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Centillium Communications announced that it has agreed to sell its DSL business unit to Ikanos Communications for about $12 million in cash. The move will allow Centillium to focus on its faster growing optical and VoIP business, while reducing about $18 million in costs related to its DSL efforts. For Ikanos, the acquisition looks to […]

Net neutrality, as recently as the summer of 2007, appeared to be on the wane as a topic of concern for the telecom industry. Service providers weren’t taking it seriously, Net neutrality advocates couldn’t provide enough evidence for their concern, and Congress had moved on to different battles.

That all changed with Comcast’s traffic-delaying controversy. The […]

Datacasting has long been promoted by engineers as a solution to a bandwidth deprived world. Using the digital terrestrial spectrum various countries have sought to use datacasting as a policy driver to create alternative media distribution channels. So far it has been a monumental flop, with another datacaster last week calling it quits, when former […]

Alcatel-Lucent and LG Electronics announced that they have completed Long Term Evolution (LTE) test calls using Alcatel-Lucent’s LTE solution and device prototypes from LG. The companies claim this is one of the first multi-vendor, over-the-air LTE interoperability tests to date. LTE is currently being standardized by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). The companies tested […]

A regulator with Ireland’s Commission on Communications Regulation (CommReg) is expecting the Irish broadband market to top 800,000 subscribers by Christmas. About 100,000 of that total is anticipated to be made up of mobile broadband subscribers using high-speed downlink packet access technology, and the Comm Reg official also added that mobile broadband player may enter […]

The Federal Communications Commission reportedly has recommended a new framework for the Universal Service Fund. The agency acted on an earlier recommendation from its joint federal-state advisory board, which late last week urged that the USF be capped at about $4.5 billion, and that separate USF coverage accounts be established for both broadband services and […]

Verizon Communications announced this week a symmetrical 20 mbps upstream/downstream broadband access service, the latest move by broadband service providers to redefine their services into speed tiers. The service is $64.99 with VoIP service, and $109.99 is customers sign up for a FiOS TV package, voice service and the new symmetrical plan.

Amid the controversy generated […]

AT&T reportedly has hired Goldman Sachs to explore the possibility of acquiring EchoStar, with one source speculating the deal could happen within three to six weeks. Meanwhile, an industry analyst separately is saying there is a 65% chance AT&T will buy the DISH provider before the year is done, at a price of up to […]

Deutsche Telekom AG Chairman Rene Obermann said his company would be interested in WiMAX technology if it owned the right spectrum, according to an article from Globes. Obermann was speaking at a conference in Israel last week.

“I have nothing against WiMAX… But we are unable to provide it right now due to the frequencies spectrum […]

Orchids and eBay of Windsor Missouri said today that as soon as their move from Warsaw Missouri is complete they will begin providing free WiFi Hotspot access in the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz range. The staff said they anticipate end of beta testing by November 1, 2007. Orchids and eBay is located […]