Updated: Time Warner spins off cable services
Time Warner Cable, which today announced will be fully separated from parent company Time Warner Inc., has beat out its main competitors, including AT&T and Verizon, in both video and broadband earnings. As both of the leading telcos state plans to increase the price tag on their video services, some analysts are predicting the run of success will continue...
Rural FTTP 'perfectly economical,' says muni fiber veteran
The notion that fiber-to-the-premises is economically prohibitive in rural areas is a myth, according to Dr. Timothy Nulty, director of ValleyFiber, a nonprofit organization focused on bringing municipal fiber to towns in Vermont’s Upper Valley...
VZW: As 3G phones multiply, so do data revenues
Verizon Wireless’ data sales jump 49% as Verizon increases install base of 3G phones to 58%, but AT&T outpaces VZW despite lower 3G penetration...
Verizon income up, wireline sagging
Verizon isn’t seeing the ill effects of a slowing economy, Verizon officials said today in their first quarter earnings call. Verizon Wireless business continues to grow, deadbeat accounts actually fell and FiOS customers are actually spending more money with Verizon, CFO Doreen Toben reported. Verizon is actually planning to increase prices in the second quarter, Toben added....
Ericsson North America sales get a boost
While its overall outlook for mobile infrastructure sales may be flat, Ericsson may have found a bright spot in North America, traditionally the region at the bottom of the vendor’s revenue chart....
Level 3 claims order bottlenecks resolved
Level 3 Communications claimed today to be making progress in eliminating the bottlenecks in its service-activation processes that clogged its operations last year and led to the departure of Chief Operating Officer Kevin O’Hara last month. ...
Sonus buys way into IP provisioning
Sonus Networks acquired OSS vendor Atreus Systems to add IP voice and services provisioning to its carrier-grade IP services offerings. Terms were not disclosed...
Qualcomm the big question mark in 4G cross-licensing
Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, NEC, NextWave Wireless, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Sony Ericsson have all signed a pact agreeing to the fair cross-licensing of intellectual property they collectively own in building new Long Term Evolution equipment and standards. Qualcomm did not...
XO's big bet pays off
XO Communications privately presented the chart below to top investors last December to illustrate the carrier's recent and dramatic shift in spending...
Level 3 ex-COO to earn more after departure
Level 3 Communications may pay its former chief operating officer more in the year following his resignation than it did when he was employed with the company, regulatory filings show...
Telecom well poised to benefit from $70 billion streaming market
A new Insight Research study says IPTV, along with streaming video and audio, will generate $70 billion in revenue over the next six years, from both network-derived services and content-derived income....
Updated: Motorola spins off struggling handset business
Following continued struggles in its mobile devices business and poor fourth-quarter earnings, Motorola today announced it would split into two publicly traded entities, separating its handset division from the company’s core focus, broadband and mobility solutions...
XO weighs debt options in a difficult market
XO Communications is mulling a range of options for paying down its $377 million in debt amid a turbulent credit market. ...
Zayo still on acquisition prowl
Tight capital markets may have slowed telecom consolidation in 2008, but Zayo Bandwidth is not deterred. The company went public last summer with its strategy of acquiring fiber assets in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities and has lived up to that plan, with a total of six acquisitions...
Is YouTube following Google, Facebook down?
Already worried about the bubble-popping potential of a looming recession, the Web 2.0 crowd has been hit with traffic slides in recent days at three of the Web’s bellwether properties, Google, YouTube and Facebook...
What AT&T will buy for $1 billion
AT&T’s $1-billion in investment in global infrastructure, announced today, is a reflection of multiple global telecom trends, including the move to managed services and the consolidation of server farms in centralized data facilities as well as a general growing demand for bandwidth driven in part by video...
Grande’s Texas triple-play network goes up for sale
Texas cable overbuilder Grande Communications announced today it was pursuing “strategic alternatives,” potentially selling its fiber network and triple-play business...
Q&A: Gillis Cashman, MC Venture Partners
After eight years at MC Venture Partners, Gillis Cashman made partner this month at the venture capital firm, which focuses on technology and communications startups. Cashman, who sits on the boards of Cavalier Telephone, Zayo Bandwidth and cable player Baja Broadband, spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins about the future of CLECs and current economic trends shaping the telecom service provider space and investment in it...
Security firm Arbor buys Ellacoya
Security technology firm Arbor Networks today announced it has acquired Ellacoya Networks, a pioneer in the increasingly crowded field of deep packet inspection...
Anticipation grows for Tellabs M&A
After having cooled in the second half of last year, expectations for a Tellabs acquisition are rising once again with the start of the new year...
Pac-West bounces back again
The new CEO of Pac-West Telecom is promising a financially healthier company with ambitious plans for the Western region...
MetaSwitch gets cash infusion
Data Connection Ltd., the parent company of softswitch maker MetaSwitch, is getting its first large infusion of cash from private equity firm Francisco Partners, and its partner firm, Sequoia Capital, to expand its successful North American operation into the global stage...
Verizon COO: No consumer ‘softness’ here
Verizon Communications is not seeing the same slowdown in consumer markets that AT&T reported this week, according to Denny Strigl, Verizon’s chief operating officer...
Citizens CEO: No consumer ‘softness’ here
Citizens Communications is not seeing the same economic “softness” in residential markets that AT&T reported yesterday, according to Maggie Wilderotter, Citizens’ chief executive officer, who spoke late yesterday at the same investor conference...
Exclusive: Insight Research doubles outlook on OSS spending
The telecommunications industry has put its troubles behind it, according to Brenda Belkin, senior analyst at Insight Research...
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