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 Foundation's Aspen Summit that Cox will spend a total of $500 million to roll out mobile content offerings and other wireless services [...]

After recently naming a new chief operating officer, Qwest Communications International has initiated a handful of further executive changes under new COO Tom Richards. As part of the shuffle, Dan Yost will take charge of the telco's mass markets business operation, Teresa Taylor will assume the role of executive vice president for [...]

Telecom service providers have gone on the offensive in a broad effort to stop--or at least delay--municipalities planning to build public fiber optic networks to compete for Internet, telephone and cable dollars."It's a national playbook," says Patrick Ottinger, general counsel for Lafayette, La., where the city has had to buck two [...]

Comcast and its cable allies have lined up a series of broadcast ads belittling Verizon's vaunted FiOS network, claiming to have a larger fiber-optic network. What the ads don't point out is that while fiber is used in the network, it doesn't go to the home as is the case [...]

Cox Communications reportedly has issued a wide-ranging request for information on various fiber-to-the-premises technologies. Like most of the cable TV industry, the company uses a traditional hybrid fiber-coaxial cable architecture, but is now said, according to a report in Light Reading's Cable Digital News, to be looking at FTTP and [...]

Most cable TV operators who have entered the business of business communications have not been in that business for long. So, if your equipment vendor has more experience at it, why not rely on them Read more[...]

Cox said it recorded double-digit, year-over-year growth in residential phone, high-speed Internet and digital cable service in its first quarter despite what Cox President Pat Esser described as Read more[...]

Cox Communications will pay Qwest Communications about $2.2 million and could be further fined by the Arizona Corporation Commission after Cox's alleged unauthorized use of Qwest customer landline Read more[...]

Emboldened by their success suing Vonage for patent infringement, traditional telcos are moving onto more lawsuit targets. Verizon Communications last week sued Cox Communications, alleging violation Read more[...]