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Cable TV giant Comcast Corp. has confirmed that it has received notice from the Federal Communications Commission that the regulatory agency wants to question Comcast about its delaying (or some alleged “blocking”) of some peer-to-peer Internet traffic. Many consumers and advocate groups have called on the FCC to investigate and fine the service provider for […]

Following the recent appointment of Dan Hesse as CEO, Sprint Nextel is considering laying off a few thousand of its 60,000 total employees, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The carrier, which has suffered through customer defections and ongoing corporate strife related to the Sprint Nextel merger, cut about 5000 jobs last […]

The cost of industry consolidation over the last few years was not just limited to the deal prices quoted to Wall Street. 2007 was the year that the telecom began to deal with the ongoing cost of consolidation, such as technological and corporate integration. The most obvious example at the carrier level was Sprint Nextel’s […]

Vonage’s first patent lawsuit loss came back in March and was something of a stunner. Verizon Communications had sued the VoIP juggernaut over alleged infringement on seven patents, and though only three of them were found to have been infringed upon, the die was cast for a year in which Vonage also was sued by […]

There was probably no issue more divisive in the telecom industry during 2007 than the question of whether or not to grant telcos that participated in a warrantless domestic wiretapping program operated by the federal government retroactive immunity for their actions.

While Congress worked on new legislation to enable future surveillance and the Bush administration rebuffed […]

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 […]

Rural telcos and cable TV firms (often the very same company) should continue to have an influential friend in Washington, D.C., for the next five years. Federal Communications Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein was nominated by President Bush for a new five-year term with the FCC, a nomination celebrated by the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association, the rural […]

MVNO Virgin Mobile USA has introduced a new over-the-air self-service activation application that automates the carrier’s mobile handset programming process. Telspree Communications is powering the MVNO’s new and improved customer service solution. Virgin began incorporating the solution during the third quarter of this year on new subscribers’ handsets as well as those of existing subscribers […]

AT&T Mobility agreed to pay up to $76 million in back taxes and legal fees to put an end to a six-year-old cell phone tax lawsuit in Missouri. Verizon Wireless settled an identical suit against it in September, while Sprint has settled with some of the Missouri municipalities involved but is still in negotiations with […]

Cisco announced AT&T had selected its CRS-1 router to upgrade the telco’s global IP backbone. The super routers are more than seven feet high and manage huge volumes of traffic at network junction points and are part of AT&T’s announced upgrade to 40gbs for its core network.

The win cements Cisco’s position as the leading IP […]