Jim Wagner

WideOpenWest LLC Thursday called on cable companies to open up access to rival Internet service providers in the wake of its announcement Thursday to share cable access with Front Range Internet Inc. The agreement allows Front Range Internet’s 10,000 customers in the Denver metropolitan area take advantage of WideOpenWest’s broadband fiber optic network. WideOpenWest is […]

RMI.NET Inc. extended their operations to the Big Apple Thursday when the New York Metro Library Council tapped the Denver-based access provider for high-speed Internet access and application services for five years. The library evaluated RMI.NET and local Internet service providers on performance-based issues in order to award the contract. Steven Eschbach, RMI.NET vice president […]

The International Telecommunications Union Wednesday moved to embrace a new standard for 56k connections to the Internet. Some of the enhancements that come with the v.92 chipset include faster data rates, higher maximum connection speeds, and significantly faster start-up times on recognized connections. Improvements to the v.90 standard were prompted by the ever-increasing demand for […]

KPNQwest continued its European expansion Wednesday when it secured local loop agreements for digital subscriber line services in the Netherlands. The region is the second European market in which KPNQwest fired-up one of its 13 “EuroRings” being built by the hybrid firm. KPNQuest launched DSL services to Germany in June, about a month in advance […]

Winstar Communications Inc. gained an foothold in Latin America Friday when the Peruvian government issued the firm a spectrum license to operate its wireless network. The license grants the company’s use of the regions 200 MHz frequency in the 38 GHz spectrum band for point-to-point and multi-point services. The New York-based wireless broadband firm plans […]

New England-based digital subscriber line provider HarvardNet Inc. Wednesday reached a milestone when it successfully installed its 200th connection to Bell Atlantic Corp. central office facilities. The achievement part of its program, dubbed “Operation Bigfoot,” to connect with 615 central offices by mid-2001. The data carrier provides backbone services, business-class Web hosting, and virtual private […]