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NebuAd loses CEO Dykes
NebuAd's CEO Bob Dykes has left the company to become chief financial officer at VeriFone. Dykes was the company's primary defender as Congress took aim at carrier trials of its Web tracking Read more...
Convergys to take billing for a spin?
Telecom software firm Convergys said this week that it is considering a spin off of its Information Management group, the part of the company that deals in billing systems for service providers. The Read more...
Sandvine still hanging in at Comcast
The Federal Communications Commission order punishing Comcast for delaying peer-to-peer Internet traffic called for the cable TV giant to adopt a new traffic management approach. It's existing Read more...
VoIP leads IMS charge
Infonetics Research has a new report suggesting that about 75 percent of service providers around the world plan to offer VoIP services over IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) infrastructure by the first Read more...
Cox eyes $500 million wireless investment
Cable TV company Cox Communications already has committed $300 million at auction to acquire 700 Mhz wireless spectrum, and company president Patrick Esser said at the Progress and Freedom Read more...
FCC issues Comcast throttling order
The Federal Communications Commission finally issued a formal order condemning Internet traffic throttling practices Comcast undertook that delayed peer-to-peer traffic on its network. The 67-page Read more...
XO expands Ethernet over copper, VPLS
Service provider XO Communications has started offering a new, extended-reach Ethernet over copper service to its business customers. Based on Hatteras Networks technology, the service is targeted at Read more...
MegaPath buys merchant provider to bolster niche appeal
Ethernet service provider MegaPath last week announced that it is acquiring IP Merchant Solutions, a company focused on connectivity for credit card processors. MegaPath is in the process of creating Read more...
Penn. residents criticizing Comcast cabinets
Some Pennsylvania residents are complaining about the deployment of unsightly, above-ground cable TV pedestal boxes near their homes by Comcast. The say the company should deploy its network Read more...
Cogent sees 'lumpy' Internet traffic pattern
Ethernet-based service provider Cogent Communications reported a 19 percent surge in revenue over the second quarter of last year to $54 million in the same quarter this year. However, Cogent also Read more...