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Newsday deal unlikely to start telecom trend
Cable TV player Cablevision Systems announced today that it is acquiring Newsday for $650 million. For those outside Long Island and New York City, Newsday is that most archaic of information 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...
Current Communications sells Dallas BPL network
Current Communications, the company that has been operating a broadband over power line network in Dallas, has agreed to sell the network to local utility company Oncor for about $90 million. Oncor Read more...
AT&T denies bandwidth throttling scenario
AT&T is denying that it throttles Internet bandwidth following a study by online video distributor Vuze that suggested several of the largest U.S. broadband service providers were doing exactly Read more...
Desktone, Verizon team up on virtual desktop
Add desktop virtualization to list of services that carriers are looking to sell into the business market and corporate enterprises. Information Week reports that start-up vendor Desktone has Read more...
Blue Coat acquires Packeteer for $268 million
Blue Coat Systems is acquiring fellow WAN optimization technology vendor Packeteer for $268 million. The deal follows Packeteer's rebuffing of an acquisition bid by Elliott Associates just weeks ago. Read more...
More OSS M&A: Finland's Comptel buys Axiom
Finland-based OSS company Comptel Corp is acquiring U.K.-based OSS firm Axiom Systems for $13.8 million. The deal provides more evidence that OSS market consolidation is ongoing, as it comes just a Read more...
Sonus Networks to acquire Atreus Systems
Sonus Networks is acquiring Atreus Systems, a vendor of VoIP technology and IP service provisioning systems based in Ottawa, Canada. Atreus has been around for nine years and actually has been a Read more...
N.C. lifts pricing regulation on AT&T phone services
North Carolina's Utilities Commission has given AT&T-the state's largest carrier--carte blanche in setting its rates-sort of. The NCUC this week said AT&T could set prices at will for Read more...
Jamcracker keeps SaaS announcements coming
About 10 years ago, the telecom industry was enamored with the CLEC model (or at least anyone with money and time in a CLEC was), and ready for the next big thing in the service provider evolution. Read more...