WiMAX World: New chips, new execs, new deployments
By: By Kevin Fitchard
WiMAX technologist Wavesat is putting mobility in Fixed WiMAX--or at least portability. At WiMAX World Europe in Vienna this week, the chip vendor offered a sneak peek at a system on a chip WiMAX solution that supports nomadic capabilities...
Pannaway and Genband deploy jointly at Ritter
By: By Tim McElligott
Pannaway Technologies and Genband will begin deploying their combined broadband solutions for the competitive local exchange carrier business of Arkansas-based Ritter Communications, making it an even dozen joint implementations for the two vendors....
IPTV tests quality theories
By: By Dan O'Shea
Most of the service providers pursuing quality have spent many years honing their ability to deliver and manage voice services to the point where reliability is almost perfect...
TIA back broadband act
By: By Stephanie Dell
The Telecommunications Industry Association is backing The American Broadband for Communities Act, saying rural communities would be among those that benefit...
Networking by committee
By: By Tim McElligott
Group projects can be a recipe for disaster. But in South Dakota, where people depend on one another, working together gets things done...
WiMAX meets reality
By: By Dan O'Shea
WiMAX and WiMAX-like solutions are finally getting beyond all the hype to address real-world applications, though carriers still have to consider what lies ahead on their road maps...
RLEC M&A could be next
By: By Ed Gubbins
With the consolidation of major telecom carriers and vendors well under way, rural carriers may follow suit...
Powerline promises broken on broadband
By: By Ed Gubbins
The much-hyped technology has been on the verge for years. How much longer can it linger?...
The most innovative telco in America?
By: By Carol Wilson
Ringgold Telephone is ahead of the game on IPTV, FTTH, MVNOs and just about everything else. But is it winning?...
Mobile WiMAX in rural America unlikely
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The mobile broadband revolution won't be hitting the countryside anytime soon, but there is still plenty of opportunity for its fixed wireless cousin...
Ready to compete with your bank?
By: By Vince Vittore
When Atlantic Central Bankers Bank, or ACBB for short, launched its own telecom division early this year, it did so more out of desperation than anything else...
The other Albany
By: By Tim McElligott
Chances are Albany Mutual Telephone could show baseball's first triple play viewed over triple-play service...
Embarq born tonight
By: By Kevin Fitchard
At the stroke of midnight, Sprint will once again be two separate companies. Unlike the release of its PCS tracking stock last decade, though, Sprint is keeping its long-distance and wireless assets together and spinning off its local business instead...
Occam makes 10-gig move
By: By Carol Wilson
Occam Networks today announced new 10-gigabit Ethernet optical transport capabilities for its BLC 6000 broadband loop carrier product line...
Silver Star gives Even Technologies first telco IPTV deployment
By: By Tim McElligott
Vancouver, Canada-based Even Technologies, along with its U.S. partner Infinite Video Corp. will deliver their jointly developed IPTV system to Freedom, Wyo.'s Silver Star Networks. ...
Is AT&T a new muni-network friend?
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T is now actively working with municipalities on their broadband projects, where those projects involve public-private partnerships....
Minnesota may test the Utopia model
By: By Ed Gubbins
A group of small towns in northeastern Minnesota is considering a multi-municipal fiber project similar to Utah's Utopia project. If pursued, the effort...
Alltel, Valor name industry's new RLEC
By: By Ed Gubbins
The company formed through the merger of Valor Communications and Alltel's wireline business will be known as Windstream Communications, it announced today....
TELECOMNEXT: Hesse calls for more telco cooperation
By: By Carol Wilson
Small to mid-sized telcos need to collaborate more fully to effectively compete with cable and wireless companies, the newest telco CEO on the block announced Monday at TelecomNext....
Rural Telephone expands with Sprint exchange buys
By: By Vince Vittore
Rural Telephone Service Co. of Lenora, KS, said it has signed an agreement to acquire 12 Sprint exchanges in north central Kansas....
Wisconsin consortium locks down with Latens
By: By Vince Vittore
Latens Systems said it has landed a deal with Midwest TelNet, a consortium of 13 independent telcos in southwest Wisconsin, to provide its conditional access solution as part of Midwest TelNet’s IPTV service...
SureWest reports jump in FTTP subs
By: By Vince Vittore
SureWest Communications said the number of subscribers on it fiber-to-the-premises network topped the 20,000 mark in the fourth quarter of 2005....
Frontier brings Ethernet off the island, into the desert
By: By Vince Vittore
Telemedicine certainly ranks high on the list of society-changing applications enabled by broadband. And it's not uncommon for independents to be among those pushing the application...
Don't get mad, get ILEC
By: By Ed Gubbins
How one man's ire launched the first new ILEC in 40 years...
Leap of faith
By: By Vince Vittore
Independents are moving to MPEG-4--with or without set-top boxes...
