Archive for May, 2010
AT&T recently put on a demonstration to bloggers and the press of some of the functionality they’re toying with in regards to their U-Verse TV platform. Insisting the capacity constraints of their their fiber-to-the-node architecture won’t be a problem, the company showed off a number of new tricks made possible by their IPTV platform — [...]
Level 3 Communications (NASDAQ: LVLT) continues to see a strong demand for communications services in Latin America and it believes the best way to address that growth is by establishing a partnership with submarine cable provider Globenet. Through this new partnership, Level 3 will package its high-speed Internet protocol (HSIP) services with GlobeNet’s subsea cable [...]
A tipster writes in to note that “I heard through the grapevine that Surewest in CA is laying off 7 % of their staff.” An announcement to the company’s website would certainly appear to confirm that news, the company announcing that they’re launching a “restructuring initiative” aimed at reducing the company’s workforce by approximately 60 [...]
GTA TeleGuam’s CEO Dan Moffat is confident that when the U.S. military starts to redeploy thousands of Marines and their families from Japan’s Okinawa to Guam–a process that will increase the country’s population by 50 percent–the telecom infrastructure will be ready to serve. While the military’s $20 billion military buildup on the island has been [...]
Where in the world is Ethernet guru Craig Easley today? Barely a month after announcing that he took up the VP of marketing reins at Sunrise Telecom, Easley has now popped up at Accedian Networks, a provider of Ethernet performance assurance Network Interface Devices (NIDs), as the company’s new VP of marketing. No explanation of [...]
China Telecom is going to go full guns with FTTH by installing a network that can handle 18 million lines this year with 100 Mbps capabilities in major cities. Before the end of 2010, China Telecom plans to extend FTTH to 70 percent of users in towns and cities with 12 Mbps speeds. This aggressive [...]
With smartphones like the iPhone and Android continuing their domination over the mobile web world, the amount of data traffic (mainly browsing and video) going over mobile networks is expected to grow 40-fold over the next five years. This may sound like music to the ears of the smartphone vendors, Over-The-Top (OTT) players and application [...]
Time Warner Cable, AT&T and CenturyLink/Embarq’s latest attempt (they’ve been trying since 2005) to pass a bill in North Carolina that would hinder communities interested in wiring themselves with fiber — seems to be seeing some opposition in the state. The Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday postponed considering the new law, which opponents say is [...]
Google recently found themselves in hot water after it was found that their Street View vehicles were accidentally collecting snippets of Wi-Fi traffic from unsecured hotspots. Google’s now facing lawsuits and international pressure from privacy regulators, who can’t seem to make up their mind whether Google should delete the data to protect privacy — or [...]
While Verizon’s LTE plans have gotten a lot of press, specific details (especially pricing) on the service have been limited — outside of the fact the service will launch in 25-30 markets sometime this year, at speeds somewhere between 5-12 Mbps downstream. But like AT&T — Verizon does continue to hint at new pricing that [...]