Jim Wagner

Microsoft Corp. has agreed to refund customers seeking to stop their MSN Internet access accounts and $100,000 in civil penalties, according to the Orange County District Attorney office Tuesday evening. Without admitting wrongdoing, Microsoft signed an agreement with the California attorney general’s office to ensure future compliance with the state’s business and professions code. The […]

Officials at the fourth-largest digital wireless phone carrier in the U.S. reaffirmed Wednesday their expectations for 2002, saying the expected addition of three million new digital phone users would help boost profits and aid in their goal to become cash-flow positive by the end of the year. Sprint still has hope for its digital wireless […]

Covad Communications officials Tuesday announced the expansion of T-1 services in 10 new markets, giving businesses a data option that reaches beyond the normal distance limitations of digital subscriber line (DSL) service. TeleXtend was launched last November in Atlanta, Miami, Minneapolis/St. Paul, San Francisco and St. Louis as part of an experiment to see if […]

AT&T Wireless executives say the company’s revenues are going to take a hit in 2002, in part attributable to an early close on the $4.7 billion acquisition of TeleCorp PCS . Four months earlier than expected, the stock and debt payment acquisition of one of its former affiliates puts the onus of paying for the […]

Sprint has finally found a way to pay off its short-term debt, securing an additional $1 billion to its $5 billion credit facility, officials announced Friday. The long-distance and wireless phone giant secured the nine-month loan by putting its directory publishing business up for collateral with creditors Citibank N.A. and Deutsche Bank AG. Sprint also […]

Sprint’s E|Solutions continues to pick up customers in today’s failing collocation industry with its announced deal Wednesday afternoon to host AWS Convergence, Inc. The deal is a win for both companies: Sprint E|Solutions needs to fill up its facilities with paying customers in an increasingly competitive field of Web hosts, while AWS continues uninterrupted service […]

U.S.-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced Thursday afternoon it’s the new operator of the .jp top-level domain (TLD), providing technical and coordination functions for the domain extension. The deal, which looks good on paper, highlights one of the largest problems managers of the U.S. root server face today: getting the international […]

Earlier this week, the Federal Communications Commission fined one of the largest telephone companies in the U.S. for, among other things, its continued violation of federal merger guidelines. In the past several months, regulators have fined SBC Communications $354,000 for failing to meet the guidelines imposed by its merger with former Baby Bell Ameritech; namely, […]

Officials at Qwest Communications , one of the four incumbent telephone companies in the U.S., announced Wednesday more than $100 million in advanced networking service deals. Big-name deals with companies like Petco Animal Supplies Inc., and Alliance Gaming Corp. for virtual private networking (VPN) services prove that while the telephone company might have serious financial […]

As British Telecom executives hinted at earlier this month, the United Kingdom’s incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) plans on slashing its broadband prices this week to spur residential growth in the country. The BBC reported Monday afternoon a company spokesperson confirmed the telephone company would make cuts of up to 25 percent for asymmetrical digital […]

As lawmakers get set to vote the latest iteration of the Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act Wednesday, both sides — Baby Bells who support it and competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) who are opposed to it — are cranking up the rhethoric while politicians take up a last-minute amendment to the bill. CLECs have […]

The president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has a vision for the future of the Internet and how its governed, and it doesn’t include representation by everyday Web users. Instead, said M. Stuart Lynn over the weekend, the organization responsible for the governance of the world’s most popular Internet domain […]