Patricia Fusco

Global communcations firm France Telecom Tuesday said it plans to build a 15,000-mile backbone to connect with 28 major cities in North America. The backbone buildout comes with a $200 million price tag and is tentatively scheduled for completion by the end of next year. The network will interconnect directly with France Telecom’s Pan-European backbone, […]

America Online, Inc. Monday picked up a pair of Pan-European providers to serve up dial-up access in the United Kingdom. Viatel Inc. and Carrier1 International S.A. were selected to join America Online’s portfolio of network providers in the region. The two service providers were quickly added in anticipation of demand for AOL’s unmetered, flat-rate access […]

The Federal Communications Commission Thursday cashed in on $520 million from the auction of 96 licenses to nine companies. Averaging just less than $5.5 million a piece, the 700 megahertz guard band licenses are able to be subdivided and leased to third parties as the result of a FCC order that changed the rules governing […]

In May cash flow problems, substantial debt, and the inability to secure new financing forced major backbone provider GST Telecommunications to file for Chapter 11 protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. After filing for protection, GST initially signed a letter of intent to sell its assets to Time Warner Telecom […]

There is no law against port scanning. Although snooping around someone else’s network is frowned upon and certainly poor Netiquette, there is no legal authority to call upon until a crime is committed. But what action should be taken when a network intrusion appears to have originated at Network Solutions? For that matter, what would […]

Great Plains is taking great pains to embrace potential application service provider partners and open up new sales channels. The Fargo-based solutions provider this week expanded its ASP initiative in order to meet the diverse needs of its partners and their customers. Due to growing segmentation in the ASP market, Great Plains has taken the […]

OracleMobile was tasked with delivering wireless application services to the wire-free Internet industry when Oracle Corp. spun-off the division in February. The mobile application service provider is set to deliver a complete lineup of solutions for wireless website creation and hosting. The OracleMobile hosted solution supports all current and emerging wireless standards and markup languages […]

Optical switch-making upstart Tellium, Inc. is making next-generation fiber-optic networking a reality at the speed of light. The privately held switching solutions provider struck its third major deal to provide a prime player with the ingredients necessary to construct an all optical broadband network. Qwest Communications International Inc. Wednesday announced it had sealed a multi-million […]

Qwest Communications International Inc. Tuesday introduced a series of sweeping policy changes, creating a new wholesale division to handle business with competitive local exchange carriers. Qwest intends to establish a “Performance Assurance Plan” designed to enhance the quality of service it delivers to CLECs by offering compensation if it fails to fulfill certain service level […]

SBA Communications Corp. is on a mission to set a new standard for the wireless communications industry. The 11-year-old firm added tower ownership to its core business line-up in 1997 and its quickly become a leader in the industry. Through strategic acquisitions and build-to-suit contracts with leading wireless carriers, SBA has accumulated an inventory of […]

Thursday’s heavily hyped monthly meeting of the Federal Communications Commission that included a discussion of the “open access” cable issue failed to even open up the debate, let alone deliver a national broadband policy. After trimming its agenda from seven to four items, Commissioner Gloria Tristani asked that the regulators also postpone discussing the hotly […]

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