Jim Wagner

Covad Communications Group Tuesday released financial sheets to Nasdaq which show the broadband provider reduced 2000 revenues by $52 million and increased losses by another $17 million. Officials also said cost-cutting efforts, in the form of staff cuts, are going to cost a little more than anticipated. Late last year, officials had said the company […]

At the same time a Santa Clara judge was rejecting an injunction against Covad Communications Group Thursday night, the broadband provider was readying an announcement that shows its financial status is much grimmer than it was acknowledging. DSLnetworks, a broadband Internet service provider that had some of its digital subscriber lines shut down by Covad, […]

Covad Communications Group officials are praying three events are all it has to deal with after finding out Friday morning that the Nasdaq exchange had put trading for the company on hold until it can produce the information the exchange needs. Covad officials wouldn’t elaborate on the needed information and said they aren’t sure when […]

A ruling on an injunction filed against Covad Communications Group could be determined as early as Thursday afternoon, according to a company spokesperson DSLnetworks officials filed an injunction against Covad this week, asking the courts for help from a company they say is stealing its customers. The filing, submitted to the Santa Clara County Superior […]

Network-wide problems affecting digital subscriber line service to Telocity Inc., customers since late Monday night are the result of difficulties installing software upgrades provided by Foundry Networks Inc., according to company officials on both sides Wednesday afternoon. Since early this week, customer calls have been flooding Telocity’s customer support lines, complaining of intermittent DSL connections […]

Promising a smooth ride for rich-media content providers, AT&T Corp. and Excite@Home Wednesday raised the curtain on plans to jointly market, provision and maintain IP service on both networks. Financial terms were not released for the deal that gives AT&T reseller rights to @Home’s network, selling customers seamless IP interconnection between AT&T’s OC-192 and @Home’s […]

The fiber optics company is one step closer to cutting signal regenerators from the all-optical network equation. By Jim Wagner Corvis Corp. is proving that its equipment has got some leg to it, fueling a world record all-optical long-distance data run on Williams Communications‘ fiber network. Tuesday’s announcement of the 3,977-mile jaunt, greater than the […]

Verizon Communications Friday morning closed down digital subscriber line sales at 53 central offices in its network, citing capacity issues. Officials downplayed the sales freeze, saying it affected only 35 percent of its 1,850 COs in 30 states. Larry Plumb, Verizon spokesperson, said the capacity issues at the COs are being dealt with on a […]

Sprint Corp. and EarthLink, Inc., ending possible plans for a September merger, decided Friday to loosen the ties holding the two companies together. The revision ends the co-branding arrangement struck between the two companies. In the future, Sprint can offer Sprint-branded Internet services provided by EarthLink on a wholesale basis. EarthLink announced it would take […]

Vint Cerf, chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, fielded questions from a skeptical House Subcommittee on Telecommunications Thursday. Cerf and his organization have come under fire for the selection process used to determine last November’s seven new global Top Level Domains (TLD). Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) said in her opening remarks […]

Leah Gallegos is on her way to Washington, D.C. Gallegos, president of Atlantic Root Network Inc., is getting ready to testify before the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday in what she considers the outright theft of her domain name by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Last year, ICANN asked businesses worldwide […]

A local Internet service provider was told last week he would have to upgrade his broadband line contract with the local telephone company if he wanted to continue doing business with them. But Verizon Communications officials are saying that was never the case, only that its sales force was to “strongly recommend” that its ISP […]