Downturn a great time to recruit exec talent
Telecom companies need to use the economic downturn and potential business slowdown to assess and upgrade their leadership talent, focusing on the skills needed for the future...
What the broadband stimulus package means to rural telcos
Less than a week after the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was signed into law, some additional details about the program to award $7.2 billion for broadband have emerged...
CenturyTel eyes 2010 LTE rollout
CenturyTel described plans to roll out Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology in 2010 as a means to provide not only broadband access in rural areas but high-speed data mobility elsewhere....
Indatel: No plans to compete with nationwide carriers
Despite reports to the contrary, there are no plans for a new nationwide independent carrier to emerge this year through the interconnection of smaller networks...
DirecTV to woo mobile industry this year
DirecTV will work to court mobile operators as a key priority for this year, the satellite video provider said during its fourth-quarter earnings call today....
NRTC freezes IPTV rates
In a struggling economy and without IP Prime, rural consortium will hold rates for its expanded basic programming package at 2008 levels...
MetroPCS goes live in NYC, Boston
Regional wireless operator MetroPCS doesn’t look so regional anymore. Today it announced it has launched its unlimited voice service in the greater New York City and Boston metropolitan regions...
Making sense of Magic Jack's math
Wireless substitution may be a lot less prevalent than many believe, if the Magic Jack voice-over-IP (VoIP) service is actually succeeding as its founder claims, said Bernstein Research analyst Craig Moffett....
Study: Social networking still a telco opportunity
Telecom service providers can still participate in and benefit from social networking trends – if they aim to add value to the medium rather than try to compete with Facebook or MySpace head-to-head....
Zhone execs take pay cuts as sales stall
After falling short of its goal of flat revenue growth in the fourth quarter, Zhone Technologies employees are taking pay cuts, and the biggest cuts will come at the top....
"Digital Britain" report falls flat
A much-anticipated effort by the British government to outline how broadband networks will be the backbone of a recovering digital economy today landed with a bit of a thud....
Actiontec makes DSL provisioning easier
Actiontec Electronics is making it easier for smaller telcos to customize their DSL modems and to make deployment simpler for consumers....
Tellabs braces for FTTP sales drop-off
Tellabs reported a 13% year-over-year revenue decline in the fourth quarter but warned of a greater drop to come, predicting first-quarter revenue to be down 19% to 26% from a year earlier, to between $345 million and $375 million....
Blogs and online sources influencing tech buyers
Telecom service providers need to be monitoring what is said about them on the Web and learning from what they read in order to reach out to technology buyers in a positive way...
Pat Riordan
HISTORY: Nsight traces its roots to 1910, when it was known as Pulaski Merchants and Farmers Telephone Co., a local exchange carrier serving a small rural...
Strength in Numbers
It's often said that economies of scale are critical to success in the telecom business. More and more small telcos are finding they can get them by banding...
Navigating CMAS
Last September, wireless operators had to notify the FCC about whether they intended to participate in the Commercial Mobile Alert System program, which would allow the president, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Weather Service and myriad local emergency agencies to blast text alerts across their networks in times of emergency....
The Deals Drive On
In 2007, executives in the rural telecom space decreed that, given the rocky credit market at the time, much-needed consolidation in the space likely would pause until late 2008, when they believed markets would be friendlier....
Toledo Telephone's view from over the top
Toledo Telephone, an independent local exchange carrier serving Toledo, Wash., was one of the first to experiment with IPTV. ...
The 700 MHz Waiting Game
The spectrum in the 700 MHz band that was auctioned last year is well-suited for rural areas because of its excellent propagation characteristics....
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