Georgia is the latest state to become engaged in a community broadband fight with the introduction of SB 313, the Broadband Investment Equity Act.
Last week, SB 313, the Broadband Investment Equity Act, was introduced in the Georgia Senate. This bill, …
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) may not be bringing FiOS to Boston proper anytime soon, but residential and business customers in the nearby city of Medford may be soon be able to take advantage of the service as the telco has applied for a license to operate in th…
Both AT&T and Verizon saw continued strong growth in wireless in this week’s earnings reports, but took a bit of a beating in terms of DSL subscriber counts in their un-upgraded markets and overall broadband growth. Verizon lost 103,000 DSL lines durin…
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) is extending its Private IP network services to more regions in Africa and the Middle East to better respond to the greater demand from businesses establishing locations in these emerging markets.
Multinational corporation customers …
MTS Allstream (Toronto: MBT.TO) continued make good on its aggressive fiber buildout throughout 2011 and into 2012 as a way to attract more business customers.
In 2011, the service provider added 299 buildings to its network, including 75 in Q4, bringi…
You’ll recall that last year, after four years of lobbying by Time Warner Cable and CenturyLink, North Carolina passed a law seriously restricting the right of local communities to wire themselves for broadband — even if local incumbents wouldn’t. Nei…
Cablevision took a massive public relations beating four months ago after an FCC study showed that the company failed to provide the speeds they advertised 50% of the time. Since then we’d noted that Cablevision had been quietly bumping delivered speed…
H3G, an Austrian wireless operator, has become the latest service provider to incorporate 100G optical technology on its optical backhaul network to support the consumer’s demand for wireless data.
The wireless operator, which says it handles the large…
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Last week we noted that Google’s effort to deploy 1 Gbps fiber in Kansas City had run face first into some bureaucracy, with delays being caused over debate about pole fiber connection rates and the physical placement of lines. Google apparently believ…
By Sean Buckley & Samantha Bookman
Which providers have taken the leap and begun upgrading their networks to 100G? Last year saw a flurry of activity in this segment of the broadband market, particularly during the second half of 2011, as providers…