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…
H3G, an Austrian wireless operator, has become the latest service provider to incorporate 100G optical technology on its optical backhaul network to support the consumer’s demand for wireless data.
The wireless operator, which says it handles the large…
By Sean Buckley & Samantha Bookman
Which providers have taken the leap and begun upgrading their networks to 100G? Last year saw a flurry of activity in this segment of the broadband market, particularly during the second half of 2011, as providers…
How did the wireline industry perform in the fourth quarter of 2011?
Check in here throughout the third quarter earnings report season for a summary of reports from the wireline industry’s service providers and network equipment manufacturers. Each abb…
Telekom Austria’s (NYSE: TKA) A1 subsidiary has found that vectoring technology is another way to extend the life of its copper network to deliver higher speed on its Giga-Network.
Built in a hybrid copper/fiber configuration, the Giga-Network con…
France Telecom-Orange (NYSE: FTE) is enhancing its Fiber to the Home (FTTH) network expansion efforts via a new relationship with competitive provider Bouygues Telecom.
Targeting the country’s 148 most densely populated areas, the incumbent telco will …
BSkyB (Sky), a UK-based competitive wireline service provider, has employed Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) for its 100G-capable optical transmission network.
Like other 100G deployments, Sky’s move is all about supporting its customers’ never-ending appeti…
Ben Verwaayen, CEO of Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU), thinks that he won’t need to resort to the massive job cuts that its main rival Nokia Siemens Networks has undertaken to regain its footing.
Verwaayen
In an interview with French ne…
France Telecom-Orange (NYSE: FTE) is the latest service provider to take the 100G optical challenge, upgrading its fiber route between Paris and London to stay apace of the user’s never-ending appetite for bandwidth.
Following a field trial of Alcatel-…
As more service providers expanded their respective VDSL and GPON-based networks this year, it drove strong spending in wireline broadband access network equipment.
Strong PON spending by China’s major service providers in addition to DSL growth in Cen…