Verizon DSL growth withers in FiOS' shadow
By Ed Gubbins
Verizon's DSL business is slowing drastically as the company focuses on its fiber-to-the-home deployment...
Qwest greenlights $300M FTTN rollout
By Ed Gubbins
Qwest Communications’ directors have approved its management’s fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) deployment plans, new chief executive officer Ed Mueller said during the company’s quarterly earnings call today. But the company isn’t yet saying what set of services will justify the strategy...
Verizon DSL giving way to FiOS
By Ed Gubbins
Verizon Communications reported another sharp drop in DSL customer additions in the third quarter as it continued to rack up customers for its FiOS fiber-to-the-home services, some of which made the switch from DSL...
Verizon gives a glimpse of futuristic FiOS apps
By Carol Wilson
BASKING RIDGE, N.J.--As its FiOS network nears the end of its fourth year, when it was projected to pass 7 million households, Verizon this week gave the media a glimpse of what has been going on behind the curtains to add new functionality to the system...
Verizon’s FiOS gets 20-20 vision
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...
Render defends his FTTH data
By Ed Gubbins
Michael Render, president of RVA Market Research and Consulting, is defending the data in his most recent fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) report following questions from another analyst about its accuracy...
FTTH data under renewed scrutiny
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...
Telephony LIVE: Megacarrier RFPs loom large over tech innovation
By Ed Gubbins
DALLAS--Major carrier consolidation is adding both price and time pressure to equipment suppliers, raising questions about the prospects for technological innovation, according to attendees here at the Telephony LIVE show....
Fiber and the flood
By Ed Gubbins
Last week’s Fiber-to-the-Home conference was turgid with talk of a coming deluge of traffic that threatens to choke today’s telecom infrastructure...
Q&A: Verizon's Terry Denson
Terry Denson, vice president of FiOS TV content strategy and acquisition for Verizon, spoke at the Fiber-to-the-Home Conference in Orlando last week...
Advertiser claims Verizon inflated FiOS numbers
By Sarah Reedy
Less than two weeks after Verizon Communications celebrated its two-year anniversary of FiOS TV, an advertiser is accusing the carrier of fudging subscriber data for the fiber-based service...
FTTH Con: Start-up opportunities abound in triple-play
By Ed Gubbins
ORLANDO--The battle between telcos and cable operators to bring triple-play services to consumers is creating a variety of opportunities for start-up companies, according to Jim Jones, managing director of Scale Ventures, a venture capital firm...
FTTH Con: U.S. FTTH connections top 2 million
By Ed Gubbins
ORLANDO--Fiber-to-the-home connections in the U.S. have more than doubled from a year ago to surpass the 2 million mark, according to data released today from Render Vanderslice and Associates...
FTTH Con: Corning gets the bends
By Ed Gubbins
ORLANDO--Corning introduced a new highly flexible fiber at the Fiber-to-the-Home Conference this week that can make sharp turns with minimal attenuation of the signal it carries, easing deployment for carriers...
FTTH Con: Alcatel-Lucent details GPON’s successor
By Ed Gubbins
ORLANDO--With major carriers such as Verizon Communications deploying gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) gear for fiber-to-the-home (FTTH), Alcatel-Lucent today described some likely successors to GPON at the FTTH Conference today...
Cisco gets into fiber-to-the-MDU
By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems entered the fiber-to-the-multidwelling-unit market today with new customer premises gear based on an active Ethernet architecture and a new proprietary protocol to add resiliency....
The last 100 yards
By Tim McElligott
The last mile of a fiber network is mostly stable and standardized -- right up to the point it crosses into the home, where it is often neither...
Tellabs moves ONTs indoors
By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs has introduced an optical network terminal (ONT) designed to be deployed inside customer homes, Chief Executive Officer Krish Prabhu said during an investor conference this week...
U-verse cracks 100,000 mark
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...
Zayo plans broadband success in the boonies
By Carol Wilson
Two telecom industry veterans are banking on growing demand for bandwidth in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities to launch a new broadband services company that will take competition where it doesn’t exist today and attempt to bring profits to struggling fiber-based operations....
Mueller Time
By Ed Gubbins
As a longtime Bell guy, Qwest Communications' new CEO, Edward Mueller, is likely to avoid the kind of culture clashes ignited by his predecessor, Joe Naccio....
XO lights more cross-country fiber
By Ed Gubbins
XO Communications is lighting another fiber pair along its cross-country backbone network to keep up with demand for long-haul transport services, it announced today....
Verizon earnings, revenues up on wireless
By Carol Wilson
Verizon reported strong earnings and revenue growth this morning, based in large part on Verizon Wireless’ continued strong performance ...
Embarq’s outlook improves
By Ed Gubbins
Embarq raised its revenue and earnings expectations for the year this week as it saw increased market penetration....
Tellabs' BellSouth FTTC spending picks up
By Ed Gubbins
Spending from AT&T and its constituent companies improved in the second quarter but haven’t yet returned to the levels seen before last year’s merger with BellSouth, according to Tellabs...
