Patricia Fusco

Internet Ventures Inc. this week announced that its PerkiNet affiliate has begun delivering residential broadband Internet access over Ashland Fiber Network, a locally-owned cable network in Ashland, Ore. The City of Ashland decided to develop and install the cable network as a telecommunications infrastructure in July 1998. Initially, the ambitious plan was designed to interconnect […]

OneMain.com Monday bounded into nationwide Digital Subscriber Line services through a deal with Covad Communications. OneMain.com (ONEM) forged pact with Covad (COVD) to provide national broadband access to non-metropolitan markets as a part of its high-speed Internet service expansion plan. Mike Read, OneMain.com president and chief operating officer, said the partnership allows OneMain.com to provide […]

PSINet Inc. Friday continued its worldwide expansion with the acquisition of New Com SAL, the fifth-largest Internet provider in Lebanon. Headquartered in Beirut, New Com operates under the business name Lynx Internet. The Lebanese ISP offers business and personal dial-up access and web hosting services. New Com is the only Lebanese ISP with a direct […]

Metrocall Inc. Thursday announced plans to raise more than $51 million from three major investors. The money will be used in part to expand wireless, high-speed Internet access. PSINet Inc., Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc., and an unnamed third party are each investing $17 million. As a result of the transaction, each entity owns […]

As part of its merger, eMachines Inc. Wednesday officially terminated the FreePC Inc. computer program. The low-priced computer maker announced it would end the free personal computer program in November, when the two companies joined forces. But clients this week received official notice as to when their free Internet access would terminate. In an e-mail […]

Global Crossing Wednesday completed deployment of its Symmetrical Digital Subscriber Line services in 28 major U.S. metropolitan markets. The company plans to expand its SDSL footprint to 14 additional U.S. cities by April, providing broadband business services to 42 markets nationwide. SDSL supports the same connection speeds downstream and up and is typically chosen by […]

Benefitting from strong Christmas computer sales, America Online Inc. Wednesday announced that membership has surpassed 21 million subscribers. America Online (AOL) gained steam around the holiday season, adding more than 1 million subscribers since Dec. 17. On Christmas Day, AOL reported that more new members joined its online community than on any single day in […]

AT&T WorldNet is attempting to stem the flow of unsolicited bulk e-mail or “spam” sent to its subscribers through Brightmail Inc. anti-spam technology. AT&T (T) Tuesday released its free anti-spam e-mail screening programming, dubbed AT&T E-Mail Screener, to filter out spam reaching members’ mailboxes. Beta tests completed by 350 AT&T WorldNet subscribers reported unsolictied e-mails […]

Excite@Home and McAfee.com this week teamed-up to enhance the leading cable access provider’s security at home. InternetNews.com last week reported the two companies were expected to announce the offering in an effort to secure the connections of the growing number who are using cable modems and Digital Subscriber Line services. Excite@Home (ATHM) plans to integrate […]

America Online Inc. has stopped the unauthorized review of its 6.0 software release from a pair of free speech Web sites. Due to legal pressure from America Online (AOL), both Kenton Industries and Open AOL have halted the release of AOL 6.0 information and analysis on their Web sites. According to Kenton.Org, America Online will […]

Potential telecom partners Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp. Friday officially offered to divest most of GTE’s Internet business in order to obtain regulatory approval for their merger. Last year, Bell Atlantic (BEL) proposed to resolve the regulatory issue by placing the Internet business in a trust, but the Federal Communications Commission said the plan […]

America Online, Inc. Friday stopped the unauthorized review of its 6.0 software programming from a pair of free speech Web sites. Due to legal pressure from America Online Inc., both Kenton Industries and Open AOL have halted the release of information and analysis of the next version of the online giant’s client software. America Online […]