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BusinessWeek November 7, 2005 Ante & Crockett |
Rewired And Ready For Combat SBC and Verizon are spending billions to stay competitive in the broadband era. |
BusinessWeek August 4, 2003 Steve Rosenbush |
Verizon's Gutsy Bet Will its massive rollout of fiber-optic cable -- right to customers' homes and offices -- keep it ahead of the pack? |
BusinessWeek May 24, 2004 Steve Rosenbush |
Verizon: Take That, Cable The nation's largest telecom provider is preparing to seek cable-TV franchises in parts of Texas and eight other states so that it can offer video in head-to-head competition with cable companies. |
BusinessWeek February 12, 2007 Spencer E. Ante |
Lightspeed's Slow Start Questions dog the new high-speed AT&T network that offers phone, Net, and TV. |
BusinessWeek May 2, 2005 Lowry & Ante |
Verizon's Video Vision Terry Denson, Verizon Communication's 39-year-old v.p. for video programming and content marketing, wants to turn the telecom giant into a media powerhouse. Here's his plan. |
BusinessWeek December 29, 2003 Burrows & Crockett |
Net Phones Start Ringing Up Customers Big rollouts by cable operators have the Baby Bells scrambling to fight back. |
InternetNews March 5, 2006 |
AT&T, BellSouth Join Forces in $67B Merger AT&T announced Sunday it would merge with BellSouth in a $67 billion stock deal, a merger that creates a telecommunications giant with more than 70 million customers across 22 states. |
BusinessWeek July 31, 2006 |
Should Net Companies Pay More for Speed? "It depends," says Thomas J. Tauke, Verizon's public affairs honcho, who says the company's goal is to "turn the world upside-down" |
The Motley Fool January 14, 2005 Dave Mock |
Intel: Not-So-Secret Agent of Disruption Intel backs government initiatives for wireless broadband. |
BusinessWeek September 5, 2005 Jon Fine |
An Ugly Battle For The Clicker If all goes according to plan, telephone companies will spend billions to update their networks and leap into next-generation TV. But it's a huge project that would require the rewiring of a good portion of the US. |
The Motley Fool July 28, 2004 Ben McClure |
Verizon Risin' The Bell giant's second quarter offers reasons for optimism. |
InternetNews March 26, 2010 |
Verizon Puts the Brakes on FiOS Build-Out Verizon says it has completed its plans for expansion, and while not ruling out further deployments, the firm doesn't have any more expansion plans at the moment. |
The Motley Fool August 25, 2004 Ben McClure |
Baby Bells' Silver Lining While these might be gloomy days for telecommunications stocks, it's too early to count Verizon, BellSouth, and SBC Communications out. |
BusinessWeek July 24, 2006 Cliff Edwards |
A Wake-Up Call From Craig McCaw Clearwire's plan to create a mobile broadband network could make waves. |
InternetNews May 21, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
VZ's FTTP Foray Forces Hard Look at Technology Verizon takes the fiber-to-the-premises from test to rollout, potentially shaking up the broadband business. |
InternetNews January 6, 2006 Roy Mark |
Verizon Completes MCI Takeover Verizon completed its $8.4 billion purchase of MCI today, creating the nation's second largest telecom carrier behind the new AT&T, which itself is a newly formed merger between the former long distance carrier and SBC. |
BusinessWeek February 21, 2005 Steve Rosenbush |
Telecom: To Buy Or To Build? Why the industry is deeply divided over the best path to growth. |
BusinessWeek November 7, 2005 |
At SBC, It's All About "Scale and Scope" SBC Telecommunications' CEO Edward Whitacre talks about the AT&T Wireless acquisition and how he's moving to keep abreast of cable competitors. |
BusinessWeek March 20, 2006 Mark Morrison |
Battling For The Eyes Of Texas Verizon's TV service is winning fans in a Fort Worth suburb. Will it sell nationwide? |
BusinessWeek February 28, 2005 Yang et al. |
The Shifting Telecom Landscape With AT&T and MCI going, the Bells will compete with cable and tech companies. |
InternetNews December 18, 2006 Roy Mark |
FCC Turns Focus to Video Franchising Rules AT&T and Verizon now want the FCC to streamline the process for companies to enter the local video market. |
InternetNews March 6, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
AT&T, BellSouth Merger Denounced The proposed merger of AT&T and BellSouth means the death of the Internet and the unmasking of fictional competition between telecom companies, charged two Washington, DC-based consumer groups. |
InternetNews January 31, 2005 Jim Wagner |
SBC, AT&T Seen as Prototype For Telecom's Future SBC to Acquire AT&T For $16 Billion. Executives say the industry needs a combination like a Baby Bell with Ma Bell to survive competition. |
InternetNews October 27, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
Verizon Wants Motorola Gear Verizon has tapped Motorola for video network infrastructure and customer premises equipment related to the carrier's fiber-to-the-premises push, the companies announced today. |
The Motley Fool August 31, 2005 Tom Taulli |
Verizon Can Hear Yahoo! Now The online giant teams up with the telco for a new broadband service. For Yahoo!, that's great news. For Verizon, this is an expensive race to compete in. Investors, keep a watchful eye. |
BusinessWeek June 25, 2007 Spencer E. Ante |
Telecom: Back From The Dead All those YouTube videos and MySpace pages zipping back and forth on the Net have revived the telecom industry - and charged up the economy. |
