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Broadband Bytes for 2012-02-04

Posted by on February 4, 2012 at 10:00 pm

US broadband still lags behind the rest of the world. http://t.co/uaCJOM92 #
There's big bucks (and a viable business model) in providing fiber to cell towers. http://t.co/1rPLDx3y #
Worried about your cap? A new tech could halve the requirements…

BT’s cost cutting helps offset fiscal Q3 revenue decline

Posted by on February 3, 2012 at 9:57 am

BT (NYSE: BT) saw its revenue fall 5 percent to £4.77 billion ($7.55 billion) in fiscal Q3 2011 due to declines in its global services, retail and wholesale divisions, but its ongoing cost cutting effort drove up operating profit by 22 percent to…

Turnkey Internet capitalizes on Google’s Kansas City fiber move by purchasing KCNet

Posted by on February 3, 2012 at 9:31 am

Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) may have yet to complete its fiber network roll out in Kansas City, but Albany, N.Y.-based Turnkey Internet thinks it will have a chance to compete for business customers by purchasing KCNet.
Neither company would reveal the terms…

Facebook working on mobile ads afterall?

Posted by on February 3, 2012 at 8:22 am

Marketing agency Razorfish reportedly let it slip that it was working on a pilot program with Facebook to deliver ads to mobile users.

Facebook working on mobile ads after all?

Posted by on February 3, 2012 at 8:22 am

Marketing agency Razorfish reportedly let it slip that it has been working on a pilot program with Facebook to deliver ads to mobile users.

Internode believes it will gain better DSL coverage as part of iiNet

Posted by on February 3, 2012 at 8:19 am

Now that its merger with iiNet is complete, Australian competitive broadband provider Internode is looking to serve more customers with its DSL services.
As a subsidiary of iiNet, Internode complements its own DSLAM-equipped telephone exchanges with 24…

Frontier offers revised pricing for FiOS, subscriber discounts

Posted by on February 2, 2012 at 3:11 pm

Frontier Communications (NYSE: FTR) is once again finding itself having to convince current FiOS TV customers that the service is here to stay. In a move to perhaps encourage Frontier’s FiOS TV customers from defecting to cable, the ILEC has unveiled a…

Boxee CEO: Someone Will Offer Subscription Internet TV in 2012 – It’s Just Not Going to be Boxee (or Apple, or Microsoft, or Google…)

Posted by on February 2, 2012 at 1:22 pm

We’ve watched for years as companies from Apple to Google have promised to revolutionize TV only to fall flat on their face. More accurately, they run face first into a cable and broadcast industry that does everything in their power to try and crush d…

Level 3 to provide HD broadcast services for Super Bowl XLVI

Posted by on February 2, 2012 at 10:32 am

Level 3 (NYSE: LVLT) will once again provide live, high definition television broadcast services, including Vyvx VenueNet+ technology, to NBC for Super Bowl XLVI on Feb. 5.
Since the Lucas Oil Stadium, the location of the Super Bowl, is already connect…

Frontier Still Pretending They’re Interested in FiOS TV – Blames Customer Uncertainty on Comcast

Posted by on February 2, 2012 at 9:27 am

Frontier Communications has been rather ungracefully trying to offload or otherwise scare away the 100,000 FiOS TV customers it acquired in its deal with Verizon because of high programming costs. First the company imposed a huge 50% price hike and bot…