DMS-100 here in Oklahoma City...

Versent Mobile latest MVNE entrant 

By: By Dan O'Shea

DBS Communications, a Chicago area company that has operated a prepaid mobile virtual network operator for the last eight years, today launched Versent Mobile, a new mobile virtual network enabler...

Sprint brands local spin-off 

By: By Carol Wilson

Sprint Nextel unveiled the brand name of Embarq for the name of its local telco spinoff. Dan Hesse, the new company’s designated CEO, made the announcement to employees yesterday...

Nortel puts stamp on broadband return 

By: By Vince Vittore

Nortel and Huawei Technologies today announced they are creating an Ottawa-based joint venture that plans to develop broadband access products. (Photo by Mike Cassese/Reuters/Landov)...

Independents diving into local content 

By: By Vince Vittore

More than half of all independent operating companies (IOCs) are now providing some form of local video content, according to a survey by Viodi, LLC. ...

Alltel launches prepaid service 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Alltel today announced it is broaching the world of prepaid, offering its customers a range of service plans from pay-per-minute to pay-per-month...

Grande names new CEO 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Texas carrier Grande Communications named Roy Chestnutt its new chief executive officer today, effective Feb. 13...

Sprint files second data privacy suit 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Sprint Nextel continued to crack down on Internet gumshoes, announcing today its second lawsuit in less than a week against a company it’s accusing of illegally obtaining customer records...

Entone, Verimatrix team up on secured VOD 

By: By Vince Vittore

Video-on-demand platform vendor Entone Technologies and security provider Verimatrix today announced they have integrated their two products to create a secured VOD platform...

‘Staggering’ SmartEdge growth brings Redback profits  

By: By Ed Gubbins

Redback Networks announced its first profitable quarter in more than five years last night, thanks to growth in sales of its SmartEdge router products that Chief Executive Officer Kevin DeNuccio called “staggering.”...

IP set-top market ready for consolidation 

By: By Vince Vittore

Despite the lack of volume shipments in 2005 and 2006, the market for IP set-top boxes already has started consolidating, according to a recent study from The Diffusion Group. ...

Nokia Q4 phone sales climb, gain U.S. share 

By: By Kevin Fitchard

Nokia produced another record three months of handset sales in the fourth quarter, taking a third of a global cell phone market that surged upwards an astounding 24% in 2005....

Nortel makeover may leave Lucent envious  

By: By Ed Gubbins

The ongoing overhaul of Nortel Networks' corporate management staff at the hands of its new chief executive may spark envy among employees and investors at the company's rival, Lucent Technologies...

OBSAI membership surges, WiMAX helps 

By: By Dan O'Shea

The Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI), the international wireless industry group pursuing open air interfaces for base station equipment, said today that its membership ranks had reached 130 companies...

Allied Telesyn kick starts GEPON effort 

By: By Vince Vittore

Allied Telesyn today said it has deployed the world’s first Gigabit Ethernet PON in a commercial network, activating its integrated Multiservice Access Platform (iMAP) platform with Kansas independent telco Twin Valley Telephone. ...

Accton, Sandburst team up on metro access 

By: By Vince Vittore

Accton Technology today announced it has developed a metro access switch using Sandburst’s HiBeam chipset...

IPDR.org calls for IPTV initiative 

By: By Tim McElligott

With carriers working the bugs out of IPTV through trials and controlled rollouts, the Internet Protocol Detail Record Organization (IPDR.org) is calling for an industrywide forum to address accounting and settlement issues for the service....

Neutrality nets scapegoat as rhetoric rises 

By: By Carol Wilson

The murky waters of Internet neutrality grew even murkier last week, as a group of major consumer groups called for government intervention...

CopperCom backs coalition for compensation reform 

By: By Vince Vittore

CopperCom will announce this week that it has donated $100,000 to the Coalition to Keep America Connected, a group dedicated to reforming universal service and inter-carrier compensation...

WiMAX group refines a maligned process 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Certification gets back on track with announcement of forum-certified process...

Alltel hit by hurricane costs, maps ’06 growth 

By: By Vince Vittore

Alltel said today that its fourth quarter and full year 2005 revenue jumped...

Amdocs earnings up 25%, secures Sprint contract 

By: By Tim McElligott

As tech stocks began to slide this week due to poor earnings reports coming from Silicon Valley, St. Louis-based Amdocs reported first quarter revenue growth of 25% over last year’s first quarter to $587 million...

WCA: WiMAX Forum unveils first certified products 

By: By Dan O'Shea

SAN JOSE.CALIF.--The WiMAX Forum, one day after discussing changes in the IEEE 802.16-2004 standard that led to a last-minute delay in certification testing, announced this morning the first products to pass conformance and interoperability testing and achieve the designation of "WiMAX Forum Certified"...