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Qwest is upping the ante and is willing to offer $8 billion for MCI, in hope that this would finally scuttle MCI’s deal with Verizon. While the deal is marginally higher than the $7.8 billion Qwest offered earlier, there are some key differences. Associated Press has all the details, but there are salient highlights.
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One of those days - lots of news around WiMAX chip makers. First French WiMAX chip start-up Sequans Communications raised $9 million in series B funding, bringing the total to $12 million. It will need the money since there is a lot of competition - Wavesat, Fujitsu and Intel and several others - and the [...]

The Broadband Blog ’s James Enck pays a visit to BBC and finds out how one of the oldest communications company on the planet is using blogs, wikis, forums and RSS internally - perhaps creating a blueprint for the corporation that knows how to knowledge manage its people. BBC’s approach is exact opposite of other [...]

A weebit chest thumping for me perhaps? Roger McNamee who has invested in more “tech cycles” that I have written about has included my blog in his list of blogs he reads. I am blushing because of all the nice things he had to say. Now I have to work harder.
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Looks like Cablevision is headed for a break-up. The paper of record when it comes to New York business, The New York Post has learnt that Cablevision is going to put its cable systems up for sale later this year, and the company most likely to buy the pipes is going to Time Warner Cable. [...]

Verizon is not kidding about this whole fiber thing. The company has started to install fiber in Washington County, Oregon and is on an aggressive schedule for a showdown with incumbent cable provider, Comcast and local phone provider Qwest. Verizon has some minor footprint in the state of Oregon. The Oregonian says that Verizon “plans [...]