Patricia Fusco

The Fresno, Calif., City Council and the Richmond, Va., City Council this week approved the transfers of MediaOne’s cable licenses to AT&T Corp. The Richmond, Virginia City Council late Tuesday unanimously approved the transfer of MediaOne’s (UMG) cable license to AT&T (T), while the Fresno City Council approve the license transfer in a 4 to […]

BellSouth Inc. (BLS) Tuesday announced plans to expand its BellSouth.net Internet service footprint to reach an additional 1 million homes in nine Southeast states. When the expansion plan is complete, BellSouth.net service would be available in 17 new markets, providing Internet access to a total of 64 Southeastern markets. Ray Smets, BellSouth.net president, said the […]

Prodigy Communications Corp. Monday signed a deal to acquire FlashNet Communications, Inc. in an all-stock transaction. The stock-for-stock merger is Prodigy’s third acquisition since going public in February 1999. Prodigy (PRGY) will issue 0.35 shares of its common stock for each share of FlashNet common stock — approximately 4,990,000 Prodigy shares. The merger expands Prodigy’s […]

The National Federation of the Blind is suing America Online Inc. in federal court accusing the online giant of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. In the lawsuit, the federation alleges that America Online (AOL) is violating the Disabilities Act because their software is incompatible with programs that convert text to audio or Braille. The […]

Thousands of people that trusted their Web site hosting services to 9 Net Avenue Inc. are about to get their day in court for an alleged junk fax incident that took place this past summer. A class-action lawsuit has been filed against 9 Net Avenue and Concentric Network Corp. for allegedly sending unsolicited facsimile advertisements […]

National convergent communications company RMI.NET, Inc. Thursday partnered with Enron Communications Inc. to provide broadband e-commerce solutions for their clients just in time for the holiday sales season. ECI, a wholly owned subsidiary of Enron Corp. (ENE), introduced their ePowered solution program for Internet service providers last week at ISPCON in San Jose, Calif. The […]

Cable & Wireless PLC Wednesday opened the first of 20 its worldwide Web hosting centers. The first of the new 33,000 square feet Cable & Wireless (CWP) centers in Reston, Va., can accommodate 5,000 servers and can provide bandwidth capacity of 9.6G/bps or OC192 speeds. The big pipe means that the Cable & Wireless Reston […]

AT&T Corp. Monday continued to defend its position against opening its cable network to Internet providers who accuse the telecommunications giant of illegally keeping them out of the high-speed access market. AT&T Corp. and Portland, Ore., officials squared off in the Ninth Circuit Court. While the telecommunications giant attempted to head off open access proponents […]

AT&T Corp. has suffered another setback in its plan to prohibit competing Internet service providers from having equal access to their cable Internet systems. Cambridge, Mass., Thursday joined the list of local authorities that are requiring cable Internet access providers to open their networks to competitors. Cambridge City Manager Robert W. Healy, said the city […]

The world’s leading interactive service company has paired up with the country’s biggest consumer computer retailer in an $800 million alliance. America Online Inc. and Gateway Inc. late Wednesday announced an expansive agreement to accelerate distribution of each company’s products and services. The companies plan to combine their sales and distribution channels to develop of […]

America Online Inc. Thursday made a multi-million dollar investment in Stamps.com as part of a distribution and marketing alliance that will make Stamps.com the exclusive provider of Internet postage services across all AOL brands. As part of the deal, Stamps.com (STMP) will invest $56 million in America Online (AOL) over the next three years. The […]

Miami-Dade County commissioners this week rejected a proposal to impose local regulations on cable broadband offerings. Tuesday’s development is the latest in a string of open access decisions and the Miami-Dade County vote is a breakthrough for AT&T, Excite@Home and Cox Communications, which argue that they should not be forced to make their cable networks […]