VSNL, Cisco to make broadband cheaper
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Tata group company Videsh Sanchar Nigam and global networking major Cisco Systems Inc on Tuesday signed a Rs 500 crore (Rs 5 billion) agreement to deploy broadband metro Ethernet solution, that will offer broadband services at less than Rs 1,000 per month
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By Fred O. Williams  Buffalo residents appear to be next in line for lightning-fast Internet hookups, as Verizon prepares to extend its fiber-optic service into the city for the first time.
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DECEMBER 13, 2004  - SAN JOSE -- Cisco Systems Inc.&#39;s prices have typically been higher than those charged by its smaller networking rivals.
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One of India&#39;s leading telecommunications providers will use Cisco Systems&#39; gear to build its new Ethernet-based broadband network.
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Verizon Communications VZ.N and  Yahoo Inc. YHOO.O on Monday said they will offer a co-branded  broadband service in a move designed to help increase demand  for broadband and win over customers from cable broadband  access.
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Ciscoâs acquisition of WiMax wireless provider Navini Networks will help bring Cisco closer to its intention of bringing wireless broadband to emerging countries.
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Verizon Communications  and Yahoo Inc.  on Monday said they will offer a co-branded broadband service in a move designed to help increase demand for broadband and win over customers from cable broadband access.
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Ofcom in wait and see mode (again) Broadband wholesaler NetServices has agreed to provide a connection free of charge to former customers of V21, the retail ISP it cut-off as part of a financial dispute.â¦
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In a move to take dominion in the data center, networking giant Cisco has announced plans to purchase privately held NeoPath Networks for an undisclosed amount.
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By Tony Glover, The Business, London  Dec. 14--American networking giant Cisco Systems is building a research  and development centre and a factory in India to manufacturer internet phones.   The company has allocated $1.1bn (Â£561m, E825m) to Chennai and Bangalore.
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LONDON - The UK took another step towards greater competition in and cheaper access to broadband technology as telecoms regulator Ofcom published its final proposals for local loop unbundling and ordered BT Group to cut the wholesale prices it charges
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Nortel said that the Internet-protocol infrastructure at BT will reduce costs and boost efficiency by making it easier to operate agents across multiple sites, &quot;allowing dispersed teams to seamlessly work together as if in a single contact center location
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Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO.O, the  biggest maker of network gear for directing Internet traffic,  on Monday said it will introduce a new line of low-end routers  in the coming weeks aimed at winning more corporate business.
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By Justin Hyde WASHINGTON  - AT&T Corp.  and Internet telephoneprovider Vonage said on Thursday they were cutting prices fortheir residential Internet calling services by $5 per month,the strongest signs yet of a price war in the nascent market.
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For the millions of  people who cannot afford high-speed Internet access, some local officials think they've hit on the answer: Build government-owned networks to provide service at rates below what big telecommunications companies charge.
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(InfoWorld) - Two members of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission called for the federal government to create a wide-ranging national broadband strategy to help small businesses compete on a global level. Too many U.S. small businesses have no access to broadband, and many others can't afford it, said Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein, Democratic members of the FCC. The cost of consumer-level broadband per megabit in the United States is about seven times the cost in Japan, Adelstein told the U.S. Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee. Small businesses "typically pay too much for a service that is too slow," Copps said. "It's not just a matter of national pride we're talking about -- it's a business issue." A survey in 2005 found that small businesses paid an average of $720 per month for a T1 line, added Ben Scott, policy director of Free Press, a media reform advocacy group. In Chicago, customers pay $80 to $90 a month for 1MbpsÂ of broadband, but in smaller Urbana, Ill., the cost is about $300, Scott said. In Greenup, Ill., a city with about 1,500 residents south of Chicago, the monthly cost of a 1Mbps connection is $1,300, Scott said. Small businesses in small towns and rural areas lack the same technological edge that many overseas competitors have, Scott said. "The head start we're giving our global competition is taking it just a bit too far," he said. Senators John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, and Olympia Snowe, a Maine Republican, complained that President George Bush set a policy goal in 2004 for all U.S. residents to have broadband available by this year, but didn't back it up with policies. "We had the goal but not the tactics," Snowe said. A national broadband policy should include better data about where broadband service is lacking, said the FCC's Adelstein. The FCC still says a postal zip code has broadband if one customer there does, he said. Congress should provide more money for broadband build-out in rural areas, and the Republican majority at the FCC should stop a deregulatory approach that has led to few broadband competitors, he said. Adelstein also called for a national summit on broadband that would bring together customers, providers, members of Congress and the Bush administration, and others to address broadband availability. "We should make broadband the dial tone of the 21st century," he said. Not everyone at the hearing complained about the state of broadband in the United States. There's little evidence of a broadband problem in the United States, said Scott Wallsten, director of communications policy studies at the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a conservative think tank. "Telephone, cable, and wireless companies are investing billions in new high-speed infrastructure, and consumers and businesses are adopting broadband at remarkable rates," Wallsten said. Verizon CommunicationsÂ alone is planning to spend $23 billion on its fiber-optic network by 2010, he said. People calling for government solutions "fail to provide solid analysis showing that their proposals would actually benefit consumers or small businesses," Wallsten added. Sen. Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican, laid the problems back at the feet of Copps and Adelstein. The FCC has the power to encourage more broadband competition through anÂ upcoming auction of radio spectrum, he said. Several companies want to provide nationwide wireless broadband if the January auction is set up right, he said. "It seems like to me you have the tools at the FCC," he said.
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Verizon and the other Bell companies are offering a service to replace copper wire technology with high-speed fiber optic lines in an effort to hold on to customers.