BellSouth
You are currently browsing the articles from the VoIP Digest matching the category BellSouth.
Updated: Deal approved Friday afternoon. From Washington comes late word tonight that a compromise has apparently been hammered out that will clear the way for AT&T to acquire BellSouth for $85 billion.
That's the AT&T headed by "one-time," fierce net neutrality opponent Edward Whitacre, Jr. You're lookin' at him.
The compromise is said to be one [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on December 29th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on General and Regulatory and BellSouth and SBC-AT&T and net neutrality.
Memos and follow-up bouncing around between AT&T and the FCC appear (keyword-appear) to have AT&T pledging that if the FCC breaks its 2-2 deadlock and approves the acquisition of BellSouth, then AT&T will be good.
Broadband everywhere, free broadband modems handed out like Santa on Christmas morn, a pledge to hold the line on rate requests, [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on October 17th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on General and Regulatory and BellSouth and SBC-AT&T.
Busy all of last week with my reporting from the Spring VON 2006 show in San Jose, I've just gotten around to reading assessments of the conference from colleagues.One of these colleagues, Marguerite Reardon, has posted a thought-provoking piece entitled "VoIP: Are We There Yet?" Marguerite makes several valid points, but I must differ with her [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on March 20th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on General and Verizon VoiceWing and BellSouth and SBC-AT&T and Spring Von 2006.
Reuters reports that BellSouth is investigating Wi-MAX technology as an inexpensive (to them, that is) way to provide high-speed Web services in areas where its wired network has been damaged, degraded, or not yet built-up.Testing efforts are scheduled for various BellSouth labs in the coming months, with live testing likely in the fall. BellSouth vice-president for [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on March 20th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on General and BellSouth and Research and WiMAX and WiFi and SBC-AT&T.
Ed Whitacre is CEO of AT&T- which intends to buy BellSouth and hopes to charge high-bandwidth content providers like Vonage and Google carriage over their pipes.But that photo is one of dark fiber, of which Google has lots. If Google plays it right, those fiber strands could strand the broadband access monopolists. In this post, [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on March 6th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Vonage and General and trends and Google and BellSouth and WiMAX and WiFi and SBC-AT&T.
That's AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre, superimposed on a Google Earth map of territory that for the most part,will fall under his company's domain if a blockbuster acquisition of BellSouth goes through.We have lots of details here, as well as my FAQ-style explanation and vision of what is going to happen, how, and why. AT&T-which is still [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on March 5th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Vonage and News and General and Regulatory and Providers and CallVantage and Microsoft and Packet 8 and Verizon VoiceWing and BellSouth and SBC-AT&T.
As the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee held hearings about net neutrality yesterday, it's worthy to note that cable broadband service providers have been strangely noncommittal about their feelings on the issue.Net neutrality is the principle that high-speed Internet service providers should not charge- and not be allowed to charge - fees to high-bandwidth services to [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on February 7th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on News and General and Regulatory and Providers and trends and BellSouth and Comcast and SBC-AT&T.
Talk is rife with the stated wishes of telecom-based broadband Internet access providers such as AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth to impose or negotiate surcharges for high-bandwidth content and services such as VoIP.But rather than the looming battle over net neutrality that many (including yours truly) and I predict in Congress, the FCC and the Courts, [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on January 18th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on General and Regulatory and Providers and trends and SBC and Packet 8 and Verizon VoiceWing and BellSouth.
At the same time big telecom broadband service providers such as AT&T (formerly SBC) and BellSouth are making all sorts of noise about charging content creators of rich content extra for network carriage, the cable companies haven't been that vocal.Not by a long shot.Today, cable industry trade paper Multichannel News explores the issue, commonly referred [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on January 15th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on General and SBC and BellSouth and Comcast and Time Warner Cable and Cablevision and Cox and Charter Communications.
Well, the traditional phone companies are at it again, looking for pounds of flesh that they can extract from the feature-rich Internet-based services and sites that want carriage over their networks.Just yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (I'm there) Verizon Communications CEO Ivan Seidenberg talked of willingness to strike up deals with [...]
Written by Russell Shaw on January 6th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Vonage and General and Regulatory and Providers and trends and SBC and Google and CES and Verizon VoiceWing and BellSouth.