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Interactive multimedia is a classic chicken-and-egg proposition for most telecommunications carriers. How can a carrier create a network without knowing what it will be expected to transport? On the other […]

Carriers are getting, ready to translate new-found regulatory freedoms and technological advancements into financially sound competitive offerings. The dramatic changes occurring in basic telecommunications regulations will substantially increase available opportunities, […]

Carriers have been preparing for the information age for a long time. The much-discussed broadband network that will catapult the world into a new era is built and ready to […]

In 1988, the standards body of the International Telecommunication Union had a vision: Public telephone networks could provide multiple broadband multimedia services. That year, the group selected asynchronous transfer mode […]

Going national with Time Warner.... A vast, sparsely populated home territory is usually cited as a problem for U S West. But its data unit, the newly renamed !nterprise Networking […]

Byline: Carol Wilson Competitive service providers started 2008 with a flurry of announcements, indicating a determination to push hard for market share. Among the early announcements were XO Communications' new [...]

Byline: Peter A. Bernstein I like and respect Verizon. But sometimes those you like need tough love. In fact, my admiration is why, in July 2005, when Verizon announced FiOS [...]

Byline: Tim McElligott The battle for the soul of the broadband customer goes on behind closed doors. But it's not all behind the doors to the development labs where ingenious [...]

Byline: Tim Kridel Add one more contender to the list of broadband providers: electric utilities. Like cable providers and telcos, they're looking to wring additional revenue from their existing infrastructure [...]

Byline: [ BY VINCE VITTORE ] The Sacramento headquarters of SureWest Broadband, housed in a converted airplane hangar where military jet engines used to undergo tests at the now shuttered [...]

Test your knowledge of current industry events with the following quiz * After discovering a flaw in how data transmits across the Web, engineer Paul Watson was dubbed 'The Savior [...]

Byline: Kevin Fitchard AOL is getting out of the broadband ISP business, but it hasn't given up on broadband. Instead, AOL is trying to affect that elusive transition from fat [...]

Byline: Vince Vittore Not too long ago - in fact, less than a year - very high bit-rate digital subscriber line technology appeared destined to be nothing more than a [...]

Byline: Vince Vittore If there is such a thing as divine redemption in the corporate world, BellSouth's Bill Smith is living it. Derided throughout the telecom industry's boom as the [...]

Byline: Vince Vittore Virtual ice capades After about a dozen years of secrecy, it's time to admit I have a problem. My name is Vince, and I'm a hockey geek. [...]

Going once... Following the path of dozens of would-be entrepreneurs selling off goodies accumulated during the late 1990s' economic boom, Alex Clear turned to eBay not long after getting fired [...]

Byline: Vince Vittore Despite the recent entry of numerous small telcos into the video market, two of the largest carriers already deploying the service, Qwest Communications and SureWest Communications, apparently [...]

Byline: Jim Barthold Just when it seemed that fixed broadband wireless had gasped its last breath, Verizon Communications came forward with a respirator. Using the 2.3 GHz wireless communications service [...]

Byline: Toby Weber The people of Asheville, N.C. - population 66,700 - understood that they needed a robust broadband infrastructure that would attract business. Tobacco farming has become less viable [...]

Byline: Chris Sewell Walking the streets of Blacksburg, Va., you would never guess that the town's population of 40,000 locals and Virginia Tech University students are harboring a broadband secret. [...]

Byline: Jim Barthold The high-definition video offerings cable operators are launching to compete with direct broadcast satellite also threaten to encroach on telecom carriers' video-over-ADSL efforts. As a result, telcos [...]

Byline: Jim Barthold The cable industry plans to dominate the broadband space with future products based on the industry's DOCSIS high-speed data specifications. Cable calls this worldwide effort Broadband 1.0. [...]

Byline: Jim Barthold Comcast President Brian Roberts says his company has done yeoman's work replacing the now-defunct Excite@Home network. But thousands of high-speed subscribers in his own backyard - Philadelphia [...]

Technology in harmony The curriculum at Boston's venerable Berklee College of Music - the alma mater of luminaries such as producer Quincy Jones and Steely Dan frontman Donald Fagen - [...]

