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24/7 Fiber Network To Reach D.C.’s Underserved
24/7 Fiber Network has announced the expansion of its footprint into underserved markets throughout the Delmarva Peninsula and into the metro Washington, D.C. area.24/7 is constructing a dark fiber footprint deep into the Delmarva Peninsula, a large area on the East Coast of the United States occupied by portions of …(328 words) Related Topics: dark... »
US DOJ calls for FCC to release spectrum, focus on wireless broadband
The Department of Justice said wireless broadband services may be an attractive option for users without high-speed Internet access and could provide more competition to cable, fiber and DSL services. But such options can’t be possible unless federal regulators release more spectrum for mobile broadband services. The comments by the antitrust division of Justice were... »
Verizon Conducts World’s First 10 Gigabit-per-Second Fiber-to-the-Premises Field Test
WALTHAM, Mass. – Verizon is the first telecommunications company in the world to successfully field-test a passive optical network system known as XG-PON that can transmit data at 10 gigabits per second (Gbps) downstream and 2.4 Gbps upstream, four times as fast as the current top transmission speeds supporting the company’s all-fiber FiOS network. Related... »
The Wish List: 7 Things We Hope Will Come True in 2010
With 2009 coming to an end, it is not surprising that everyone is making predictions about what 2010 has in store. So instead, four of us — Liz, Stacey, Sebastian and I — have put together a wish list of seven things we hope come true in 2010. Facebook Goes Public – What Silicon Valley... »
PTA Annual Telecom Report 2008-09
Every year Pakistan Telecommunication Authority publish a PTA Annual Report covering all the major sectors of our telecommunication industry. The report is very useful for all those people who are either part of the telecommunication industry or are associated with it. This report also helps analyst in their analysis of Pakistan Telecom sector since... »
‘VoIP’ Named Industry of the Decade
According to IBISWorld, VoIP was named “Industry Of The Decade” besting even the search engine industry? Surely, you jest. You mean to tell me the VoIP industry beat Google’s, Yahoo’s, and MSN’s (now Bing’s) billions?... »
Silicon Valley Xmas Wish List Report For 2009
The great thing about the Internet is that you can get connected to just about everyone these days. Well this afternoon, my old friend Nick called me via his new SIP connection. It seems the new 100 meg fiber line to his winter abode has finally been connected, giving him even faster access. That... »
BT Hopes to Fast-track Fiber Broadband
BT, a company well known for dragging its feet when it comes to deploying a super-fast broadband network for its consumers, this morning surprised everyone by saying that it will ramp up the deployment of its ultra-speedy network and have it ready by the London Olympics in 2012. Incidentally, the 2012 date was promised... »
Why O2 Wants to Buy Jajah
O2, a division of Telefonica, a Spanish telecommunications company, is in talks to acquire Jajah, a VoIP startup, for about $200 million, Reuters reported today. The company had raised $35 million from various investors including Deutsche Telekom, Intel Capital and Sequoia Capital. According to some rumors, Microsoft and Cisco Systems were also bidding for... »
Momentum Telecom and Level 3 to provide VoIP ELS
Momentum Telecom, a provider of residential and business digital voice solutions, will be using Level 3 communications to provide VoIP enhanced local services (ELS). Momentum will put the majority of its local voice traffic onto Level 3’s fiber-based network streamlining its business and allowing companies operating their own Class 5 switches to provide IP-based local and... »
AT&T Mobile/Wireless – In Spin Control Mode
Let’s face it, AT&T made an error two years ago and miscalculated what the iPhone would mean. I don’t mean that people inside AT&T didn’t know what would happen. They did. Executives inside the mobile division expressed that it would take at least seven billion dollars to double the capacity of their aging mobile... »
AT&T Launches U-Verse/Smartphone Holiday Bundle
Talk about your integrated marketing campaigns. ATT Inc. is offering a $200 promo card for use toward a new smartphone … if you sign up for its U-Verse fiber-based residential entertainment service. New smartphone customer, new home sub – now that’s a two-fer ATT would dearly love to sign up.New …(206 words) ... »
Lexent Metro Connect Names Sales Director
Lexent Metro Connect, a provider of dark fiber networks in the New York Metropolitan area, has named Walter Cannon as director of enterprise sales. Cannon will also preside over indirect sales for Lexent. Cannon is responsible for leveraging his technology sales experience to further grow Lexent’s core dark fiber business. …(155 words) ... »
WindStream Buying Time With Acquisitions
IMPORTANT POINTS Windstream has agreed to buy Iowa Telecom for $530 million in cash and stock. Windstream recently crossed the 1 million broadband subscribers-mark. Windstream wants to be an industry consolidator. Windstream Corp., a Little Rock, Ark.-based local phone company focused on rural and smaller markets, said it’s agreed to buy a smaller rival, Iowa Telecom,... »
Sponsored WiFi Access, Sending Party Pays and The Future Of Media
