Qwest comes clean on 20Mb/s FTTN
By: By Carol Wilson
Qwest Communications today hailed two new DSL offerings, at 20 Megabits per second and 12 Mb/s, over its fiber-to-the-node architecture. Travis Leo, product director for broadband at Qwest, spoke to Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson about Qwest Connect Quantum and Qwest Connect Titanium...
Pivot's Demise Leaves Quad-Play Opportunity to Telcos
By: By Sarah Reedy
Just as Comcast and Cox Communications announce that they are abandoning their Pivot wireless phone partnership with Sprint, Compete today released survey findings indicating that most consumers would be interested in buying their wireless service from their existing cable or telco provider....
IDC: Consumers willing to pay for faster Net video
By: By Carol Wilson
A new IDC study shows both service providers and content distributors may be missing revenue opportunities by not offering consumers the option of paying more for faster Internet video downloads. ...
AT&T teams with Cisco on managed telepresence
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T will soon become the first major telecom operator to launch a managed telepresence service, teaming with Cisco Systems to enable a wider range of businesses to do high-end video conferencing by eliminating the major upfront capital expense and enabling users to connect in the network with other subscribers...
Fairpoint breaks silence, details integration process
By: By Ed Gubbins
Fairpoint Communications held its first conference call as the country’s eighth-largest telco today, three weeks after closing its acquisition of Verizon’s local access business in three states...
NAB: Is network-based DVR an IPTV savior?
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--There is a small groundswell of support among U.S. IPTV players to see network-based digital video recording become part of the video ecosystem, enabling high-definition content to be more easily delivered over bandwidth-constrained copper networks...
Adtran’s latest gear gains momentum
By: By Ed Gubbins
Adtran is enjoying an increase in momentum for its new products, which helped the equipment vendor beat expectations in the first quarter, reporting a 1% sequential revenue growth in defiance of historical seasonal trends....
NAB: Top telcos want closer ties with broadcasters
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--The top content executives at the top two telcos-turned-video-distributors would like to partner and cooperate more with broadcasters and content developers...
NAB: Building B lifts a veil
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--A few weeks ahead of its long-anticipated formal coming-out, video wholesaler Building B let one interesting bit of information out yesterday...
NAB: Sun scales down video streaming
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--Sun Microsystems today announced an expansion of its Streaming System video portfolio, adding small to mid-scale streaming of television and IP-based video to create an IPTV that can scale from 100 to 160,000 simultaneous streams...
XO adds Anywhere voice and messaging
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications today announced XO Anywhere, a suite of mobility and roaming features developed for its XO IP Flex customers. ...
The high-def boardroom
By: By Sarah Reedy
LifeSize has taken the price point for high-definition communications lower than ever before, unveiling what it calls the world's smallest and most integrated HD camera/microphone system...
Broadband, bundles lure SMBs
By: By Carol Wilson
Judging by the number of telecom companies targeting small- and medium-sized businesses, it would seem these are salad days for customers in the space....
Broadband loan program progresses
By: By Joan Engebretson
The Rural Utilities Service's broadband loan program is beginning to see results, and its impact should be greater within the next few years...
Blockbuster’s movie-streaming move
By: By Sarah Reedy
A set-top box (STB) for streaming video from the Internet is Blockbuster’s latest rumored plans to ensure relevancy in an Internet-dominated world, but it might not make a dent in the long run, according to Insight Research President Robert Rosenberg....
New funds take Ohio muni fiber model nationwide
By: By Carol Wilson
The community/municipal network market might not be grabbing as many headlines these days but it hasn’t gone away. Just yesterday, the Knight Foundation agreed to pay up to $25 million for OneCommunity, a Cleveland-based non-profit group that operates a fiberoptic network in northeast Ohio, to share its approach with 25 other “Knight Communities” scattered around the US....
Level 3 aims to make long-tail content cost-effective
By: By Carol Wilson
Level 3 Communications today announced a new aspect to its Content Delivery Network that makes it more cost-effective for content owners to distribute a broader array of content, including the so-called “long-tail” niche content that has its own challenges...
FTTH now being sold to 10M US homes
By: By Ed Gubbins
Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) is now being marketed to more than 10 million North American homes, according to the latest report from RVA Market Research & Consulting. ...
Auction winners lay bare 700 MHz plans
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon outlines how open-access, LTE and new spectrum fit together. AT&T plans Evolved HSPA and later LTE. Google comes clean. Cyren Call fights back...
Study: Online won’t replace traditional TV anytime soon
By: By Carol Wilson
The latest edition of an annual survey on “The Battle for the North American Couch Potato” indicates the online viewing of video content is not going to supplant broadcast and cable/satellite/IPTV delivery of video into the TV set anytime soon, if ever. ...
Motorola shows up Microsoft in white space tests
By: Rich Karpinski
On the heels of Google’s recent offer to help ‘white spaces’ broadband get off the ground, this weekend saw a rush of activity that leaves the future of this controversial technology very much in question....
CTIA: Next-generation backhaul hits the floor
By: Sarah Reedy
Wireless backhaul vendors increase capacity, ease Ethernet migration...
Google's new ploy
By: By Rich Karpinski
Just as it played a major role influencing the outcome of the 700 MHz auction -- despite not winning any spectrum -- Google recently called for unlicensed over-the-air TV spectrum, known as white space, to be used for broadband services, although it doesn't want to provide those services itself...
The new service providers
By: By Rich Karpinski & Kevin Fitchard
"Service provider" and "network operator" are becoming independent terms in wireless. Read more of this feature article on how companies are evolving...
700 MHz: Meet the new operators -- same as the old operators
By: By Kevin Fitchard
If there were any surprises in the 700 MHz auction, it was that there were no surprises...
