Archive for the 'Telecommunications' Category
Posted by Edward G. Lanza on 23 May 2008 | Tagged as: Telecommunications
Business Week:
For the second year running, the U.S. ranked 15th among the 30 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development in terms of broadband availability. Denmark ranked first again in the annual OECD survey, followed by a host of European and Asian nations. Indeed, while the number of Americans with access to broadband service rose 20% last year, to nearly 70 million people, the most in the OECD, that amounted to just 23 of every 100 residents. By contrast, the top five countries in the OECD ranking all sport per-capita penetration rates of better than 30%.
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Posted by Edward G. Lanza on 16 May 2008 | Tagged as: Telecommunications
USA Today:
Traditional land-line phones, once the bedrock of communications in the USA, are quickly going the way of eight-track tapes as consumers go wireless or choose Internet-based phone calling.
According to a report due to be released Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics, nearly one out of every six homes in the USA — 15.8% — had only wireless telephones during the second half of 2007, up from 6.1% during the same period in 2004.
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Posted by Edward G. Lanza on 07 May 2008 | Tagged as: Telecommunications
AP via Forbes:
Consumers in parts of rural Missouri could see their telephone rates go up as a result of legislation passed Monday that essentially would end state price regulation of local phone service.
Supporters of the bill hope it will entice phone companies to spend the money necessary to expand high-speed Internet access in rural areas.
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Posted by Edward G. Lanza on 02 May 2008 | Tagged as: Telecommunications, Electric
Dallas Morning News:
An ambitious plan for using power lines to deliver fast Internet service to 2 million Dallas-area homes collapsed Thursday, when Oncor agreed to buy the system.
Current Communications said it will sell its so-called smart grid of networking equipment to the utility for $90 million.
Current expects to close the deal in a few weeks.
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Posted by Edward G. Lanza on 30 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Telecommunications
The New York Times:
The phone service provider Embarq Corporation reported on Tuesday that first-quarter revenue and access lines dropped, but lower expenses helped lift its net profit.
Embarq, the wireline spinoff from Sprint Nextel, also lowered its revenue outlook for the full year.
The company said its quarterly operating revenue fell to $1.57 billion, from $1.59 billion a year ago, while access lines decreased 7.3 percent.
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Posted by Edward G. Lanza on 14 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Telecommunications
AP via Forbes:
Traditional wireline provider Embarq Corp. is offering a new cordless home phone that includes Internet-powered features it hopes will help it hold on to customers…
The Embarq eGo, which the company began selling Tuesday, works like a regular landline phone but has a video screen and can hook into the customers’ high-speed Internet connection.
Customers can use it to check weather and sports and general news culled from Internet sites, access an online local business directory and scroll visually through voice mail and lists of frequently called numbers.
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Posted by Edward G. Lanza on 08 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: General, Telecommunications
Washington Post:
Since a 1994 law required telecoms to build electronic interception capabilities into their systems, the FBI has created a network of links between the nation’s largest telephone and Internet firms and about 40 FBI offices and Quantico, according to interviews and documents describing the agency’s Digital Collection System. The documents were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit advocacy group in San Francisco that specializes in digital-rights issues.
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Posted by Edward G. Lanza on 31 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Telecommunications
AP via Forbes:
FairPoint Communications Inc. will become northern New England’s biggest phone company Monday after an eleventh-hour regulatory tussle.
Though FairPoint’s purchase of Verizon’s wired phone lines and Internet operations in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont is the largest telecommunications deal in the region’s history, the only change most customers will notice is the logo and contact numbers on their April phone bills.
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Posted by Edward G. Lanza on 25 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Telecommunications
AP via Forbes:
FairPoint Communications Inc. said Monday it reached a tentative agreement with the two unions representing the roughly 2,500 workers who will join the phone company after it buys Verizon’s northern New England land line assets.
FairPoint is acquiring Verizon Communications Inc.’s land lines and Internet accounts in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont for $2.35 billion. The deal is expected to close this month.
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Posted by Edward G. Lanza on 04 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: General, Telecommunications
Forbes:
Wireline telecommunications provider Embarq Corp. named Tom Gerke chief executive, removing the interim tag from a position he has held since December.
Embarq has been looking for a CEO since its former parent, Sprint Nextel Corp., poached Dan Hesse to run that company in December. Gerke, 51, had been general counsel at Embarq.
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