Archive for April, 2010
France Telecom, while aware that an economic recovery is coming, has yet to see it have a true affect on its earnings. Plagued by a challenging economy and changing regulatory environment, France Telecom’s Q1 2010 Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) decreased 5.5 percent to $4.79 billion from $5.24 billion in Q1 2009, missing [...]
FCC chairman Julius Genachowski believes the only way that small businesses will be able to get easier access to broadband services will be by changing the focus of the current Universal Service Fund into a broadband fund and unleashing more wireless spectrum for mobile broadband. In his address to a broadband oversight meeting held by [...]
When Monroe, La.-based CenturyLink completes its acquisition of Qwest next year, there’s an obvious fear by both customers and employees that the company will lose its connection with the local communities it serves, but it appears that won’t be the case. Although the combined company, which will continue to be known as CenturyLink, will be [...]
360networks’ middle mile provider drive continues to bear customer fruit as it signs a deal to provide Oregon-based Frontier TeleNet with fiber connectivity for eight rural communities. The middle mile fiber connectivity from 360networks will serve as a backhaul mechanism for Frontier TeleNet’s licensed microwave and wireless broadband network, which it is using to provide [...]
DIRECTV is tuning into the idea that a multi dwelling units (MDU) existing copper wiring is a sound conduit to deliver a triple play package (video, broadband Internet and VoIP) to residential subscribers. The satellite service provider is making that dream a reality by combining its IPAdvantage satellite-based IP platform with Alcatel-Lucent’s VDSL2 technology and [...]
What often gets lost in all of the hype over mobile broadband is the fact that fixed broadband services (cable, DSL and Fiber to the X) are still growing. According to ABI Research’s recent subscriber market data, there were 430.7 million fixed broadband subscribers in 2009, a 13 percent increase over 2008. What are restoring [...]
Talk about a telecom billing nightmare. AT&T found itself in a bit hot water this week when an apparent computer upgrade glitch caused 15,000 of its long-distance customers in Tennessee to be overcharged for service. When the Tennessee Regulatory Authority on Monday called the service provider to explain what happened, AT&T said the billing errors to a [...]
Sprint’s (NYSE: S) wireline unit once again showed the inevitable near-term losses all wireline providers are seeing as customers migrate off off TDM-based services to IP in Q1 2010. Evidence of these growing pains can be seen right in Sprint’s wireline revenue report. During the first quarter, Sprint reported $1.3 billion in wireline revenues, an [...]
Having already a well-established network presence in the Asia-Pacific market, Verizon Business (NYSE:VZ) now wants to tap into the potentially lucrative cloud and data center opportunity by building a second data center in Hong Kong. Located in the iTech Tower in Tsuen Wan, the new 3,000-square-meter data center will include reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) [...]
Looking to sate wholesale customer service demands, wholesale IP/Ethernet provider Tinet is further extending its North American network presence by establishing a hub in Markley Group’s data center at One Summer Street in Boston, Mass. With access to more than 40 domestic and international carriers, Markley Group’s 80,000 foot facility will serve as another hub [...]