Level 3 Reports Revenue of $391 Million

Level 3 Communications reported revenue of $391 million for its Communications business, compared to $389 million for the previous quarter. Revenue for Level 3's information services business was $503 million compared to $494 million for the previous quarter. The net loss for the second quarter 2004 decreased to $63 million or $0.09 per share compared to a net loss for the previous quarter of $147 million or $0.22 per share. During the quarter, the company announced two new consumer VoIP services aimed at cable operators, enhanced service providers,...

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Sprint and Novatel Offer Wi-Fi/PCS Connection Card

Sprint and Novatel Wireless are offering a new PCMCIA that offers seamless always-on connectivity via the Sprint Nationwide PCS Network and Wi-Fi networks. The Sprint PCS Connection Card by Novatel Wireless (Merlin C201) now comes packaged with Sprint PCS Connection Manager Software. While connected to the enhanced Sprint Nationwide PCS Network that covers 99% of the nation's largest cities, customers can wirelessly access the Internet and corporate applications at data speeds averaging between 50 and 70 Kbps, with peak speeds up to 144 Kbps prior...

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Telefónica Reaches 3.7 million ADSL Lines

Telefónica reported a 5.6% growth in operating revenues to EUR 14.324 billion for the first half of 2004, compared to the same period in 2003. First-half operating profit was EUR 3.421 billion, 21.4% more than in the year-ago period. Some highlights:Telefónica enlarged its worldwide customer base by 12.6% to 103.8 million.The number of ADSL connections rose by 1.7 million net versus June 2003 to 3.7 million. The 2 million connections operative in Spain (+58.2% vs June 2003) equate to an estimated 74% share of the overall broadband market, while...

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Motorola to Offer Apple iTunes on its Mobile Phones

Motorola is partnering with Apple to enable users to transfer songs from the iTunes jukebox on their PC or Mac, or from the iTunes Music Store, to Motorola's next-generation mobile phones. Apple will create a new iTunes mobile music player, which Motorola will make the standard music application on all their mass-market music phones, expected to be available in the first half of next year. The interface will be USB or Bluetooth. http://www.motorola....

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Comcast Adds 4 Mbps to Service Tiers

Comcast has added a new 4 Mbps cable modem service tier. Comcast customers now can choose between two options: 4Mbps and 3Mbps, which are priced at $52.95 and $42.95 respectively, for customers also buying cable TV service. Comcast is also increasing e-mail storage for its users to 1.7GB, as compared to the previous 70MB. http://www.comcast.c...

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Alcatel provides BT with SIP-based Solution

BT awarded a multi-million EUR contract to Alcatel to supply a suite of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based multimedia applications. The Alcatel solution will help BT generate additional revenue through the new BT Communicator with Yahoo! Messenger service offering. The contract includes the Alcatel 8690 Open Services Platform (OSP) - which allows the customization and rapid roll-out of high-value services and hosts the Alcatel 8605 multimedia application suite - and the Alcatel 5020 Softswitch, which provides the necessary bridge between the...

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Verilink Closes its Acquisition of Larscom

Verilink closed its merger with Larscom. The company is aiming to become a leading provider of next-generation broadband access solutions. Its portfolio encompasses voice over packet and voice over TDM IAD solutions including VoIP, VoDSL and VoATM. The Larscom merger adds to the company's position in the integrated access space as well as introducing solutions for the Optical Ethernet Access market. http://www.verilink.c...

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Nortel Networks Expands Carrier VoIP, Multimedia Developer Program

Products from AFC, ARRIS, Mediatrix, Ubiquity and Verilink have successfully completed interoperability testing with its Carrier VoIP and Multimedia portfolio. As a result, these companies have each been awarded a Certificate of Compatibility under Nortel Networks Developer Program. In addition, Nortel Networks also announced the following new program members: Bloophone, Computer Talk Technology, Inc., Entrisphere, i3micro, Interval Research, NewHeights, Polycom, SS8 Networks, Inc. and Terayon. http://www.nortelnetworks....

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SEC Drops its Investigation in Charter's Cable Business

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has concluded its enforcement action against Charter Communications. The investigation generally concerned the Charter's determination of the number of its customers, various accounting practices and procedures concerning capitalization of certain expenses and dealings with certain vendors, including programmers and digital set-top terminal suppliers. In the Settlement Agreement and Cease and Desist Order, Charter neither admitted nor denied any wrongdoing, and the SEC assessed no fine against the...

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Time Warner's Road Runner Accelerates to 6 Mbps

Time Warner plans to introduce a new option for its Road Runner Premium cable modem service that doubles the top download speed to 6 Mbps. The uplink will run at up to 512 kbps. Pricing for the premium service ranges from $64.95-$84.95 per month, depending on the package or bundle of other services they take from Time Warner Cable. This compares to the core Road Runner cable modem service, which offers speeds of up to 3Mbps downstream and 384kbps upstream, and is typically priced at $44.95 retail, with discounts in a bundle or multi-service...

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Kasenna Announces Secure Video Delivery Network Design

Kasenna outlined its plans for a Secure Video Delivery Network (Secure VDN) for enabling widespread broadband service provider distribution of premium video content. Kasenna's Secure VDN delivers content in an encrypted format all the way from the studios to viewers' homes, thereby addressing the digital rights management (DRM) concern that has so far impeded direct broadband delivery of first-run studio content. Over the past few months, Kasenna has introduced its own management and application development platforms and acquired ViewNow, which...

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Alvarion to Acquire interWAVE for GSM/CDMA Expertise

Alvarion agreed to acquire interWAVE Communications International in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $56 million. interWAVE is a provider of compact mobile GSM and CDMA network equipment and services, primarily aimed at low density markets in developing regions, as well as specialty vertical applications. The company's solutions are deployed in over 50 countries by more than 100 operators, mainly local and regional cellular operators. interWAVE, which is based in Mountain View, California with engineering facilities in China and...

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Mpower Plans Launch of VoIP Hosted PBX Services

Mpower Communications, a facilities-based broadband communications provider serving areas throughout California, Nevada, and Illinois, announced its plans to launch a VoIP Hosted PBX service beginning in Q4. Mpower will utilize the hosted IP platform of VocalData. The VoIP Hosted PBX application will extend Mpower's services into the customer premise, providing access to advanced features and functionality remotely through a web portal interface tied directly to an Mpower application server. http://www.mpowercom.com/http://www.vocaldata.c...

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MCI Raises Bar on Internet SLAs

MCI tightened its service level agreements (SLA) for IP traffic between key global business centers. All of MCI's Internet service customers worldwide are automatically covered by the enhanced SLAs, which include more stringent network performance guarantees for latency and additional packet delivery guarantees for Latin America, Asia Pacific and EMEA. The North American performance guarantees for average round-trip transmission is now 45 milliseconds or less between hub routers in North America, representing nearly 20% faster transm MCI is also...

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Comcast Surpasses 6.0 Million Cable Modem Users

Comcast reported strong operating cash flow for Q2, reflecting robust growth in new video and high-speed Internet services and a decrease in capital expenditures now that its network rebuild program is essentially complete. Some highlights:Comcast Cable reported revenue of $4.839 billion for Q2, representing a 10.4% increase from the Q2 2003. Video revenue for the quarter increased 6.9%, driven by a 5.7% increase in average monthly revenue per basic subscriber and a 20.5% increase in digital revenue primarily reflecting a 1.1 million increase...

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