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Verizon previews 2007 services road map, 01/10/07
Verizon Business is planning ambitious upgrades and additions to its service lineup this year, including rolling out nationwide Ethernet services that will offer customers the reliability of SONET, the routing control of legacy services and the flexibility of IP. In addition, the service provider plans to enhance its popular Private IP service offering.
Sprint still struggling to make Nextel merger work, 01/09/07
The honeymoon period is clearly over for Sprint and Nextel. Their $36 billion marriage at the end of 2005 was supposed to result in a wireless powerhouse with strong average revenue per user (ARPU). But Sprint Nextel Monday said its earnings for 2007 will fall below earlier expectation; its revenue will be flat and that it will lay off 5,000 employees to cut costs.
Publicly owned broadband can spur net neutrality, report says, 01/09/07
Publicly owned information infrastructure is the key to healthy competition, universal access and nondiscriminatory networks, according to a nonprofit firm that promotes “environmentally sound” economic development strategies.
Juniper names COO, 01/08/07
Juniper Networks this week announced the appointment of Stephen Elop to the newly created position of COO.