InternetNews March 2, 2005 Roy Mark |
Telecom Mergers Get House Nod Top House leaders say the proposed Verizon-MCI and SBC-AT&T mergers are moving telecom, Internet in the right direction. |
InternetNews January 27, 2005 Colin C. Haley |
Wireless Powers Verizon's Windfall The carrier's mobile arm figured in its fourth-quarter earnings report amidst more telecom merger talks. |
CIO April 1, 2006 Susannah Patton |
Wi-Fight A growing number of cities and towns want to develop their own public Wi-Fi networks. But they face stiff opposition from telecom and cable providers. |
InternetNews July 20, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
Verizon's FTTP Plan Takes Shape Emerging details of the carrier's fiber plan could create ripples in the broadband market. |
BusinessWeek November 1, 2004 Catherine Yang |
Cable vs. Fiber In the long-running contest for the digital future, cable has been hitting home runs while the telecoms are just coming to bat. Now, the Bells are fighting back by offering video via phone lines. |
InternetNews January 4, 2006 Roy Mark |
Verizon Cracks Maryland's Cable Market Verizon added another piece to its fiber-optic video market Tuesday when Howard County, MD, authorized the phone giant to begin offering its FiOS television service in the prosperous Washington, D.C., suburb. |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2007 Dave Mock |
Top or Flop: Verizon Communications' Midyear Update Shares in Verizon Communications have lumbered to a slightly market-beating 11% gain this year, as the company has shown steady improvements in two important areas of business -- wireless and next-generation broadband. |
InternetNews December 22, 2003 Colin Haley |
Verizon Weaves Fiber-to-Home Plan The telecom's effort to eliminate the last-mile slowdown advances with the selection of four more equipment vendors. Fiber-to-the-premises technology can transfer data at speeds up to 622 megabits per second to the user and 155 megabits per second to the network -- far faster than cable modems or today's DSL. |
BusinessWeek February 13, 2006 Catherine Yang |
Is Verizon A Network Hog? Documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission show that Verizon Communications Inc. is setting aside a wide lane on its fiber-optic network for delivering its own television service. |
Wired May 2001 Frank Rose |
Telechasm Can we get to the future from here? First we have to get telecom out of the Stone Age... |
PC World August 2005 Tom Spring |
ISPs Attempt to Stop Public Broadband Cable and DSL providers battle cities that want to offer access to residents. |
The Motley Fool August 2, 2006 Anders Bylund |
Verizon Has a Plan Beset on all sides by traditional and nontraditional competition, Verizon is betting heavily on an increasingly digital and wireless future -- as it should. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool April 14, 2008 David Lee Smith |
The Case of Verizon vs. Time Warner Cable Verizon sues Time Warner Cable, claiming an ad misrepresents Verizon's fiber-optic services. |
InternetNews August 29, 2005 Colin C. Haley |
VZ Wireless Slashes Broadband Price Hoping to entice voice customers to add data service, Verizon Wireless has cut the price of its broadband service by 25 percent. |
InternetNews March 10, 2006 Roy Mark |
For Whom the Bells Toll AT&T and BellSouth plans to merge are drawing little antitrust interest on Capitol Hill. |
InternetNews July 27, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
Wireless, DSL Drive Verizon Profit Growth in two key areas offsets losses in telecom business... Carrier introduces consumer voice over IP... Makes fiber-to-the-home available and plans to offer TV/movie services over it. |
PC World July 25, 2007 Sullivan & Spring |
Early IPTV Uses Only a Little of Its Fat Pipe Verizon's FiOS and AT&T's U-verse IPTV services looked fine during our hands-on tests, but they're not revolutionizing TV -- yet. |
InternetNews April 20, 2004 Roy Mark |
Verizon: Old Rules Slow Broadband Rollout The competitive landscape has changed since 1996, but the law governing carriers hasn't, a Baby Bell exec said. |
InternetNews October 29, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
Verizon Mulls Local Line Sales Verizon Communications may divest millions of local phone lines as its fiber-to-the-premises and wireless businesses become more central to its long-term plans. |
The Motley Fool August 19, 2010 Manikandan Raman |
Verizon's App Could Convert iPad Into Live TV Take TV with you wherever you go. |
InternetNews April 25, 2005 Colin C. Haley |
Qwest For MCI Rewarded Qwest's $9.7B offer is one MCI can't refuse, but Verizon may not be done. |
InternetNews October 25, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Cable in Talks With Sprint Nextel? Cox Communications, Comcast and Time Warner are reportedly weeks away from signing a wireless phone agreement with Nextel. |
The Motley Fool April 25, 2008 Dave Mock |
Foolish Forecast: Hearing From Verizon Soon In advance of quarterly earnings reports, analysts expect telecommunications provider Verizon Communications to post a slight increase in revenue. |
InternetNews May 4, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
Verizon to Enhance DSL Service Carrier plans to boost speeds and add VoIP to bundles to build on a record quarter for broadband sign-ups. |