BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has turned down Amazon.com and other parties that have expressed interest in purchasing the company, Reuters is reporting. (more…)
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Investors attempt to separate winners (viz. Local Tandem) from losers in wake of ICC reforms
One company that’s happy about inter-carrier compensation reforms detailed in the FCC’s recent Connect America Fund order (FCC adopts Universal Service and inter-carrier compensation reform order) is Neutral Tandem. (more…)
HFC network operators offer high-value freebies to current customers
Verizon’s deal to market cable company services, announced within days of a Verizon exec’s revelation that the company foresees an end to its FiOS buildout (CP: Verizon’s McAdam says video key to LTE and smartphone adoption), has caused some industry watchers to tout the superiority of cable company hybrid-fiber coax networks. The investment to support FiOS is too high, the thinking goes, and DSL doesn’t support enough bandwidth. But HFC, supporters say, offers the right balance of cost and bandwidth. (more…)
North State Communications’ plan to purchase DataChambers continues a trend
As non-rural Independent telcos, North State Communications and WVT Communications Group have a common bond. And today they gained another commonality. (more…)
Cloud adoption — few cost savings reported, time for a closer look?
The cloud has been the source of clever headlines for a year or two now, but what are the experiences of the early adopters? Research firm TNS surveyed 3,645 IT decision makers around the world to find out.
The study, sponsored by CSC, found that the primary driver for moving to the cloud is not cost based, but a need for the business to be able to access information from anywhere on any device. A third of respondents cited this, or mobility, as the prime driver, with only 17% saying that cost was the driver. This reflects a larger trend towards consumerization of business as workers use a variety of devices to manage their daily work. (more…)
Washington D.C. gains 100 Gb/s network—in the middle mile, that is
The District of Columbia has turned up the first link of a 100 Gb/s network that is expected to connect every ward in the city by June 2013. Network construction was funded through a $17.5 million broadband stimulus grant from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. (more…)
Universal Service reform order has bad news for Halo Wireless
The Universal Service and inter-carrier compensation reform order recently issued by the FCC contains some bad news for Halo Wireless, the company that offers wholesale voice termination services that enable at least one enhanced service provider customer to avoid paying long-distance access charges (CP: Halo Wireless defends access charge avoidance methodology). Halo Wireless claimed its mode of operation is legal because it re-originates long-distance calls placed by its ESP customer’s customers through its mobile network infrastructure, thereby converting the calls into local calls. (more…)
Universal Service reform order targets 6 Mb/s broadband speed in certain cases
After staunchly defending a 4 Mb/s downstream- 1 Mb/s upstream target broadband speed for the planned broadband Universal Service program for nearly two years, the FCC signaled in the recently issued Universal Service reform order that it may be wavering just a little bit. (more…)
CWA hopes Verizon tax dodging report will get Congressional super committee attention
As promised, Citizens for Tax Justice and Good Jobs First today released a report arguing that Verizon has “shortchanged government” through tax dodging and subsidies. The creation of the report was spearheaded by the Communications Workers of America, which represents the majority of 45,000 Verizon union workers who are currently working without a contract while the CWA negotiates with their employer—a process that has been ongoing since this summer. (more…)
Report: Verizon is one of nation’s biggest tax dodgers
The Communications Workers of America on Friday accused Verizon Communications of being one of the nation’s biggest tax dodgers for the last three years. The comment came in an advisory sent to the media to advise them of a conference call scheduled for tomorrow titled “Unpaid Bills: How Verizon Shortchanges Government Through Tax Dodging and Subsidies.” (more…)