eWEEK EDITORS

Cablevision Systems doesnt have to worry about making coveted last-mile connections to its customers. It already has coaxial cable running into 4 million households in the greater New York metropolitan area. Now Cablevision is finding ways to profit from those connections, building a communications business that reaches far beyond its roots of pay-television. By the […]

This month or next, Global Crossings fiber-optic network, spanning 101,000 route miles and expected to serve 80 percent of the worlds telecom traffic, is scheduled to be completed. The company is celebrating by courting the worlds largest businesses. Chief Financial Officer Dan Cohrs says about 50 percent of Global Crossings $3.8 billion revenue in 2000 […]

Broadband services over cable and satellite might be called the Great Wide Hope. Interactive television, video-on-demand, distance learning, high-speed Internet and digital telephone service are among the services coming soon through cable and satellites. Since passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 — intended to promote competition and investment in the telecom market — the […]

Telephone customers want more than long-distance, and Sprint is working to make sure that they can get everything they need from a single source. “We are really focused on the customers need for integrated services across wireless, voice and high-speed data services, both domestic and global,” says Len Lauer, President of Global Markets Group at […]

Nextel Communications has built quite a business selling wireless communications services to businesses. Under the direction of CEO Timothy M. Donahue, the company has grown to $5.7 billion in sales and 6.7 million domestic subscribers since 1996, thanks to its innovative use of two-way radio frequencies as an inexpensive wireless communications option for regional companies. […]

In 2000, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone restructured in order to respond to market changes. But unlike AT&T in the U.S., the parts of this telecom giant will remain under NTT Groups umbrella. Changes to the business structure directed by President Jun-ichiro Miyazu included lowering charges for fixed-line telephone service; rolling out state-of-the art, 100-megabit-per-second, fiber-optic […]

If long-distance is the buggy-whip industry of the 21st century, why do the four regional Bell operating companies want to get into it? Because long-distance is a nice marketing tool if you can package it with other services. Thats exactly what Sprint is doing and what AT&T claims it will do after splitting the company […]

New Chair Time Warner Telecom CEO Larissa Herda has been named to the additional post of chairman. She replaces Glenn Britt, who will remain on the board. Shocking Loss After delaying filing of its annual report by two months and restating earnings for the first three quarters of 2000, troubled DSL service provider Covad Communications […]

With broadband creeping like kudzu toward their customers neighborhoods, incumbent carriers are packing copper pipelines with new services, from long-distance to video, in hopes of boosting revenue per line. Profitability and higher prices look ever more certain these days. As upstart local competitors wither on the vines, Congress and regulators look for new ways to […]

The first year of the new century promises to be the one in which Level 3 Communications attempts to survive the punishment of the capital markets and wring revenue from its own network. The company just completed its all-fiber network that covers 16,000 miles in the U.S. and over 3,000 miles in Europe. Each and […]

Collaboration talk jelled into action last week, when e2open announced that co-founder LG Electronics had signed up for e2opens product design collaboration service. “We believe were the first to bring this to market globally,” said Mark Holman, president and CEO of e2open, which specializes in bringing electronics makers and suppliers together in private marketplaces. The […]

Of all the questions surrounding the sudden crash of ICG Communications, one stands above the rest. Why did two of the nations most influential and sophisticated investors — telecom billionaire John Malone and Texas investment guru Thomas Hicks — sink $730 million into ICG, only to abandon it four months later with the haste of […]