Colin C. Haley

As North American and European markets mature, telecom equipment makers have turned to Asia-Pacific, but there’s another region that shouldn’t be overlooked. Carriers and ISPs throughout Latin America are expanding and upgrading their networks as demand grows and competition increases. The latest beneficiary of the trend is Lucent Technologies , which today announced hardware, software […]

Some of AT&T’s Worldnet ISP subscribers have had trouble sending e-mails in recent days because of an unknown problem, the carrier confirmed today. “We have a very small number of customers — well less than 5 percent — who have had intermittent difficulty sending e-mail,” an AT&T official told internetnews.com. “These are broadband users who […]

Alcatel and Concurrent Computer Corp. have a new offering for DSL providers looking to counter the Video-on-Demand offerings of their cable rivals. The product, which the companies will debut tomorrow at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam, combines network access and distribution gear with video server systems. “There are quite a few telecom carriers worldwide […]

AT&T will provide a range of voice and data services for Staples under a three-year, multi-million-dollar contract extension. The pact is in line with Ma Bell’s two-pronged strategy to transform itself into an IP network services provider for large customers in the face of flagging long-distance revenues. The second part of AT&T’s strategy is its […]

Verizon is boosting digital subscriber line speeds to appeal to consumers who work from home, play multi-player games and e-mail pictures and other large content files. The new service tier hits 3 Mbps downstream and 768 Kbps upstream and comes at a time when carriers, cable operators and ISPs are competing for broadband customers using […]

Strengthening its foothold in China, Lucent Technologies has secured a follow-on contract from mobile carrier Guangdong Unicom worth nearly $100 million. The telecom equipment maker’s base stations and services will be used in the third phase of the carrier’s code-division multiple access network. CDMA is a digital cellular technology that uses spread-spectrum technologies. Once completed, […]

Covad’s antitrust case against BellSouth is plodding forward. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has denied BellSouth’s request to revisit a June ruling allowing Covad to pursue certain antitrust and tort claims. “The court’s decision confirms that Covad’s antirust case can move forward, and we intend to vigorously pursue our claims,” James […]

Citing the “volume and complexity” of the task, Nortel has delayed by one month its financial restatements until the end of October. The Brampton, Ontario, company will file with Canadian and U.S. regulators for an extension of the filing deadline. Providing revised figures for 2003 and the first half of 2004 could help restore the […]

Verizon Information Technologies (VITI) will sell a segment of its health care processing business to Infocrossing for $43.5 million in cash. The deal will allow the Verizon Communications subsidiary to focus on data center hosting, managed IT services and combined telecom and IT offerings. It should close within 30 days. “We sense some other opportunities […]

BOSTON — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer believes the software industry will create more positive change in the next 10 years than it did in the previous 10 — provided that security threats are effectively handled. “Security is the one issue that could stand in all our ways,” Ballmer said in an address to the Massachusetts […]

BILLERICA, Mass. — Bill Owens is no stranger to challenges. Before his telecom career, which currently has him heading Nortel Networks , he was a Navy admiral who served as vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and commanded the Sixth Fleet during Operation Desert Storm. In April, Owens stepped into a crisis […]

America Online is testing a Voice Over IP service, as it seeks the right mix of products and pricing to halt sliding subscriber stats. Anne Bentley, an AOL spokeswoman, confirmed the move but would not disclose details. The service will reportedly be ready for launch in 2005 if all goes well. The Time Warner subsidiary […]