New services

SBC counters Verizon DSL
Jun. 06, 2003
SBC Friday announced a promotional offer for SBC Yahoo DSL of $29.95 per month with a one-year term commitment.

Virtela allows Ethernet access to VPN
Feb. 14, 2005
This week Virtela is announcing Ethernet access to its international VPN service, giving customers the potential for higher bandwidth than other access methods afford, as well as the ability to boost bandwidth at will ...

AT&T offers Web services
Mar. 10, 2004
AT&T this week announced it is jumping into the Web services arena with an offering called WebService Connect.

AT&T details iPhone service plans, iTunes activation
Jun. 26, 2007
Apple and AT&T released details of the service plans for the iPhone, which will be released later this week. The iPhone will have three available plans that will start at $59.99.

Verizon gets into supply chain management
Jun. 05, 2007
Verizon Business this week entered the supply chain management market through a resale arrangement with GXS, a provider of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce systems.

Motorola, Nortel settle Zafirovski dispute
Oct. 31, 2005
Nortel has agreed to pay $11.5 million as part of a lawsuit settlement with Motorola over the network vendor's hiring of Mike Zafirovski, formerly Motorola's president and COO.

Sprint's plans for 2005
Feb. 10, 2005
Sprint this week laid out its strategic direction for 2005, which includes executing on its wireless data network deployment, expanding its business services and seeing its Nextel merger through.

Verizon to spread 3G coverage
Sep. 22, 2004
Verizon Wireless this week said its 3G service will be available in 14 U.S. markets and 20 airports on Sept. 27.

Verizon offers 3M bit/sec DSL
Sep. 07, 2004
Verizon has upped the speed of its DSL service to 3M bit/sec for businesses and consumers in 12 states.

MCI broadens Ethernet offerings
Jul. 20, 2004
MCI Tuesday launched an Ethernet service and enhanced its current Ethernet offerings with a new edge architecture.

Verizon launches national TLS
Jun. 23, 2004
Verizon's Enterprise Solutions Group this week launched a national transparent LAN service to provide point-to-point connectivity between business sites over a shared backbone infrastructure.

Qwest rolls out business VoIP
Jun. 23, 2004
Qwest this week unveiled a nationwide VoIP service for businesses called OneFlex that uses Qwest's national IP network.

Supercomm: Start-up provider picks ISPs
Jun. 22, 2004
Start-up service provider Arbinet is announcing at Supercomm an Internet access service that connects customers to any of a dozen or so ISPs depending on how well the ISPs' networks are performing.

BellSouth adds to Ethernet service
Jun. 01, 2004
BellSouth this week enhanced its Ethernet transport services for business customers.

Convergence at the forefront at MCI
May. 27, 2004
MCI is making it possible for users to upgrade to IP while maintaining their investment in legacy technology with the second phase of its Secure Internet Gateway service.

MCI's Capellas looks to all-IP future
May. 11, 2004
MCI's Web conferencing offering with Microsoft introduced Tuesday is just the beginning of a move to let users make PCs into phones, MCI President and CEO Michael Capellas said in a keynote address Tuesday at the ...

Verizon to launch expanded business network services
Apr. 14, 2004
After 17 months of work, Verizon Communications Wednesday announced that its expanded national broadband network will go into operation later this month to bring improved data and voice networking services to large ...

Savvis users can buy as needed with service platform
Apr. 07, 2004
Savvis Communications this week said it has teamed with several hardware vendors to build itself a service delivery platform that lets customers order and pay for storage, Web hosting and other services on an as-needed ...

AT&T demos residential VoIP service
Mar. 30, 2004
AT&T is launching a residential voice-over-IP service that might be suitable for small office/home office workers and telecommuters.

Vendor sends broadband over power lines
Mar. 02, 2004
More than a million residents of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana will have a new broadband option this month in the first large-scale rollout of broadband over power line (BPL) service, despite concerns that the new BPL ...

Covad to offer VoIP
Feb. 10, 2004
Broadband data CLEC Covad Communications this week said it plans to roll out VoIP services to businesses and consumers in the fourth quarter of this year.

Verizon to spend $3 billion on upgrades, offerings
Jan. 08, 2004
Verizon this week said it will spend $3 billion over the next two years to bring broadband networking to the mass market.

Qwest revamps bundle
Dec. 16, 2003
Qwest this week announced a bundled service offering for small businesses and residences.

Nortel updates IOC switch
Mar. 19, 2003
Nortel Networks this week announced software enhancements for its DMS-10 voice switches designed to enable independent operating companies (IOCs) to deliver new services to rural subscribers.

Qwest turns up remote access service
Nov. 17, 2004
Qwest this week unveiled a service for traveling business people that enables secure access to their corporate networks.