Colin C. Haley

Rebuffing cable rivals and rounding out bundled offerings, regional carrier BellSouth has partnered with satellite TV provider DirecTV. Financial terms were not disclosed. Starting next year, the service will be in BellSouth’s “Answers” package, which includes DSL or dial-up Internet access, local and long distance calling and wireless. “Both parties are very much incented to […]

Telecom equipment maker Lucent Technologies has won a $25 million subcontract to help restore phone service to 240,000 Baghdad households still without dial tones. “This type of work is one of our strengths,” spokeswoman Mary Ward told internetnews.com. “(We have) more than 25 years of experience deploying, operating and maintaining telecom networks in the Middle […]

Intel will offer free Wi-Fi access via thousands of U.S. hotspots during a Sept. 25 publicity event dubbed One Unwired Day. In addition, the Santa Clara, Calif., company will sponsor “festivals” in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle, with live music, product demonstrations and drawings for laptops, wireless home networking products and access cards. […]

Under a contract extension, backbone network operator Level 3 will continue carrying dial-up Internet traffic from service provider SBC through 2006 The revamped pact adds two years to the previous contract (originally signed in January 2002). In all, the deal is worth $11 million for Broomfield, Colo.-based Level 3. “We are firmly committed to offering […]

Putting its cast of characters to work online, Disney has teamed with Terra Lycos to offer family-friendly broadband content in Spain. By year’s end, the entertainment giant and Internet service provider plan to roll out the access/content bundle, dubbed Disney Connection, in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Peru — countries where Terra Lycos is strong. […]

Just a few weeks ago, industry watchers were disappointed when Lucent Technologies missed its quarterly financial forecasts because of sluggish sales in its mobile unit. The network equipment giant’s executives tried to minimize the fallout, stressing that the drop didn’t indicate a weak spot in its product line, but resulted from contract problems with two […]

Wireless specialist Novatel could reap up to $50 million in new sales over the next 18 months thanks to an expanded contract with Lucent . The San Diego company will supply its Merlin U530 wireless modem card to Lucent, which is including them in its offerings to mobile operators in Europe and Asia. Inserted into […]

At 4:10 p.m. yesterday, techs manning America Online’s control center saw the number of members using its service plummet from 2.4 million to 2.1 million in seconds. “There was a noticeable and precipitous dip,” AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham told internetnews.com. “The lower numbers remained throughout the evening and early morning hours.” At 11 a.m. today, […]

Power is slowly returning to parts of New York and other Northeast cities this morning but transit systems and communications networks are still groaning under the strain of the worst blackout in U.S. history. Besides New York, Cleveland, Detroit and Toronto were worst hit. New England was largely spared, although southwest Connecticut, a grid weak […]

Verizon , which provides wireline and wireless service in New York and other Northeast cities affected by yesterday’s massive power outage, said its networks are holding up under heavy call volumes. Utility crews worked through the night to restore power to some Big Apple boroughs, although many are still waiting and the transit system is […]

Targeting business users needing quick contact with co-workers, Verizon Wireless has introduced a national push-to-talk service to challenge Nextel . The walkie-talkie option lets callers connect in seconds with other customers (either one-on-one or groups to 10) by pressing a button on their phone. “(The move) addresses an emerging market that combines convenient connectivity with […]

Boston will know by early fall if it will host CreativePro (formerly know as Macworld) in 2004. “We are evaluating event location, format and potential content to ensure we match qualified delegates with the leadership brands that make up an exhibitor base,” a spokeswoman for event organizer IDG World Expo said. Such careful language, combined […]