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BT's cost cutting helps offset fiscal Q3 revenue decline
BT (NYSE: BT) saw its revenue fall 5 percent to £4.77 billion ($7.55 billion) in fiscal Q3 2011 due to declines in its global services, retail and wholesale divisions, but its ongoing cost Read more >>
Turnkey Internet capitalizes on Google's Kansas City fiber move by purchasing KCNet
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) may have yet to complete its fiber network roll out in Kansas City, but Albany, N.Y.-based Turnkey Internet thinks it will have a chance to compete for business customers by Read more >>
Week in research: Private line forecast at $43B; France likes its VoD
Private line shows modest growth: As the demand for higher bandwidth private lines offsets the shift from lower bandwidth private lines (ATM and Frame Relay) to packet-based services, Insight Read more >>
Internode believes it will gain better DSL coverage as part of iiNet
Now that its merger with iiNet is complete, Australian competitive broadband provider Internode is looking to serve more customers with its DSL services. As a subsidiary of iiNet, Internode Read more >>
Acme Packet misses Q4 estimates, stock tumbles 10%
Trading in Acme Packet (Nasdaq: APKT) on the Nasdaq was temporarily halted this afternoon as the network equipment vendor reported that its fourth quarter earnings missed estimates. Investors Read more >>
Frontier offers revised pricing for FiOS, subscriber discounts
Frontier Communications (NYSE: FTR) is once again finding itself having to convince current FiOS TV customers that the service is here to stay. In a move to perhaps encourage Frontier's FiOS TV Read more >>
Level 3 to provide HD broadcast services for Super Bowl XLVI
Level 3 (NYSE: LVLT) will once again provide live, high definition television broadcast services, including Vyvx VenueNet+ technology, to NBC for Super Bowl XLVI on Feb. 5. Since the Lucas Oil Read more >>
EU takes its data privacy seriously; why won't the U.S.?
Last Saturday, Jan. 28, activists and lawmakers in the EU and Canada celebrated an event that got relatively little publicity here: European Privacy Day. It was the culminating date in a monthlong Read more >>
FCC serves up reworked Lifeline program to weed out fraud, promote broadband adoption
The FCC voted unanimously Tuesday, 3-0, to reform its Lifeline phone subsidy program and reduce waste by preventing consumers from claiming services from multiple service providers. A new National Read more >>
Comcast brings home automation service to Denver market
Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) is taking its Xfinity Home service to the Denver market. Seeing an opportunity to enhance its revenue mix from its existing broadband and video customer base, the Xfinity Home Read more >>
AT&T, Orange Business establish telepresence connectivity pact
AT&T (NYSE: T) and Orange Business Services are combining their collective knowledge in telepresence that will allow their customers to use their respective services from their main and remote Read more >>
MegaPath launches new introductory Ethernet speed promotion
MegaPath is trying to lure business more customers to sign up for its growing Ethernet portfolio by serving up a new suite of lower-speed service tiers. Priced at $199 per month for both SMBs and Read more >>
France Telecom Orange to increase fiber network spending in 2012
France Telecom Orange (NYSE: FTE) isn't afraid of broadband competition and its commitment to spend €300-350 million euros ($394 million-460 million) shows that it is ready to fight. Stephane Read more >>
Phonoscope to turn up 100G network to target business, wireless backhaul opportunities
Phonoscope, a Houston-based service provider, said it will prepare its network to handle the 10G to 40G to 100G speeds its metro Ethernet and wireless backhaul carriers will require. To achieve its Read more >>
Tata Communications helps form global telepresence group
Tata Communications (NYSE: TCL) has joined with nine other global service providers to create what it calls the Global Meeting Alliance, an open ecosystem of service providers that have aligned to Read more >>
