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, [...]
Broadband bundle packages are turning into a buyer’s market as more wireline operators are forced to reduce prices to better compete mobile broadband services. A new Analysys Mason report, which tracked over 1,000 wireline broadband bundles in Europe and the U.S., revealed that wireline broadband bundle (single, double or triple-play package) prices declined about $6 [...]
Freedom Communications USA may have been heralded as one of the early CLECs to emerge after the passing of the FCC’s Telecommunications Act of 1996, but the company’s fortunes have changed and it is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Represented by Phillip Young of Garfinkle McLemore & Young PLLC, the Dickson, Tenn.-based CLEC, which [...]
Windstream’s (Nasdaq: WIN) Q2 earnings were a mixed bag of lower landline loss and slow seasonal broadband growth. While Q2 profit may have declined 13 percent to $79 million, the completion of its acquisition of Iowa Telecom Services in June helped lift quarterly revenue by 22 percent over Q2 2009 to $917 million. Here are [...]
Qwest’s (NYSE: Q) future may be in IP-based broadband and business services, but the near-term reality is that as more consumers cut their landline phone service for either cable or wireless the losses made a dent in its Q2 earnings. Amidst a growing base of broadband Internet and business customers, the decline of POTS (plain [...]
Telcos beware: Your coveted business revenue base is facing a new threat and its name is cable. Cable operators continue to overcome their video-only, consumer-centric image and are happy to take SMB customers away from you, reveals an ATLANTIC-ACM report titled Wireless Wins, Wireline Wanes: U.S. Telecom Wired and Wireless Sizing and Share 2010-2015. Dr. [...]
AT&T’s (NYSE: T) Q2 wireline market segment results once again show how much IP-based services, in particular its U-Verse suite and business services, have on the future growth of a segment that’s battling an emerging set of competitive forces. From an overall financial perspective, AT&T’s Q2 profit increased to $4 billion, up from $3.2 billion [...]
AT&T’s (NYSE: T) Q2 wireline market segment results once again show how much IP-based services, in particular its U-Verse suite and business services, have on the future growth of a segment that’s battling an emerging set of competitive forces. From an overall financial perspective, AT&T’s Q2 profit increased to $4 billion, up from $3.2 billion [...]
While much of the attention on AT&T’s (NYSE: T) earnings report this Thursday will be focused on wireless growth, the ILEC’s wireline business will also be under the financial analyst’s microscope. Unlike its compatriot Verizon (NYSE: VZ) with its ambitious Fiber to the Premise-based FiOS last mile network, AT&T played it safe by adopting a [...]
Already busy snapping up fiber assets from other competitive dark fiber providers, the Zayo Group has just carved out yet another new latest business unit, Zayo Fiber Solutions (ZFS). As its name implies, ZFS will design, build and manage dark fiber networks for wholesale carrier, enterprise and government customers. Having just swallowed up the former [...]