Archive for June, 2010
Zayo is once again coming to the deal table with a bid to acquire Rochester, N.Y.-based American Fiber Systems Holding Corporation (AFS), a provider of metro fiber and telecom services. By purchasing AFS–Zayo’s fifteenth acquisition since its inception in 2007–the service provider will augment and expand its fiber network presence in nine Tier 1 and [...]
Not content to pen astroturf editorials and send deceptive last-minute postcards, the Utah “Taxpayers” Association has plans to hold an anti-UTOPIA rally in Orem on July 13. The BBQ/carnival (heh) will be in Orem City Park, 300 E Center St, from 5-7PM. I’d encourage UTOPIA supporters to show up in a counter-protest to correct what [...]
Last January the FCC issued an order (pdf) designed to put an end to cable operators preventing competitors from accessing local sports channels owned by the cable company. Last week those rules went into effect, and Dish, DirecTV and AT&T began the complaint process as they try to get access to Cablevision’s MSG HD in [...]
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. Companies like Time Warner Cable don’t like the fact that cities like Wilson now offer [...]
Teachers and administrators at the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) will be able to more effectively communicate with each other over a new Primary Rate Interface (PRI) connection from Cavalier. With more than 5,000 teachers and faculty and about 50,000 students, CMSD is one of the country’s largest urban school districts. The new PRI will [...]
Frontier (NYSE: FTR) believes that its acquisition of Verizon’s rural lines in 14 states set to be completed this Thursday will not only enhance its residential service capabilities, but also strengthen its business service acumen. Pete Hayes, Frontier’s Executive Vice President, Commercial Sales and Support, said that the completion of its acquisition of Verizon’s landline [...]
We’ve well discussed how the Fairpoint disaster is as much the fault of placating regulators as it is Fairpoint. Regulators in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine completely ignored concerns that Verizon’s sale of unwanted DSL and landline customers to Fairpoint wasn’t a good idea — then when Fairpoint collapsed (at times completely unable to offer [...]
24/7 Fiber Network, an emerging wholesale fiber and Ethernet service provider, has just put the finishing touches on Phase One of its fiber network expansion. With Phase One of the network expansion complete, 24/7 will offer lit fiber services, including 10 GigE down to lower speed SONET and Ethernet over Copper (EoC) access services. Offering dark [...]
Charter, Cox, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, Comcast and Bright House Networks have collaboratively been working on an advertising system dubbed “canoe” since 2008. The project was initially aimed at delivering different ads to different households depending on demographic data — a data collection effort that even involved Comcast building a 500 terabyte data warehouse designed [...]