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DT chief chats M&A; report fuels Sprint rumors
Will Deutsche Telekom make a move on Sprint Nextel, or are there too many hurdles to overcome for Read more...
Windstream's Q1 profit, revenues up; outlook bright
Windstream Corp today said a jump in Internet users helped push it to a 24 percent increase in profits for the first quarter despite slower growth in its residential landline business. Sound Read more...
Cablevision adding subs, offering Wi-Fi, losing money
Cablevision will spend more than $300 million on rolling out Wi-Fi technology in the New York metro area and on Long Island over the next two years as it intensifies its battle with Verizon for Read more...
Aussie telco ups ante in nationwide broadband bid
The battle to hang wire for Australia's $4.7 billion national broadband network just got a tad more serious after Australian operator Telstra put up the $5 million bidder's bond required of Read more...
Global telecoms see mixed quarterly results
Swisscom reports 1Q net profit down: Switzerland's biggest telco, Swisscom, said its first quarter net fell 7.2 percent to $407.5 million primarily due to costs associated with last year's purchase Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Qwest faces opposition in Arizona over forbearance request
Qwest, actively been seeking to slip out from under certain tenants of the 1996 Telecommunications Act with a series of forbearance petitions, has run into a windstorm--albeit, a tiny one, of Read more...
ALSO NOTED: 3M brings new products to Middle East; Chinese telecom market examined; and much more...
> 3M brings fiber installation within closer reach of communications installers Read more...
Comcast eyes bandwidth cap, overage charges
Comcast reportedly is considering implementing a broadband service structure with a bandwidth usage cap. According to BroadbandReports.com, Comcast may offer a service with a 250 gigabyte usage cap Read more...
Vonage lowers loss, will sell DSL via Covad
VoIP service provider Vonage reported first-quarter earnings today that were marked by higher revenue, a lower net loss and moderating growth in customer additions, but the real news today regarding Read more...
France Telecom stays on IPTV growth track
France Telecom said in its first-quarter earnings report that it had added 167,000 IPTV customers during the quarter, for a total of 1.41 million IPTV customers across all of its markets. Most of Read more...
DT posts earnings boost, landlines decline 6.3%
Germany's Deutsche Telekom reported first quarter earnings growth of 33.2 percent to $1.16 billion, though some of the increase came from the sale of a media business. The company saw revenue decline Read more...
Surewest increase revenue, barely profits
Independent telco SureWest Communications reported a 20 percent increase in revenue for the first quarter to about $51.6 million, but the company was barely in positive net income territory, with a Read more...
Cisco overall service provider growth hit 6%
In pointing our readers toward stories on Cisco Systems' fiscal third quarter earnings yesterday, we said the company's service provider orders had declined about 3 percent. To clarify, that was the Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Verizon face challenges with NYC MDUs
As Verizon Communications accelerates its fiber push into the multi-dwelling unit market in New York City, it is facing all the challenges inherent to NYC apartment buildings--old construction, Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Cbeyond sued; Occam may see $125 million contract gain; and much more...
> Lawsuit accuses Atlanta service provider Cbeyond of insider trading. Article > Nyquist Capital Read more...