We continue to see more of what I am calling the sponsored model of public WiFi. After all the municipal models failed, with city and county governments in many places buying into a very flawed model that was heavily overplayed by Earthlink and a group of advisors to cities, plus an over dependence on... »
Some Random Posts Worth Reading
Dean Bubley on The Android-Dean and I had dinner in San Diego a week ago Saturday at Flemings Steak House and Wine Bar in the Gaslamp. We enjoyed some excellent service from GM/Operating Partner Bob Andrews (he’s been Flemings Top Operating Partner four out of the last five years or so) and it was... »
Reason Given for Monday’s AT&T Web Mail Outage
ATT says it’s been able to fix a cut fiber-optic cable that disrupted Web mail service to customers Monday morning. The company says service was available again at 10:15 a.m. ET after being down for several hours.No specific word so far as to what caused the cable to be cut. (49 words) ... »
SlingMedia Founder Invests In Clicker, Joins BOD
Ever since Blake Krikorian left Sling Media, the place shifting startup that he sold to Echostar for $380 million in September 2007, he’s been lying low. Instead of trying to build yet another startup, he has been spending time trying to put together a killer home entertainment system that uses HDMI-over-fiber, dozens of iPod... »
Level 3 Increases New York Area Presence
Level 3 Communications Inc. (LVLT) has announced that it is expanding its operations and customer support in the greater New York area. Level 3 brings its extensive fiber-optic network, metro assets as well as a locally focused sales and customer support team to deliver a superior experience for mid-market enterprise customers …(272 words) ... »
AT&T Enters the TV Market: How Big Is the Prize?
AT&T (T) reported results last week that indicated strong performance in the company’s TV business. AT&T’s fiber optic TV service called U-Verse has added more subscribers so far than expected. By offering competitive TV-internet-phone ("triple play") bundles AT&T has drawn customers away from cable and satellite providers. We expect U-Verse TV... »
DVDs, On Demand, Netflix & Streaming Video By the Numbers
A few weeks ago, I relegated my 6-year-old Sony DVD player to exclusive CD playback duties and replaced it with a new, network-enabled Samsung Blu-Ray DVD player, which includes access to Netflix’s streaming service for that company’s subscribers. So I signed in and before you know it, I had wasted my entire weekend catching... »
Arris Group: Demand Should Remain Strong
Vahan Janjigian (Forbes) submits: Cable service providers rely on Arris Group (ARRS) to engineer the equipment and software needed to deliver video, voice, and data over broadband networks. During the first half of 2009, 30.4% of ARRS’s revenues came from Comcast (CMCSA). Time Warner Cable (TWC) contributed 19.2% and international customers accounted for 26.5%. The... »
10 Things IT Should Be Doing Today to Get More Resources
Information technology is critical to the success of any business. It’s the heart and soul of most organizations. Ok, maybe I’m a bit biased since I’m in IT and maybe it’s not the “heart and soul” of the company. But it certainly is the “engine” that helps the company going. Without good IT staff... »
AT&T’s Slowing Down on U-verse
AT&T executives have been shouting from the top of the rooftops that they are a wireless company, touting mobile as key to the carrier’s future. And while they have been making those pronouncements, Ma Bell has been quietly slowing down its U-verse deployments. Earlier today, in a note to his clients, John Hodulik, an... »
AT&T Bundles Broaden Appeal and Market
Fierce Wireless brought to light a new AT&T bundle plan aimed at small business. In essence it’s a one bill play combining wireless, wired and high speed Internet services, all starting at less than $100 a month. This is a way to simplify billing, and to get more of each customers business across their different... »
NSA Dark Black Fiber Line Cut Causes MIB to show up in seconds
Fiber? You didn’t see any fiber down there. There’s dark fiber, and then there’s really dark fiber, or what we’ll call “black” fiber. Construction crews inevitably will accidentally cut a fiber line when doing underground construction. It’s par for the course. However,what it isn’t par for the course is cutting into a fiber line... »
Ma Bell and Its Vanishing Phone Lines
Three years ago, the wireline revenues of U.S. phone companies were forecast to decline about 3.3 percent annually through 2009. Talk about underestimating those numbers — take a look at the following graph and you see that AT&T’s consumer line business is evaporating faster than raindrops in the Sahara. Roughly a year later,... »
Optimum Lightpath Rolls HD Voice
Optimum Lightpath has rolled out high-definition voice for New York metropolitan-area mid-sized and large businesses.The functionality runs via Optimum Lightpath’s hosted voice service, Cisco IP phones and its Ethernet-based fiber optic network.Since HD voice uses less bandwidth than standard G711 voice, it enables more bandwidth and improves IP transit. As …(126 words) ... »
4 Key Telecom Trends
Bullish Bankers submits: The world is seeing a move to on-demand information and mobile computing, evident by the explosion of smartphones in recent years. Furthermore, bandwidth demand has increased drastically as more people are emailing, texting, downloading applications and watching YouTube on their cell phones, thus requiring networks to be upgraded accordingly. ... »
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