Essent Kabelcom plans to have 100% of its Dutch cable network Internet-capable by mid-2005, reaching 287,000 potential new customers and solidifying the market position of the country's second-largest cable operator, ...

Lifting the cone of silence that descended on the company two years ago, Sphere Communications gets smart with aggressive marketing. But its newest partnerships belie how far behind the company ...

3 Italy's 3G video mobile services are being used by Italian media company Classe Editori to show live coverage financial events on the TV. Finally, 3 Italy has found ...

FrontRange has added a SIP-based contact center to its arsenal as a way to give its mid-market customers a reasonably-priced method of building a full support operation. While not Earth-shattering, ...

IBM releases the newest rev of WebSphere Commerce, which includes usability and new features to enable multi-channel retail applications. The firm has an advantage with the WebSphere stack but needs ...

Novell and Hyperion announced a partnership to deliver an enterprise dashboard solution. The solution leverages the core strengths of both vendors, and it should be well received and offer Novell, ...

One year after its consumer bundle blitz, BellSouth has launched a comprehensive suite of bundled services for the small business market that lets customers pick the services they want and ...

Cegetel activates an 8 Mbps SHDSL trial linking sites in Paris and Lyon. This positive progress paves the way for more cost-effective high capacity data transport over existing copper pair, ...

Though Ericsson and Cisco claim their alliance is focused around PSTN modernization and Ethernet switching, two areas where Juniper doesn't play, the deal poses a potential threat to Ericsson and ...

AT&T will use Internap's multi-carrier management capability for its hosting customers. It's a great move for Internap and AT&T gains an avenue for greater Internet quality control to offer to ...

Inovis debuts Inovisworks.net, a Web interface into its hosted network. The company is providing better tools to view transaction activity and documents, which is a plus. It must leverage this ...

Telefonica launches a new public WiFi product, branded "Zona ADSL Wi-Fi.' The offensive takes Telefonica to the top of the domestic public WiFi league, thanks to very well thought out ...

Vodafone Germany pips T-Mobile to the post and launches 3G roaming with six countries, days before T-Mobile is set to launch its own laptop 3G data card and TM3 strategy. ...

webMethods joins Microsoft's Visual Studio partner program. The company is going further than most competitors in Visual Studio plug-in support, which will help increase developer productivity in some shops with ...

BT drops its DSL "trigger' scheme in favour of a planned roll-out to 1,128 exchanges. This should speed up DSL delivery to exchanges serving 99.6% of the UK by ...

Ericsson formally refreshes its alliance with Cisco in the area of Public Ethernet over DSL, becoming a reseller of Cisco Ethernet access and Ethernet switching gear, creating a compelling solution ...

MCI rolls out dual events that add greater depth to its security portfolio and expand its audience, while also signing a deal with VeriSign for customized solutions. While late ...

Nortel fires with cause its CEO, CFO, and Controller after continued investigations into its finances. This is bad and...bad; obviously bad for Nortel, but also bad for a telecom ...

Ellacoya now offers a plug-in software module which enables cable operators to generate new revenues from QoS-supported PCMM applications, but the company is still awaiting Tier 1 MSO customer validation ...

7-Eleven has entered into a MVNO alliance with Cingular Wireless and Ztar to launch its own brand of wireless prepaid service for sale through its convenience stores in select markets ...