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Long-distance firms join forces for all-out battle Southwestern Bell, the local telephone company, is proposing to grab long-distance customers by extending one-way calling service into metropolitan areas for a flat [...]

DETROIT - When it comes to e-commerce, the Big Three U.S. automakers see bumps aplenty in the coming months. For starters, Ford told the audience at the annual AutoTech conference […]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD UK telecomms company BT has set the number of enquiries that it will need to broadband-enable exchanges across the UK. In total, 88 more […]

The London Internet Exchange Point was forced into early adoption of 10 Gigabit Ethernet. KARL CUSHING reports Switching to 10 Gigabit Ethernet is for most organisations about as high a […]

Telenor Satellite Services, a division of Norway's state-backed Telenor [TELN], is offering a new global communications package for aircrafts in flight. The company said its improved Swift64 service combines the […]

Qwest Communications International [Q] plans to seek approval this month from the Federal Communications Commission to offer long-distance service in the state of Washington. The company said the Washington Utilities […]

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: Ed Gubbins Fort Sumner, N.M., has a hardware store, a gas station and two grocery stores, but not much else. For Jim Koontz, owner of a cattle ranch 18 [...]

Ad agencies and their clients are often guilty of treating Asia as a single, discrete entity, both in terms of the budgets that are allocated to the region as well [...]

Add Rio de Janeiro, San Juan and Tokyo, but not Kansas City - at least not yet - to the markets with next-generation CDMA service. Telefonica's [TEF] Brazilian affiliate, Telefonica […]

A recent trend has been for Internet backbone operators to buy up content delivery networks (CDNs). Cable & Wireless bought Digital Island, and Williams Communications bought iBEAM. Both CDNs had [...]

Antony Adshead MG Rover will go live with an XML-based dealership parts and servicing system on 1 March. The car manufacturer expects the implementation to help it to gain market […]

Web services deployments can pose a potent security risk for companies that don't implement the technology correctly, according to analysts and experienced users. IT managers who are building Web services […]

Making sure his company's equipment interfaces correctly with Bell companies' legacy operations systems represents only about 20% of Dave Boland's job. However, that limited amount of time is worth millions [...]

Lucent Technologies [LU] isn't holding back geographically - reaching from the Caribbean to Eastern Europe with wireless contracts - to make good on making this quarter the low point of […]

While U.S. carriers continue to struggle with deploying location technologies, Japanese mobile giant NTT DoCoMo plans next week to launch country-wide location-based services and Nokia [NOK] plans to have location […]

It's impossible to know whether BT would ever seriously consider selling off its Local loop, the collection of exchanges and wires in the ground or hanging from telegraph poles that […]

Grey Desire, the customer relationship management agency which is part of the Grey Global Group, is roiling out its GMail email marketing system in the UK. The service integrates information […]

Airlines Team With Tech Companies to Offer Enhanced In-flight Services Travelers are tired of looking at the ragged magazines left in the seatbacks in front of them when they're on […]

Now that AT&T Wireless has launched its GPRS service in Seattle (www.attws.com), the United States has its first 2.SG service. The crowd roars. Banners, balloons and fanfare. Like so many […]

OpTel exit could force some local apartment residents to switch over numbers OpTel Inc. is hanging up on local telephone service in Houston. The Dallas-based telecommunications and cable company is [...]

Long-haul carrier 360networks last week announced it will lay off about 800 employees - 44% percent of its workers - to contain costs. On June 15, the company said it [...]

Starbucks Coffee this summer will launch one of the largest wireless network initiatives ever, rolling out high-speed Internet access in all 4,000 of its North American shops. The initiative is […]

Copper Mountain Networks was in the middle of its best quarter ever and had revenue forecasts of hundreds of millions of dollars. Then the bomb hit: Data CLECs drastically reduced [...]

The State Department will move to complete installation of modern classified LANs at 260 embassies and consulates in 169 countries and give half its diplomatic service staff Internet access within […]

The Universal Description, Discovery and Integration directory project, at www.uddi.org, has enlisted more than 200 vendors for its free directory of platform-independent electronic-commerce applications for the Web. The Chief Information […]

Capital One invested in an ASP e-procurement system for its staff. KARL CUSHING explains how the bank benefited What began as a drive to automate internal purchasing led credit card […]

The West Coast energy crisis has halted plans to expand a municipal telecommunications network in Tacoma. Tacoma Power, the city's public utility, has delayed plans to extend its Click network [...]

