May 21, 2012
Bermuda’s incumbent service provider Bermuda Telephone Company (BTC) has launched its new PRISM fiber network.
As a multi-purpose network, BTC said it will have enough capacity to fulfill various consumer and business services, including voice, video, …
Tags: bermuda business, billing services group, BTC, cable amp, Cisco, Ethernet, high speed data, metro ethernet, Telephone, voice
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May 21, 2012
User uid://1487606 writes in to direct our attention to the fact that Google will be delaying their deployment of 1 Gbps fiber to the home service in Kansas City. Originally stating the service would be available in late 2011, then sometime in June thi…
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May 21, 2012
CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) may be the late bloomer in the telco TV front, trailing its two ILEC brothers AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ), but it’s clear that it is making progress with its Prism service as it added 15,000 new subscribers in the …
Tags: copper plant, customer, late bloomer, mbps, percent, prism service, satellite, satellite plan, service subscribers, speed
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May 19, 2012
NVIDIA pushing streaming gaming with virtualized GPUs. http://t.co/0A4nQ8cM #
Yes, most of you hate your cable. http://t.co/APriWErR #
Comcast changing up their caps. http://t.co/pdiDZfd1 #
Lack of adequate fiber is slowing down LTE deployments. ht…
Tags: broadband, Cable, Caps, Comcast, deployments, fiber, gaming, nvidia, traffic, tweet
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May 18, 2012
We’ve been nudged by a reliable source with supporting evidence who tells us Verizon will be raising the speed of several of their FiOS broadband tiers very soon. According to the source, Verizon’s symmetrical 25 Mbps tier will soon be changed to 50 Mb…
Tags: BPON, GPON, high watermark, marketing, mbps, residential accounts, speed, Verizon, verizon website
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May 18, 2012
Dave Schaeffer, CEO and chairman of Cogent Communications (Nasdaq: CCOI), isn’t afraid of scaling his business through a mix of acquisitions, but right now he’s not seeing deals that would add value to his company’s bottom line.
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Tags: change, Cogent, cogent communications, dave schaeffer, distressed assets, growth perspective, provider, sense, service provider markets, way
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May 18, 2012
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) plans to implement price increases for its FiOS service to offset content costs and increase profitability, a senior executive said this week.
Shammo
Speaking at the 40th Annual J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media a…
Tags: American, Cable, consumer, consumer reports article, consumer satisfaction, content, fiber to the premises, Fran Shammo, satisfaction index, Verizon
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May 18, 2012
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) plans to implement price increases for its FiOS service to offset content costs and increase profitability, a senior executive said this week.
Shammo
Speaking at the 40th Annual J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media a…
Tags: American, Cable, consumer, consumer reports article, consumer satisfaction, content, fiber to the premises, Fran Shammo, satisfaction index, Verizon
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May 18, 2012
As we noted yesterday, Verizon says they’re cuing up a number of new price hikes for their FiOS service — because they can. Users in our forums note that one of the increases is already here: a $2 set top hike that is set to go into effect starting Ju…
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May 18, 2012
TIM Brasil, Telecom Italia’s Brazil telecom subsidiary, will market its Fiber to the Curb/Fiber to the Building (FTTC/FTTB) service under its new “Live” brand name.
Aiming to acquire 1 million subscribers by 2017, the service provider plans to launch i…
Tags: brazil telecom, building, fiber, infrastructure provider, Italia, mbps speeds, provider, telecom subsidiary, The, wireless backhaul
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