Broadband Business Forecast articles from May 2006

Broadband Business Forecast archives from May 2006

Executive Q&A: A Look At Wi-Fi's 'State Of the Union'.
May 16, 2006... To the end users of the world, wireless broadband generally is thought of simply as Wi-Fi, but to those in the industry, it's a lot more complex than that - and often controversial. For starters, there's the explosion of Wi-Fi mesh that,...

'Lucatel' Proxy Hits The SEC.
May 16, 2006... Alcatel last week filed the formal proxy needed for the planned "merger of equals" between it and Lucent. Alcatel is doing the filing because, even though the deal is being marketed as a merger, legally Alcatel is buying Lucent in a...

BellSouth Inks Broadband Pact With Samsung.
May 16, 2006... BellSouth signed what it calls a "strategic agreement" with Samsung to come to market with a line of co-branded broadband devices for both the consumer and business markets. The companies did not disclose what kind of devices they are...

Optical Networking Sales Up, Down And Sideways.
May 16, 2006... Optical Networking sales crept up 5 percent year-over-year in the first quarter, reaching $2.6 billion, according to a preliminary analysis by research house Ovum-RHK. But while the total was up from the first quarter of last year, it was...

Milestone: A Million Kilometers Of Russian Fiber.
May 16, 2006... ZAO "OCS 01," Russia's largest fiber-optic cable manufacturer, says it purchased its millionth kilometer of optical fiber from Corning - a milestone announcement of a type we haven't heard in several years. ZAO "OCS 01", which is only five...

1Q FTTH Shipments Soar.
May 16, 2006... The number of new fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) subscribers worldwide grew by 925,000 in the first quarter of 2006 - 22 percent more than were added in the final quarter of last year and up 180 percent year-over-year - according to a new study by...

People To Watch 5/16/06.
May 16, 2006... IPTV house Kassena has hired Kumar Shah as its CEO, effective immediately. Shah takes over from Mark Gray, who will continue to serve as chairman of Kasenna's board. Shah was recruited by the board from US Venture Partners, where he was an...

Deal Sheet 05/16/06.
May 16, 2006... Who's Doing What? American Broadband Communications [privately held], headquartered in Charlotte, N.C.; 704/665-9063 Has been collecting a stable of small rural phone companies and now has gobbled up the 94-year-old Nebraska telco...

Survey Snapshots: The State Of VoIP Today.
May 30, 2006... A pair of new studies of the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) market has provided a snapshot of the industry today - among other things revealing that cable companies stealing away phone subscribers are being slaughtered by high...

Oooohhhh...Instant DSL.
May 30, 2006... Netopia thinks it's come up with the widget that will help phone companies convince the estimated 79 million dial-up Internet users left in the United States and EMEA to convert to broadband - a tiny gadget it's touting as "the world's first...

New Studies: Broadband Use Surges, DSL Dominates, Bush Bumbles.
May 30, 2006... The number of Americans with broadband at home has surged 40 percent in the past year, according to a new study released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, which said it found that 80 million Americans - 42 percent of the adult...

People To Watch 05/30/06.
May 30, 2006... * The executive door at Nortel is revolving yet again, and Michael Pangia is Nortel's new president of Asia, effective immediately. He takes over from Robert Mao, who had been president of Greater China for Nortel, who left the company "to...

Deal Sheet 05/30/06.
May 30, 2006... Who's Doing What? Investors have plowed a pile of cash into stealth broadband startup Zeugma Systems Inc. [privately held], headquartered in Richmond, B.C., Canada; 604/247-3250 >>Terms of the Deal: A group of investors has put...