For The Record
Staff -- Multichannel News, 11/18/2001 7:00:00 PM
Atlanta—Cox Business Services will launch a Cox Carrier Services division that will provide dedicated local-loop access and transport facilities for telecommunications carriers in 22 markets.
The unit is designed to give businesses a telecommunications alternative to local-exchange carriers.
Cox said it will use its SONET-based (synchronous optical network) fiber-optic network to connect carriers using OC-12 or OC-48 technology.
The company said it had reorganized its carrier-sales strategy by developing a national-carrier-services team in Atlanta to partner with local Cox telephony managers in providing services to national customers.
Sunnyvale, Calif.—Yahoo! Inc. last week entered a strategic alliance with SBC Communications Inc. to exclusively create and sell broadband service via digital subscriber lines within the Baby Bell's 13-state region.
The deal calls for the two companies to field a custom, co-branded DSL service in SBC's territory beginning in mid-2002.
The service includes: a co-branded browser; a package of premium services including Webcam functions; parental control; multiplayer games; and additional centralized storage space for subscribers' personal content.
SBC will bill customers and collect the revenue, sharing an undisclosed percentage with Yahoo! In turn, Yahoo!, will share a portion of its marketing and advertising revenue with the telco.
Syosset, N.Y.—National Geographic Channel, Biography Channel and Lifetime Movie Network are the emerging digital networks that operators most want to carry, according to Beta Research Corp.'s latest Beta Cable Operator Study.
The research firm based here said 84 percent of operators expressed strong interest in adding Nat Geo by the end of 2002, followed by 81 percent for Biography and 71 percent for LMN.
Do It Yourself (68 percent) and Fox Movie Channel (63 percent) were operators' fourth and fifth choices, Beta said.
Bethpage , N.Y.—Volvo Cars of North America LLC has signed a deal with Bravo through which the automaker will become a sponsor of Inside the Actors Studio and support synchronized interactive online content, effective Nov. 18.
Consumers will be able to log onto www.bravotv.com or use Microsoft Corp.'s UltimateTV, MSNTV or AOLTV to see interactive content on their television screens during Bravo's signature series.
The Volvo-sponsored content will be tied to Inside the Actors Studio during November and December. The interactive programming will start 15 minutes before the show begins on Bravo, and a chat-room discussion will continue 15 minutes after the program ends.
Saratoga, Calif.—CAM Systems LLC has signed an agreement allowing AT&T Broadband's Cable Advertising of Metro Atlanta to use its Eclipse traffic-and-billing system.
CAM Systems already had four other AT&T Broadband markets as traffic-and-billing clients, along with 10 Time Warner Cable markets, three Comcast Corp. markets and three Charter Communications Inc. regions.
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