Telecom News

The Federal Communications Commission has sided with the National Football League in a long-running programming dispute with Comcast Corp., ruling that Comcast should carry the league's NFL Network on its popular digital cable package.

In a decision released late Friday, the FCC ruled that Comcast discriminated against the NFL Network by agreeing to carry the channel only on a more expensive sports cable service. The NFL filed the complaint against Comcast in May.

The FCC ruling now goes before an administrative law judge, who could force Comcast to carry the NFL programming at a certain price.

TOKYO: Ford Motor Co is considering selling its stake in Japan's Mazda Motor Co, a source familiar with the matter said on Saturday, as debt-laden U.S. automakers struggle with weakening auto sales and the ...

General Motors Corp. , Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC may be forced into bankruptcy by slowing economies and dwindling U.S. auto sales, Standard & Poor's analyst Robert Schulz said today.

Qwest Communications International Inc. says it has reached a tentative agreement for a four-year contract with a union representing about 20,000 employees.

The company made the announcement early Saturday. Members of the Communications Workers of America last month rejected a tentative three-year agreement with Denver-based Qwest, after the previous contract expired Aug. 16.

Results of a ratification vote on the new agreement by union members are expected by Oct. 31.

The new deal calls for a 12.5 percent raise over the course of the contract and a pension increase of 3 percent for those who are eligible and retire from the company after Oct. 12.

SureWest Communications announced Friday it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its 52 cellular telephone towers to Global Tower Partners of Boca Raton, Fla.

The recent plunge in the market value of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion could leave the company vulnerable to a takeover from a well-capitalized buyer such as Microsoft Corp.

Telecom rivals BCE Inc. and Telus say they will work together to develop third-and fourth-generation wireless networks.

Fear and foreboding took hold on Wall Street yesterday, as the stock market again plunged and investors became convinced that the nation is on the verge of a deep and prolonged recession.

IPCS Inc., which resells Sprint-branded wireless service, Thursday said it had gained a favorable ruling in a court battle with Sprint Nextel Corp.

Harris Corporation , an international communications and information technology company, has been awarded a potential $37 million contract modification by the U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, ...

The Canadian dollar took another dive Thursday, falling by more than two cents at one point to its lowest level in more than 13 months.

SureWest Communications has deployed an interactive TV platform in the Kansas City market that uses CableLabs' Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format specification, one of the first cable providers to roll out ...

Four co-workers have been infected with an antibiotic-resistant staph infection, but they do not pose a threat to the community, a county health official said.

Stocks fluctuated Thursday as Wall Street weighed the prospects for the economy after IBM Corp.

An investor advisory firm has deemed Sprint Nextel Corp executives the most overpaid in corporate America, with top managers awarded pay valued at nearly $74 million last year when the company struggled.

There still was no deal between Time Warner Cable and WLUK owner LIN TV late Tuesday.

Setanta Sports has signed its first cable carriage pact, inking an agreement with Cox Communications.

Broadcom Corp. , a fabless chip company specializing in broadband communications ICs, has said it has filed a law suit seeking a declaratory judgment that the sales and licensing practices of Qualcomm Inc.

By Stephen Lawson Adoption of Sprint Nextel's Xohm WiMax service has been better than expected since it launched in Baltimore on Sept.

Wavecom SA, the Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, producer of wireless technology to enable automotive telematics, metering, fleet management, tracking, alarms and more, called a proposed takeover bid from Gemalto ...