ntl jumps century mark
Ntl, the UK’s largest cable operator, said it will begin field trials that will let it offer broadband data service at speeds up to 100 Megabits per second. The trials will begin in March after successful completion of lab tests. ...
UTStarcom investigates premature revenue booking
UTStarcom’s board of directors has begun an investigation of the circumstances surrounding the premature recognition of revenue from a contract with an Indian customer. “2005 was a difficult year for UTStarcom,” CEO Hong Liang Lu said. (Photographer: Dean Coppola/Contra Costa Times)...
Lucent buys Riverstone for $170M
Lucent Technologies agreed to buy the business operations of carrier Ethernet equipment vendor Riverstone Networks for $170 million in cash....
Hammerhead names CTO
Hammerhead Systems named Richard Gitlin its new chief technology officer today...
Level 3 promises growth after '05 decline
During the company’s fourth-quarter earnings report this morning, Level 3 Communications projected its core communications services to grow faster in 2006 than its other communication services decline. (Photographers/Source: David Scull/BLOOMBERG NEWS/LANDOV)...
WEB EXTRA: Andy Malis, Tellabs
Tellabs Chief Technologist Andy Malis is something of a standards guru. He can say “single-segment pseudowire signaling” very quickly, as he did when he spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins recently. Read this Web Extra here...
NTCA: Brunner asks for cooperation
SAN DIEGO--Michael Brunner, president of the National Telecommunications Cooperative, kicked off the group's annual convention this morning by saying that rural telcos must stand together to fight opponents of universal service...
Huber hangs it up
To many, the resignation of Broadwing Chief Executive David Huber last week is a long-awaited act of humility from a famously headstrong man...
IP set-top market might be saturated
The IP set-top box market was once considered a sector where start-up vendors could make a mark, but the ability of the market to support a multitude of vendors is coming under increased scrutiny...
Perfecting the Ethernet handoff
Standards groups are working to vault one of the final barriers to Ethernet ubiquity: dynamic, scalable inter-carrier Ethernet...
Past hurricanes teach Florida carriers a lesson
There were very few people along the Gulf Coast and Florida who came away from last year's biggest hurricanes unscathed, but solid preparation kept the damage at a minimum...
Dossier: Adam Cavazos, Dobson Telephone
We bring [both ILEC networks] through OC-192s and OC-48s to a host switch, the DMS-100 here in Oklahoma City...
Rita sweeps Delcambre Tel into IP Age
Flood wipes out circuit switch forcing a quick change...
PON on a party line
Dhaka, Bangladesh, has no Comcast nor Time Warner, nor a cable TV giant dominating the country's largest city...
Look again: 2005's budget flush showed up
Equipment vendors and their investors awaiting fourth-quarter earnings reports were made nervous last month by fears that December brought...
Fast Forward: Bob Levine, Levine Family II investment group
Bob Levine, the primary investor behind Pannaway Technologies, easily could be enjoying a well-funded retirement...
Is mesh for cable players?
Last October, Wi-Fi mesh vendor BelAir Networks announced that its radios would support the Cable Labs DOCSIS 2.0 standard, and also said Comcast Interactive Capital was investing in the company...
Time Warner Telecom COO renegotiates pay
Less than a year after signing a three-year employment contract with Time Warner Telecom, Chief Operating Officer John Blount signed a new contract this week, giving him a base salary at least 47% higher than he earned a year ago as executive vice president of operations...
Sprint brands local spin-off
Sprint Nextel unveiled the brand name of Embarq for the name of its local telco spinoff. Dan Hesse, the new company’s designated CEO, made the announcement to employees yesterday...
Comcast not tops in telephony
Comcast reported fourth-quarter 2005 earnings that proved confusing more than anything. (Photographers/ Source: Bradley C. Bower/Bloomberg News/Landov)...
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