List of All Telecom News
| Embarq Logistics and Wave7 Deploy Fiber-Optic Network in Nebraska
25/05/2007
Embarq’s telecom equipment division, Embarq Logistics, has teamed up with fiber-optic networking supplier, Wave7, to deploy a FTTP (fiber-to-the-premises) network for Long Lines customers in South Sioux City, Nebraska.The new network will allow Long Lines an independent telephone and internet provider serving parts of Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota to offer a complete triple-play bundle... |
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| Embarq Reports Higher First-Quarter Profit, Despite Landline Losses
01/05/2008
Overland Park, Kansas-based telecommunications operator, Embarq Corporation, reported a rise in first-quarter profit Tuesday, despite losses in its core landline telephone business.Embarq’s quarterly net income came in at $212 million, or $1.38/share, up from $160 million in the first three months of 2007. Revenue, meanwhile, fell slightly to $1.57 billion, from $1.59 billion in Q1/2007, as... |
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| Embarq Reports Strong Fourth-Quarter Financial Results
11/02/2007
Overland Park, Kansas-based telephone provider, Embarq Corp., reported a 25% increase in fourth-quarter profits on Thursday, due to an increase in high-speed internet subscriptions and lower-than-anticipated losses in the fixed-line telephone market.The company earned a total of $194 million, or $1.28 per share for the quarter, compared to $155 million in the final quarter of 2005, at which time... |
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| Embarq Sees Strong First Quarter on Broadband and Wireless Growth
30/04/2007
Local telephone provider, Embarq Holdings Co., was able to minimize the effect of landline losses in the first quarter, thanks to strong growth in high-speed internet and wireless revenues.Even after $49 million in one-time financial losses, Embarq managed to generate profits of $371 million, on overall revenue of $1.59 billion.The former landline and DSL division of Sprint Nextel, Embarq... |
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| Embarq Thrives as Sprint Nextel Flounders
12/09/2007
When two of America’s leading cell phone carriers, Sprint and Nextel, merged two years ago, analysts and investors had such high hopes for the combined company that many failed to pay attention to the subsequent spin-off of Sprint’s landline telephone division, Embarq.Sprint chose to dump its tried and proven local phone business to focus all of its attention on wireless. Sixteen... |
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| Embarq to Test In-House Television Service
17/08/2007
America’s fourth largest local telephone carrier, Embarq Corp., plans to test its own television service in one of its existing markets next year, in hopes of better competing with major cable companies like Time Warner and Comcast.In recent months, Embarq and other telecoms have been losing hundreds of thousands of customers to incumbent cable operators, many of which have begun marketing... |
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| Enterprise FMC Market to Hit $50-Million by 2012, Says Strategy Analytics
02/06/2008
The market for enterprise fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) services will grow to reach $50 billion by the year 2012, according to a recent report by Strategy Analytics.Researchers predict that a number of factors will push the enterprise FMC market towards a key tipping point over the next couple of years.“The Emergence of a business justification for FMC based on business processes, the... |
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| EU Official Urges Governments to Make Broadband a Priority
15/09/2010
Canadian cell phone carrier, Bell Mobility, has started selling the LG Rumour Plus, the latest in an extensive lineup of HSPA smartphones.The 119-gram device features a 2.4-inch touchscreen display, sliding QWERTY keyboard, and 2-megapixel digital camera, along with GPS and a 16GB microSD card slot.This smartphone is available at the budget-friendly price of $39.95 on a three-year Bell Mobility... |
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| Europe Sees Growth in Bundled Services and Telecom Competition
07/05/2007
Bundled communications services are becoming increasingly popular in Europe, with 20% of the continent’s consumers now subscribing to some kind of bundled package, according to a recent report by the European Commission.Traditional fixed-line telephones, however, are being increasingly neglected throughout the European Union, with 22% of households now using mobile phones only. That number... |
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| European Households Increasingly Replace Landlines with Cell Phones, VoIP
14/07/2008
Europeans are increasingly taking advantage of healthy competition in the Continent’s telecommunications industry, according to a recent EU-wide survey of 27,000 households in 27 countries.Almost a quarter (24%) of households have now given up their fixed-line telephone subscriptions in favour of mobile phones, with Finland (61%), Portugal (48%), and new Member States in eastern Europe... |
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