operator- fixed networks

Boingo has signed roaming deals with SFR (France) and Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan), adding some 300 hotspots in France and 900 hotspots in Taiwan to its roaming system. To date, the Boingo Roaming System consists of more than 30,000 hot spots around the...

French ISP Free is the first in France to offer a WiFi-GSM bundled service, after being the first to introduce triple-play services in the market. It targets the 40% mobile calls made from subscriber's home. Belgacom, Telenet, Mobistar, ALE& Brutele and...

Intelsat is launching a new satellite-based content-delivery and-management service for IPTV video service launched by telcos. The service is called “Ampiage”. France Telecom has lost 950k customers so far, with a 60% increase in number of defectors in...

Sprint Nextel announced plans to form a cable venture to market cable TV and mobile phone services. Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications are among the first participants in the venture. Time Warner could consider selling its AOL Europe ISP entity....

FT has 2m of Livebox users (triple play offer), and will continue to offer innovative services, such as High Quality VOIP, or VOIP unified messaging, answering to vocal messaging with SMS or e-mail, etc. iPass has signed a roaming deal with UK' s The...

Liberty Global (US) continue divesting from Europe, in selling now its Swedish UPC Sweden cable operator (after French Noos last month). Free (France) launches a national WiMAX service starting in few weeks.

Inukshuk Wireless (Bell Canada + Rogers Comms) will offer WiMAX service to 5m households in North America. Optus (Australia) is offering new DSL network offering to additional 2.9m households and businesses in the country. T-Mobile International and iPass...

Lycos is introducing a Windows-based program that provides free U.S. phone numbers for incoming calls, and free calls to phones if the user signs up for promotional offers, or pay 1 cent a minute for US calls when they exhaust their initial 100 free minutes....

Bellsouth introduced a WiFi- WiMAX wireless broadband back-up system for businesses’ Internet connections at $30 a month. It also announced a further integration of its optical and Ethernet service offerings, providing a carrier-class solution protecting...

The creation of mammoth telcos, such as ATT and Verizon, has reinvigorated cablecos counter-punch against video franchising. They are launching a particularly hard-hitting campaign against lobbying, marketing and advertising efforts of the incumbent local...