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BT plunks down another $1.5 billion on FTTX network

Published on August 26, 2010 By Don

BT Openreach (NYSE: BT) is ramping up its already aggressive Fiber to the X (FTTX) deployment schedule with plans to invest another $1.5 billion on the network. Part of broader plan to bring fiber-based services to an estimated two-thirds of UK households by 2015, BT Openreach has once again turned to core vendor Huawei for [...]

UK village deploys its own FTTH network

Published on August 16, 2010 By Don

Nearly 60 homes and three businesses in Ashby de la Launde, a small village in Lincolnshire, UK, will be connected to a fiber network by the end of September. NextGenUs UK CIC and AFL Telecommunications announced on Friday the installation of a “community interest owned FTTH network” there. The privately funded network will provide its [...]

Britain’s Ofcom mulls net neutrality regulations

Published on June 25, 2010 By Don

Just as U.S. Congressional leaders spar with the FCC over its net neutrality proposal, the UK’s telecom regulator is also considering similar regulations for its country’s broadband providers. Similar to the fight that’s been waged between the FCC and U.S.-based incumbent telephone and cable operators, Ofcom believes that the network controls that the likes of [...]

Tiscali to participate in Italian open access network

Published on June 7, 2010 By Don

Tiscali SpA has decided to join fellow competitive providers Vodafone Group, Fastweb SpA (FWB.MI) and Wind SpA to build out a $2.9 billion open access last mile network in Italy. Tiscali did not reveal how much it would invest in the network, however. To rake in more funding for the network buildout, the consortium asked [...]

Optimum Lightpath enhances low latency reach through Telx connection

Published on June 4, 2010 By Don

Optimum Lightpath is upping the ante of its low latency network service capabilities by expanding its service into interconnection/colocation provider Telx’s facilities in New York City and Northern New Jersey. Through this expansion, Telx’s customer base–one that includes a number of global algorithmic trading, service providers and financial exchanges–can now get access to Optimum Lightpath’s fiber-based low [...]

Windstream Completes Acquisition Of Iowa Telecom – 96k broadband users added to the mix…

Published on June 2, 2010 By Don

Last November Windstream Communications announced that they’d acquired Iowa Telecom in a deal valued at around 1.2 billion. The company this week announced that they’ve completed the deal — which adds another 249,000 access lines, 96,000 high-speed Internet customers and 27,500 digital TV customers in Iowa and Minnesota to Windstream’s total footprint. Windstream now offers [...]

Telstra faces $32 million fine for denying network access to competitors

Published on May 26, 2010 By Don

Telstra (ASX: TLS.AX) may now have to shell out $32 million in fines for preventing competitors connecting to its telephone exchanges to deliver DSL service. Initially, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) wanted the incumbent operator to pay $1 million for each of the reported 27 times where it did not provide access to its exchanges [...]

Sprint deepens its Ethernet access presence

Published on May 26, 2010 By Don

Sprint (NYSE: S) believes that the best way to connect customers to its suite of MPLS and IP-based Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) services is Ethernet. Customers that sign up for Sprint’s Ethernet access solution will connect to the provider’s global MPLS or DIA networks via an Ethernet local loop. While customers typically have connected to [...]

BT takes its wholesale VoIP service on a global tour

Published on May 25, 2010 By Don

BT (NYSE: BT) is giving wireline and wireless service providers that require global VoIP connectivity a new option by providing global connectivity to its IP Exchange platform, a service that allows service providers to connect VoIP-to-VoIP to TDM-based calls. Already being used by 100 UK-based wireline and wireless service providers, the service is accessible via [...]

Net neutrality is good for ISPs

Published on May 25, 2010 By Don

In the nearly 20 years that the Internet has been in private hands, it has been an engine of innovation throughout the world. In our society today, we use the Internet for applications that could not have been conceived of when the Department of Defense (DoD) initially constructed the Internet’s predecessor, the DARPAnet.  The Internet has [...]