News
Consolidated Communications raises cash to finish SureWest acquisition
Consolidated Communications (Nasdaq: CNSL) plans to generate new funds to wrap up its pending acquisition of fellow independent ILEC SureWest (Nasdaq: SURW).
2012-05-16
House panel to test broadband stimulus spending
A congressional panel is scheduled to meet this morning to discuss broadband loans and grants programs bankrolled by the 2009 federal economic stimulus package.
2012-05-16
Terremark rises its North American cloud capacity in the Denver market
Terremark, Verizon's (NYSE: VZ) cloud and data-center subsidiary, has responded to the need for increased cloud-service capacity by U.S.-based businesses by implementing a node of its Enterprise Cloud at its Denver-based data center.
2012-05-16
Estes Park officials hear about fiber optics, water lease
Potential economic development decisions involving fiber optics and water leasing of Platte River Power Authority (PRPA) water are on the horizon for Estes Park, PRPA representatives told town officials at the town board study session last week at town hall.
2012-05-16
EarthLink announces business cloud security with new workspace service suite
EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK) is giving its business customers another option to secure their internal applications in the cloud with the launch of its Cloud Workspace service, the company announced today.
2012-05-15
Lightower extends network, colocation presence in Providence, R.I.
Lightower is giving its carrier and business customers in Providence, R.I., more options with the addition of 21 miles of new fiber routes that will serve the Pawtucket and Seekonk communities.
2012-05-15
Digital Life could of AT&T make its wireline broadband base even stickier
AT&T's (NYSE: T) recent launch of its Digital Life home control and monitoring service illustrates the telco's need to generate new wireline and wireless revenue streams.
2012-05-15
Overture improves European & APAC sales teams with four new regional offices
Overture's appointment of new sales leads to oversee four key EMEA-APAC regions--including India, Italy, Malaysia and Russia--instantly gives the vendor locally-based support to serve new growth opportunities outside of North America, the company said Tuesday.
2012-05-15
Verizon, AT&T: PSTN-to-IP migration must be done with care
AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) are clearly two service providers making a migration away from the PSTN to all IP, but the move has to carefully take into account a number of key technical, business and operational issues.
2012-05-15
Epsilon Telecommunications extends London metro capacity with BTI Systems gear
Network services provider Epsilon Telecommunications is expanding the capacity and reach of its London metro footprint with new platforms from BTI Systems. The upgrade focuses on the backbone portion of its network and involves the deployment of additional packetVX 24/4 (PVX 24/4) systems as well as BTI’s new PVX 80 systems, both part of BTI’s 7000 Series packet-optical transport product line.
2012-05-14