Tag: AT&T

November 22, 2021

Early today, we learned that Ericsson entered into an agreement to acquire Vonage. Ericsson and the Vonage board agreed on a purchase price of $21 U.S. per share, paid in cash, with an approximate total evaluation of about $6.2 billion. […]

October 21, 2021

AT&T executives hailed continued momentum in its fiber broadband business in Q3 as the operator added 289,000 fiber customers in Q3, but CEO John Stankey acknowledged deployments continue to be plagued by smattering of supply chain issues. “Are we seeing […]

August 20, 2021

Three bits of interesting infrastructure news to finish your Friday with: Lumen is taking its private cloud capabilities out to the edge. They are merging the VMware-based enterprise offering with the company’s extensive edge computing reach, which aims to hit […]

August 13, 2021

Fresh data released by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about the country’s internet service providers packed some surprises, with perhaps unexpected candidates taking top honors for broadest coverage and greatest fiber access within their footprint. The FCC data, which […]

July 30, 2021

Confucius once said, “Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.” This quote speaks volumes when looking back at the career of my colleague at Omdia, Ken Landoline. In his time […]

July 27, 2021

RingCentral and Bandwidth today announced Duet for RingCentral, an offering that allows RingCentral to decouple calling (UC and contact center), meetings, and messaging services from its carrier services. The new Duet service is an expansion of a decades-old partnership between […]

June 24, 2021

Most often, when calls are made to 911, time is of the essence. Getting a first responder to the right place in the least amount of time is the ultimate and unassailable goal for everyone involved in emergency calling and […]

June 23, 2021

As many telco carriers are decommissioning their copper cable infrastructure, end users are forced to seek alternative solutions for these services. Network managers who have a solid transition plan can find services to fit their business needs. For a bit of […]

June 8, 2021

Ahead of a customer event today, Cisco revealed in a press release its latest bundled offering, new Webex features, and an all-in-one collaboration device. This news follows a separate announcement last week, that AT&T will leverage Cisco’s Unified Communications Manager […]

May 5, 2021

The issue of sunsetting copper-based telecom services was first addressed in 2014, when AT&T announced a trial to eliminate landlines at Carbon Hill, Ala., and West Delray Beach, Fla. If approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), AT&T planned to stop offering […]