Broadband Business Forecast articles from August 2006

Broadband Business Forecast archives from August 2006

U.K. Broadband Growth Sets New Lows.
August 9, 2006... The second quarter of this year was the worst on record (at least during the past two years) for broadband growth in the United Kingdom, both because of and despite the near- maniacal market battle now taking place over so-called "free"...

Company To Watch: RF Interference Killer On The Loose.
August 9, 2006... By now, just about everyone has been cracking jokes of one sort or another about the Verizon Wireless cellphone commercial that asks "Can you hear me now?" As it turns out, one of the villains causing that problem with data as well as with...

RadiSys Gobbles Up IP Media Specialist Convedia.
August 9, 2006... RadiSys is buying IP media-processing specialist Convedia, paying $105 million in cash plus an earn-out of as much as $10 million during the next year if profitability goals are met. The acquisition positions RadiSys, a single-board...

Why Vodafone Isn't Selling Its Stake In Verizon Wireless.
August 9, 2006... Speculation now is rife over just why Verizon has decided not to buy out Vodafone's 45-percent share in Verizon Wireless. At TelecomWeb, we think we know why. The deal, like so many, fell apart over the valuation of the property. ...

AMCC Buys Ethernet Mover And 'Quake'r.
August 9, 2006... Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) is buying 10Gb/s Ethernet chip market leader Quake Technologies, paying just $69 million in net cash for the privately held company. The deal is expected to close quickly, probably by the end of this...

VDSL Maven Ikanos Buys IPTV Chip House.
August 9, 2006... Broadband chip house Ikanos Communications is buying Doradus Technologies, a hot little startup with the digital signal processing (DSP) know-how Ikanos needs to get into the IPTV set-top-box (STB) market. Terms of the acquisition were...

People To Watch.
August 9, 2006... France Telecom (FT) has named Antonio Anguita to lead France Telecom Home, one of the three groups created in FT's recent reorganization; the other two group address strategic and geographic marketing. Anguita joined FT in 2002 at the time...

BBF News Analysis: Why Boeing's Broadband Crashed.
August 22, 2006... Boeing has thrown in the towel, saying it will shut down its in-flight broadband service, Connexion by Boeing, by the end of the year - in part, yet another victim of world terrorism. The decision was not unexpected. Boeing previously...

Company To Watch: How One Skype Rival Bagged 400K Subs In 60 Days.
August 22, 2006... It reportedly took Skype 51 days to sign its first 100,000 subscribers - but there's a new kid on the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) block called efonica that's claiming to have inked 400,000 subscribers in just its first 60 days since...

Golden Telecom Gilds Russia's Third-Largest City.
August 22, 2006... Golden Telecom, Russia's fast-growing, Moscow-based carrier, bought Telecom LLC, a rival alternative carrier in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia's third- largest city. Golden has been operating in Nizhny Novgorod since 1994 under the name...

Cisco Takes Over Stealth Startup.
August 22, 2006... Cisco Systems has plowed $50 million into stealth startup Nuova Systems - founded by a former senior Cisco exec - and says it may plunge another $42 million into the outfit, in return walking away with 80-percent equity in the Santa Clara...

People To Watch (08/22/06).
August 22, 2006... >>ECI Telecom has hired Avi Cohen as its COO. Cohen, who reports to ECI's President and CEO Rafi Maor, spent more than 11 years at KLA-Tencor Corporation, including seven years as president of KLA-Tencor Israel. For the past four years, he's...