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CED Magazine: The cable industry and a troupe of partners have been invited to the VoIP (Voice-over-Internet Protocol) dance. Level 3, MCI, Sprint, Vonage and other voice service providers (VSPs) are teaming with cable operators to build and deploy VoIP services. A few short years ago, those alliances would have been unheard of.

Level 3 Commences is going to retire $450 million in debt and will replace it with new debt finaiciang. The notes to be repurchased mature in 2008 and have interest terms ranging from 9 1/8 to as high as 11 percent. Level 3 is giving note holders until November 29, 2004 to cash out. No [...]

HSPDA aka High-Speed Downlink Packet Access technology is the new point of bragging for most of the mobile equipment carriers. Following Siemens, now Ericsson, Alcatel and Fujistu have all announced their HSPDA. This technology is said to boost the available downlink peak data up to 14 Mb/s. Ericsson is currently demonstrating mobile broadband Internet access [...]

James Enck of Daiwa Securities is proposing a new kind of market and fundamental research model, which could pose a challenge to Wall Street firms. James selects three of us Andy, Om, and Martin he sees that we “collectively deliver what brokers’ research typically lacks. All three have very sensitive BS meters, and are not [...]

Vonage’s hiring binge got me thinking, and just when I was waiting for my takeout Chinese to be delivered, I did a very rough back of the envelope calculation, and realized that the company is going to need more money, maybe by end of this year. Now in all these calculations, admittedly the numbers are [...]

Jeffrey Citron, when I had a chance to catch up with him at the Web 2.0 has said that the growth at Vonage was so fast, that he was having a hard time hiring enough people. He pointed out that AT&T was firing people, and he was hiring. (Meow!) Now the company has put out [...]