Jim Wagner

Looking to shed some weight, Internet Commerce & Communications sold its dial up Internet connectivity customers to EarthLink, Inc. of Atlanta. EarthLink, with 4.7 million dial up customers, was unavailable for comment on the specifics of the acquisition of IC&C’s customer base. The deal, gives the second-largest ISP in the nation a net add of […]

Only days after NorthPoint Communications shut down some of its digital subscriber line operations nationwide, Rhythms NetConnections Inc., is looking for its own exit strategy. Under fire from auditors to find operational cash, the data competitive local exchange carrier’s (DLEC) flagging stock value has put them in danger from anther source, its officials announced Monday […]

Sprint Business announced Monday the launch of its all-in-one voice and data service product to the small business — nearly two years overdue — in 10 cities nationwide. The Integrated On-Demand Network and business DSL service, until now a service available only to large enterprise companies, gives small businesses the opportunity to roll up its […]

Amid Congressional scrutiny, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and VeriSign, Inc., have worked out an agreement designed to allay concern about the domain name registration provider remaining whole. On a teleconference Monday morning, the 12-member board of the the Internet governing body voted in favor of a contract extension allowing VeriSign […]

Internet service provider reaction to Thursday morning’s announcement by NorthPoint Communications left little room for doubt about their feelings. NorthPoint, which sold its DSL equipment to AT&T Corp. in a bankruptcy fire sale Friday, announced DSL service would be shut down immediately because of failed talks with a group of ISPs. In a letter to […]

Negotiators are crying foul after lawyers from NorthPoint Communications upped the ante to keep its digital subscriber line operational, a coalition of broadband Internet service providers said Wednesday afternoon. NorthPoint officials have threatened to cut off service to more than 110,000 customers since AT&T Corp. bought up its equipment for $135 million last week in […]

Microsoft Network officials, once bitten and twice shy with the potential loss of its 7,000 broadband digital subscriber line customers, said they are looking for a broadband provider with its own infrastructure to sign its next deal. Last week, AT&T Corp.‘s consumer division bought NorthPoint Communication‘s physical assets for $135 million, a move that will […]

Nearly five months after its $6.1 billion purchase of GlobalCenter, Inc., Exodus Communications officials feel they’ve made significant strides to integrate its Web hosting and co-location operations. Officials expect to complete the integration of the two Web hosting companies by the end of the second quarter 2001. The multi-billion dollar merger, completed in October, 2000, […]

The U.S. needs a technology czar to handle the growing impact the Internet has on our economy, analysts from the Gartner Group told President George W. Bush recently. In an open letter to the President and his administration, the online technology firm called for sweeping initiatives ranging from increased spending in cyber-crime training and enforcement […]

The explosive growth of high-speed Internet access has led to equally painful growing pains for e-mail users throughout the U.S. And as the number of e-mail outages increase, it has the tech staff at broadband Internet service providers nationwide scrambling for a backup plan when its servers are out of commission. The fate of the […]

DSL.net Inc., announced Friday transit and peering arrangements that reduce the cost and improve the performance of its nationwide symmetric digital subscriber line service. As a result of the announcement, DSL.net has peering arrangements with eight Network Access Points in the U.S. NAPs are the major interconnection points that tie the Internet together. It’s a […]

In an attempt to weed out its heavy Internet users, Juno Online Services has started charging some of its customers $29.99 a month for the amount of time they spend on the Internet. That’s a price hike of $15, much higher than the norm in the ISP industry, even for bandwidth gluttons at rival services […]