EarthLink unit settles NY complaint
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New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said a subsidiary of EarthLink Inc. has agreed to end what he called deceptive marketing practices that led to overcharges for customers using its dial-up Internet service.
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EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK) is the latest company to bridge the Internet and the telephone. It&#39;s offering Voice over Internet Protocol (or VoIP) service for free to its customers, as it announced in a press release today.
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(InfoWorld) - EarthLink's current contract to build a municipal Wi-Fi network in San Francisco appears to be dead followingÂ a restructuring of the struggling Internet service provider. The deal, hammered out in months of negotiations last year and completed in January, calls for EarthLink to build a citywide network at no cost to the city and sell high-speed service to residents while Google provides a free, slower service over the same network. But after announcing layoffs of nearly half its workforce and a gloomier financial forecast, EarthLink said Wednesday it won't invest any more money in that business model. "We will not devote any new capital to the old muni Wi-Fi model that has us taking all of the risk by fronting all of the capital, then paying to buy our customers one by one," President and CEO Rolla Huff said on a conference call Wednesday morning. That includes currently planned networks where the company hasn't yet made capital investments, EarthLink spokesman Jerry Grasso confirmed. In San Francisco and other such cities, networks would have to be built under new arrangements. "We will approach them to discuss the needed changes to the business model," Grasso said. He declined to comment on the state of discussions with any particular city. San Francisco's deal with EarthLink has yet to be approved by the city and county's Board of Supervisors, where it faces fierce opponents. The deal is due for a vote in the Board's Budget and Finance Committee next week that could send it on for full board approval. But the changes at EarthLink appear to make the current contract a dead issue. EarthLink's municipal Wi-Fi woes come as the company struggles across most of its businesses and as the overall climate for municipal Wi-Fi changes. The promise of free networks supported by advertising or residential subscriptions has faded, and EarthLink and other network providers are looking to local government as "anchor tenants" that support the projects by buying services. Chicago, which had been talking with EarthLink and others about a citywide Wi-Fi project, dropped the plan this week, citing high cost and low subscriber interest. The company forecast municipal Wi-Fi capital investments of $30 million to $35 million in 2007 as it completes projects already begun in Philadelphia; Corpus Christi, Texas; and Anaheim, California, but is not forecasting any capital spending on municipal networks in 2008, Grasso said. Aaron Peskin, president of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, approached EarthLink earlier this year with proposed amendments to the Wi-Fi deal that he hoped would make it more palatable to opponents. However, he rejected the idea of anchor tenancy, saying the city's departments weren't ready to use the Wi-Fi network. Neither Peskin nor San Francisco city officials were immediately available for comment.
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Retailer agrees to pay compensation to customers in move to end long-running price-fixing saga
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group of US states settles data breach complaints with ChoicePoint
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Earthlink Inc. , the Internet  service provider, said on Friday it has won approval from the  New Orleans City Council to build a wireless high-speed  Internet network in the city.
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Engadget.com has resolved a dispute with the software giant over proprietary content.
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NEW YORK, December 16: In addition to its $210 million settlement with the Department of Justice over securities fraud at America Online, Time Warner has reached a proposed settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a further $300 million
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Time Warner Inc. has reached a settlement deal with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) concerning accounting issues with its America Online Inc.
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September 13, 2004 - Qwest Communications International and federal regulators have reportedly agreed to a $250 million settlement of a two-year investigation into the alleged financial misdeeds of former Qwest executives.
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The state of Ohio said on Wednesday  that it had reached a $144 million settlement with Time Warner  Inc. on behalf of six state funds that claimed they were  defrauded after the media conglomerate merged with the online  service AOL.
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Media giant Time Warner Inc. will pay fines of $210 million under an agreement with the US government to be announced on Wednesday to settle charges that its America
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Qwest Communications International Inc., the fourth-largest US local-telephone provider, agreed to pay $250 million to settle US Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that it
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By Bridget Carey, The Miami Herald  Sep. 13--Hoping to lure BellSouth customers, EarthLink is entering the South Florida Internet and phone service market this month.
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Time Warner Inc. has agreed to pay $210 million to settle securities fraud charges involving the company&#39;s America Online unit, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
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Time Warner has agreed to pay $210 million to settle criminal securities fraud charges brought by the Justice Department against the company&#39;s America Online unit.
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EarthLink will begin providing Internet connections over Consolidated Edison&#39;s power lines in Manhattan in the next several months, following an FCC vote last week to establish new ground rules for commercial deployment of the service.