Service Providers Briefs

Content delivery provider Mirror Image recently unveiled an enhanced suite of video-streaming services targeted at companies looking to incorporate video into their online corporate communications or distance-learning initiatives. Called instaContent Stream, the service includes support for multiple platforms, including RealNetworks, Windows Media and QuickTime. The service also includes a user interface that lets users upload content to Mirror Image and get reports on such items as system usage, bandwidth consumption and storage consumption. InstaContent stream will be available by the end of this month. Pricing has not been released.

AT&T announced last week that it is expanding its DSL service reseller agreement with Covad Communications. The news might come as a surprise to those who believed that AT&T's $135 million acquisition of NorthPoint in March 2001 would be used to offer customers DSL services. AT&T says it's more cost-effective at this time to write off a portion of its NorthPoint acquisition and extend its relationship with Covad. Previously, Covad only offered AT&T business customers DSL services. The new agreement now includes consumers. AT&T says it will continue to support its existing DSL customers in New York, Texas and California, but that it is not aggressively selling its own in-house DSL services at this time.

Recent surveys of long-distance customers show Verizon has captured the No. 3 spot in the consumer market, overtaking Sprint. AT&T is the No. 1 provider, ahead of WorldCom. Verizon now has more than 10 million long-distance customers. The majority of those customers come from states where Verizon is the incumbent local exchange carrier and regulators have authorized it to offer long-distance services.

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Content delivery provider Mirror Image recently unveiled an enhanced suite of video-streaming services targeted at companies looking to incorporate video into their online corporate communications or distance-learning initiatives. Called instaContent Stream, the service includes support for multiple platforms, including RealNetworks, Windows Media and QuickTime. The service also includes a user interface that lets users upload content to Mirror Image and get reports on such items as system usage, bandwidth consumption and storage consumption. InstaContent stream will be available by the end of this month. Pricing has not been released.

AT&T announced last week that it is expanding its DSL service reseller agreement with Covad Communications. The news might come as a surprise to those who believed that AT&T's $135 million acquisition of NorthPoint in March 2001 would be used to offer customers DSL services. AT&T says it's more cost-effective at this time to write off a portion of its NorthPoint acquisition and extend its relationship with Covad. Previously, Covad only offered AT&T business customers DSL services. The new agreement now includes consumers. AT&T says it will continue to support its existing DSL customers in New York, Texas and California, but that it is not aggressively selling its own in-house DSL services at this time.

Recent surveys of long-distance customers show Verizon has captured the No. 3 spot in the consumer market, overtaking Sprint. AT&T is the No. 1 provider, ahead of WorldCom. Verizon now has more than 10 million long-distance customers. The majority of those customers come from states where Verizon is the incumbent local exchange carrier and regulators have authorized it to offer long-distance services.

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