CenturyLink: Universal broadband depends on public, private partners
The US federal government’s universal broadband goals can only be achieved by public and private entities working together, according to Tom Gerke, executive vice chairman of CenturyLink, whose brand recently supplanted that of its latest acquisition, Embarq....
Study: Margins decline in small telcos’ CLEC operations
Although Independent telcos have fared better in the competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) market than many other companies, that business has been disappointing in recent years. ...
Adtran offers bonded copper to the node
Adtran is introducing new equipment for deploying bonded copper to the node, offering carriers a quicker less expensive way to increase bandwidth to customers than deploying fiber....
Study: Independents see 4% wireless margins
Major telcos such as AT&T and Verizon increasingly are relying on their wireless businesses to help make up for declines in their traditional landline voice business, but that strategy has been more difficult for small independent telcos, as data from the 2009 Telergee Benchmark Study shows. ...
Study: Independent telcos still heavily dependent on access revenues
Despite significant declines, many small independent telcos are still heavily dependent on access revenues, which they collect from other carriers for connecting calls to and from their customers. ...
Telco Systems to offer managed surveillance opportunity
Telco Systems is leveraging its parent company’s purchase of Vigilant Technologies to enable its service provider customers to offer managed video surveillance services as part of integrated voice and data offerings. ...
Faster images mean faster diagnosis and happier patients
Holy Name has made a name for itself on the cutting edge of medical technology being the first hospital in New Jersey to perform Cardiac PET/CT stress testing, a process that is available at only a handful of U.S. medical institutions ...
FCC probes open community fiber access costs
The Federal Communications Commission is seeking comment on the cost of deploying community-based fiber access networks to anchor tenants such as hospitals, schools and libraries....
TV Everywhere and the end of free TV
The pay TV providers are already laying the groundwork for their response to disintermediation from free online TV sites, but the best way to turn online eyeballs into profit is still a topic up for discussion....
Metaswitch finalizes reorg on top of strong ’09 results
On the heels of announcing solid results for its fiscal year, Metaswitch Networks unveiled its new corporate structure and some changes in leadership at the top of the company. ...
Ciena CEO: Nortel deal would make us ‘largest’ in North American optical Ethernet
Ciena’s $521-million bid for Nortel Networks’ optical and metro Ethernet business would be a transformative one. The company’s CEO, Gary Smith, spoke with Ed Gubbins today about the deal’s implications....
AT&T top gun again in JD Power TV ratings
Telecom service providers and AT&T in particular were the big winners in JD Power and Associates’ 2009 US Residential Television Service Satisfaction Study, released today. ...
iUHBA’s audacious 10G broadband plan
His associates put him in the “top 1% of visionaries in the world,” he says. And next spring he plans to start rolling out 10-Gb/s broadband to millions of US homes. So who is Neal Lachman? ...
HomePNA driving down install times
IPTV installation times are dropping, in some cases to an average of under three hours, largely because service providers are using HomePNA technology to avoid the need for rewiring,......
FTTH still growing, but needs marketing push
The economy did slow the rate of growth of fiber-to-the-home deployment, but even a miserable housing market didn’t stop FTTH from growing, according to the annual survey conducted for the FTTH Council by RVA Marketing Associates....
RUS wants input to improve stimulus application process
The Rural Utility Service is “painfully aware” of problems in the application process for federal broadband stimulus funding, RUS Deputy Administrator Jessica Zufolo told the 2009 FTTH Council Conference & Expo audience ...
Let the stimulus challenges begin!
Incumbents can now step up to rebut federal funding applicants who say their areas are unserved or underserved by broadband...
MDUs become hottest FTTH market
Verizon’s push in major metro areas drives vendor action to make distribution technology more MDU friendly...
Verizon Hub killed; Is 'fourth-screen' doomed?
Verizon Wireless today confirmed it has halted production and sales of the Verizon Hub, an in-home multimedia and VoIP-capable device it launched to much fanfare earlier this year....
Cinci Bell picks Motorola GPON
Motorola announced this week that Cincinnati Bell will use its GPON and RF video technology, marking another North American win. ...
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