In the Spotlight: Integra Telecom's Dudley Slater
Dudley Slater is chief executive officer of Integra Telecom, a Portland, Ore., based competitive services provider that began in 1996 with the acquisition of a small voice and data provider and has continued to grow via expansion and acquisition. Its most notable addition was the 2006 acquisition of Electric Lightwave. The company is now closing on its 2007 acquisition of Eschelon Telecom. Slater spoke with Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson...
Notebaert to retire
Qwest Chairman and CEO Richard Notebaert took the industry by surprise this morning, announcing his retirement...
Broadband subscriber base to double by 2011
The number of broadband subscribers worldwide will nearly double over the next five years to more than half a billion, according to research analysis firm In-Stat...
BT results include NA expansion
Most of the focus on the financial results announced earlier today by BT was understandably on the company’s 16 percent increase in annual earnings and a broadband surge that re-established the company as the U.K.’s largest broadband provider...
Verizon Business buys Cybertrust
Continuing its push into managed security services, Verizon Business today announced its acquisition of Cybertrust, a privately held company which provided security services on a global basis, for an undisclosed amount of money...
Updated: Tellabs suffers from drop in FTTC sales to BellSouth
Tellabs reported a drop in first-quarter revenue today driven by weaker sales of fiber-to-the-curb (FTTC) equipment to BellSouth following that carrier’s acquisition by AT&T...
Level 3 completes AT&T asset buy
Divestiture orders are spreading AT&T and Verizon fiber assets through the competitive industry. Level 3 Communications today announced that it has completed the acquisition of fiber assets from AT&T in Detroit, Hartford, Kansas City, Milwaukee, San Francisco and St. Louis...
SureWest Communications puts broadband on sure footing
SureWest Communications reported fourth quarter earnings today highlighting an 18% increase in broadband revenue that took the broadband segment to its first full quarter of positive EBITDA...
Comptel: Globix goes Neon
LAS VEGAS--Globix Corp. this week announced a name change. Two years after Globix merged with Neon, the company has sold off most of the Globix hosting assets and decided to become Neon Communications Group, trading under the stock ticker “NGI” instead of “GEX.”...
Comptel: AFS continues expansion with IDACOMM
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AT&T snags GM contract
AT&T said it has been awarded a five-year global networking contract worth nearly $1 billion by General Motors...
Qwest posts milestone year
The year 2006 was a milestone for Qwest Communications, as the company was able to post its first full year of earnings per share and net income in each of the four quarters, based largely on strong sales of data and Internet services...
Time Warner Telecom charts growth
Time Warner Telecom topped a year of growth with a quarter of growth, as its revenues increased to $238.8 million, up from $184.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2005...
Helio booms, EarthLink’s profits bust
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TIA study: 2006 U.S. telecom's strongest year
The good news is that, according to the Telecommunications Industry Association's recently released 2007 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast,...
Investors take over Sage Telecom
Silver Point Capital will acquire Sage Telecom next quarter and has contracted with CXO LLC, a Dallas-based management and advisory services firm, to oversee operations during the transition...
TIA study: Global telecom market at $3 trillion
The Telecommunications Industry Association this week issued its “2007 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast” for the global telecommunications industry...
Another year, another big merger
It really shouldn’t be a big surprise to discover that the merger of AT&T and SBC is going better than planned...
A Telephony Podcast: Challenges of the Carrier Megamerger
Telephony’s Dan O’Shea and Carol Wilson discuss the integration challenges wrought by large carrier mergers, including the recent rollups of AT&T/BellSouth and Verizon/MCI...
Verizon Business riding merger success
The first in a two-part series reflecting on the AT&T-SBC and Verizon-MCI mergers a year later...
