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XO shakes up pricing models
XO Communications continued its aggressive assault on the competitive services market today with a new pricing strategy that lets customers pay strictly for bandwidth and not for a specific number of access lines...
Triple-play prices grow more elastic
As competition heats up for triple-play telecom services, the prices for those offerings are becoming more elastic—something customers are finding when they threaten to switch providers...
New Edge brings CoS to ADSL
New Edge Networks is keeping its promise to bring a better quality ADSL service to small to mid-sized businesses, announcing today it will introduce class-of-service offerings that allow customers to tag and prioritize services over ADSL lines...
AT&T CEO decries consumer market slowdown
Addressing an investor conference today, Randall Stephenson, AT&T’s chief executive officer, complained of a current slowdown in the company’s consumer business but expressed optimism that its enterprise business would be less affected by the same overall economic trends...
AT&T: 40,000 U-verse installs per week by 2008’s end
In AT&T’s analyst day yesterday, John Stankey, the company’s group president of telecom operations, provided some up-to-date data on AT&T’s consumer offerings as well as some aggressive goals for next year, including the quadrupling of its weekly installation rate for U-verse triple-play services...
Survey calls for customer experience overhaul
When Forrester Research asked nearly 5,000 consumers about their interactions with a variety of companies to gauge the usefulness, usability, and enjoyability of their experiences, wireless carriers kept coming up short...
In the Spotlight: Bill DeMuth, SureWest Communications
Last week SureWest Communications announced the acquisition of Everest Broadband, a move to double its triple-play subscriber base by adding to its existing fiber-to-the-home network in Sacramento, Calif., a hybrid fiber/coax network in Kansas City, Mo. SureWest’s Chief Technology Officer, Bill DeMuth, spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins last week about strategies to integrate the two businesses and what lies ahead...
Embarq uses ‘naked DSL’ to slow line loss
Embarq began offering so-called “naked DSL” service this month as a tool to retain customers who no longer want landline voice service...
U-verse rollout to slow, cost more with Southeast expansion
AT&T has lowered its expectations slightly for the deployment of its U-Verse IPTV service through 2008...
Global Crossing to resell Nextlink
Global Crossing is now reselling broadband wireless links from Nextlink for last-mile access to business customers under a national reseller agreement announced today by the two companies...
Tennessee utility bringing fiber to 55,000
Next month, the electric utility in Clarksville, Tenn., hopes to launch the first broadband and video services over what could become one of the largest municipal fiber-to-the-home networks in the United States...
TelcoTV: Calix, Microsoft team on IPTV
ATLANTA--Calix announced this morning that it has established a licensing relationship with Microsoft that will enable its technology to interoperate with the Microsoft platform...
Verizon’s FiOS gets 20-20 vision
Verizon Communications today launched a symmetric 20 Mb/s service over its FiOS network, setting a new industry standard for speed and addressing the growing need for upstream bandwidth to accommodate user-generated content...
FTTH data under renewed scrutiny
Two weeks after the FTTH Council announced the number of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) subscribers in North America had topped 2 million, another analyst is openly questioning the validity of those numbers...
Funding the exaflood
Data-rich services may push up the price of broadband access...
Verizon CEO disputes DSL seasonality
Despite anticipation among many in the telecom industry of a seasonal uptic in third-quarter DSL penetration, Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg today aimed to dispel the notion of seasonal trends in broadband sales...
Verizon launches ROADM-based service
Verizon Business today announced a new optical networking service for enterprises based on reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs) from Tellabs...
AT&T offering $10 DSL
AT&T is keeping a promise it made to the Federal Communications Commission to make broadband more affordable by launching a $10 DSL service, available to new customers who sign a one-year contract...
Time Warner Telecom punts on new name
Time Warner Telecom has given itself more time to come up with a new name....
Alltel launches ‘Day Pass’ access to mobile Internet
Alltel launched a new daily access plan to its mobile data services, designed to tempt customers into signing up for monthly data plans...
OFC: Verizon names first GPON markets
ANAHEIM--Verizon Communications is expected today to name the two places where it will begin commercial deployment of gigabit-speed passive optical networking (GPON) equipment...
Exclusive: Marketing and sales under stress
A survey of marketing and sales executives and professionals in the telecom industry has revealed that an increasingly complex competitive and service environment is combining with ongoing internal corporate pressures to create a perfect storm through which marketing and sales organizations are trying to navigate...
UBS: Verizon may add 1.1M fiber subs this year
Verizon Communications could add another roughly 1.1 million subscribers to its fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network this year, according to estimates made by UBS Investment Research...
Dittberner: U.S. may be in IPTV Top 10 after all
One week after reporting that the United States is not among the 10 countries with the most IPTV subscribers, research and consulting firm Dittberner admitted that the U.S. may be in the top 10 after all...
US Signal adds Milwaukee
Competitive service provider US Signal today announced plans to extend its Midwest fiber optic backbone to Milwaukee, building a metro ring in that city, as well as to new access points in suburban Chicago...