Money and Power Form Siama's MAIN Project Sigma Networks is a supplier of connectivity services to backbone carriers, broadband access network suppliers and a host of application service providers that […]

High-definition digital televisions deliver a much sharper image, but the cost of the sets and a paucity of programming are slowing the roll-out The conversion to digitally broadcast television is [...]

Five years ago, Mikhail Senatorov, the Central Bank of Russia's deputy chairman and CIO, set out to create one of the largest, most sophisticated telecommunications and computer networks in Russia. […]

Virginia cuts contribution Virginia state lawmakers approved legislation that would retroactively cut the state's contribution to the $40 billion Virginia Retirement System by about $200 million in the fiscal year [...]

New Broadcast Manager designed to meet 'centralcasting' demand With the debate over DTV transmission standards apparently hushed, broadcasters have turned their attention to meeting deadlines and extending deadlines for building [...]

NextWeb starts small but is ready to make a big mark on the charts NextWeb is getting ready to beat its own drum and is about to find out whether […]

CISCO CLASHES WITH CALPINE CISCO SYSTEMS ISN'T WINNING MANY friends on Capitol Hill -- or in Silicon Valley -- as California's energy crisis continues. The networking giant was chastised for […]

INDIA -- In its attempt to follow the time-tested US-based FCC model for spectrum licensing, the Indian government has announced multi-pronged bidding for issuing licences to the fourth cellular operator […]

Valiant Networks is focusing on helping service providers migrate from circuit to packet networks. The company will aid its carrier customers in building and running networks and will help vendors […]

By Rodney L. Pringle, rpringle@phillips.com Telekom Malaysia, Malaysia's biggest phone company, has eyes on expanding into the Hong Kong telecoms market. The company said on Friday that it has set […]

By the end of 2001, the government of Puerto Rico plans to complete a fixed wireless infrastructure that will link disparate government and public entities throughout the island territory. Of […]

3Com announced plans last week to create a subsidiary, CommWorks, to handle its service-provider and carrier-systems businesses, according to a company statement. 3Com already has a CommWorks line of networking […]

SAN JOSE - Despite decreasing share prices that may make a large acquisition more appealing, Cisco will likely stick to its pattern of buying smaller, more focused niche companies. In […]

China's railways will start a new telecom company specializing in fixed-line and data transmission, the China Business Weekly reported, citing Liu Cai, director general of the Department of Policy and […]

LOGICAL BEHAVIOR IN THE telecommunications industry has gone out the window. Big U.S. players such as Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks and Cisco Systems--all stock market darlings until recently--have seen their […]

JAPAN'S NEWEST telecommunications carrier, KDDI, opened for business earlier this month following the completion of a merger combining the operations of DDI, KDD, and Nippon Ido Tsushin into a single […]

QuickTake Tellium's recent $350 million contract win with Cable & Wireless for its Aurora optical switches is a milestone for the equipment vendor. In addition to the C&W deal, Tellium […]

WorldCom last week inked a deal with Virginia to build the state's government data network. The network, which is called the Commonwealth of Virginia Network (COVANET), will link 4,500 sites […]

Sapient may outsource network manaqement to Aprisma and Genuity. EVEN WEB INTEGRATORS need to let go of some IT functions. Indeed, two sources at Sapient say the company is looking [...]

Everyone knows about AT&T's grand cable TV plans, byt few realize just how ambitious those plans are. Try this: The infrastructure AT&T is building will ultimately support 64M bit/sec downstream […]

Myths may keep you from convergence. Most enterprises are going to have to take a close look at the opportunities presented by migrating to a converged infrastructure, if they are […]

AN UPSTART CABLE COMPANY PLANS TO OUTPACE AND OUTCLASS INCUMBENT AT&T'S SYSTEM, STARTING THIS YEAR WILL VOTERS APPROVE? Forget AOL-Time Warner. And move over AT&T. A local startup, 10 months [...]