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Alcatel-Lucent net loss grows in Q1

Alcatel-Lucent's net loss increased in the first quarter of 2009, as sales of both wireless and wireline communications gear fell in markets around the globe due to the economic downturn. The company

Colorado town fights Qwest for fiber

Silverton is the only country seat in Colorado that is not connected to the rest of the state by fiber optics. Qwest has a $37 million contract with the state of Colorado to link every county seat

In NH, FairPoint transition blame spread to PUC, contractors

Local citizens and newspapers in New Hampshire are starting to look beyond FairPoint's transition problems to state regulators and contractors that supervised its purchase of Verizon's landline

MO: Intrastate access fee changes stuck in state senate

A move to reduce telephone access fees is currently hung up in the Missouri Legislature. The bill to reduce rates among local service providers such as AT&T, CenturyTel and Embarq ran into a

Carrier Ethernet showing "double-digit growth" despite economy

Carrier Ethernet services get a bullish thumbs-up from Insight Research's latest report. The firm expects Ethernet services to grow at a compounded rate of more than 25 percent, rising from $2.4

AT&T calls for FCC to reconsider Cox baseball programming access

AT&T is calling upon the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reconsider its complaint against Cox in San Diego. AT&T wants access to San Diego Padres games carried by Cox for its

Verizon and bandwidth caps: The real story

Time Warner Cable's continuing faux pas over bandwidth caps and DOCSIS 3.0 is costing it good will, but the cable company's fumbling around has Verizon worried that the PR fiasco has triggered more

CWA President: AT&T strike "a tactic we may yet use"

Speaking at the union's first ever e-meeting Thursday, CWA President Larry Cohen said a strike against AT&T remains a "tactic we may yet use" against the company. However, the union and its

Qwest to drop Montana phone rates May 1, add more DSL to state

Qwest customers in Montana will see the price of their landlines go down beginning May 1 as a part of a settlement of a complaint filed in October 2006 that the phone company was making more than its

Rural Africa gets telecom building boom

Eastern and southern African counties have started telecommunications projects aimed at connecting rural areas to cities and increasing countrywide connections to international networks. The projects