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…
Bell Aliant (Toronto: BA-UN.TO) may be making a concerted effort to establish a larger portfolio of next-gen fiber and IP-based services, but wireline voice losses drove down company earnings to CAD 700 million (USD 698 million), down from CA…
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) may have slowed down how many towns and cities it will take its Fiber to the Home (FTTH)-based FiOS network, but according to Corning (NYSE: GLW) CFO Jim Flaws the telco is ordering more fiber than Corning can provide.
Speaking durin…
Bell Aliant (Toronto: BA-UN.TO) has added a number of new enhancements to its FibreOP Fiber to the Home (FTTH) set with new symmetrical download/upload speed tiers and enhancements to its IPTV service offering.
On a speed level, FibreOP 2.0 has increas…
Bell Aliant’s (Toronto: BA-UN.TO) Q4 and 2010 year revenues illustrate the ongoing growing pains of an incumbent service provider trying to shed its traditional wireline voice image as it becomes a provider of IP-based residential and business services…
As it continues to ramp up its Fiber to the Home (FTTH) network presence, Bell Aliant (Toronto: BA-UN.TO) has decided to launch a 170/30 Mbps version of its FibreOP Internet service.
Unlike fellow Canadian operator Bell Canada’s (NYSE: BCE) Fibe servic…
Canada’s Bell Aliant today announced that the company has launched a new 170 Mbps downstream and 30 Mbps upstream fiber to the home offering. Bell Aliant is 44% owned by Bell Canada and operates largely in Eastern Canada. Unlike Bell’s “Fibe” service w…
Bell Aliant (Toronto: BA-UN.TO) has employed GENBAND to advance its unified communications (UC) drive for its business customer base. The Canadian service provider will leverage GENBAND’s C20 Converged Softswitch and A2 Converged Application Server for its Total Office bundle, which offers business customers fully managed Internet access, Centrex voice, dedicated technical support in addition to [...]
Bell Aliant (Toronto: BA-UN.TO) continues to make good on its Fiber to the Home (FTTH) service ambitions, and its extension of its ‘FibreOP’ service to Prince Edward Island is certainly an example of that trend. Funded by a $19.4 million investment program, Bell Aliant will connect 30,000 homes and businesses in Charlottetown and Summerside. The [...]
Bell Canada’s parent BCE (NYSE: BCE) is so bullish on its video prospects that it’s plunking down $2.9 billion to buy up Canada’s largest private broadcaster CTV. Under the terms of the agreement, BCE will purchase the remaining 85 percent stake it does not already own in CT with $1.65 billion in debt. What attracted [...]