Earthlink Skips Key Hearing, Raising Doubts About Its Future
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A few months after rumors of an Earthlink acquisition prove false, the company skips out on a key hearing regarding the fate of Philadelphia's municipal Wi-Fi project.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 18  â AT&Tâs proposed buyout of BellSouth was thrown into doubt Monday when Robert M. McDowell, a member of the Federal Communications Commission and a former telecommunications industry lobbyist, said he would not be voting on the deal.
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An antitrust committee was supposed to examine the potential deal on Friday but says '"scheduling conflicts" got in the way.
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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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October 29, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Internet service provider EarthLink  announced on Friday that it has filed a new lawsuit in federal court in Atlanta as part of its continuing fight against spam.
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Investor's Business Daily - The joint venture of EarthLink  (NasdaqGS:ELNK - News) and SK Telecom   doesn&#39;t want to follow in the footsteps of Walt Disney&#39;s   Mobile ESPN, which shut down last year, or Amp&#39;d Mobile, which filed for bankruptcy reorganization protection on Friday.
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Oversold technology, under-priced fees Citywide Wi-Fi was supposed to be the lifeline that would lead Earthlink to higher ground. With two of major deals suddenly declared dead and a third on suicide watch, it's starting to look like a ball and chain.â¦
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Internet service provider EarthLink  Inc. on Tuesday posted higher quarterly profit, boosted by cost  controls, but quarterly sales fell short of analysts'  expectations, as did its forecast for 2005 sales.
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EarthLink's contract to build a municipal Wi-Fi network in San Francisco appears to be a victim of the company's financial struggle.
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A jury on Wednesday heard a tape in which former WorldCom Inc. Chief Executive Bernard Ebbers dodged a stock analyst's question by explaining he had studied sports in college and could not speak to economics "with any credibility."
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The justices' decision today is the latest setback in attempts to find out details about the warrantless wiretapping program
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A wireless startup company that planned to build a national public safety communications system has apparently bailed out of the upcoming airwaves auction, a move that creates doubt about the future prospects for the network.
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The debate over post-9/11 communications, network neutrality, and high-speed wireless is now centered around a struggle over the 700-MHz band going on in Washington, D.C. On Thursday, a hearing by Senate Commerce Committee over the upcoming 700-MHz auction raised several key issues.
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InfoWorld - Struggling EarthLink Inc. has stepped back from further funding&#160;Helio, its U.S. mobile joint venture with SK Telecom Co. Ltd., amid hints that the South Korean cellular carrier may become the majority shareholder.
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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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The trial of former WorldCom Inc. CEO  Bernard Ebbers was unexpectedly suspended on Monday, delaying  the much anticipated cross-examination of the prosecution's  star witness, Scott Sullivan.
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Workers pay for slack broadband strategy Financially-challenged US ISP Earthlink said on Tuesday it will slash about half its workforce after failing to ride the broadband wave Stateside.â¦