SureWest will launch HDTV in Q3
SureWest Communications yesterday announced its second quarterly profit in a row, based in part on cost controls, as well as reduced losses for its broadband unit...
Cox bundles sell but income falls
Cox Communications saw the same burst of growth in its advanced services as other cable companies, but nonetheless posting lower income based on debt extinguishment and the sale of some small cable systems...
Marconi responds to Huawei acquisition report
Marconi has issued a formal statement this morning in response to a Sunday London Times report that the equipment vendor is in discussions with its partner, Huawei Technologies, to be acquired...
Telefonica chooses powerline technology
Telefonica will use broadband power line technology to distribute its IPTV signal within the home, the company’s supplier, Corinex, announced today. Telefonia is in the process of building a national Ethernet network to serve both business and residential customers. The company will be using Corinex 200 Mbps AV Powerline technology to connect IPTV set-top boxes within the home to the video signal being delivered via ADSL 2+. ...
Labor relations clouds sunny results from Telus
Canadian carrier Telus Corp. achieved solid growth and market-leading EBITDA across its wireless and wireline businesses in its second quarter despite a heated battle with labor unions that has resulted in strikes and lockouts...
Muni nets require phased approach, says Yankee
Municipalities that want to build their own broadband networks can reduce the financial risk of doing so by taking a phased approach that carefully ties investment to community demand for services, according to a new Yankee Group report...
Alltel hits five-year ARPU high
A 16% jump in wireless revenues drove a solid quarter for Alltel, which hit a five-year high in average revenue per wireless customer as well. Wireline revenue was down two percent and wireline income was off eight percent, however, despite the addition of 36,000 DSL customers and a slight one percent increase in wireline ARPU. ...
CopperCom taps IPCC exec as new CTO
Manuel Vexler, the marketing and technical strategy force behind the industry’s primary softswitching forum and chair of the SIP Forum Service Provider Working Group, re-entered the vendor community today as chief technology officer at CopperCom....
Iowa Telecom access lines down, DSL up
Iowa Telecom posted lower revenue and operating income, as its access lines also continued to decline. The company announced revenue of $58 million, down almost 8% from the second quarter of 2004, but attributed the decrease to one-time revenue recognized a year ago....
Time Warner Cable posts double-digit gains
Time-Warner Cable today announced double-digit growth in its revenues and the sales of its enhanced digital services and its high-speed Internet access services ...
Comcast revenues up, on digital products
Comcast is reaping the rewards of its network investment and new service initiatives, today reporting major increases in revenue and operating income...
Time Warner Telecom sees enterprise revenue boost 
Time Warner Telecom reported increased revenue in its enterprise customer segment, and a narrower loss for the second quarter of 2005, even though carrier revenues decreased...
Citizens stalls IPTV, stays the course on wireless, VoIP
As part of its second quarter earning report today, Citizens Communications said it would delay a planned rollout of an IP video service until 2006 because of several factors...
Broadwing's earnings jump on data, broadband
Broadwing posted significant revenue growth and a smaller net loss for the second quarter of 2005, based on the inclusion of Focal Communications’ revenue and growth of its own data and broadband services....
High-investment costs hand Covad loss
Covad Communications today posted a second-quarter loss and forecast further losses for the immediate future, based on the investment required to expand its voice-over-IP business and two high-profile deployments—AOL’s high-speed Internet access service and EarthLink’s line-powered voice access trial...
Robbins retires at Cox
Cox Communications yesterday announced a sweeping changing of its executive guard, triggered by the retirement of long-time CEO James Robbins. ...
HomeNet departure doesn’t rattle iProvo
The departure of its initial service provider has brought negative publicity to iProvo, one of the more high-profile municipal fiber optic networks now under construction...
Hughes taps Covad
Covad Communications will be the primary DSL broadband supplier to Hughes Network Systems’ new Direcway Unified Broadband service, the two companies announced today....
McLeodUSA fails to find a buyer
McLeodUSA is negotiating with its lenders to restructure the company’s capital after a four-month search to find a buyer or strategic partner failed...
Survey says: IT spending drives revenues
Juniper Networks today released a study that shows enterprises that place the most importance on information technology and are willing to adopt new technology do better financially...
