Policy & Regulations

When PAETEC (PAET) said last week it had acquired U.S. Energy Partners, a small electricity distributor in New York state, it sounded like a curious reversal on a business model that has been tried many times before: the convergence of energy and telecom.The acquisition of U.S. Energy Partners, a privately-held company that sells electricity to more than 3,500 customers in western ...

Level 3 Communications Inc. (LVLT) said this week it has landed $13.7 million in broadband stimulus grants from the National Telecommunications and Information Association (NTIA).Level 3 will add another $4.2 million to the kitty. "High-speed Internet and telecommunications services have become a vital part of building businesses and communities," Sureel Choksi, chief marketing officer of Level 3, said in a prepared ...

You’ve probably heard by now that the FCC’s plan for national broadband coverage won’t come cheap – unless you consider $25 billion a small price to pay.You heard right. The Wall Street Journal said this week the plan will ask Congress to spend up to $25 billion – with between $12 billion and $16 billion going to wireless broadband for ...

The initial focus of this series explained that most of the allocated telecom stimulus money has not been awarded and only a small fraction of it spent. The next consideration is what will the impact be on our IP community? This is a major concern as we work to address job losses by some our major OEMs, network providers and ...

A group of Web and telecom powers including Verizon Business (VZ) said today at the RSA Conference in San Francisco that they have formed the Open Identity Exchange (OIX), which will work with the U.S. government and private companies to certify providers of online ID management systems, including OpenID.“A nonprofit organization dedicated to building trust in the exchange of online identity ...