Patricia Fusco

Excite@Home Corp. continues to lure cable modem subscribers to its brand of high-speed services, but blamed hardware shortages for losing steam in its quarterly review of new subscriber growth. In the second quarter of this year Excite@Home’s residential broadband subscriber base grew to more than 1.8 million clients, which reported serving more than 1.5 million […]

Sprint Corp. Wednesday expanded its consumer high-speed communication service bundle to four new markets in California and Arizona. Sprint ION services is a communications package that combines local and long-distance calling options with high-speed Internet services over multiple phone lines. Consumers in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego and Phoenix can tap into Sprint’s service […]

A legislative initiative to stem the flow of spam resoundingly passed the U.S. House of Representatives late Tuesday. The Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Mail Act of 2000 was approved by a 427-1 vote. The nation’s lawmakers are attempting to take a bite out of spam. If signed into law, H.R. 3113 would allow Internet service providers […]

Amsterdam-based United Pan-Europe Communications NV Tuesday teamed up with Excite@Home to form one of the largest broadband companies outside of the U.S. The merger combines UPC’s Chello Broadband NVsubsidiary with Excite@Home’s international operations in Europe, Latin America, Australia and Japan. Dubbed Excite Chello, the merger features Excite@Home’s international portal, media and high-speed data ventures with […]

Lycos Inc. Tuesday unveiled its comprehensive wireless initiative designed to enable Web searches through nearly any type of wire-free Web device. Based on Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) programming, “Lycos Anywhere” allows wireless search functions from any major portal. Lycos’s strategy leverages its personalization platform built on a device-agnostic technology that provides consistent user results, regardless […]

Verizon Wireless Web content will feature Go2 Systems Inc. location-based directory as part of a strategic deal struck Monday. Go2 will provide Verizon Communications wireless Web customers with its location and mobile information services. Marc Lefar, Verizon Wireless vice president, said the agreement represents its commitment to providing a range of information services for its […]

Cable ISP Road Runner Inc. Monday announced it is on pace to hit the 1 million subscriber mark before summer’s end. Road Runner added more than 182,000 new customers during the second quarter of this year, taking its current subscriber base to 912,000. Bill Gordon, Road Runner’s president, said the cable modem service experienced a […]

NTT Communications Corp. Friday announced it would extend the expiration date of its tender offer for the purchase of Verio Inc. The original deal was set to expire at Midnight tonight. NTT Communications extended the deadline for the acquisition by two weeks. The Tokyo-based firm’s attempt to acquire Verio is now set to expire at […]

The Consumer Federation of America is calling on all Internet service providers to press local, state and federal governments to develop open access cable policies. The CFA Friday released an action plan for ISPs that outlines what independent operators can do to secure shared access to closed cable plants. Mark Cooper, CFA’s director of research, […]

WorldCom Inc. and Sprint Corp. Thursday officially nixed their $120 billion merger bid. The potential unification of Sprint and WorldCom was undone by regulatory pressures exerted from both side of the Atlantic. One of the main reasons for its failure was concern over the concentration of backbone assets the new company would have controlled. In […]

Six top communications and semiconductor companies Thursday formed a pact to promote wireless broadband access solutions worldwide. The Wireless DSL Consortium is founded by ADC Telecommunications Inc., Conexant Systems Inc., Gigabit Wireless Inc., Intel Corp., Nortel Networks Inc. and Vyyo . Currently, service providers that plan to offer broadband wireless access must wade through a […]

Web hosting giant Exodus Communications Inc. Wednesday teamed up with Alteon WebSystems Inc. in a worldwide agreement to deliver enhanced hosting services. Exodus plans to put Alteon’s Web switches to use on its network in a move to maximize the performance of its Web servers and firewalls. Under the agreement, Exodus will resell Alteon’s content-intelligent […]