www.fiercetelecom.com— With AT&T’s (NYSE: T) $1.4 billion sale of Sterling Commerce to IBM (NYSE: IBM) now complete, the telco will record a one-time pretax gain of $800 million in Q3 2010. AT&T said that the after-tax value of the sale would be revealed when it reports Q3 2010 results… Continue…
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Telcos remain evasive about final broadband bundle prices
www.fiercetelecom.com— If you’re been through the frustrating process of trying to compare the actual total price of any broadband bundle packages, you’re not alone… Continue…
Verizon lures dial-up users with new DSL bundles
www.fiercetelecom.com— If you’re one of those dial-up Internet customers that’s still not convinced that broadband is too expensive, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) hopes its new bare bones voice/DSL bundles could seduce you to the broadband side… Continue…
Intellifiber, TTM’s wireless backhaul pact will serve 500 sites
www.fiercetelecom.com— With the U.S. major wireless wireless operators making good on their existing 3G and oncoming 4G LTE network drives, they’re going to need wireless backhaul capabilities outside markets where their wireline parent’s don’t reach and Intellifiber and Telecom Transport Management (TTM) are happy to help with those needs… Continue…
AT&T introduces enhanced My Multiview U-Verse application
www.fiercetelecom.com— AT&T’s (NYSE: T) newly enhanced mosaic application for U-verse is yet another way the telco is trying to differentiate itself from being a another me-too video service. The enhanced My Multiview service enables customers to simultaneously view up to four channels through one main window with audio and up to three small windows with only video… Continue…
Verizon, Utilities Telecom Council collaborate on utility communications requirements
www.fiercetelecom.com— If the smart grid concept is ever to take off, utilities are going to need to seek out partners, and one of those partners will be the traditional telco. Such collaboration is now taking place as the Utilities Telecom Council (UTC) and Verizon plan to conduct a study of what utilities require for their telecom and information technology needs… Continue…
Alcatel-Lucent’s Verwaayen: Service providers will start spending again
www.fiercetelecom.com — Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) may have had another tough quarter, but that’s not dampening the spirits of company CEO Ben Verwaayen who believes that service providers are going to start spending again to fulfill enterprise and consumer bandwidth demands… Continue…
Verizon extends FiOS TV mobile applications to more smartphones
www.fiercetelecom.com— Verizon is giving FiOS subscribers even more ways to plan their TV watching schedule by extending the capabilities of FiOS’ key mobile applications–Mobile Remote and Remote DVR Manager–to even more smartphones… Continue…
AT&T puts network security in the cloud
www.fiercetelecom.com— AT&T (NYSE: T) believes that enterprises should not have to deal with the headache of managing your network security, but rather focus on their core business… Continue…
Infonetics: Subscriber data management to grow to $1.5 billion by 2014
www.fiercetelecom.com— Despite a tough economy, telecom operators continue to invest in subscriber data management (SDM) software and services to reduce the cost of managing and maintaining multiple subscriber databases, analysts at Infonetics Research said Wednesday in a release promoting their latest market size and forecast report. By 2014, market revenue will increase to $1.5 billion, the report says… Continue…
Cincinnati Bell enhances its data center power by acquiring CyrusOne
www.fiercetelecom.com— Cincinnati Bell’s (NYSE: CBB) CEO Jack Cassidy last week proclaimed that data centers are one of its new service growth engines, and he’s making good on that vision by acquiring Texas-based data center provider CyrusOne from ABRY Partners for about $525 million in cash… Continue…
BT employs Alcatel-Lucent to up bandwidth ante
www.fiercetelecom.com — BT has set a high bar for its 21st Century Network (21CN), but advancing this initiative forward will take bandwidth, and lots of it. With content delivery capabilities, particularly video, being a key focus of BT’s 21CN drive for its retail and wholesale customers, the incumbent operator is turning to Alcatel-Lucent and its High Leverage Network (HLN) architecture and transformational services… Continue…
Verizon offers long-term FiOS bundle pricing
www.fiercetelecom.com — Signing up for a broadband bundled plan is for many consumers a deceiving experience where the service provider will instantly jack up the monthly price after a short promotional period. Verizon believes it has the answer for both residential customers and SMBs with a new series of long-term price guarantees for its FiOS service… Continue…
Telco Q1 earnings preview: Service differentiation will be key
www.fiercetelecom.com — With consumers abandoning their landline phone connections by defecting to cable or going all-wireless, the Q1 2010 tier one wireline service provider results will likely reflect ongoing landline erosion with ongoing growth in IP and wireless services… Continue…
Nortel gets additional time to restructure
www.fiercetelecom.com — While it would appear that Nortel’s restructuring saga is over, a Canadian federal court is giving the troubled company another extension to pay off its debts… Continue…
Telstra dismisses wireline network sale rumors
www.fiercetelecom.com — Australia’s incumbent service provider Telstra has dismissed a rumor that emerged in the newspaper The Australian that it has apparently accepted an $8.4 billion offer from the government for its wireline assets… Continue…
