CenturyTel brings Broadband TV to 25 states
CenturyTel launched a Broadband TV product last week that is immediately available to anyone with the company’s broadband service...
VON: Landline not dead yet, Embarq CEO says
BOSTON--Landline companies have a future, if they capitalize on convergence possibilities and learn how to make complex services simple for customers to use, Embarq CEO Dan Hesse told the VON crowd today...
TelcoTV: IP Prime adds three rural telcos
ATLANTA--In the latest in its series of coming-out parties, IP-Prime announced three new telco customers for its IPTV service here at the TelcoTV show today...
Microsoft TV signs first U.S. indie
Microsoft TV, the preferred brand of many larger telecom incumbents worldwide, has signed its first U.S. independent telco customer, nTelos...
Martin rebuffs VZW’s open access demands
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin today said he would not give in to Verizon Wireless’ demands to remove the open access requirements from the upcoming 700 MHz auction...
WiMAX sweeping down the plains
WiMAX is bringing the first broadband connectivity to rural communities in southeastern Oklahoma, Nortel Networks and three service providers announced today. ...
Alyeska: The great land
Taking a wrong turn in the vast wilderness of Alaska can be disastrous -- or it can lead you to a place like this...
WKRC in Cincinnati
The "C" is for convergence, which is what Cincinnati Bell is after as the first U.S. carrier to launch unlicensed mobile access and bridge the mobile phone with the home Wi-Fi network...
Feeling left out
When news surfaced in late August that a New Jersey teenager had rigged his iPhone to work with T-Mobile's network, a message may have been sent to big wireless carriers clinging to handset exclusivity...
TDS gets big embrace from Ethernet
Used for Internet backhaul today, TDS Telecom sees everything over Ethernet down the road...
Nsight turns a triple play
Nortel rounds out Nsight's offerings with an end-to-end IPTV solution, bringing greater TV programming options to the upper Midwest...
Competitors: Can video cash replace USF cow?
Qwest executive vice president Dan Yost, Comcast senior vice president Gary Traver and Janco Partners director of research Donna Jaegers gave the outsiders' look to rural telcos recently at CoBank's Communications Industry Executive Forum...
Cassidy stares down Cincinnati competition
With the clock running down on a chance to get in front of the competition, Jack Cassidy, Cincinnati Bell CEO, told a crowd of mostly small Independent telcos at CoBank's Communications Industry Executive Forum last month that there is no formula for success...
Embarq: Year Two
Heading into its second year as a standalone company, the former Sprint operation is building a business on fixed/mobile convergence. But with revenue and access lines still declining, can it reinvent itself fast enough?...
Windstream CEO: RLEC M&A on hold ‘til ‘08
Though further consolidation is needed in the rural telecom carrier space, it will probably have to wait until next year, when the credit environment improves, according to Jeff Gardner, CEO of Windstream, a large, rural telco...
Verizon, FairPoint under regulatory scrutiny
FairPoint and Verizon officials remain optimistic that the $2.7 billion deal that merges Verizon’s Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont operations into FairPoint will be approved by regulators, despite public complaints and controversy concerned the merger plan announced last January...
In the Spotlight: MetaSwitch’s John Lazar
Every once in a while, you have to take a breath and count your blessings. MetaSwitch CEO John Lazar tallied his up recently and didn’t stop until he reached 500. That’s the number of softswitch and gateway deployments his company has. Here’s what he had to say about this first of what he expects to be many milestones...
Fujitsu takes rural telcos optical
Fujitsu Network Communications announced two deployments of its optical gear with rural independent operating companies this week...
MetaSwitch feeling its oats with 500th deployment
MetaSwitch took stock of its success this week by putting nice round numbers on some key metrics. Its softswitch and media gateway systems topped the list, having exceeded 500 deployments. ...
Xfone acquires Texas carrier
Competitive carrier Xfone has agreed to acquire West Texas carrier NTS Communications for $42 million...
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