FCC Says Report Outages or Pay The Price

Telecom Law Monitor, from regulatory law firm Kelley Drye tells us that the FCC is telling VoIP and Broadband service providers to report outages or pay the fines. Basically this means that service providers are more and more being told to play on a level playing field with no distinction between legacy and next generation. … Read more

Level3 Buys Global Crossing

Image via CrunchBase Today's announcement of Level3 buying GlobalCrossing is a big deal in telecom. Rather than rehash the very saliant points made by Stacey Higginbotham of GigaOm  let me go into some analysis: Level3 picks up a ton of similar technology based capacity and routes for their network. Thus customers who have been using both Level3 … Read more