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Florida AG, AARP seek $6.5 million Verizon fine

admin — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:59:57 -0400

Verizon Communications' service performance in the six west-central Florida counties in which it provides voice, data and video services has been less than stellar, and it could end up costing the Read more...

Is Deutsche Telekom interested in France Telecom?

admin — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:59:56 -0400

Deutsche Telekom has been one busy telco of late, taking over a 25 percent chunk of Greek carrier OTE and now, according to some reports, eyeing France Telecom as a, uh, partner. Germany's Finance Read more...

Cox Communications racks up a triple double in Q1

admin — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:59:55 -0400

Cox said it recorded double-digit, year-over-year growth in residential phone, high-speed Internet and digital cable service in its first quarter despite what Cox President Pat Esser described as Read more...

Metric: Cable tops telco in Q1 broadband battle

admin — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:59:54 -0400

Cable operators added more new broadband subscribers than telcos for the first time since the third quarter of 2004, reports the Leichtman Research Group in a new study of 19 cable and telephone Read more...

ISPs lose traffic shaping battle with Bell Canada

admin — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:59:53 -0400

ISPs in Canada who use Bell Canada's network lost a battle to stop the telco from throttling P2P traffic. The Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission for now denied a request from the Read more...

SPOTLIGHT: Small city takes big step into telephony

admin — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:59:52 -0400

Cairo, Ga., just across the border from Tallahassee, is looking to turn its municipal broadband offering into a profit center for the city. Taking a cue from bigger telcos and cable operators, the Read more...

ALSO NOTED: Once mighty C-W turns to discounting; TelAlaska looking to WiFi; and much more...

admin — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:59:51 -0400

> TDS ripped by investor for spurning buyout bid, not telling shareholders Article > Read more...

DHS Networx deal to Verizon; AT&T in back-up role

admin — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:59:57 -0400

The federal government's Networx Universal project is finally yielding some revenue for telcos. The Department of Homeland Security awarded about $679 million worth of work from a $1 billion, 10-year Read more...

Embarq to end wireless partnership with Sprint

admin — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:59:56 -0400

Independent telco and Sprint Nextel spin-off Embarq confirmed that it will end its wireless resale partnership with its former parent company next year. It is a sad situation, being jilted by one's Read more...

DT, Greek government reach OTE agreement

admin — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:59:55 -0400

Germany's Deutsche Telekom finally got the deal it had been seeking with the Greek government, agreeing to acquire another 3 percent of Greek telco OTE on top of the 20 percent it already had agreed Read more...

Telefonica posts Q1 IPTV, net income gains

admin — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:59:54 -0400

Spain's Telefoncia reported a 22.4 percent increase in first quarter net income to $2.38 billion, and posted a big rise in IPTV subscribers. The telco landed 43,000 new IPTV customers in the first Read more...

SEC: Broadcom officials back-dated stock options

admin — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:59:53 -0400

Broadcom, a leading maker of broadband wireline and wireless data networking chips, is the latest firm to be tangled up in a stock option back-dating scandal. The Securities and Exchange Commission Read more...

IDC: 16% of workers are hyperconnected

admin — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:59:52 -0400

Market research firm IDC, in a study commissioned by Nortel Networks, says some 16 percent of workers worldwide are hyperconnected, using a minimum of seven different devices for work or personal Read more...

SPOTLIGHT: BT quarterly profit drops, revenue increases

admin — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:59:52 -0400

BT reported that profit for its fiscal fourth quarter was down about 6.2 percent to $828 million, while revenue rose about 2.5 percent to $10.5 billion. BT has suffered through some difficult Read more...

ALSO NOTED: CoreOptics raises $25 million; Procera premieres DPI product; and much more...

admin — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:59:51 -0400

> CoreOptics, a start-up focusing on 40 Gbps subsystems, obtained $25 million in new funding. Article > Procera Networks has Read more...