Cyrus Afzali

SBC Communications Tuesday became the latest regional telephone company to announce a widescale Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line rollout. The company is planning to upgrade 526 central offices serving 8.2 million residential customers and 1.3 million businesses with new equipment to offer ADSL by the end of the year. SBC said its pricing plans would start […]

Cable & Wireless USA Monday licensed caching technology from Inktomi Corp. to more efficiently handle traffic on its servers and network. Cable & Wireless USA, which recently took over MCI’s consumer Internet business, is planning to deploy Inktomi’s Traffic Server to enhance its Internet Shock Absorber content distribution and management. Traffic Server and ISA work […]

InternetNews.com Managing Editor PSINet Inc. Monday reached a deal with Fiberoptic Link Around the Globe Ltd. to add a new 155-megabit per second link that will tie the Internet provider’s operations in the Asia/Pacific region with its infrastructure in North America and Europe, creating a global network loop. The new fiber capacity provides a redundant […]

Pacific Bell has won a court battle with an upstart telephone company seeking to offer Digital Subscriber Line service in California. The California Public Utilities Commission approved a revised interconnection agreement between Pac Bell and PDO Communications of San Jose, Calif., ruling Pac Bell did not have to share its lines with other carriers. The […]

Telstra is moving to satisfy booming demand for global Internet, phone, video and fax services with the launch of a new $1.3 billion undersea cable project that will link the nation to more than half the world’s population. The cable is part of an extensive project that began in 1997 and is expected to start […]

Online financial publication TheStreet.com ended 1998 with more than 30,000 subscribers, showing an increase of 353 percent over the past year. The publication launched in 1996, grabbing attention for its decision to charge a fee for its content. Up to that time, The Wall Street Journal had been the only online publication to successfully make […]

Online broker E*TRADE Group Inc. Thursday announced it was buying a 25 percent stake in Archipelago, an electronic network for trading Nasdaq stocks, along with investment bank Goldman Sachs Group. After the deal closes, E*TRADE, Goldman Sachs and Virago Enterprises and Townsend Analytics, Archipelago’s founding partners, will each own a 25 percent stake in the […]

Cable Internet provider @Home Network has signed a long-term deal with AT&T Corp. to create a nationwide broadband Internet backbone. The network, which was announced late Tuesday, will use AT&T’s Dense Wave Division Multiplexing backbone, scheduled to be deployed in mid-1999. @Home said the backbone will give it a 100-fold increase in network capacity and […]

MindSpring Enterprises Inc. Wednesday purchased the subscriber base of Internet provider Netcom from ICG Communications for $245 million in cash and stock. The deal will give MindSpring another 400,000 individual dial-up customers, 3,000 dedicated accounts and 18,000 Web hosting customers. When the acquisition is finalized, MindSpring expects its dial-up subscriber base to top 1 million. […]

Internet provider EarthLink Network Inc. has topped 1 million subscribers after more than doubling its member base during 1998. The Pasadena, Calif., company late Monday said the milestone came about one or two months ahead of its previous estimates. EarthLink Chairman Sky Dayton said the achievement comes after an incredible year for the company. “1998 […]

Netscape Communications Corp. announced Tuesday that Netcenter portal memberships have more than doubled since July to more than 10 million. Netscape launched Netcenter last year in an attempt to better utilize its Web real estate, which is the default homepage on its Navigator browser. The milestone comes as Netscape has been beefing up the portal […]

Patricia Fusco InternetNews.com Correspondent Verio Inc. Monday acquired Internet Access Group, Inc., a regional ISP based in Cleveland, Ohio, in a deal that expands Verio’s offerings to 41 of the top 50 U.S. markets. The acquisition included IAG affiliates Great Plains Net Inc. and QualNet Inc. The deal broadens Verio’s Midwest presence and makes Verio […]