Archive for August, 2010
Starting this month, Singapore’s broadband consumers will be able to access SingTel’s new Fiber to the Home service with an aggressive price plan and of course higher speeds in a market typically known for slow speeds and high prices. This week the service provider introduced a basic and a premium service package. Priced at $63.40 [...]
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), Canada’s telecom regulator, has laid the groundwork of a new open access last mile network environment. Under the CRTC mandate, competitive service providers will soon be able to get their hands on the same fiber-based network speeds that incumbent telcos–Bell Canada (NYSE: BCE), Bell Aliant (Toronto: BA-UN.TO), and [...]
Canadian regulatory authority the CRTC hasn’t exactly been a friend to Canada’s smaller, independent ISPs over the last few years. As such, it’s interesting to see users in our Canadian forums direct our attention to the fact that the CRTC has ruled in favor of small operators, and is forcing larger carriers to offer wholesale [...]
United Private Networks (UPN), a Midwest-based regional fiber-based provider, has decided to put its trust in a larger partner Ridgemont Equity Partners which will acquire a majority stake in the company. Although neither company would disclose the financial terms of the deal, UPN’s existing management team and day-to-day operations will remain unchanged. Currently operating in [...]
Yesterday we reported Verizon is now offering 15 Mbps ADS2+ service to about 4 million of their DSL customers. The new 15/1 Mbps tier costs $50 for users who bundle Verizon voice service, or $60 standalone. Light Reading’s Carol Wilson offers additional technical detail, including the fact the faster speeds are being offered at customer [...]
With Frontier’s (NYSE: FTR) integration of the rural phone lines it acquired from Verizon’s (NYSE: VZ) in 14 states moving along, the service provider is now turning its attention to Ohio. Speaking during a business community luncheon at The Ohio State University at Marion, Maggie Wilderotter, Frontier’s Chairman and CEO, highlighted the ILEC’s commitment to [...]
Competition in New Zealand’s telecom market appears to be good, so good that the Commerce Commission has recommended that the business data and bundled resale service market shouldn’t be subject to regulations set by the Telecommunications Act of 2001. What’s driving the country’s Commerce Commission to consider such a move are the introduction of new [...]
Three times now, AT&T and Time Warner Cable have tried and failed to pass laws aimed at stopping towns in North Carolina from building fiber networks. Such networks offer symmetrical fiber at higher speeds and lower prices than either company’s willing to offer. The politicians that pass these carrier-written laws (without even understanding them) pretend [...]
We’ve repeatedly noted that femtocells (which allow you to route mobile calls over your broadband connection) would probably take off if carriers stopped sucking all the value out of them. Carriers like Verizon seem intent on making users over pay for the hardware on top of monthly fees, in addition to having usage eat away [...]
BT Openreach (NYSE: BT) is ramping up its already aggressive Fiber to the X (FTTX) deployment schedule with plans to invest another $1.5 billion on the network. Part of broader plan to bring fiber-based services to an estimated two-thirds of UK households by 2015, BT Openreach has once again turned to core vendor Huawei for [...]