Archive for September, 2010
Verizon may have decided to scale back its Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) deployments with a focus on existing markets where it has already deployed the technology, but in New York City the service provider’s efforts continue to cause pain for cable incumbent Cablevision. According to an article in Multichannel News, Verizon has reached the [...]
AboveNet (NYSE: ABVT) has been tapped by Virginia Tech to connect the university’s data centers and research locations, including its new research institute in Arlington, Va. Built to deliver large amounts of data, AboveNet will provide fiber-based connectivity between the Virginia Tech research facility in Arlington and key data centers and campus sites in Northern [...]
As part of their franchise agreement with New York City, Verizon was required to deploy FiOS services to every home in New York City by 2014 — though the agreement allows Verizon lawyers to wiggle over, under and around those obligations should Verizon not see the kind of service uptake they’d like. According to Verizon, [...]
Frontier (NYSE: FTR) continues to put more pieces of its regional executive leadership in place as it appoints three executives to oversee its Mid-State territory, Illinois, and Ohio regions. Heading up Frontier’s Mid-State territory will be Rhonda Lutzke as Senior Vice President and General Manager for its Central Region Mid-State Territory, comprising Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska [...]
Niek Jan van Damme, an executive member on Deutsche Telekom’s (XETRA: DTE.DE) board, has no interest in becoming KPN’s next leader when current CEO Ad Scheepbouwer leaves next July. Although Van Damme may have been cited as a possible candidate to take the top spot at KPN, a Dow Jones Newswire report revealed he’s contented [...]
Level 3 Communications (Nasdaq: LVLT) wants to get back to 2 percent quarter over quarter growth and thinks it has a sound plan to bounce back after various quarters of disappointing results. Speaking during the Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research Communacopia XIX Conference, Jeff Storey, president and chief operating officer of Level 3, said [...]
Frontier’s (NYSE: FTR) appointment of John Lass as President of its Central Region is yet another appointment in its ongoing reorganization following its purchase of Verizon’s (NYSE: VZ) rural lines. Comprising Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin, Frontier’s Central Region is the service provider’s largest operation with about 1.1 million customers. Lass’ role [...]
Late last year Comcast unveiled a beta version of a new Internet video service named Xfinity. Comcast loved the Xfinity name so much, in February of this year they expanded the brand name to cover all Comcast services in a marketing counterpunch to the Verizon FiOS brand of services. Meanwhile, after getting mixed reviews, their [...]
KPN will soon name the person who will take current CEO Ad Scheepbouwer’s place when he leaves the company next July. Scheepbouwer, who has led the Dutch service provider since the end of 2001, revealed in a Reuters’ article that his replacement will be named prior to the announcement of its Q3 2010 earnings [...]
Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN) is set on expanding its business and wholesale network service base, and to get there it’s happy to take out its checkbook to buy strategic assets like Q-Comm. In order to pay for its $782 million in cash and stock Q-Comm acquisition–one that comes with CLEC Norlight Communications and regional fiber [...]