Upgrading in Appalachia
By: By Sarah Reedy
Even in a town with a population that would not begin to fill the stands at Churchill Downs, Mountain Telephone's Allen Gillum wants his customers to know there's nothing you can do in metropolitan America that you can't do in eastern Kentucky...
SureWest's road to perfection goes through IneoQuest
By: By Tim McElligott
SureWest Communications is in a high-definition race for customers in Northern California and says it's winning. However, it's not just the number of HD channels that matters, it's the quality of the content...
Bluegrass Cellular first up to the mic
By: By Tim McElligott
The Kentucky carrier is the first to roll out karaoke-themed ringtones...
Independents pioneer PBT
By: By Ed Gubbins
Leave it to the Independent rural carriers once again to blaze the trail of a new technology...
Defending rural wireless
By: By Tim McElligott
The NTCA's Kelly Bond speaks up for rural carriers in the 700 MHz auction...
Dossier: Curt Stamp, ITTA
In order to get their voices heard in Washington, a very select group of mid-sized Independent telephone companies came together in 1994 to form the Independent Telephone and Telecommunications Alliance...
Faraway eyes
By: By Mark Donahue
Asentria aims to help Indies monitor their remote equipment sites...
Wireless still an option for rural broadband
By: By Carol Wilson
Wi-Fi loses favor in some big cities as the business case implodes...
Broadband at low frequencies
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CTC is using former TV spectrum for broadband and VoIP, and more could follow its lead next year...
CenturyTel brings Broadband TV to 25 states
By: By Tmi McElligott
CenturyTel launched a Broadband TV product last week that is immediately available to anyone with the company’s broadband service...
VON: Landline not dead yet, Embarq CEO says
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--Landline companies have a future, if they capitalize on convergence possibilities and learn how to make complex services simple for customers to use, Embarq CEO Dan Hesse told the VON crowd today...
TelcoTV: IP Prime adds three rural telcos
By: By Carol Wilson
ATLANTA--In the latest in its series of coming-out parties, IP-Prime announced three new telco customers for its IPTV service here at the TelcoTV show today...
Microsoft TV signs first U.S. indie
By: By Carol Wilson
Microsoft TV, the preferred brand of many larger telecom incumbents worldwide, has signed its first U.S. independent telco customer, nTelos...
Martin rebuffs VZW’s open access demands
By: By Kevin Fitchard
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin today said he would not give in to Verizon Wireless’ demands to remove the open access requirements from the upcoming 700 MHz auction...
WiMAX sweeping down the plains
By: By Carol Wilson
WiMAX is bringing the first broadband connectivity to rural communities in southeastern Oklahoma, Nortel Networks and three service providers announced today. ...
WKRC in Cincinnati
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The "C" is for convergence, which is what Cincinnati Bell is after as the first U.S. carrier to launch unlicensed mobile access and bridge the mobile phone with the home Wi-Fi network...
Cassidy stares down Cincinnati competition
By: By Tim McElligott
With the clock running down on a chance to get in front of the competition, Jack Cassidy, Cincinnati Bell CEO, told a crowd of mostly small Independent telcos at CoBank's Communications Industry Executive Forum last month that there is no formula for success...
Embarq: Year Two
By: By Ed Gubbins
Heading into its second year as a standalone company, the former Sprint operation is building a business on fixed/mobile convergence. But with revenue and access lines still declining, can it reinvent itself fast enough?...
Alyeska: The great land
By: By Tim McElligott
Taking a wrong turn in the vast wilderness of Alaska can be disastrous -- or it can lead you to a place like this...
Feeling left out
By: By Mark Donahue
When news surfaced in late August that a New Jersey teenager had rigged his iPhone to work with T-Mobile's network, a message may have been sent to big wireless carriers clinging to handset exclusivity...
TDS gets big embrace from Ethernet
By: By Tim McElligott
Used for Internet backhaul today, TDS Telecom sees everything over Ethernet down the road...
Nsight turns a triple play
By: By Sarah Reedy
Nortel rounds out Nsight's offerings with an end-to-end IPTV solution, bringing greater TV programming options to the upper Midwest...
Competitors: Can video cash replace USF cow?
By: By Tim McElligott
Qwest executive vice president Dan Yost, Comcast senior vice president Gary Traver and Janco Partners director of research Donna Jaegers gave the outsiders' look to rural telcos recently at CoBank's Communications Industry Executive Forum...
Windstream CEO: RLEC M&A on hold ‘til ‘08
By: By Ed Gubbins
Though further consolidation is needed in the rural telecom carrier space, it will probably have to wait until next year, when the credit environment improves, according to Jeff Gardner, CEO of Windstream, a large, rural telco...
Verizon, FairPoint under regulatory scrutiny
By: By Carol Wilson
FairPoint and Verizon officials remain optimistic that the $2.7 billion deal that merges Verizon’s Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont operations into FairPoint will be approved by regulators, despite public complaints and controversy concerned the merger plan announced last January...
