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Cable rates up by 7.5% in FCC price survey
April 4, 2002 7:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | CommentsCompetition got mixed results yesterday when the Federal Communications Commission released its industry pricing report. Operators facing "effective" competition and those who don't both raised monthly rates by at least 7.5 percent. Competitive operators charged less than noncompetitive ones, but carried an average 1.
Enterasys execs resign as quarterly outlook falls
April 4, 2002 7:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | CommentsLess than a year since its spinoff from Cabletron, Enterasys Networks has embroiled itself in accounting probes, fired three workers in its Asia-Pacific offices, and yesterday lost three execs in the face of quarterly losses and "poor sales execution." Effective yesterday, Chair, CEO and President Enrique P.
NCTA names Vanguard winners
April 3, 2002 7:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | CommentsAT&T Broadband's CTO made the cuts. So did Cox Communications' chief of investor relations and a Comcast lawyer. The National Cable & Telecommunications Association named the winners of its 2002 Vanguard Awards, the highest honor the organization gives out each year. Vanguard's two highest awards, for distinguished leadership, go to Cablevision Systems Corp.
EarthLink launches in Bakersfield; TI ships 14 M VoIP ports
April 3, 2002 7:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | CommentsEarthLink Inc. launched service to about 157,000 homes in Time Warner Cable's Bakersfield, Calif., service area. The ISP has launched on about 25 TWC systems nationally since last autumn. AOL likewise has launched in the Bakersfield system. … Texas Instruments says it's shipped more than 14 million VoIP ports in the past three years.
Trade groups back Bells over line-sharing
April 3, 2002 7:00 pm | by Joelle Tessler | CommentsCopyright 2002 Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Copyright 2002 San Jose Mercury News San Jose Mercury News…04/04/2002 From LexisNexis A coalition of high-tech trade groups has thrown its support behind the Baby Bell telephone companies in their fight against regulation that forces them to share their new high-speed networks with competing Internet service providers.
Liberty drops German cable TV deal
April 3, 2002 7:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | CommentsCopyright 2002 Associated Press AP Online…04/03/2002 From LexisNexis Liberty Media Corp. dropped its pursuit of six German cable television systems when Liberty executives realized they couldn't close the deal on their terms, the company's chief executive said Wednesday. German regulators were concerned the proposed purchase from Deutsche Telekom would give Liberty too much control over t...
Com21 Q1 flat, C-COR.net allays investor angst
April 3, 2002 7:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | Comments• Com21 Inc. says its Q1 2002 revenue will be flat, falling somewhere in the $23.5 million to $24.5 million range. "As expected, our revenue were essentially flat this quarter," President and CEO George Merrick says in a statement. "Although ATM modem and headend sales decreased modestly, our DOCSIS modem shipments rebounded strongly.
Samsung fridge to serve up 'Net/TV
April 3, 2002 7:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | CommentsTalk about interactive TV. Later this year, Samsung plans to release its digital network refrigerator, a side-by-side with a 15.1-inch LCD screen for TV and Internet. Samsung says the refrigerator doesn't need a separate PC to supply such Internet functions as e-mail, surfing and online shopping. It also comes with a Messenger function that organizes family communications via text, voice and vi...
Linksys adds cable modems to hardware line
April 2, 2002 7:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | CommentsLinksys launched itself into the cable modem market with its EtherFast Cable Modem BEFCMU10. Street price: $129.99. The company, which provides home networking hardware through retail and e-commerce, designed the cable modem for an easy home installation, it says. Thus far, it's shipped through Best Buy, Amazon.
Struggling Incanta has survival funding in sight
April 2, 2002 7:00 pm | by Jeff Baumgartner | CommentsBroadband content start-up Incanta Inc. is close to securing enough funding to get through the end of 2003, and possibly through to profitability, company CEO Maggie Bellville said Tuesday. Atlanta-based Incanta pared its workforce down from 37 to a more skeletal six staffers last Wednesday in the wake of an imminent cash crunch.
N.Y. analyst says investors overreacted to Adelphia debt
April 2, 2002 7:00 pm | by Fred O. Williams | CommentsCopyright 2002 Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Copyright 2002 The Buffalo News Buffalo News…04/03/2002 From LexisNexis Investors continued to sell Adelphia stock Tuesday, which fell $1.29 to close at $11.83, as they awaited details about the company's off-balance-sheet debts. A law firm announced a class-action suit against the cable company for inadequate disclosure, but some analyst...
Cable subscribers get lineup change
April 2, 2002 7:00 pm | by The Press-Enterprise | CommentsCopyright 2002 The Press Enterprise Co. THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE (RIVERSIDE, CA.)…04/02/2002 From LexisNexis Some Charter Communications cable customers got a surprise Monday — their premium movie channels were gone. Charter removed HBO and Showtime from its analog service to add government channels and curb thefts.
OSI/Nex-Tech build in Kan., Judge stays Adelphia/Verizon deal
April 2, 2002 7:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | CommentsOptical Solutions Inc. will supply its FiberPath 400 system to an Osborne, Kan., overbuild project by Nex-Tech. HunTel Engineering from Blair, Neb., will oversee the deployment. FiberPath is based on a passive optical network. The project is a direct fiber connection that will extend to hundreds of homes and small businesses in the area, Optical Solutions says.
DirecTV BB taps TI for VoIP; Adelphia to use ARRIS CMTSs
April 1, 2002 7:00 pm | by Anne Kerven | CommentsDirecTV Broadband Inc. will integrate Texas Instruments ' AR5V10 DSL gateway system into a third-generation DirecTV DSL gateway to let DirecTV Broadband supply VoIP services, starting in the third quarter. TI's technology will supply the data routing, support for two digital voice lines and home-networking interfaces, the two say.
Ninth Circuit to hear landmark case on cable modem service
April 1, 2002 7:00 pm | by Brigitte Greenberg | CommentsCopyright 2002 Warren Publishing, Inc. Communications Daily…04/02/2002 From LexisNexis The Ninth U.S. Appeals Court, San Francisco, won a lottery Monday to hear a federal challenge to the Federal Communications Commission's declaratory ruling that cable modem service is interstate "information service.
