AT&T pushes U-Verse into muni fiber hotbed  

By Ed Gubbins

AT&T’s deployment of U-Verse services in Tennessee, commenced this week, could provide an unusual showcase of three-way competition in the country’s most active hotbed for municipal fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP)....

Nokia Siemens extends multi-haul gear both ways 

By Ed Gubbins

Nokia Siemens unveiled the latest release of its Surpass hiT 7300 metro/regional network platform today, boosting capacity for ultralong-haul links and extending its reach further into metro optical networks....

Strigl: U.S. telecom industry unfairly maligned 

By Carol Wilson

LAS VEGAS--Verizon President and COO Denny Strigl took on the critics of the U.S. telecom industry Wednesday in his NXTcomm08 keynote speech, saying the U.S. leads the world in broadband and mobile “in the ways that count”...

VoIP on the verge, FTTP spending strong 

By Joan Engebretson

Although Independent telcos that have deployed voice over IP are in the minority today, that won't be true much longer...

Pushing fiber into field and future 

By Ed Gubbins

Twin Lakes Co-op brings fiber into the mix for upcoming services...

Bernstein's bottom-line man 

By Carol Wilson

Craig Moffett is no fan of FiOS, but he thinks YouTube may boost AT&T and Verizon...

Building the 21st century central office 

By Ed Gubbins

For more than a century, the central office is where the telecommunications industry has hung its hat. But the job for which these unassuming but ubiquitous brick houses were built, and the technology within them, are changing dramatically...

Calix promises more bandwidth and flexibility 

By Carol Wilson

Two new products announced today by Calix are aimed at helping service providers address the surge in demand for bandwidth by increasing both capacity and flexibility at the edge of the network....

Alcatel-Lucent carves out managed broadband offerings 

By Ed Gubbins

Alcatel-Lucent today announced an update to its triple-play platform designed to add higher service quality options to best-effort broadband...

Sharedband’s bonded broadband gains traction 

By Ed Gubbins

Sharedband is making progress bringing its bonded-broadband offering up to speed, billing US customers for the first time in May while it works to sign up more...

Zayo closes seventh acquisition, eighth to follow 

By Ed Gubbins

Zayo Group has closed its seventh acquisition and is working on eight, the regional network provider announced today...

Verizon may expand FiOS, rural wireless 

By Ed Gubbins

Verizon Communications is considering expanding its fiber-to-the-premises network beyond its original target of 18 million homes, according to the company’s chief financial officer...

Mushroom shrinks broadband bonding gear for SMBs 

By Ed Gubbins

Mushroom Networks today introduced a half-sized version of its broadband bonding appliance designed for small and medium business users (SMBs)....

Bell tolls for wholesale-only muni fiber 

By Ed Gubbins

The sale of the Provo, Utah, municipal fiber-to-the-premises network this month to greenfield FTTP provider Broadweave Networks sounded a death knell for the wholesale-only municipal fiber approach...

Cable regains high-speed Internet momentum 

By Carol Wilson

Through 2006, Information Gatekeepers Inc. had predicted in its quarterly high-speed access reports that telcos were positioned to overtake cable's early lead in broadband deployment. That prediction changed in 2007...

Analyst: Occam’s Fairpoint deal could be worth $125M  

Occam Networks’ recent contract to supply a broadband access rollout by Fairpoint Communications could yield $125 million in revenue, according to an estimate by Andrew Schmitt, an analyst with Nyquist Capital...

Broadweave to heal iProvo by shedding wholesale fiber model 

By Ed Gubbins

Broadweave Networks, a provider of fiber-based triple-play services in greenfield developments, has acquired the municipal fiber network of Provo, Utah, vowing to improve the operation by replacing its open-access wholesale model with one in which Broadweave both owns the network and offers services over it...

By the numbers 

By Rich Karpinski

The telecom industry is changing and evolving so rapidly these days, it's sometimes hard to keep up. It's also difficult to separate hype from reality and real trends from blind alleys. For that reason, we thought we'd take a look at a (large) handful of key industry numbers, figures and metrics hard data or at least very strong, educated guesses to create a snapshot of where the industry is today, and where it's heading...

MDU exclusivity ban breeds questions, fears 

By Ed Gubbins

The Federal Communications Commission claimed to have “opened the door” to competition in March by banning exclusive contracts for bundled services in multidwelling units (MDUs). ...

Alcatel-Lucent: As CDMA declines, W-CDMA steps up 

By Kevin Fitchard

Alcatel-Lucent doubled its sales in Wideband CDMA in the first quarter as the synergies of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies' merged UMTS portfolios begin to emerge, company officials said today...

Rural FTTP 'perfectly economical,' says muni fiber veteran 

By Ed Gubbins

The notion that fiber-to-the-premises is economically prohibitive in rural areas is a myth, according to Dr. Timothy Nulty, director of ValleyFiber, a nonprofit organization focused on bringing municipal fiber to towns in Vermont’s Upper Valley...

Verizon income up, wireline sagging 

By Carol Wilson

Verizon isn’t seeing the ill effects of a slowing economy, Verizon officials said today in their first quarter earnings call. Verizon Wireless business continues to grow, deadbeat accounts actually fell and FiOS customers are actually spending more money with Verizon, CFO Doreen Toben reported. Verizon is actually planning to increase prices in the second quarter, Toben added....

Gambling on Utopia 

By Ed Gubbins

Municipalities participating in Utah's 11-city wholesale fiber-to-the-premises project, Utopia, are being asked to double down on that investment in the face of its current financial shortfalls...

Panning for MDU gold 

By Carol Wilson

Major telcos are targeting apartment dwellers for video services, spurred on by an FCC ruling and a new kind of fiber...

Qwest comes clean on 20Mb/s FTTN 

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...