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Broadband competition: Is this as good as it gets? 

Competition in the broadband space is currently about as good as it’s going to get for the foreseeable future, and could even backslide, according to Blair Levin, an analyst with Stifel Nicolaus....

Zayo: CLEC woes mean buyer’s market for fiber 

Zayo Group, which has made a string of acquisitions in recent months, said it has thus far benefitted from a buyer’s market for fiber assets....

Analysis: AT&T slams Google; House privacy debate heats up 

When we covered the initial responses to a House committee request into online privacy approaches earlier this week, we made special note of how Google took pains to equate ad targeting with the use of deep-packet inspection (DPI) technology....

iControl leverages security to automate home 

Wireline connections are being cut at an alarming rate, and broadband revenues are also tailing off, at least for telecom service providers....

TWTelecom confronts gorilla with good news 

Before inviting questions from analysts on the company’s second-quarter earnings call today, Larissa Herda, TWTelecom’s chief executive officer addressed what she called “the 800-pound gorilla in the room” (usually called “the elephant”): the economy....

Verizon adds managed network access control 

Verizon Business is upping the ante in the managed security game, adding network access control to its portfolio....

MegaPath buys credit processing firm, beefs up retail offering 

MegaPath today announced its acquisition of IP Merchant Solutions, a company that provides connections to credit card processors, for an undisclosed amount....

Cogent sees first-ever quarterly traffic decline 

Cogent Communications lowered its revenue and earnings expectations for the year today following the company’s first-ever quarter of negative traffic growth....

CBeyond: At least it’s not getting worse 

The economic climate surrounding business IP communications is holding steady, CBeyond said in reporting its second quarter earnings late Wednesday....

AT&T joins global rivals in the ‘cloud’ 

AT&T today launched a utility or cloud computing service combining its network and hosting businesses to compete with similar offerings from global carrier competitors Verizon and BT and upstart Web players like Google and Amazon.com....

Questioning the coming Internet clog 

One of the nation’s top authorities on global Internet traffic growth says his latest data show no reason to fear network capacity shortages, as traffic growth may even be slightly decelerating. ...

Frontier’s broadband growth bucks trend 

Frontier Communications bucked the current industry trend of poor broadband performance to some extent in the second quarter, reporting growth where larger rivals have seen significant declines....

Global Crossing paints bright picture 

Global Crossing executives were decisively upbeat in unveiling their second-quarter earnings, due in part to a company record number of orders in July...

Verizon targets public safety market 

Verizon Business today announced a new managed service, aimed at the public safety market, that enables public agencies to bridge disparate radio systems over an IP connection....

Moto’s new co-CEO validates spin-off strategy 

Lack of leadership for Motorola’s Mobile Devices unit has been one of many potential nails in the manufacturer’s coffin this year, leading many analysts to question whether spinning off this business makes the most sense....

Qwest talks a different kind of mobility 

Qwest Communications today announced two new products in its Qwest Mobility suite of services that focus instead on business mobility ...

What the telecom industry will do about DPI 

Based on public perception, Deep Packet Inspection would seem to be a technology either headed for the scrap heap or doomed to very limited applications. ...

Going Green: AT&T’s broad approach 

AT&T’s announcement this week that it has joined the Green Grid to help promote more efficient use of power by data centers is one of many steps the largest U.S. telecom services provider is taking to both lower its own energy consumption and help its customers do the same. ...

Alliance promotes U.S. national broadband policy 

A new alliance of industry leaders from both sides of the political aisle is coming together to try to get a national broadband strategy on the top of the next U.S. president’s agenda, regardless of who that might be....

Sprint begins nationwide femtocell rollout 

Sprint is taking its Airave femtocell pilot commercial, announcing today it will begin selling the home base station technology on Aug. 17 to its customers across the country....

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