While broadband adoption in the U.S. has been slowing, it may be a sign of a maturing market that AT&T has started deploying its U-verse fiber network in Tennessee, the state with more municipal fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) projects than any other. The telco is investing $400 million to bring U-verse to 56 Tennessee towns over [...]

IP Multimedia Subsystem adoption was again a subject of debate at NXTcomm this year, and while carriers and vendors on panels and elsewhere had kind and thoughtful words about IMS, suggesting that the industry has become more realistic about the IMS transition, some industry folk were more critical away from [...]

Could Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States represents the next land of opportunity for telecom companies who have already made their bets in Asia, Africa and Latin America? Cisco Systems thinks so. The company, which has acknowledged an interest in this region in the past, admitted that has contributed what [...]

> FTTH gear vendor PacketFront will use a $41 million investment to take on Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco. Article > A new study says subscriber additions to fiber-based broadband networks passed additions to cable networks for the first time. Article > Rad Data Communications names 13-year veteran Zilberman as president. Article [...]

Japan's NTT Communications and Russian backbone network operator TransTeleComCorporation announced that they have begun commercial operations today on the Hokkaido-Sakhalin Cable System (HSCS), and undersea cable extended between Nevelsk, Sakhalin in Russia and Ishikari, Hokkaido, Japan. The cable, which has a capacity of 640 Gbps, has been under construction since early last year, [...]

Verizon Communications has filed a petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia requesting a stay on last month's Federal Communications Commission ruling against Verizon in the 'win-back' fight. The FCC had ruled Verizon was not allowed to use information about its voice customers who were [...]

Sonus Networks is experiencing some corporate structural changes, and ongoing lagging performance by the company has raised the ire of its top investor. Light Reading reported a few days ago that Jocelyn Philbrook, vice president of corporate marketing and investor relations at Sonus, is leaving the company after her job was restructured by CEO [...]

Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama is under fire from some of his most liberal supporters for supporting the compromise that likely will result in new surveillance laws with immunity included for telcos who engaged in wiretapping initiated by the federal government in the past, reports the New York Times. At [...]

Add another ISP to the list of those that have put off the implementation of NebuAd's controversial behavioral tracking ad platform. Last week Charter Communications said it was putting tests on hold after subscribers expressed concern about privacy issues; this week it’s CenturyTel’s turn to back off NebuAd.CenturyTel isn’t being [...]

The witching hour is nigh as July marks the month in which Federal Communications Commission honchos pass judgment on Qwest’s forbearance requests in Denver, Phoenix, Minneapolis and Seattle. If the requests pass, the telco can raise the cost-based prices it charges smaller companies. The FCC must decide by July 26.The [...]

Tennessee has been a hotbed of telecom issues of late, with lots of money being spent lobbying legislators during the fight by AT&T to get its U-verse TV service Okayed for statewide deploymnent. There have also been battles brewing between cable and municipalities over the public push into private enterprise. [...]

Some 24 percent of households in the European Union have ditched their fixed telephone lines in favor of cellphones, and an astounding 39 percent of homes is new member states—especially former Bloc countries where infrastructure was, shall we say, substandard at best—have gone mobile. Those finding from an EU survey [...]

A vote in favor of telco amnesty for those companies that aided and abetted the government in its wireless wiretapping program was worth more than a vote against, it appears. Dems who switched their “Nay” votes got twice as much money, on average, from telcom political action groups than their [...]

Earlier this year, we followed news of what various service provider CEOs were paid during 2007, and with rare exceptions, readers almost always felt the figures reported were too high. Now comes word that Dan Hesse, who was hired as CEO of success-challenged Sprint Nextel last December, is the highest [...]

VoIP platform vendor Broadsoft is releasing versions of its service application programming interfaces in representational state transfer, the software language common to Web-based applications development. So-called REST APIs can help telcos move toward quick service development that is more in the style of Web mash-ups. Carriers such as BT have [...]

AT&T announced late Friday that it is moving its corporate headquarters from San Antonio to Dallas, a move that many company watchers probably though would have (and should have) happened a long time ago. One of the primary reasons for the move, apparent from media coverage over the weekend, was [...]

Japanese vendor NEC already has enjoyed a pretty high profile worldwide as a network equipment vendor, but in the age of M&A-fed mega-vendors, that profile might have slipped a little. Now, NEC is looking to grow internationally, and has announced the $300 million acquisition of operations support system vendor NetCracker. [...]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati issued a ruling Friday that backs up the Federal Communications Commission's attempt to impose some control over municipal-level cable and video franchising. The ruling supported the FCC's position that municipalities need to approve or reject franchise applications within 90 [...]

Are Embarq & CenturyTel still tracking subscriber Web use?Charter Communications Tuesday said it had dropped its plans to test online advertising company NebuAd’s web-use tracking technology because of concerns raised by its customers. But two telcos that recently competed the testing are on the fence as to whether they plan [...]

The cable industry “has to get better at customer care,” as telcos continue to push into providing TV and broadband, Comcast Cable COO Steve Burke said during the opening session of SCTE Cable-Tec Expo in Philadelphia. “We have a long way to go,” he said.And, he said, the industry needs [...]

Verizon's CTO Mark Wegleitner says rolling out FiOS has given the company a leg up on all the competition, not just telcos. And, unlike cable operators like Comcast, he's not concerned about P2P traffic, throttling or the boom in traffic forecast in th enext five years. Verizon, he says, is [...]

Shaw Communication says Q3 profit up 39% Report CenturyTel’s pops dividend a whopping tenfold to jumpstart stock price Report AT&T names new head of its Oklahoma division ReportMTN agrees to buy Verizon Internet unit Report[...]

The U.K.'s largest broadband provider has decided to get tough-very tough-with P2P downoaders, threatening to disconnect subscribers if they share copyrighted music over the Internet, reports The Register.The Register said BT emailed one of its four million retail broadband customers, accusing her of illegally downloading a copyright song from an [...]