Archive for July, 2010
Comcast has released their second quarter earnings, which indicate the company saw earnings slip 8.6% due to costs related to their proposed union with NBC Universal. The company posted a net income of $884 million on the quarter, but dealt with $22 million in operating expenses and $37 million in financing costs incurred from the [...]
Ofcom, the UK’s telecom regulator, believes that the UK’s broadband providers aren’t being honest about the speeds they deliver to consumers. Research revealed that about 97 percent of the nation’s broadband users are actually getting speeds much lower than advertised. Similar to the U.S., UK-based service providers also include the “up to” disclaimer to clarify [...]
Long-time readers of this blog (or those paying attention to iProvo) will recognize the name of Steve Turley. As a member of Provo’s municipal council, he’s been a consistent voice of opposition on all things iProvo since as far back as anyone can remember. You may even recall the recent series of articles in the [...]
The partnership with FiberHome comes as the Chinese FTTH IPTV market is heating up.
Swedish equipment vendor Ericsson this week won a sizeable fibre to the home (FTTH) contract in a surprising market ? India.
Global Crossing (Nasdaq: GLBC) may be making continual improvements to its service set and structure, but that did not help the decline in the service provider’s Q2 consolidated revenue. During the quarter, Global Crossing reported $630 million in consolidated revenue, down three percent sequentially and flat year over year, a factor it attributes to declining [...]
Baca Valley Telephone Company, a Des Moines, N.M.-based independent ILEC, needed an alternative means to reach out of its own network footprint and it found it in Mammoth Networks’ Layer 2 DSL solution. Like many smaller independent ILECs that reside in the West, Baca Valley had little choice but use “fixed-cost” fiber facilities from Qwest [...]
Severe thunderstorms and telecom equipment are not a good match as illustrated by a recent outage that affected both Verizon (NYSE:VZ) and AT&T Mobility (NYSE: T) in Manhattan. A severe thunderstorm that brought down one of Verizon’s digital cross connect systems not only affected its own wireline customers but also AT&T Mobility’s wireless customers. Although [...]
Verizon will use Clearleap’s cloud-based content management and advertising tools to deliver localized content to its Fios TV customers.
Qwest (NYSE: Q) may have already launched Fiber to the Node (FTTN)-based service with 40 Mbps top capabilities last summer, but it realized that it needs to augment service speed with a host of additional value-added features. Its response to that call is its Heavy Duty Internet service. Of course, there are the speed [...]