Archive for September 8th, 2010
Verizon has made no secret of their interest in expanding beyond broadband and eventually becoming a company that offers you, well, everything — including home automation and security services. To that end, Verizon this week has invested in home automation outfit 4Home, and in January at CES, Verizon and 4Home will be showing off home [...]
Cox Communications’ efforts to take a chunk out of the SMB and wireless backhaul markets from continues to pay off and is getting the attention of Sanford Bernstein senior analyst Craig Moffett. Moffet, who chronicled Cox’s growing presence in the SMB market in a report, revealed that business services make up 11 percent of Cox’s [...]
We’ve explored how Australia is planning to build a nationwide fiber to the home network providing 100 Mbps speeds to 93% of the population, with the other 7% getting 12 Mbps service via satellite or wireless (it even required paying $11 billion for an incumbent opponent). Ars Technica explores how this network was a key [...]
Frontier Communications, fresh off their $8.5 billion acquisition of millions of Verizon DSL and landline customers, has been downplaying the fact the company isn’t offering speeds that can successfully compete with cable in most markets. While Frontier CEO Maggie Wilderotter has been promising these customers a “fast future,” the company really isn’t in a financial [...]
For several years AT&T and Microsoft have hinted at the ability to use an Xbox 360 as your IPTV set top, but the offering never seems to materialize. That may be changing soon, according to a tipster writing to Engadget, who notes that Xbox 360 support references have popped up in AT&T’s U-Verse support database. [...]
XO Communications is once again hard at work expanding its West Coast network presence with emphasis on deepening its presence in the Los Angeles metro market. Targeted at multi-location enterprise customers, XO is not only expanding the reach of its 19,000-mile nationwide network, but is also establishing new points of presence in the Los Angeles [...]