Acquisitions impact Citizens’ earnings
After a busy year of acquisitions and integration, Citizens Communications today reported a fall in earnings for the third quarter of 2007 due in large part to higher expenses associated with the acquisitions...
U-verse rollout to slow, cost more with Southeast expansion
AT&T has lowered its expectations slightly for the deployment of its U-Verse IPTV service through 2008...
MetaSwitch lands Cable & Wireless
MetaSwitch has landed its first major customer in the company’s efforts to replicate its North American success in other markets...
Global Crossing to resell Nextlink
Global Crossing is now reselling broadband wireless links from Nextlink for last-mile access to business customers under a national reseller agreement announced today by the two companies...
Tennessee utility bringing fiber to 55,000
Next month, the electric utility in Clarksville, Tenn., hopes to launch the first broadband and video services over what could become one of the largest municipal fiber-to-the-home networks in the United States...
When giants stumble
Last year, as the telecom industry's top equipment vendors moved toward consolidation, the rest of the vendor landscape was grimly warned: Join the consolidation trend or be trampled by the new breed of titans. Why megavendors aren't so tough after all...
Verizon DSL growth withers in FiOS' shadow
Verizon's DSL business is slowing drastically as the company focuses on its fiber-to-the-home deployment...
Foundry's service provider drive pays off
Foundry Networks is making good on its promise to penetrate the service provider market this year...
Anagran names new CEO
Edge router start-up Anagran today named as its new chief executive officer Kim Niederman, a former sales vice president at Polycom...
Alcatel-Lucent’s restructuring not a full remedy, say analysts
Analysts and investors seemed to approve of the new restructuring plans Alcatel-Lucent announced today, but the moves did little to assuage deeper doubts surrounding the company...
VON: Landline not dead yet, Embarq CEO says
BOSTON--Landline companies have a future, if they capitalize on convergence possibilities and learn how to make complex services simple for customers to use, Embarq CEO Dan Hesse told the VON crowd today...
Qwest greenlights $300M FTTN rollout
Qwest Communications’ directors have approved its management’s fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) deployment plans, new chief executive officer Ed Mueller said during the company’s quarterly earnings call today. But the company isn’t yet saying what set of services will justify the strategy...
Verizon DSL giving way to FiOS
Verizon Communications reported another sharp drop in DSL customer additions in the third quarter as it continued to rack up customers for its FiOS fiber-to-the-home services, some of which made the switch from DSL...
Covad acquired by private equity firm
Covad Communications has agreed to be acquired by Platinum Equity for about $304 million in cash, the companies announced today...
Verizon gives a glimpse of futuristic FiOS apps
BASKING RIDGE, N.J.--As its FiOS network nears the end of its fourth year, when it was projected to pass 7 million households, Verizon this week gave the media a glimpse of what has been going on behind the curtains to add new functionality to the system...
Occam chairman: No M&A or CEO search underway
Despite calls from some investors to replace top management or sell the company, Occam Networks has no plans to do either, according to the company’s chairman and representative of its largest shareholder...
Telcos slow Comcast’s subscriber growth
Comcast blamed telecom competitors for unexpectedly slower growth in subscriber additions in the third quarter...
Nokia Siemens acquires carrier Ethernet vendor
Nokia Siemens Networks announced plans to acquire carrier Ethernet equipment vendor Atrica today, in what would be the joint venture’s first acquisition...
TelcoTV: Calix, Microsoft team on IPTV
ATLANTA--Calix announced this morning that it has established a licensing relationship with Microsoft that will enable its technology to interoperate with the Microsoft platform...
Infinera weans itself from Level 3
Infinera grew less dependent on its largest customer, Level 3 Communications, in the third quarter, thanks to a growing roster of other customers, including Cox Communications, XO Communications and 360Networks...
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