List of All Telecom News
| Broadband Voice Services Continue to Fuel VoIP and IMS Equipment Revenue
15/03/2008
Voice over broadband remains the top application driving service providers to invest in VoIP and IMS networking equipment, according to a recent report by Infonetics Research.Service providers spent more than $3.9 billion on VoIP and IMS equipment in 2007, Infonetics reports, representing growth of 19% over 2006. The firm expects worldwide service provider spending on such technology to reach... |
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| Cincinnati Bell Acquires CenturyTel Assets in Dayton, Ohio
14/03/2008
Cincinnati Bell Inc. boosted the size of its growing Dayton, Ohio business this week when it agreed to acquire CenturyTel’s operations in the city, at a cost of $1.5 million.The deal includes 328 access lines for small and medium-sized enterprise customers, as well as key fiber-optic infrastructure in the city.CenturyTel’s customer relationships and networks are an excellent fit with... |
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| AT&T to Integrate U-verse TV with Other Services
13/03/2008
America’s biggest telecom provider, AT&T Inc., is looking for new ways to bundle its U-verse IPTV service with telephone, broadband, and wireless offerings, so as to give its customers the convenience of paying for all their media and communications needs on a single bill.“By the end of the year it will really be different,” said AT&T’s senior vice president of... |
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| Qwest Mulls Home Security Services to Stem Fixed-Line Losses
10/03/2008
Qwest Communications is considering adding home security to its portfolio of services, offering technology like web-based video to let subscribers monitor their homes over the internet.Such services would be offered with an ulterior motive in mind, of course, by require users to have a Qwest landline subscription, and discouraging so called cord cutters from dumping their traditional telephone... |
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| Verizon Forms Distribution Partnership with Weichert Realtors
29/02/2008
U.S. real estate mega-agency, Weichert Financial Services, has formed a partnership with Verizon Communications, promoting a selection of Verizon telecom services to homebuyers moving to a new city or state.Customers can now click onto a special Verizon section of Weichert’s website to access a one-stop telecom shopping portal, then compare the products and services available at their new... |
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| Citizens Communications Reports $59-Million in Fourth-Quarter Profits
28/02/2008
Rural U.S. telecom provider, Citizens Communications Co, posted higher-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings on Tuesday, bolstered by strong revenue from two recent acquisitions.Net quarterly income came in at $59 million, or $0.18 per share, down from $63.9 million or $0.20 per share in the final quarter of 2006. Analysts had expected earnings of only $0.16 a share.Overall revenue, meanwhile,... |
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| Bundled Services Gain Popularity in Irish Telecom Market
25/02/2008
Some 52% of Ireland’s landline telephone users now bundle internet access or some other service with their telecom subscription, according to a recent survey by Millward Brown IMS, on behalf of ComReg.54% of those surveyed now use the internet in some location, with 48% boasting a home internet connection. Of these customers 68% say they now use broadband.Ireland has also seen strong growth... |
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| Telstra Pushes Retail Broadband to Make Up for Fixed-Line Telephone Shortfall
24/02/2008
Australia’s leading telecom provider, Telstra Corporation, is making progress in developing additional revenue streams, particularly high-speed internet, to supplement its declining fixed-line telephone business.“We have also passed an important inflection point, with the additional revenue generated from retail broadband now exceeding the revenue decline from the PSTN (fixed-line... |
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| T-Mobile USA Enters Home Phone Market with New VoIP Service
22/02/2008
America’s fourth largest wireless carrier, T-Mobile USA, has started selling its own VoIP home phone service in Dallas, Texas and Seattle, Washington, directly challenging incumbent landline carriers for the first time.The new service, which is available exclusively to T-Mobile wireless customers, allows subscribers to connect any home phone to a special device which routes calls over the... |
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| Cox Reports Healthy Cable, Broadband, and VoIP Growth in 2007
17/02/2008
Cox Communications added more than one million Revenue Generating Units (i.e. individual subscriptions) in 2007, marking the seventh consecutive year that it has repeated this accomplishment.The cable giant stated last week that 62% of its customers now subscribe to two-product bundles, and 30% are triple-play.Cox now counts a total of 5.96 million residential subscribers, including 3.1 million... |
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