Archive for February, 2012
For several years Cablevision wasn’t really feeling the heat in their pricing battle with Verizon FiOS, but if their recently release fourth quarter earnings are any indication, that’s starting to change. The company’s fourth quarter profits dropped 47…
Fueled by an ever-growing demand for bandwidth, traffic on intra-Asian submarine cable systems will rise 39 percent annually over the next six years. These routes, reports TeleGeography in its Global Bandwidth Forecast Service, will require an addition…
Lumos Networks (Nasdaq: LMOS), the former wireline division of NTELOS, found itself in a profitable situation in Q4 2011 with revenues rising to $51.1 million, up from $41 million Q4 2010.
For the year 2011, the ILEC reported that total revenue was $20…
Responding to Time Warner Cable’s latest usage-based pricing experiment, Comcast executives say they still have no intention of experimenting with metered billing. “We have a very high customer satisfaction rating and we don’t really want to rock the b…
Back in October Microsoft announced that they’d soon be bringing significant additional broadband video content to the console, including content from Comcast and FioS TV. Upon closer inspection the offer left a little something to be desired, with use…
Waterfield Designs, which makes slick cases for laptops, tablets, and e-readers, is serving up a selection of cases for Sony’s PS Vita portable game console.
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Lightower has added a New Jersey-based office in response to the state’s demand for fiber and Ethernet-based services from service providers and business customers.
Following the recent opening of offices in both New York City and Boston’s finan…
Sidera Networks has established an agreement with Global Capacity to use its One Marketplace Access Exchange as a way to augment its off-net network arrangements where it needs to work with partners to augment its own network reach.
While Sidera is a f…
Brazil’s Telemar Participacoes, the service provider that oversees Oi-branded services via Brasil Telecom, Tele Norte Leste Participacoes and Telemar Norte Leste, are proceeding with their plan to simplify the service provider’s structure.
With this ne…
Telstra (ASX: TLS.AX) has gotten the regulatory go-ahead to take part in the country’s National Broadband Network (NBN) as the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has approved its revised Structural Separation Undertaking (SSU) plan.
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