Churn plagues Provo's muni fiber network
By Ed Gubbins
Defending the city's wholesale fiber-to-the-premises network initiative this month, Lewis Billings, the mayor of Provo, Utah, told local press that subscriber growth has been substantial over the life of the project...
Advertising chaos
By Carol Wilson
Telecom service providers are entering the advertising game
just as this multibillion-dollar market appears to be coming apart at the seams...
AT&T: Pair-bonding to come in ‘late 2008’
By Ed Gubbins
AT&T said today it expects to begin pair-bonding advanced DSL lines in “late 2008,” pushing back the expected arrival of what the company says is an important part of its fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) initiative...
Why Ciena acquired Worldwide Packets
By Ed Gubbins
Ciena’s surprise announcement of its plans to acquire Ethernet access vendor Worldwide Packets left some analysts scratching their heads yesterday, largely because Ciena declined to offer many details on key justifications for the deal and its terms...
Qwest charts different video course
By Carol Wilson
While AT&T and Verizon aggressively deploy video services via their U-Verse and FiOS TV offerings, respectively, Qwest Communications is pursuing a very different video strategy...
Analyst: AT&T may replace some FTTC with FTTP
By Ed Gubbins
AT&T may deploy fiber to the premises where it previously planned — and even now has — fiber to the curb, according to Simon Leopold, an analyst for Morgan Keegan....
Provo, Utah, overhauls iProvo muni fiber model
By Ed Gubbins
The city council of Provo, Utah, is conferring with consultants it hired this month to help determine why its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network isn’t performing as hoped and to overhaul the model...
NetCracker takes NExT step at France Telecom
By Tim McElligott
For NetCracker, getting a software contract from a company the size of France Telecom is one thing. Getting certified two years later as the corporate de facto standard is another...
Qwest not taking IPTV bait
By Carol Wilson
Qwest Communications will invest an extra $300 million in capital to build fiber-to-the-node networks to reach 1.5 million homes in 20 markets but is not planning to deliver IPTV service over those networks, Qwest Chairman and CEO Ed Mueller told the investment community today...
Zayo buys Citynet wholesale unit
By Carol Wilson
Zayo Group continued its buying ways, announcing Thursday it has acquired the wholesale unit of Citynet, the Tulsa, Okla.-based service provider...
In the Spotlight: Bill DeMuth, SureWest Communications
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...
New extra-flexible fiber put to the test
By Ed Gubbins
In October, Connexion Technologies which deploys wholesale fiber-to-the-premises networks became the first company to deploy a new type of fiber from Corning...
Special Report: Telephony's Best and Worst of 2007
We spent 2007 writing about the news and talking to news-makers. Now Telephony's editors tell you their highlights -- and lowlights -- of the year that was...
SureWest enters Kansas City through acquisition
By Ed Gubbins
SureWest Communications has agreed to acquire Everest Broadband for $173 million in cash in a deal that will roughly double SureWest’s triple-play subscriber base...
Eagle’s Houston fiber network for sale
By Ed Gubbins
Eagle Broadband is showing its Houston-area fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network to prospective buyers this week, having hired a broker to help sell the assets...
In the Spotlight: Zayo CEO Dan Caruso
By Carol Wilson
Telephony Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson spoke to Zayo Chief Executive Officer Dan Caruso about his company’s meteoric rise...
Verizon strikes back on wireless backhaul
By Carol Wilson
The empire is striking back on wireless backhaul. But instead of springing Darth Vader and robotic probes to seek out the rebel forces that have been courting wireless carriers with better backhaul solutions, Verizon Partner Solutions has decided to clean up its act...
Technology debates fueled OEN’s demise
By Ed Gubbins
Executives at Optical Entertainment Network haven’t been available to talk about what led the company to suddenly announce it was discontinuing all services this month. But sources close to the company say a combination of technology debates, deployment challenges and management turnover kept the company from finding the additional financing it needed...
Texas FTTH provider OEN goes dark
By Ed Gubbins
Optical Entertainment Network is mum on why it is discontinuing all services. Calls placed to the company’s offices are met only by a prerecorded message stating that all services are being discontinued “due to circumstances beyond our control.”...
Verizon field-tests 100 Gb/s FTTP transport
By Ed Gubbins
Verizon successfully completed its first field test of a 100 gigabit per second optical transmission on Friday, the company announced today, just days after trumpeting a 40 Gb/s deployment elsewhere...
TXP ushers in multivendor FTTP
By Ed Gubbins
Third-party optical network terminals could lower fiber network costs...
Verizon lights 40G network
By Carol Wilson
As promised earlier this year, Verizon Business has gone live with a 40 Gb/s network, using Juniper Networks’ T-series core routers to carry Internet traffic at that speed between Washington, D.C., and Chicago, and on its multi-protocol label switched network between Washington and New York City...
Surewest on the hunt for M&A
By Ed Gubbins
Surewest Communications is actively seeking acquisitions to help scale its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) business, the company said today, emphasizing that it is not looking only for properties in geographic proximity to its California network...
U-verse rollout to slow, cost more with Southeast expansion
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 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...
