Indie telco beat: Cobridge offers digital voice, Calix wins another rural deal
Rural telcos in Montana and Missouri also make progress with IPTV deployments by picking vendors
The independent telco beat this week featured news from a company that recently bought its way into some new markets, another contract for one of the sector’s busiest vendors, and IPTV-related deals for telcos in Montana and Missouri.
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-- Cobridge Communications announced it is rolling out its Cobridge Voice digital residential phone service to about 14,000 households in the vicinity of Marshall, Tex. Cobridge actually acquired the Marshall area subscribers and customers in markets in six other states from cable TV operator Charter Communications. Cobridge also is planning other upgrades involving DVR and HDTV services for later this year in Marshall and other markets.
-- Calix, which has been very busy on the indie telco front, was hired by Craw-Kan Telephone Cooperative in Kansas to supply its Calix B6 Ethernet Service Access Nodes (ESANs) to be deployed in several exchanges across its 33 exchange footprint. The carrier is using Active Ethernet and VDSL2 technologies to deliver broadband in these markets.
-- Montana’s Ronan Telephone will deploy IPTV middleware from Innovative Systems as it looks to deliver IPTV services to subscribers in western Montana. Ronan has worked with the South Dakota vendor in the past, and said it likes Innovative’s Virtual Remote capability.
-- GTC Broadband, a unit of Granby Telephone Co. in Granby, Mo., has chosen Entone’s media hub and receiver technology to support its IPTV services in Southwest Missouri. GTC will deploy Entone Janus media hubs and Amulet receivers to deliver advanced DVR and HDTV services.
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