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• Qwests 2009 forecasts boosted by business, wireless backhaul

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 143
  Qwests CFO Joseph Euteneuer is upbeat about the company reaching its earnings and cash flow goals for 2009 and is confident about its prospects for Q1 2010. Speaking during the Bank of America/Merrill Lynch 2009 Credit Conference, Euteneuer said that the ILEC would reach its goal of $4.25 to $4.4 billion in earnings ...
  5 days ago

• Windstreams acquisition binge draws credit concerns

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 143
  Windstreams spending spree, which will increase its overall debt, appears to have hit a snag as Fitch Ratings has placed the companys credit rating on "Rating Watch Negative." In the past year, the tier two ILEC has either purchased, or is in the process of purchasing four service providers, including most recently ...
  1 week ago

• Cerberus gets a slice of Hawaiian Telcom

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 143
  Bankrupt Hawaiian Telcom has found a white knight in Cerberus Capital Management. The New York-based private equity company has agreed to help pay down the companys debt with the promise that they will get a piece of the telco when it exits Chapter 11 protection. Although the filing made with the U.S. Bankruptcy ...
  2 weeks ago

• AT&T wants to expand its original content capabilities

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 143
  AT&T is serious about being an original content provider, and to prove that commitment, the ILEC is now looking for someone that could help develop original content for TV, the Internet and of course its wireless network. Based in Los Angeles, the new position will report directly to Dan York, executive vice ...
  2 weeks ago

• Frost & Sullivan: AT&T Tech Support 360 resonates with SMBs

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 143
  While its hard to ignore the fact that cable is gaining recognition for their SMB service efforts, incumbent operators such as AT&T--which has received Frost & Sullivans 2009 North America New Product Innovation Award in Information and Communication Technologies for its Tech Support 360 service--arent ...
  2 weeks ago

• Verizon swings layoff axe in New York

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 143
  Verizon is keeping its promise that it would hand out another set of pink slips, and one of its first targets in this process is the Long Island area of New York. This follows an announcement made in July that the company would lay off another 8,000 employees this year--a result of declining revenues in its ...
  2 weeks ago

• I’m Not Picking On Anyone…But…

  
  Dave Rusin's Telecommunications Industry Blog — Authority: 111
  I typically try to listen in to the quarterly calls of publicly traded carriers just to benchmark AFS and see what underlying trends are being identified. Since I was on a secret mission last week, I missed a few calls. When I miss the calls I get a copy of the call transcript, read it, and mark it up for internal ...
  3 weeks ago

• Could XO be on the M&A hunt?

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 143
  With the all of the tier 2 service provider consolidation going on its only a matter of time until major CLECs such as XO Communications will make their own M&A move. While XO has not announced any deals, the companys third-quarter earnings report intimated that it is considering "strategic investments." This ...
  4 weeks ago

• Windstream wraps up D&E acquisition

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 143
  Windstream is now finally heading to the checkout counter to finalize the purchase of smaller independent ILEC D&E Communications--one of the three items on its service provider buying spree that also includes Lexcom and its $643 million acquisition of CLEC NuVox. In the final purchase price, Pennsylvania-based ...
  4 weeks ago

• Consolidated gives cable a run for its money in Q3

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 143
  Cable may be eating into the telcos broadband voice lunch, but those trends dont seem to be having much of an effect on rural ILEC Consolidated Communications. What boosted Consolidateds performance in the third-quarter was a high amount of new DSL, IPTV, and VoIP subscriptions. As reported in FierceTelecoms ...
  4 weeks ago

• FairPoint files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 143
  While not much of a surprise to anyone watching the telecom industry, FairPoint Communications made it official today that it has filed for Chapter 11 reorganization under in the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Under the restructuring plan it has ...
  6 weeks ago

• Houlihan Lokey’s Media & Telecom Group

  
  Dave Rusin's Telecommunications Industry Blog — Authority: 111
  I was an invited speaker to the recent Houlihan Lokey’s Media & Telecom Group Conference at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. For the most part, with the exception of two of my charts, I behaved myself.  But, that’s not the real story coming out of this conference. Houlihan Lokey did something very ...
  6 weeks ago

• Supercomm 2009 Video Interviews

  
  Communications and Technology Blog - Tehrani.com — Authority: 470
  I conducted dozens of videos this week at Supercomm and many were done in the TMC newsroom. I posted a few of them below for you to see. Feel free to check out the complete list of Supercomm video interviews performed by the TMC news team and others. Expect them all to be posted by October 30, 2009. Tags: ...
  6 weeks ago

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