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Cable & Wireless is making a bid to become one of the most formidable telecommunications providers in the U.S. Graham Wallace, CEO of Cable & Wireless in London, views the U.S. as a crucial market for the organizations global expansion plans. “That means we absolutely have to be a key player in the American market,” […]

Teligent has sunk into the murky bog of the fixed wireless market, weighed down by $1.65 billion in debts. Once a market star, Teligent filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and may find its key assets rolled up with those of another bankrupt carrier, ICG Communications. Major shareholder IDT appears to be executing a plan […]

BellSouth stands out as the only regional carrier that has not done “the big deal” and merged with one of its giant peers. But CEO F. Duane Ackermans company is no shrinking violet in this era of telecom mergers. BellSouth remains independent, but it has brokered more than 100 deals to quickly expand from a […]

Alltel, led by chairman and CEO Joe T. Ford, has made its mark mainly as a wireless provider, though the company offers a range of services that include local and long-distance service, paging and Internet access. “Our company has its heritage as a small telephone company in Arkansas,” says Kevin Beebe, group president of Alltel […]

Vivendi Universal completed its transformation from a French utility to a diversified international media and communications company last December, with the $30.2 billion purchase of Seagram and the $9 billion acquisition of the European pay television company Canal+. Since then, the Paris-based company directed by Jean-Marie Messier has lost no time in making sure it […]

Verizon Wireless is in an enviable position: with $14.2 million in revenue in 2000 and 27.5 million subscribers, it can afford to wait out a faltering market. The company, a joint venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group of Great Britain, had planned to go public earlier this year. “We stopped it. The market conditions […]

Mobile wireless service providers have fared well through the market downturn, continuing to sign up record numbers of subscribers. With that success, operators in the U.S. are basking in the possibility that they could catch or even pass their European counterparts, which have long been considered further advanced when it comes to wireless telecommunications. Thus, […]

Cingular Wireless instantly became the nations second-largest wireless carrier when it launched operations last fall. BellSouth and SBC Communications forged Cingular from their domestic regional wireless operations. Cingulars territory encompasses some 191.8 million people — more than 20 million of them subscribers. Its business strategy stresses simplicity and individual expression. Consumer research made it clear […]

Were being inundated with pitches about how technology can help the energy crisis. First up was flat-panel display vendors, pushing their lower-energy requirements. Then came CPU vendors with low-power consumption servers. Now Mellanox, a semiconductor company, claims that removing just 35 PCI cards from a data center could “free up enough electricity to power one […]

Business customers shopping for virtual private networks will be hit by an onslaught of offers from metro and long-distance carriers this summer, as a new technology with big potential hits the market. VPNs over pipes that use Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) technology are all the rage this week at SuperComm, where larger carriers typically shop […]

The operators of pooling points — the spots where long- and short-haul carriers, Internet service providers and application service providers interconnect their networks — are rushing to unfurl the neutrality flag. The companies are trying to allay any fears that they are biased or are profiting from information gained from their bandwidth switching operations. So […]

When the tech bubble burst, all that money didnt just disappear. In the ensuing stock slide, a good deal of it went into the pockets of the executives of now-failed Internet companies. It flowed to people like Arvind Relan, former vice president at Webvan Group, the ailing online grocery company whose stock is now trading […]