France Telecom Orange (NYSE: FTE) isn’t afraid of broadband competition and its commitment to spend €300-350 million euros ($394 million-460 million) shows that it is ready to fight.
Stephane Richard, France Telecom’s CEO said that ongoing fi…
Responding to consumer advocate and competitor concerns that the new Verizon, cable industry deal could include some anti-competitive conditions (hey, we won’t install new FiOS in your markets if you let us sell wireless to your customers and sell us s…
Zayo’s aggressive deployment continues to resonate with the wireless service provider community looking for alternative backhaul solutions; the wholesaler’s fiber to the tower (FTT) network now reaches 2,000 cell towers.
Offering over 100G in overall b…
The Mexican government wants to drive more broadband adoption country, and it believes it can achieve those goals by auctioning leases on state-owned fiber lines service providers can use to build networks in unserved areas.
As reported in Bloomberg, w…
BT (NYSE: BT) Openreach has officially lit up its new Optical Spectrum Access (OSA) service for wholesale customers delivering optical services to UK business.
ADVA’s new FSP 3000 platform
As part of Openreach’s Optical Spectrum Servic…
With Verizon’s FiOS build out largely suspended, the company is looking to ramp up subscriber totals in markets where FiOS already exists. On the TV front they’re primarily trying to do that by trying to be a little more innovative in the DVR and set t…
In late 2010 MetroPCS was the first mobile operator in the United States to launch LTE wireless broadband service. However, being first didn’t mean it was necessarily good — the company initially offering no data card service, no tethering, limited co…
Internode, a competitive telco that’s in the process of being purchased by iiNet, is targeting 20 new real estate developments in Australia with a series of new Fiber to the Home (FTTH) tariffs.
The service provider said the new FTTH offerings will hav…
Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) has taken another tack in its New York market to entice more users to sign up for its 50 Mbps DOCSIS 3 speed tier by offering one year of free VoIP service.
The new promotion is clearly another effort to more effect…
BT (NYSE: BT) Openreach has made MDUs, particularly apartment complexes, the latest focus of its ongoing Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) buildout plan. Targeting areas located in the path of its existing fiber footprint, the service provider has asked 1,0…