VON: Notebaert calls net neutrality a commercial issue
SAN JOSE--Network neutrality issues can be easily handled with the existing commercial agreements framework, Qwest Communications CEO Richard Notebaert told the VON conference today...
VON: Lessig sounds call to arms
SAN JOSE, Calif.--The Internet applications and development community needs to get itself organized to take on the big telecom service providers in Washington, or risk seeing network service providers take over control of the Internet and stifle innovation in the process, Stanford University law professor Lawrence Lessig told VON's Communications Policy Summit here today....
OFC: Level 3 declares bandwidth price plummet over
ANAHEIM--The age of rapidly falling bandwidth prices is over, according to Robert Feuerstein, senior architect at Level 3 Communications....
Megamerger casts uncertainty on wireline vendors
The proposed merger of AT&T and BellSouth has as yet unknown implications on several of the wireline equipment vendors that supply each company. (ROBERT CAPLIN/Bloomberg News/Landov/Scott Paulus) ...
Verizon cuts 3500, touts fiber savings
Verizon’s merger with MCI is proceeding ahead of schedule in producing synergies, and that means 3500 jobs in the new Verizon Business unit will be shed in 2006, Verizon Vice Chairman and President Lawrence Babbio announced Tuesday afternoon....
eLEC to add Liberty Bell to its holdings
eLEC Communications has signed a letter of intent to acquire Colorado-based Liberty Bell Telecom, LLC, a local and long-distance company born from the frustrations of radio and television consumer advocate Tom Martino, who is also company founder...
US LEC grows customer base, loss
Virtually all of US LEC's reporting metrics grew in 2005, including its revenue, customer base, employee headcount, network size and net loss, the company reported this week....
Competitive VPN players benefit from consolidation
Consolidation has dramatically reshaped the independent market for virtual data services in recent months, as two major players have been acquired and two others have merged ...
AT&T claims global advantage
AT&T is tightening its global focus on multinational enterprise customers, expanding and extending its global network with a particular focus on developing nations that its customers want to reach and on data products....
Nortel CEO sets market share goals
On his 99th day as CEO of Nortel Networks, Mike Zafirovski discussed his plans to transform the company this year in a speech at the RBC Capital Markets investment conference today. ...
Broadwing revenue flat, but loss lessens
Broadwing Corp. reported this morning that fourth quarter 2005 revenue came in at $220 million, barely $1 million more than the previous quarter. ...
Netifice, MegaPath combine
Continuing the consolidation trend in the competitive service provider segment, Netifice Communications and MegaPath Networks today announced that they are merging to form one company with $125 million in revenue in managed services. ...
Competitive pricing pressures ease for now
Qwest executives last week joined a chorus of voices claiming that competitive service pricing has stabilized, affording service providers better opportunity at profits...
CLECs merge to beat bigger mergers
The spate of recent CLEC consolidation is a clear signal that competitive carriers are repositioning in a business market now dominated by two national players...
Infonetics charts spending shift
Service provider spending on core and edge IP gear is booming, while multi-service switch sales decline, a new report from Infonetics said Thursday...
Qwest positive despite growing loss
Qwest Communications is making significant progress toward sustainable profitability and should be profitable in 2006, Chairman and CEO Richard Notebaert told the investment community today....
Choice One, CTC merge
Consolidation within the CLEC industry continues unabated. Today, Choice One Communications and CTC Communications announced their intention to merge as equals into a CLEC with more than 100,000 customers and $550 million in annual revenues...
Tandberg takes over SkyStream
Tandberg Television said it has agreed to acquire head end vendor SkyStream for $80 million cash and stock. ...
EarthLink earnings up, revenue down
EarthLink earnings dipped slightly in the fourth quarter, but rose for 2005 overall, the company reported today. Revenues were down for both the quarter and the year, however, as the company’s dial-up business continued to shrink and its new service initiatives did not make up the difference....
In-Stat: Business data revenues face decline
Most service providers reported growth in data revenues for 2005, but that picture will start changing within two years, according to a new In-Stat report...
