Verizon also announced two wireline products Thursday meant to tie together the broadband-in-the-home message. That figure includes the increase in the wireless-service budget, along with $2bn earmarked for enhancements to the company's wireline...
The Chinese carrier also awarded a separate contract to Lucent and Juniper Networks for gear to expand and improve its wireline network. In addition, Verizon Communications recently announced that it will spend $3bn on network improvements in the...
British Airways CIO Paul Coby said the airline is reducing its operational IT running costs but increasing investment in new IT by 13 per cent as part of the 'customer-enabled BA' programme of self-service and online ticketing and check-in.
But Verizon Communications, which sells DSL (digital subscriber line) service in Philadelphia, offers a comparable broadband service for $14.95. Economically disadvantaged users will be charged $9.95 per month, while other ISPs will be charged a...
The deal has been billed as a merger of equals - a consolidation of two rivals who for years have competed for business among wireless and wireline telephone companies. Last year, local phone company SBC Communications bought long distance carrier...
Underlying this is a wholesale migration to IP. ABI Research forecasts operators will generate close to $50bn in service revenue from IMS-enabled applications around the world by 2011. The era of converged telecoms services is bringing big changes...