Colin C. Haley

UPDATED: Putting regional telecoms and startups on notice, Comcast today announced a major Voice over IP rollout for 2005. “We’re on a steady march,” Brian Roberts, Comcast CEO, said at the Smith Barney Citigroup investor conference in Phoenix this afternoon. “[The estimates] are modest for the first year or two.” The largest cable operator plans […]

UPDATED: Verizon Wireless has expanded its third-generation network and will launch an ambitious multimedia service that’s heavy on video content, executives announced today. “This is a defining moment for the wireless industry,” Denny Strigl, president and CEO of Verizon Wireless, said at a Las Vegas news conference. “The promise of 3G is finally in consumers’ […]

Looking to sell its broadband telephony service to more home office users, AT&T announced today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that its CallVantage service is now available at Staples . The telecom’s Voice over IP offering for home and small business users will be sold with an integrated analog phone adapter and […]

Ten former outside directors for WorldCom (now MCI) are reportedly finalizing a $54 million settlement with investors hurt by the company’s accounting fraud during the telecom and dot-com stock frenzy of the late 1990s. The deal calls for the former board members to pay $18 million of their own money, with the remainder covered by […]

Level 3 , which provides wholesale network services to ISPs, cable companies and telecoms, announced today that it will expand its Enhanced-911 (E-911) Voice-over-IP coverage. E-911 provides emergency agencies with a 911 a caller’s address, enabling responders to be dispatched even if the caller can’t speak or if the call is disconnected. “Our E-911 service […]

Cingular and Lucent said they achieved successful trials of their third-generation wireless network technology, with data transfer rates hitting “true” 3G speeds. The companies completed their first High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) data calls on a 3G Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) during tests in the Atlanta market. The system delivered data rates of more […]

VoIP upstart Vonage and networking specialist UTStarcom have partnered to bring a portable Wi-Fi handset to market by summer. The phones are aimed at giving Vonage an edge over AT&T , Verizon and others by offering callers the convenience of a cell phone without the costs of traditional carriers. The F-1000, which offers mobility across […]

Continuing to push into areas previously dominated by cable companies, telecom carrier SBC has formed a joint venture with set-top specialist 2Wire to develop a new home entertainment service. Financial terms weren’t disclosed. The offering will include TV programming from Echostar’s DISH Network , on-demand music and video, caller ID and digital photo-sharing through Yahoo […]

Armed with a growing number of favorable decisions from regulators and judges, Voice over IP provider Vonage is prepared to battle any state over the issue of regulating IP telephony, the company’s CEO said. “If California should proceed with litigation, we would fight that,” Jeffrey Citron told internetnews.com. “How many victories do we need before […]

A relative dearth of corporate news and thin holiday week trading volume left technology stocks mostly unchanged on Wednesday. Following a Tuesday rally that propped some stocks to new highs, investors seemed content to sit out the session or lock-in some year-end profits. All major indices were flat: the NASDAQ dipped .19 to 2177; the […]

Looking for leverage against telecom carriers, Time Warner Cable is negotiating a deal with Sprint to add mobile phone service to its offerings, a spokesman for the cable giant confirmed today. “Time Warner Cable is working on plans for a wireless trial with Sprint,” Keith Cocozza, a Time Warner Cable spokesman, told internetnews.com. “We are […]

Vonage will continue to offer military personnel in Afghanistan and Iraq free phone calls to their families in the United States throughout 2005, the Voice over IP provider said today. Soldiers have already made more than 200,000 phone calls totaling more than two million minutes through Vonage, with a significant uptick in traffic from Thanksgiving […]