Archive for September 3rd, 2010
As some tipsters had suggested earlier this week, the FCC will be addressing white space broadband at their upcoming September 23 meeting. According to a meeting agenda (pdf) posted to the FCC website, the FCC’s September meeting will focus on the E-Rate program (specifically, letting universities and schools purchase dark fiber directly), some E911 issues, [...]
As we’ve long noted, the FCC has made broadband policy decisions based on flawed and incomplete data for years. Part of the 1996 Telecom Act required that the agency release quarterly reports on the status of broadband deployment. Unfortunately for consumers, that data has always been essentially useless — with the FCC declaring any zip [...]
XO Communications (OTC BB: XOHO.OB) has just completed its trial of 100 Gbps coherent optical transmission on a 1348 km route on its U.S. network. During the trial, XO leveraged Infinera’s (Nasdaq: INFN) 500 Gbps photonic integrated circuits (PICs), which integrate five 100 Gbps channels. The Infinera 500 Gbps PICs transmitted and received a 100 [...]
AT&T U-verse continues its growth in the multi dwelling unit (MDU) space as it announced a new agreement with Regency Apartments to bring triple play services to the new Windsor West Apartments in southwest Champaign, Ill. The agreement is part of AT&T’s Connected Communities program, which forms strategic marketing relationships with regional and national builders, [...]
Canada’s incumbent fixed line operators, including Bell Aliant (Toronto: BA-UN.TO), Bell Canada (NYSE: BCE), Telus (Toronto: T.TO) and MTS Allstream, must pay back residential phone customers located in urban areas who were charged too much between 2002 and 2006–a total amount of CAD $311 million ($295 million) the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) ruled [...]