WorldCom plans to connect its global IP network to
Hughes Network Systems
satellites to provide satellite broadband service for business
customers throughout the United
States...
WorldCom Internet VSAT is the new satellite broadband access
solution for businesses of all sizes, offering
immediate primary connectivity and business continuity for
reliable network back-up services, in any location...
Broadband
broadens its pitch
as firms bundle
services
and 'Tier' prices in
an effort to
lure new
customers.
There
are about 15 million broadband subscribers in the United States
today...
The
average monthly cost of cable modem broadband access
crept up from $33.22 in the second quarter of 2000 to $45.31 two
years later. DSL broadband prices have been a little more stable...
If
broadband providers can't close the deal with consumers
on the strength of an attractive price alone, an increasingly
popular strategy is to fold Internet access into a package with
other communications services...
On the
shrinking list of broadband providers, the surviving players are
mostly phone and cable companies. Consumers lost another major
alternative recently when DirecTV announced in December that it
was pulling the plug on its DSL service...
In one
corner of the market the spirit of the tiny
mom-and-pop broadband ISP isn't just hanging on, it's
flourishing. That's the new category of wireless community
networks...
Intelsat Ltd. plans to join two other parties in a
$160 million investment in a satellite Internet start-up, a move
that would give the Washington-based company a foothold in the
U.S. consumer satellite broadband business...
Intelsat derives about 20 percent of its revenue
from home and small-office satellite dishes, but it is looking
to acquire satellite Internet operations in North America and
Europe to increase that percentage to half of its sales...
The
Asia-Pacific satellite broadband Internet access
market is set to skyrocket because of favorable market
conditions and ongoing developments in satellite broadband
technologies...
Existing satellite broadband and media customers, as
well as mobile and airline broadband users, are also a potential
market for satellite broadband access...
EchoStar experienced another hitch in its satelite
Internet broadband access hopes when the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) cancelled its Ka-band license...
EchoStar's DISH Network operates
on the Ku-band and is not affected by the ruling. But the loss
of a Ka-band satelite Internet license would put an end to EchoStar's hopes
for satelite Internet broadband services...
The
FTC's unanimous approval of
America Online's proposed merger with Time Warner provided the
first significant guidelines for regulating highspeed
Internet broadband access...
AOL
highspeed Internet broadband competitor EarthLink,
which signed an access deal with Time Warner before the FTC
decision, also praised the consent decree...
ISPs
and consumer advocates
have lobbied for equal access to the
highspeed Internet broadband networks operated by cable TV
companies...
Scientific-Atlanta Adds Voice over IP Launch
Program to Wide Range of SciCare Broadband Services for
Cable Operators...
DSL.net, Inc., a leading nationwide provider of
broadband communications services to businesses, today outlined
the Company's ongoing strategy...
Visi.com, the Minneapolis-based Internet service
provider, wants to hire a "business development magnate"...
The Senate Monday agreed to move forward with debate
and a final vote this week on a bill permanently extending the
federal moratorium on Internet taxes...
Senators will vote this week on whether to prohibit
taxes on high-speed Internet access...
The imposition of state and local
telecommunications taxes on digital subscriber line (DSL)
services would slash federal Universal Service Fund...
Comcast
Corporation today reported results for the quarter
ended March 31...
Cable giant
Comcast announced to withdraw its $54 billion merger
proposal to Disney and shelved plans to create the world's
largest entertainment company...
Cable, phone and internet customers could be
paying cheaper rates, and it's coming from unexpected
competition...
BT
has toed the line and slashed the fee it charges
internet service providers for moving consumers between
broadband products...
US
consumers are embracing the idea of online bill
payment at their financial institution's Web site, according to
a survey conducted on behalf of MasterCard...
Forced competition in the cable television industry
has started in Manatee County, and it immediately triggered
potential price cuts for some customers...
One of
the true emerging success stories from the “dot com”
boom in the Triangle is Bandwidth.com...
Freeserve is not commenting on a report that it
offered an existing customer a cut in the price of their
broadband connection to stop them switching to another ISP...
Spectrum
changes that would make fast, cheap wireless
broadband Internet service a reality can't come fast enough...
Rich media made some waves back in the mid- to late
'90s, when e-tailers first deployed the technology to boost
conversion rates...
For the past week or so, the phone on my desk
hasn't been plugged into its usual wall jack. Instead, it's been
plugged into a little white box that routes my calls over the
Internet...
TELSTRA expects to continue dominating the
fast-growing retail broadband market, taking a much larger share
than it has in the market for lower revenue dial-up internet
business...
Wanadoo on
Tuesday unveiled ambitions to offer TV services and
cheap voice calls over the internet as part of its next stage of
attack on the high-speed broadband internet market...
