Level 3 Communications used the acquisitions of Savvis CDN and Servecast earlier this year to make a push into the market for optimized content delivery networks, a segment thus far ruled by companies such as Akamai Technologies and Limelight Networks.
Now, the carrier’s strategy is becoming clearer, as it announced it is cutting CDN service prices […]
Deutsche Telekom has scooped up the fourth biggest carrier in the Netherlands, France Telecom’s Orange, for $1.89 billion. DT’s Netherland’s subsidiary, T-Mobile Netherlands, is the third largest carrier in that country. Together the two carriers will have 4.8 million Dutch customers. CEO Rene Obermann said the deal would create synergies of $1.4 billion. Half the […]
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson announced that the company is aggressively looking overseas, especially in emerging markets like India, for its next acquisition targets. Demand for wireless services in India, China, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Qatar and Kuwait is increasing as multinational corporations stationed there need advanced […]
The biggest carrier proponent of provider backbone transport technology is going live with it in Italy and other European countries. BT has installed PBT-enabled Ethernet switches in Italy, and will do the same elsewhere in Europe while it continues to evaluate the technology for deployment in its home U.K. market, where it also will need […]
The companies involved have declined to comment, but industry observers seem convinced AT&T will acquire its DISH satellite TV parent EchoStar Communications. EchoStar itself acquired highly-regarded Slingbox this week in a deal that looks to trigger the restructuring of EchoStar into two separate units.
The match could signal a new wave in TV competition, as AT&T […]
A jury in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kansas, ruled that Vonage had illegally used Sprint patents relating to connecting Internet phone calls. The jury ruled that Vonage would have to pay Sprint $69.5 million in damages, which was the equivalent of 5% of the revenue it derived during the period in which it […]
Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin and Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg announced at the Goldman Sachs investor conference this week that both carriers are planning on using the same technology for their 4G networks and that both are working on the LTE standard. While both Vodafone and Verizon own stakes in Verizon Wireless (45 percent and 55 […]
China Telecom has been growing wireline subscription so aggressively that the company only just now is reporting its first loss of wireline users to the nation’s mobile carriers. The carrier saw 380,000 customers cut the cord for mobile service between July and August, which is extremely horrifying, unless you have 224 million total customers and […]
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