Stay up-do-date on the activities of our company and of the telecommunications industry in general with our news releases, updated once daily.

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Worldwide Broadband Subscriptions to Reach 415 Million This Year

Service Revenues Will Top $130 billion in 2008

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Metro Ethernet equipment market to nearly double to $18.8B in 2010 from 2006

Metro Ethernet as an effective transmission medium for wide area networking continues to grow...

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3G cellular used by nearly half of enterprises, survey says.

But wireless broadband security still a major concern for mobile enterprise services.

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IBM, others team up on 'autonomic' computing

With autonomic cloud computing, management of processing resources would be handled without human intervention.

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FCC Rejects Controversial Verizon Forbearance Petition

This action helps ensure that competition will continue to thrive, and that markets where Verizon sought forbearance will not fall under the unchallenged rule of the single provider

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Board recommends capping subsidies to phone companies providing phone, Internet in rural areas

'Unrestrained growth' could undermine public support for the program, board says

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Phone companies fight over price regulation

Sprint calls for stiffer controls in $16 billion segment of business market

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AT&T to Pay $2.5 Billion for Wireless Spectrum

THE largest owner of licenses in the 700- to 800-megahertz range of the spectrum.

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Bells May Merge Local Operations, Long Distance...

FCC eases more Bell regulations

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Sprint's WiMax gamble: A new wireless broadband on the way

WIMAX: Chicago is test market

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Satellite Internet companies boosting capacity

New services strengthen a lifeline to rural areas.

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Detailed/Technical DS3-T3 Definition

DS-3 translates into T-3, which is the equivalent of 28 T-1 channels...

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Level 3 buying Austin TX based Broadwing Communications in $1.4 billion deal

Yet more telecom industry consolidation...

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Study: Broadband Users More Likely to Use Web for News

43 percent of broadband users turn to the Internet to get news

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Nearly 150 Million Adult Americans Use Internet, Survey Says

An increase from 66 percent...

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Use of Broadband Internet in Rural Areas Grows

24 percent of rural Americans had broadband Internet access at home

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Internet2 Fiber-Optic Line Sets Bandwidth Record

a high-quality version of the movie "The Matrix" could be sent in a few seconds rather than half a minute

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GigE service providers talk about real-world experiences

Gig-E is truly becoming a significant advance for metro networks..

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T-1 reinvents itself

As customers increasingly rely on virtual private networks, using T-1 as an access technology for high-speed packet-based networks, centralized network management will become increasingly critical.

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Multimegabit Service Closes The Broadband Bandwidth Gap

..telecommunications engineers have looked for ways to bundle two or more T1 lines together into one virtual circuit as a way of increasing throughput.

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Will Ethernet Devour Sonet/SDH?

Never bet against Ethernet – Ethernet's ability to prevail over seemingly superior technologies has made this into a networking axiom.

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Qwest's new DSL rules for Net hogs may pinch businesses

Qwest Communications International Inc. is reworking its broadband policies to clamp down on bandwidth hogs. But small businesses may get caught in the fine print.

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Intel IPTV: Can Telcos Avoid ‘Entertainment Bypass’?

Television over the internet, coming soon!

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