Patricia Fusco

Market research firm Yankee Group is predicting that nearly two-thirds of U.S. households will be online by the end of 2003. The company estimates 25 percent of U.S. homes currently access the Internet. That is expected to grow to one-third of American homes by the end of this year and two-thirds of households by 2003. […]

Road Runner and Stream International Inc. Monday formed a strategic alliance that will have Stream providing technical support services to customers the cable Internet provider. Stream will support Road Runner’s cable modem customers, optimize their set-up and resolve technical issues including connectivity and interoperability. Road Runner is a privately-held joint venture among affiliates of Time […]

PSINet Inc. Thursday announced its support of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and made a $10,000 contribution to the ICANN Startup Fund. The corporation assigns the numbers behind the dot-separated names identifying people, computers, and organizations throughout the Internet. ICANN is the new non-profit corporation that was formed to take over responsibility […]

Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard this week said traditional boundaries of the federal regulatory agency are already being reinvented for the 21st Century. Kennard outlined his vision Wednesday for the future of the FCC before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection on Reauthorization of the Federal Communications Commission. Kennard said the […]

Five-month-old Internet provider NetZero Inc. Wednesday announced it had hit the 500,000-subscriber milestone. NetZero now ranks as the nation’s 10th largest ISP by subscriber volume, as reported by Interactive Services. NetZero’s accomplishment establishes the ISP as the fastest-growing access provider on record. NetZero noted that the company sign-ups a new subscriber every 13.5 seconds on […]

EarthLink Network Inc. announced Tuesday it has streamlined its Web hosting services and reduced prices its e-commerce services. Both moves reinforce EarthLink’s commitment to providing the small- office and home-office market with customized Web hosting options and easy e-commerce start-ups. StarterSite members can now add server space and traffic, e-commerce capabilities, secure server connections and […]

UUNET Monday announced a major expansion of its global Internet access infrastructure that includes offering new European Dial Access Network (EuroDAN) services. In conjunction with the global network expansion, UUNET will introduce a new set of global dial-up Internet services for businesses under the UUdial brand name. UUdial VIP (Virtual Internet Provider) plans to provide […]

Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc. Monday announced it has filed for licensing with German regulatory authorities to construct a high-speed, high-bandwidth intra-city fiber network in Frankfurt. The company will construct a German national telecommunications network covering key centers of business, finance, government and trade. Metromedia’s German subsidiary, Metromedia Fiber Network GmbH, plans an initial build of […]

Internet Ventures, Inc. is filing formal complaints with the city attorneys of Grants Pass, Oregon regarding the failure of Falcon Cable to comply with leased access laws. Internet Ventures had applied for leased access carriage on the system Jan. 25, seeking to offer its its PeRKInet broadband Internet service in that market. IVI currently has […]

Bell Atlantic is one of the first local telephone company to petition state regulatory agencies for relief from disbursing reciprocal compensation payments to Common Local Exchange Carriers. Since the FCC ruled that Internet traffic is inherently interstate in nature on Feb. 25th, a tug-of-war over millions of dollars in reciprocal compensation payments from regional Bells […]

Linux fans are coming together this week at the Linux World Expo to toast the operating system that has become the fastest-growing server operating environment ever. About eight years ago, Linus Torvalds and a several thousand hackers created the Linux operating system. Linux was written to run on a PC with 4 Mbytes of RAM […]

Regional Internet solutions provider FirstWorld Communications Inc. Tuesday continued its expansion with the acquisition of the fourth-largest ISP in the San Francisco Bay area. FirstWorld will purchase all of the outstanding capital stock of Sirius Solutions for approximately $7.5 million in addition to 285,000 shares of FirstWorld Communications Inc. Class B common stock. The purchase […]