Time Warner Cable will use fixed wireless technologies to reach some small- and medium-sized businesses in San Diego, thanks to a deal with SkyRiver Communications. Time Warner is tapping SkyRiver’s technology and surrounding wireless network to complement its fiber optic and broadband cable network in the region, and push into areas not serviced by cable […]
C III to pick up Broadwing’s broadband assets
Closely held C III Communications agreed to snap up the broadband assets of Broadwing Inc. for $129 million in cash. Under terms of the deal, the unit will continue to operate as Broadwing Communications Services Inc. and C III will retain the unit’s current base of employees. C III’s investors include telecom equipment provider Corvis […]
Union Springs Telephone to dial up FTTH
Union Springs Telephone said it has wrapped up the first phase of a new fiber-to-the-home deployment in Union Springs, Ala. The deployment is based on Optical Solutions Inc. ‘s FiberPath 400 system. Union Springs Telephone, a subsidiary of ROPIR Industries Inc., is located about 36 miles southeast of Montgomery. Once completed, the new FTTH network […]
Corning predicts a return to profitability in Q3
Corning Inc. told investors in New York Friday that the fiber company expects to be profitable in the third quarter of 2003, despite anticipated weak performance at its telecommunications division. Corning said it expects to generate Q1 revenues of between $700 million to $730 million, and post a net loss in the range of 1 […]
Alcatel to buy digital video firm iMagicTV
Alcatel has inked a $30 million deal to acquire iMagicTV, a move that will shore up Alcatel’s position in the video-over-DSL sector. Alcatel presently holds a 16 percent stake in iMagicTV, and has collaborated with the company on several video-over-DSL deployments. The deal calls for Alcatel to pay $1.20 per common share of iMagicTV, which […]
Rainmaker Technologies morphs into Broadband Physics
Rainmaker Technologies Inc. has changed its name to Broadband Physics Inc. and appointed Mark Laubach to president and CEO. Laubach replaces Dr. Paul Chin. Broadband Physics did not give a reason for Chin’s departure. Company officials were not immediately available for further comment. Laubach, a Com21 Inc. co-founder and former chief technology officer for the […]
Award winners unite at ET
Pragash Pillai, Theresa Simons and Anthony Bowling all came up big winners at this year’s Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers Emerging Technologies conference, each taking home with them awards marking their contributions to their companies and to the industry at large. If it wasn’t for a call from Charter Communications, Pillai, winner of the 2003 […]
Israeli cable op tests Xtend’s 3 GHz cable platform
Golden Channels, an MSO that serves about 440,000 cable subs in Israel, has completed a beta test of a technology platform from Xtend Networks Ltd. that’s designed to boost a cable network’s capacity to 3 GHz. Dr. Hillel Weinstein, Xtend’s CEO and co-founder, says the extra capacity will come in handy as MSOs begin to […]