MPEG-4 set-top delays hurt Tut’s second quarter
Delays in the availability of MPEG-4 set-top boxes and their middleware led to the second-quarter revenue shortfall reported by equipment vendor Tut Systems yesterday, Chairman and CEO Sal D'Auria said in a speech at an investor conference....
TIA: Video franchising bill must pass
The Telecommunications Industry Association, whose membership consists of many network equipment manufacturers that cater to both telcos and cable TV companies, wants see national video franchising legislation be approved quickly by the U.S. Senate, or it may run the risk of slowing broadband deployment....
Cable tops J.D. Power telephony survey
Consumers think the best telephone companies are actually cable companies, according to the J.D. Power & Associates 2006 Residential All-Distance Telephone Customer Satisfaction Study...
Tut warns of another earnings shortfall
Video equipment vendor Tut Systems warned today that its second-quarter revenue and gross margin will be lower than previously indicated....
Alcatel COO to change roles post-merger
Though Alcatel said its chief operating officer, Mike Quigley, would remain COO of the company following its pending merger with Lucent Technologies, Quigley “has decided for personal reasons to assume a different role for the combined company,” the two companies said in a press release issued Monday...
BellSouth offers mid-band Ethernet
BellSouth today unveiled new Mid-Band Metro Ethernet Services that will make Ethernet access more available to smaller businesses and branch offices of larger businesses...
Comcast offers triple play for $99
Comcast is ratcheting up the competition for bundle discounts, starting in San Francisco with a $99 promotional offer for the first year of voice, data and video services...
Equipment vendors under-leveraged
Telecom equipment vendors as a group are sorely under-leveraged, Merrill Lynch analyst Tal Liani wrote in a report issued today, and many of them would do well to take on more debt...
China Telecom becomes Cisco’s new best friend
China Telecom named Cisco Systems this week as its primary supplier for both its multi-nation business network and its ChinaNet network...
EarthLink, Time Warner Cable extend access deal
EarthLink and Time Warner Cable have extended the agreement under which EarthLink sells its broadband Internet service over TWC’s cable modem network...
Nortel CEO cuts own pension
A day after announcing a reduction in the pension benefits of his North American employees, Nortel Networks Chief Executive Officer Mike Zafirovski volunteered to cut his own pension benefits as well...
Infinera CFO switch stokes IPO rumors
Infinera named a new chief financial officer today in a move sure to fan the flames of speculation over whether the company will pursue an initial public offering sometime soon...
UBS: Bell GPON picks coming in July
Verizon Communications is likely to select its first supplier of gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) equipment within the next two weeks, according to UBS Investment Research...
In the Spotlight: Carl Russo, Calix
Calix’s Chief Executive Officer Carl Russo spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins about vendor consolidation, access network economics and the effect of having hit a concrete wall at 145 miles per hour...
Sonus finds a jewel in Opal Telecom
Taking advantage of local loop unbundling in the U.K., Carphone Warehouse’s subsidiary, Opal Telecom, will support the formal launch of its parent’s IP-based voice service...
More states pursue video-franchising bills
As the federal video franchise debate forges on, telecommunications service providers are taking the issue into their own hands at the state level...
The router's changing role
The plethora of new service offerings is forcing changes to the role of the various equipment devices in the network...
In the Spotlight: John Roese, Nortel Networks’ new CTO
A day after being named Nortel Networks’ new chief technology officer, John Roese spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins about his background and credentials and how he sees the future of communications technology. On big companies: I’m not a startup guy. I’ve not done that type of activity in my career, nor do I find it all that interesting. ...
DSL continues global surge
Global growth of DSL continues to surge, with 11.5 million new customers coming on line in the first quarter of 2006, according to industry analyst Point Topic. In its quarterly report to the DSL Forum, the company said DSL usage jumped 39% for the 12 months ending March 31, 2006. ...
Telco Systems’ Metrobility buy hedges intelligence debate
The combination of Telco Systems and Metrobility Optical Systems, announced this week, not only gives much needed muscle to a small startup but allows Telco Systems to please both sides of the debate over where to deploy network intelligence, the two companies said....
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