Sep 10
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Intentionally muddying the line between core and last-mile fiber is a misleading tactic many ISPs use to confuse consumers into thinking DSL or cable are as robust as fiber to the home (tip: they aren’t). But while these ads are misleading, very rarely does a company intentionally lie about running fiber to the home nationally [...]
Home-run fiber is an increasingly popular choice for both technologies.
Home-run fiber is an increasingly popular choice for both technologies.
Crown Fibre Holdings, the holding company charged with building out New Zealand’s Ultra-Fast Broadband Initiative, is getting close to finalizing contracts with three regional fiber service providers. After whittling down the proposals it received to a shortlist of fourteen, Crown Fibre has chosen NorthPower (Whangarei area), the Central North Island Fibre Consortium (Hamilton, Tauranga, Cambridge, [...]
One Communications, a multi-regional competitive service provider, is now set on plotting out its own future. Although it did not give any specific details, the multi-regional service provider has asked Blackstone Advisory Services L.P. to be its advisor as it considers its own possible merger and acquisitions. “The process surrounding these transactions further solidified our belief that [...]
Sep 10
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Verizon has made no secret of their interest in expanding beyond broadband and eventually becoming a company that offers you, well, everything — including home automation and security services. To that end, Verizon this week has invested in home automation outfit 4Home, and in January at CES, Verizon and 4Home will be showing off home [...]
We’ve explored how Australia is planning to build a nationwide fiber to the home network providing 100 Mbps speeds to 93% of the population, with the other 7% getting 12 Mbps service via satellite or wireless (it even required paying $11 billion for an incumbent opponent). Ars Technica explores how this network was a key [...]
Sep 10
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Frontier Communications, fresh off their $8.5 billion acquisition of millions of Verizon DSL and landline customers, has been downplaying the fact the company isn’t offering speeds that can successfully compete with cable in most markets. While Frontier CEO Maggie Wilderotter has been promising these customers a “fast future,” the company really isn’t in a financial [...]
For several years AT&T and Microsoft have hinted at the ability to use an Xbox 360 as your IPTV set top, but the offering never seems to materialize. That may be changing soon, according to a tipster writing to Engadget, who notes that Xbox 360 support references have popped up in AT&T’s U-Verse support database. [...]