FTTx Marketing News
In the Spotlight: Bill DeMuth, SureWest Communications
By: By Ed Gubbins
Last week SureWest Communications announced the acquisition of Everest Broadband, a move to double its triple-play subscriber base by adding to its existing fiber-to-the-home network in Sacramento, Calif., a hybrid fiber/coax network in Kansas City, Mo. SureWest’s Chief Technology Officer, Bill DeMuth, spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins last week about strategies to integrate the two businesses and what lies ahead...
U-verse rollout to slow, cost more with Southeast expansion
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T has lowered its expectations slightly for the deployment of its U-Verse IPTV service through 2008...
Tennessee utility bringing fiber to 55,000
By: By Ed Gubbins
Next month, the electric utility in Clarksville, Tenn., hopes to launch the first broadband and video services over what could become one of the largest municipal fiber-to-the-home networks in the United States...
Verizon’s FiOS gets 20-20 vision
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Communications today launched a symmetric 20 Mb/s service over its FiOS network, setting a new industry standard for speed and addressing the growing need for upstream bandwidth to accommodate user-generated content...
FTTH data under renewed scrutiny
By: By Ed Gubbins
Two weeks after the FTTH Council announced the number of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) subscribers in North America had topped 2 million, another analyst is openly questioning the validity of those numbers...
U-verse cracks 100,000 mark
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T said today its U-verse IPTV service has now cracked 100,000 subscribers, based on additions of 97,000 this year, as the service expands geographically and is marketed more aggressively. AT&T is installing about 1000 U-verse customers daily, according to a company spokesman...
AT&T names GPON suppliers
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T names GPON suppliers Alcatel-Lucent was the first supplier of GPON gear to Verizon Communications, which began deploying the gear commercially this spring and will ultimately use a trio of suppliers for GPON, including Tellabs and Motorola, its two existing suppliers of lower-speed BPON gear....
Time Warner Telecom punts on new name
By: By Ed Gubbins
Time Warner Telecom has given itself more time to come up with a new name....
AT&T lures video customers with free HD
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T is countering successful cable bundling with an offer of its own to lure new video customers – free High Definition TV for one year for newcomers to either its U-Verse service, based on a new fiber-to-the-node network...
OFC: Verizon names first GPON markets
By: By Ed Gubbins
ANAHEIM--Verizon Communications is expected today to name the two places where it will begin commercial deployment of gigabit-speed passive optical networking (GPON) equipment...
Verizon gets California video franchise
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon became the first to capitalize on California’s new statewide video franchise law, today receiving the Golden State’s first statewide franchise, only eight days after filing its application...
OEN launches FTTP triple play in Houston
By: By Carol Wilson
Optical Entertainment Network (OEN) today said its fiber-based triple-play service is now ready for delivery to 5000 homes in the northwest side of Houston...
UBS: Verizon may add 1.1M fiber subs this year
By: By Ed Gubbins
Verizon Communications could add another roughly 1.1 million subscribers to its fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network this year, according to estimates made by UBS Investment Research...
US Signal adds Milwaukee
By: By Carol Wilson
Competitive service provider US Signal today announced plans to extend its Midwest fiber optic backbone to Milwaukee, building a metro ring in that city, as well as to new access points in suburban Chicago...
CenturyTel enters new markets with Madison River acquisition
By: By Tim McElligott
Monroe, Louis.-based CenturyTel announced its intent today to acquired Madison River Communications for $830 million. The deal would add 176,000 access lines throughout Alabama, Georgia, Illinois and North Carolina...
Utah’s multicity FTTH project enters phase two
By: By Ed Gubbins
After several months of delays, Utah’s multicity municipal wholesale fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network, Utopia, is now entering its second phase of construction, according to Paul Morris, Utopia’s executive director...
Nortel to build Iraqi optical backbone
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks has been awarded a contract to build a nationwide optical backbone network for Iraq’s only wireline telecom carrier...
AT&T debuts optical bandwidth-on-demand
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T today announced a new optical service that delivers bandwidth-on-demand, enabling customers to use AT&T’s self-service portal to administer their Sonet networks...
Comptel: XO strengthens wholesale push
By: By Carol Wilson
XO Communications added two more pieces to its wholesale puzzle today, announcing completion of the 18,000-mile fiber optic network and a business realignment that separates its wholesale operation from its sales to large enterprise customers...
FTTH Con: Fiber-connected homes top 1 million
By: By Ed Gubbins
LAS VEGAS--The number of North American homes connected directly to fiber has surpassed 1 million, according to a report released Thursday by Render Vanderslice & Associates...
FTTH Con: Verizon FiOS ads keep it simple
By: By Ed Gubbins
LAS VEGAS--In its marketing campaign to attract consumers to its fiber-to-the-premises triple-play service, Verizon Communications is employing the “KISS” principal: keep it simple, stupid...
Verizon planning local content unit
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon is beginning to assemble an editorial staff for a new FiOS TV channel that will feature highly local content...
FiOS TV reaches Indiana
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Tuesday announced plans to deploy FiOS TV in Fort Wayne, Ind., in 2007, marking its first video service in that state...
San Antonio developer chooses AT&T Uverse
By: By Carol Wilson
A ground-breaking high-rise residential development in San Antonio is counting on AT&T’s new U-verse bundling voice, data and video service to help attract and retain upscale urban dwellers....
Verizon multi-room DVR differentiates FiOS
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon’s new multi-room DVR capability creates a competitive differentiator for the service provider’s FiOS TV service, Bruce McGregor, Digital Home analyst for Current Analysis, said Tuesday. But the service provider must work out a few kinks. ...
