- AT&T Ready to Bargain
Washington— AT&T would agree to comply with a host of regulatory conditions to gain approval of the BellSouth merger from a currently deadlocked Federal Communications Commission. The FCC is the last major hurdle before AT&T and BellSouth can close the $81 billion transaction, which would create a telecom colossus in ......
- FCC to Study How to Treat VoIP Services
Washington— It's almost an iron law of modern telepolitics: Innovation attracts regulation. For a while, firms that helped people complete calls over the Internet could function like traditional phone companies, but with none of the regulatory migraines. That deregulatory bliss is coming to an end. Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael ......
- Customers Place Premium on VoIP Reliability
When it comes to voice-over-Internet protocol services, consumers care more about reliability than quality — and surprisingly, they have no clear-cut preference as to whether their bundled services come from cable operators or telcos. Those were among the findings of a new Gallup Poll commissioned by UBS Warburg cable debt ......
- Rutledge: VoIP’s No Worry
Cablevision Systems Corp.’s chief operating officer said he isn’t worried about upstart voice-over-Internet Protocol competitors, and that users of its Optimum Online high-speed Internet service are losing money if they subscribe to one of those competing services. Speaking at the Wachovia Securities Media Conference in Nantucket, Mass., on June 19, ......
- VoIP Calls in Chicago
Chicago— It might have been more a of murmur compared to HDTV's roar, but you could still hear the sound of voice-over-Internet protocol technology on the National Show floor. Though much of the interest — and certainly the splashy publicity — on the McCormick Place floor was centered around television ......
- Comcast Rings In VoIP in Phila.
Comcast Corp. will dial up Internet-protocol telephony service in its hometown of Philadelphia, beginning in mid-2003. The move will mark the first voice-over-IP deployment for the Philadelphia-based MSO and rank among the first such rollouts in the United States. Comcast already has 40,000 circuit-switched telephony customers in Michigan and Virginia....
- ADC: HIGHEST-DENSITY VOIP GATEWAY FOR COST-EFFECTIVE
FUTURE-PROOF EVOLUTION TO IP CABLE TELEPHONY.
ADC (Nasdaq:ADCT; www.adc.com), a global supplier of fiber optics, network equipment, software and integration services for broadband, multiservice networks, has announced the Cuda Packet Telephony Module (PTM) for the Cuda 12000 IP Access Switch. With this announcement, the Cuda 12000 becomes the industry's first carrier-class cable modem termination system (CMTS) ......