An infinite number of monkeys working at an infinite number of word processors would eventually enumerate the reasons the CLEC model failed, listing among those reasons competitive carriers' inability to [...]

Tom Knippen understands his fixed broadband wireless subscribers want to do more than watch television. Thus, the vice president and general manager of W.A.T.C.H. TV is rolling out high-speed data [...]

The parallels between the U.S. interstate highway system and the 'information superhighway' have become cliche. But when it comes to content, those parallels don't apply. The government didn't give consumers [...]

Computer-generated special effects have revolutionized Hollywood, but this high-tech infusion is the exception in a media industry that, as a rule, remains remarkably low-tech in its communication methods. In an [...]

Using proprietary technology that some critics maintain is already obsolete, Sprint is digging its heels into the broadband fixed wireless business with a high-speed data residential service it hopes will […]

I'm a fixed broadband wireless believer. I've followed the industry for years, appreciating its potential when others scoffed, cheering its technological innovations and quick-strike capability. I have a confession to […]

Wharton 'Zie' Rivers made some bold pronouncements when he addressed the Broadband Wireless World Forum last month, declaring that fixed wireless players must start keeping the promises they have made […]

'There's been a lot of bad blood in this space.' - Rami Hadar, co-founder of Ensemble Communications Ongoing contention over rival technology formats is one of the things that keeps […]

Intermedia Communications will offer a nationwide DSL-based Internet access service that lets businesses link remote office sites in more than 1300 cities across the U.S. It provides business-class Internet access […]

Wireless broadband players accelerate business plans beyond U.S. borders Sprint and WorldCom may have breathed new life into fixed wireless technology in the U.S., but their endorsement further secured the […]

The Redwood City, Calif., headquarters of Excite@Home is full of toys: pinball machines and foosball in the stairwells, Tinkertoys and crayons in the cafeteria, and even plastic corkscrew slides between […]

After years of hinting at a fixed wireless technology - codenamed Project Angel - that could deliver voice and data services, AT&T finally has commercially introduced AT&T Digital Broadband in […]

In LMDS and other high-frequency formats, we're talking about an up-and-coming access format that's billed as having fiber-like reliability and similar bandwidth potential. An industry contact (one who prefers to […]

As impatience with the pace of high-speed Internet service deployment increases, fast-to-deploy broadband wireless has become a hot niche for large carriers and other Internet-related companies to explore. With what […]

When anyone says multichannel multipoint distribution service these days, Sprint and MCI WorldCom immediately come to mind. Nonetheless, a few independent MMDS players are not only beating Sprint and MCI […]

I don't know about you, but when I was a kid, this was the time of year I got more scoldings than any other. In some ways, family scoldings - […]

BY David Schober After testing service for six months in Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, Verio Inc. officials said last week the company would begin a nationwide rollout […]

GTE's broadband testing center helps customers with data networking equipment decisions Broadband ISDN technology is advancing at an incredible rate. In trying to keep an edge on the market, switch […]

Early adopters are happy with broadband services. But increasing traffic levels will create new challenges Early adopters are enthusiastic about broadband. By enabling users to obtain more information faster, broadband […]

Byline: Jim Barthold A new company claims to have 'disruptive technology' that will revolutionize the wireless local loop, deliver ubiquitous broadband connectivity and shatter the 'first-mile' network bottleneck. Sound familiar? [...]

Digital subscriber line is turning up all over carriers' networks, and U S West is no exception. U S West !nterprise officials claim their asymmetrical DSL customers number 'in the […]

Any speculation that cable operators will limit their Internet access pitch to hard-core users should be erased by the announcement that Internet Ventures Inc. will cut its unlimited access price […]

Sprint last week provided some details about its local service plans-details that were lacking in the carrier's previously announced asynchronous transfer mode strategy. But questions still remain about how ubiquitous […]

SBC Communications announced last week that its Pacific Bell unit would roll out asymmetrical digital subscriber line services throughout California, potentially reaching 60% of its customer base there. The service […]

New data option gives carriers 'modernless' service opportunity Despite having network equipment in carrier systems throughout the world, Philips Broadband Networks has operated in relative anonymity for the past several […]