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NYC competitors combine wireless, fiber networks 

Two competitive New York City service providers are combining forces to create an end-to-end network solution...

ISPs to play enforcement role in RIAA's plan 

Hey service provider: Are you ready to do the dirty work of tracking down and rounding up illegal file-sharers?...

Ovum: Optical market to shrink 5% in 2009 

Ovum has revised its outlook for the global optical equipment industry to account for changes in the global economy seen since the research and analysis firm’s last report in June....

HomePlug earns baseline IEEE approval 

The HomePlug Powerline Alliance today announced that its technology proposal was accepted by the IEEE P1901 Working Group as the baseline for an IEEE powerline communications standard...

BT deal a big plus for Tellabs 

The announcement earlier this month that BT had selected Tellabs as a strategic supplier for managed Ethernet access equipment was significant in several ways for both companies...

Alcatel-Lucent CMO: How we get there from here 

While the CEO didn’t delve too deeply into the specifics of that aspect of the company’s strategy in last week’s presentation, the company’s chief marketing officer, Tim Krause, provided more detail in an interview...

CMO details Alcatel-Lucent's strategy, future vision 

Last week, Alcatel-Lucent’s new chief executive officer spelled out a new strategy for the equipment vendor....

Overture's Ceterus buy mixes carrier Ethernet markets 

Overture Networks announced today it has acquired equipment vendor Ceterus Networks for an undisclosed sum...

AT&T VDSL2 bonding trial slips into 2009 

AT&T plans to conduct a trial early next year of bonded VDSL2, the company told Telephony last week, after having previously targeted late 2008...

Google, Lessig say not throwing out net neutrality 

Google is reportedly working with service providers to cache some of its content for more rapid delivery...

Alcatel-Lucent's big overhaul not so big 

Alcatel-Lucent’s new chief executive officer Ben Verwaayen today delivered a much-anticipated description of the equipment vendor’s corporate overhaul...

Surviving the Recession: Tough choices in R&D 

Economic downturns can have devastating effects on the R&D budgets of telecom vendors. Will vendors have to start cutting and if so what?...

Ciena: Mid-sized telcos milking legacy networks 

Ciena reported seeing a divergence in carrier spending patterns in its most recent quarter, as its largest customers cautiously continued network upgrades at a slower pace while smaller carriers showed less willingness to make similar upgrades....

AT&T delivers on U-Verse rollout promise 

By the end of the year, U-Verse will reach one million subscribers with a footprint larger than Verizon’s...

Google slammed for bandwidth free-ride 

An analyst with lobbying ties to the telecom industry yesterday released a report claiming Google is consuming 21 times the bandwidth that it is paying for...

Is Verizon practicing to take on AT&T? 

Verizon is denying it, but one industry analyst sees the current Verizon Communications buildout into AT&T turf around Dallas as a blueprint for further telco wars....

Updated: Verizon preps 100 Mb/s FiOS for 2009 

Verizon Communications is preparing to roll out 100-Mb/s broadband services next year for its fiber-to-the-premises network, according to Vincent O’Byrne, Verizon’s technology director....

Nortel's Optical, Ethernet Chief Morin talks 40G 

Nortel Networks today announced its 36th and 37th customer wins for the 40-gigabit-per-second optical gear it released in April: UK carrier Surf Telecoms and Canadian carrier Telus...

UBS: US telco spending could drop 10% in 2009 

Spending among US telcos could drop 10% or more next year, according to UBS analyst Nikos Theodosopoulos, who had previously predicted only a 5% drop....

Surviving the Recession: The Residential Market 

After years of selling faster speeds and more high-definition TV channels, Comcast is now pitching cheaper services, offering a triple-play bundle of basic voice, video and data offerings for less than $30 each...

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