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Telecom reform bill meets opposition
Nov. 14, 2005
Republican draft legislation that would largely deregulate IP-based services such as broadband video favors giant incumbent telecommunications carriers over other competitors, complained some witnesses and lawmakers ...

SBC CTO says IPTV is on track
Oct. 26, 2005
SBC claims its Project Lightspeed fiber build out is not delayed, even though it's now scheduled to pass 18 million homes six months later than initially intended.

SBC follows Cingular to Lucent for IMS
Oct. 18, 2005
SBC on Tuesday followed sister company Cingular Wireless in announcing that it will deploy a next-generation network architecture from Lucent.

Supreme Court ruling a triumph for cable operators
Jun. 27, 2005
Cable companies that offer broadband Internet access do not have to open their high-speed lines to competitors, owing to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday that overturned a lower court decision and affirmed how the U.S ...

New 'open standards-based forum' to focus on business of IP
Jun. 09, 2005
Juniper's Infranet Initiative has been dissolved, replaced by another council staffed and funded by its members, including Cisco and Alcatel, that seeks to develop a business-friendly IP service infrastructure.

FCC to regulate IP services early next year
Jun. 07, 2005
Look to the Federal Communications Commission to set regulations on IP services sometime early next year, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin told a crowd of hundreds at Supercomm 2005.   "The FCC needs to decide what rules apply ...

Vonage tells FCC a service provider blocked its calls
Feb. 15, 2005
VoIP service provider Vonage has reported to the FCC that a broadband Internet provider deliberately blocked Vonage customers' calls.

SBC turns up consumer VoIP
Nov. 16, 2004
SBC this week entered the residential VoIP market by announcing plans to launch a service early next year for its DSL customers.

Company has a new step in IP telephony
Jul. 29, 2004
NewStep Networks has introduced service control software for connecting private IP voice communications applications over diverse public networks.

Telco unveils convergence gear
Mar. 12, 2004
Telco Systems this week rolled out products designed to converge customer voice and data trafiic over IP networks.

IP services opinion

The Technology Case, Part 1
May. 23, 2003
Cisco is investing $10 billion over 5 years into its service provider business, a sum that is close to the five-year R&D budgets of telecom-only giants like Lucent and Nortel. Key areas for that investment are core, ...

Swallowing softswitches
May. 06, 2003
Tekelec is buying a controlling stake in Santera to form a subsidiary that will be a more formidable competitor to other packet telephony vendors.

Virtela wins new round of funding
Mar. 12, 2003
VPN service provider Virtela has signed up Extreme Networks as a customer, providing a 560-site network that spans five continents. While this is an impressive rollout for any carrier, the nature of the Virtela's ...

Resolutions
Jan. 08, 2003
The new year is upon us. Let us resolve to see some of the following become reality.

Verizon to offer managed security, storage services
Jul. 27, 2005
Verizon is entering the managed security and storage service markets by turning internal operations outward toward enterprise customers.