Verizon owns 81% of U.S. FTTH subs
By Ed Gubbins
Verizon Communications owns about 81% of all fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) subscribers in the United States, according to a report released today from Ovum-RHK...
AT&T announces largest FTTP build
By Carol Wilson
AT&T today announced its largest fiber-to-the-premises network build-out to date, reaching a 20,000-home master-planned community near Houston, as part of Project Lightspeed....
Seattle seeks input on citywide FTTP
By Ed Gubbins
The city of Seattle is moving forward in its consideration of a citywide fiber-to-the-premises network...
Verizon rolling out FiOS features
By Carol Wilson
Verizon today launched the first of what it promises will be many distinctive features of its FiOS TV service--one-touch “widgets” that immediately display local weather and traffic information...
Verizon extends public interest programming
By Carol Wilson
Verizon has agreed to offer public interest programming and national organizations focused on civil rights and diversity as part of the video-on-demand package for its FiOS TV service...
Minnesota may test the Utopia model
By Ed Gubbins
A group of small towns in northeastern Minnesota is considering a multi-municipal fiber project similar to Utah's Utopia project. If pursued, the effort...
Verizon adds Disney soap channel
By Carol Wilson
Verizon has added a channel for soap opera fans to its exclusive set of Disney channels. Soapnetic, a broadband channel for Disney fans is available exclusively to Verizon broadband customers from Disney-ABC Television Group....
TDS extends Calix use to incumbent world
By Vince Vittore
Calix today announced that TDS Telecom has expanded its use of the C7 multiservice access platform (MSAP) to include TDS’ incumbent telco territories. Previously, the company has been using the C7 only in its TDS Metrocom group, which provides CLEC services outside of its ILEC territory. ...
TELECOMNEXT: Wave7 Optics announces two new customers
By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS: Wave7 Optics this week announced two new customers who represent two new sale categories in which it expects major growth. ...
Verizon courts MDUs with FiOS
By Carol Wilson
Verizon today unveiled its plans for delivering FiOS to multiple-dwelling units. While the company has already wired about 57,000 such units nationally, Verizon is now touting that effort as it gets more aggressive in its sales....
Consumer group: Video competition working in Texas
By Carol Wilson
A new consumer group, claiming independence from industry funding, says its research shows consumers are benefiting from Verizon’s entry into the Texas video market, even if they don’t subscribe to its service...
This winter saw highest FTTH growth ever
By Ed Gubbins
Though fiber deployment typically slows in winter months, the growth of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) deployments reached its highest level ever this winter, according to data released today by the Fiber-to-the-Home Council and the Telecommunications Industry Association....
WWP lands North Kansas City
By Carol Wilson
North Kansas City, Mo., will use World Wide Packets technology to build a fiber-to-the-premises network, the company announced today. ...
Guadalupe Valley grows up
By Tim McElligott
Who wouldn't want to live in a place named Guadalupe Valley? By the rate of growth in certain parts of that community, it would seem the answer is: nobody...
4 BR, WD FLRS, FTTH
By Vince Vittore
In the old saw about real estate, Brambleton, Va., a planned community, would seem to have everything going for it...
Verizon’s Yahoo! FiOS service goes live
By Ed Gubbins
Verizon Communications formally launched its Yahoo! broadband service today, which offers a range of content and applications for broadband users, including subscribers of Verizon’s FiOS fiber-to-the-premises service...
NEC America back in GPON hunt
By Ed Gubbins
After abandoning the passive optical networking (PON) market three years ago, NEC America has thrown its hat into the ring of equipment vendors selling Gigabit PON (GPON) gear....
Paris to build citywide FTTx
By Ed Gubbins
The city of Paris will select a vendor this year to assist in the construction of a citywide fiber network, the French press reported last week...
CES: Seidenberg touts FiOS TV, gaming network
By Vince Vittore
LAS VEGAS--Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg today said at the International CES event that the company’s new video service would provide a much richer and more personalized experience than the competitive cable offerings. (Photo: Photo: AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh)...
FiOS TV gains Texas momentum
By Carol Wilson
Verizon today is rolling out its FiOS TV service to portions of six Texas communities, in its first use of that state’s new video franchise law. ...
SureWest to deploy FTTP HDTV
By Vince Vittore
SureWest Communications this week is announcing it will become the first company in the U.S to offer high-definition TV over an IP-based fiber-to-the-premises network...
OEN eyes national triple-play market
By Carol Wilson
A new service provider with major national ambitions in the triple-play space made its debut last week at the FTTH Conference in Las Vegas, promising...
FTTH: Hurricanes won’t hinder La. muni project
By Ed Gubbins
LAS VEGAS--The substantial fiber-to-the-premises project proposed in Lafayette, La., will proceed unaffected by the hurricanes that have ravaged the Gulf Coast this summer, Mayor Joey Durel assured attendees at the Fiber-to-the-Home Conference today...
FTTH Con: Utopia retailers, customers grow
By Ed Gubbins
LAS VEGAS--More than a thousand customers are now being served by Utah’s multi-state public wholesale network, Utopia, according to Paul Morris, Utopia’s executive director, who provided an update on the project to attendees of the Fiber-to-the-Home Conference this week. Morris, who lives in Murray, Utah, became a customer himself about three weeks ago. ...
FTTH: New optical entertainment company debuts
By Carol Wilson
A new kind of service provider is making its debut at this week’s FTTH Council conference in Las Vegas. Optical Entertainment Network is a retail and wholesale provider of Triple Play services that is currently operating in Houston but has plans to go national. ...
