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 [...]
A new report from Analysys Mason argues that telcos considering fiber to the home should instead take a conservative approach and explore technologies allowing them to nurse last-mile copper (aka VDSL2) instead. According to the firm, the business case to move beyond fiber to the home trials “just isn’t there” (something that should surprise Verizon, [...]
Telekom Austria (NYSE: TKA) had set a high rollout bar for its Fiber to the X (FTTX)-based ‘GigaNet’ network, but the service provider reports that it has surpassed that goal by reaching 1.5 million, or 36 percent, of homes and businesses within the country. This latest milestone surpasses Telekom Austria’s initial 750,000 homes and businesses [...]
Fiber to the home (FTTH) may hold great promise with an unlimited bandwidth capacity, but a new report from Analysys Mason argues that service providers should take a conservative approach to last mile fiber and instead try to squeeze more out of their existing copper networks. Analysys Mason points out that consumer’s ongoing adoption of [...]
Competitive service provider Lightower has completed its acquisition of Veroxity Technology Partners, a provider of fiber based data and Internet connectivity. Lightower’s acquisition comes with a number of benefits. Not only will Lightower immediately expand its fiber footprint and customer base in the Boston metro market, but also expand its New England and New York City [...]
Light Reading notes how cable operators this year will seriously begin ramping up the replacement of the traditional cable modem with more sophisticated DOCSIS 3.0-capable home gateways. The gateways of course allow for faster in-home networking speeds thanks to 802.11N and Gigabit Ethernet support, but they can sometimes make technical troubleshooting easier — and allow [...]
Unsurprisingly, the young watch less of their TV live. http://tcrn.ch/doUXuL # DOJ smells an anti-trust rat in the online video space. http://bit.ly/bhezyf # Lithuania on-track for FTTH in over 50% of the country. http://bit.ly/cdvQxv # Canada pulls an about-face, mandates open access. http://bit.ly/9VMpBh # Verizon says that FTTN is a dead-end. http://bit.ly/bUNhQZ # FCC asked [...]