Jim Wagner

Testing for a reaction, Global Crossing floated the idea of a merger with its Asian counterpart Thursday morning prior to its third quarter conference call. It’s likely the U.S. IP bandwidth provider, with a 59 percent ownership stake in Asia Global Crossing , will try to convince shareholders and directors to sign off on the […]

Cingular, the second-largest wireless digital phone company in the U.S., signed a five-year contract with Lucent Technologies Wednesday to supply its 2.5G network expansion. While Lucent and Cingular officials would not comment on the dollar figure attached to the contract, they did say the contract was “significant” and the equipment on its way to Atlanta, […]

Prodigy executives, hoping to avoid any improprieties, has named a special independent counsel to advise shareholders affected by SBC Communications intentions to buy out the Internet service provicer (ISP). There is approximately 10 percent of the fifth-largest ISP that isn’t owned by Mexican billionaire Carlso Slim Helu or SBC. The independent board is expected to […]

The future of the breakthrough v.92 dial up modem technology, which has been on thin ice all year, got a boost Tuesday with the news that Compaq Computer Corp. and three other manufacturers would be putting the new modems in upcoming PC shipments. What’s more, the modem maker that started shipping the product, Agere Systems […]

Cisco Systems, Inc. , officials announced Tuesday the expansion of its next generation Internet routing product line with an upgrade to its popular 12000-series routers and the rollout of a new, metro IP access router. Both are expected to increase the hardware manufacturer’s market reach in the Internet service provider (ISP) and carrier communities as […]

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is looking to do what international domain dispute arbitrators and the U.S. legal system has failed to do: stop one of the Internet’s most notorious cybersquatters, John Zuccarini. Zuccarini is accused of registering more than 5,500 domain names that are spelled almost like the names of popular companies like Yahoo!, […]

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbes is tabling many of its current projects to work on issues that affect the Internet’s security and stability, officials said Thursday. That means current hot-button issues like domain slamming, country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) and at-large membership will be put on hold at the upcoming November ICANN […]

Officials at wireless digital phone company VoiceStream Wireless announced Wednesday their decision to beef up its 3G network with a $300 million equipment upgrade courtesy of Nortel Networks. Four cities have been earmarked for the wireless network upgrade: Cincinnati and Dayton, OH; and Buffalo and Rochester, NY. Officials expect the upgrade to finish sometime in […]

WorldCom executives confirmed rumors of a partial buyout of Rhythms NetConnections network Tuesday morning, stating they intend to take $40 million worth of the defunct digital subscriber line (DSL) provider. The deal is subject to court approval, which has the final say in matters affecting a company currently in bankruptcy proceedings. Rhythms recently filed for […]

K Mart’s Internet arm is looking a little more like a premium Internet service provider (ISP) and less like a free ISP after a Tuesday decision by its executives to drop the ad banner from its service and add more dial in numbers for customers to use. It’s a move in the right direction for […]

Digital subscriber line (DSL) provider Rhythms NetConnections, in the middle of Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings and getting ready to shut down its service for good, could have a new lease on its afterlife with a reported bid by long-distance giant WorldCom. Reuters claims it has documents which reveal WorldCom had placed un unspecified bid for […]

Wholesale dial-up provider NaviPath is going out of business at the end of the month, as scores of Internet service providers (ISPs) are finding out this week from outside sources. It’s still not clear whether the CMGI-owned company is going completely out of business or just eliminating one of many divisions within the aggregate provider’s […]