Nortel has ‘acceptable’ second quarter
By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks reported $2.9 billion in revenue for the second quarter, a 10% increase from last year’s second quarter and a 13% increase from this year’s first quarter. Overall net income was about one cent per share...
CopperCom wins Iowa’s primary IOC
By Tim McElligott
CopperCom moved into the Tier 1 class today by announcing a general services contract with Iowa Telecom for multiple softswitches and remote terminals. With initial orders already shipped and deployed, the multi-year contract is part of Connect Rural Iowa, a multi-year, multimillion-dollar initiative announced last year by Iowa Telecom. ...
In the Spotlight: CopperCom's Manuel Vexler
By Tim McElligott
Today, softswitch vendor CopperCom appointed Manuel Vexler as its chief technology officer. He answered a few questions about his new role and the industry for Telephony’s Tim McElligott...
CopperCom taps IPCC exec as new CTO
By Tim McElligott
Manuel Vexler, the marketing and technical strategy force behind the industry’s primary softswitching forum and chair of the SIP Forum Service Provider Working Group, re-entered the vendor community today as chief technology officer at CopperCom....
MCI rushes into wholesale VoIP
By Tim McElligott
At least three months ahead of its original plan, MCI launched a wholesale VoIP service this week that features both carrier IP termination and a SIP Gateway service...
Vapps takes VoIP conferencing beyond parity stage
By Tim McElligott
Vapps, a software-based provider of audio conferencing systems has added call control features to its Conference Bridge 1000 platform that allows voice-over-broadband and communications service providers to tailor voice conferencing sessions on a customer by customer basis....
PacWest sees VoIP plan bloom
By Carol Wilson
Pac-West Telecom officials say that company is making a successful transition to being a wholesale provider of both traditional voice and Voice over IP services. ...
TowerStream allies with Vonage for VoIP
By Kevin Fitchard
Broadband wireless ISP TowerStream and VoIP provider Vonage today announced a partnership to offer Vonage’s small business VoIP services to TowerStream customers in its five metro markets....
Comcast revenues up, on digital products
By Carol Wilson
Comcast is reaping the rewards of its network investment and new service initiatives, today reporting major increases in revenue and operating income...
A StarVox is reborn
By Tim McElligott
The voice-over-IP market birthed another competitor this week as StarVox Communications launched its next generation network for transitioning enterprise users of legacy voice and data networks to converged IP-based networks....
Cox adds five VoIP markets
By Carol Wilson
Cox Communications will bring its VoIP service to five new markets this year, announcing that Cox Digital Telephone will be available in Las Vegas, Macon, Ga., Topeka, Kan., and its markets in Central Florida and the Gulf Coast area of Florida. Those additions bring Cox’s voice markets to 22, which is 70 percent of its existing footprint, the company announced. ...
XO hits 1000 customer mark for VoIP
By Carol Wilson
XO Communications announced today that it has signed up 1000 small to mid-sized business customers to its Voice over IP service in its first three months. ...
ECI Telecom up 26%, looks to IPTV future
By Tim McElligott
Israel’s ECI Telecom reported a 26% increase this week in second-quarter revenues as it generated $153 million. The company also announced a contract with a major European carrier to deliver IPTV services...
Comcast signs three for voice connectivity
By Carol Wilson
Comcast is sharing the wealth, signing up not one but three national service providers to augment its private network in delivering Comcast Digital Voice...
Comcast to count on AT&T
By Carol Wilson
Comcast has extended its contract to buy wholesale services from AT&T to support its Comcast Digital Voice offering. ...
OPASTCO: Nortel begins next DMS evolution
By Vince Vittore
BOSTON--Nortel, which claims about two-thirds of the rural switching market, is putting in place plans that will allow rural telcos to migrate their existing DMS switches to true voice-over-IP environment...
Intrado provides 911 for CallVantage and Vonage
By Tim McElligott
Longmont, Colo.-based Intrado has contracted with AT&T and Vonage to provide nationwide enhanced 911 services for their voice-over-IP customers...
Converged access is where the action is in telecom
By Rob Munoz
The convergence of communications and computer access technologies is emerging as a growing market force sweeping across each of the two industries. This convergence is happening on a large scale within wireline and wireless access infrastructure equipment...
Vistula offers pay-as-you-go VoIP
By Carol Wilson
A new global Voice over IP player is targeting service providers with a business model that favors revenue-sharing over up-front fees. ...
Vonage locates TCS in E911 search
By Tim McElligott
Vonage, the undisputed leader among independent residential VoIP providers and bulls-eye for the controversial E-911 issues, has partnered with TeleCommunication Systems to wipe the target off its back and comply with FCC requirements for emergency service capability...
Intrado deploys Sonus technology for VoIP 911
By Tim McElligott
Sonus Networks said this week it will supply switching and routing technologies to Intrado for use in delivering VoIP E9-1-1 calls through the company’s V9-1-1SM Mobility Service...
Vonage makes Brightpoint master agent
By Dan O'Shea
VoIP service provider Vonage has named Brightpoint Activation Services, a unit of logistics and distribution firm Brightpoint, as a master agent for marketing and support of Vonage service plans, devices and new customer account activations...
Covad brings VoIP to legacy PBXs
By Carol Wilson
Covad Communications is offering its business customers the chance to experience the advantages of voice over Internet protocol without the capital cost of replacing their existing TDM phone equipment...
Pannaway to beef up voice offering
By Vince Vittore
Pannaway plans to announce toward the end of this month a series of enhancements to its BAS access platform that will target incumbent carriers wanting to make the transition to voice over IP. ...
