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Editor’s Note: We’d like to let you know of some changes affecting this newsletter. From Nov. 8, this newsletter will become Network World’s WAN News Alert. We will continue to bring you the week’s service provider and carrier headlines, but we will also link you to news and analysis of issues surrounding the wide area. As the focus of this newsletter widens to embrace the WAN, we will be sending you this newsletter twice a week – on Wednesdays and Fridays. We hope you will continue to enjoy the newsletter and we thank you for reading.
CLEC gets new lease on life, 10/25/06
MegaPath says it will soon acquire DSL.net.
BellSouth boosts Q3 profit, revenue, 10/25/06
BellSouth, buoyed by growth in both its wireless and wireline businesses, this week posted a 27.5% hike in third quarter earnings on a 5.4% rise in revenue.
Verizon completes IMS interoperability testing, 10/26/06
Verizon this week said it successfully completed its part of a four-nation, two week interoperability test of IP Multimedia Subsystem network equipment, which was orchestrated by the industry association MultiService Forum.
Alcatel and Lucent report rising revenue, 10/24/06
Telecommunications equipment manufacturers Alcatel and Lucent reported increased revenue for the quarter ended Sept. 30.
Verizon expands Ethernet internationally, 10/24/06
Verizon Business this week announced the expansion of its Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL) International service from the United States to six countries and territories in the Asia-Pacific region.
AT&T’s net income, revenue up in Q3, 10/23/06
AT&T Inc. reported net income of $2.2 billion for the third quarter of 2006, up significantly from $1.2 billion before SBC and AT&T Corp. merged last November.
Opinion: Next-generation WANs: no more tiers, 10/20/06
In case you missed the memo, MPLS now is the technology of choice for WAN underpinnings.
