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AT&T takes U-verse service to Ottawa, Kan., to challenge cable incumbent Allegiance

Published on May 14, 2012 By Don

AT&T (NYSE: T) is taking on local cable video incumbent Allegiance Communications by launching its U-verse video, voice and data service suite in Ottawa, Kan.
The Sunflower State has been another growth market for U-verse service. Since entering…

Hawaiian Telcom Q1 2012 results benefit from 5.4% rise in business revenues

Published on May 11, 2012 By Don

Hawaiian Telcom (Nasdaq: HCOM) reported first-quarter 2012 revenue of $97.6 million, down 1 percent from $98.5 million year-over-year, as continued growth in video, business data and consumer broadband offset the impact of expected access line loss.
Th…

CenturyLink’s legacy services drag earnings down 5.2% amidst gains in broadband, business, IPTV

Published on May 10, 2012 By Don

CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) reported that its first-quarter 2012 revenue declined 5.2 percent, to $423 million, from $484 million in Q1 2011, a factor it attributed to ongoing declines in its legacy voice business.
As has been the case in previous quarters…

Frontier shares drop along with first quarter earnings

Published on May 8, 2012 By Don

News that Frontier Communications’ (Nasdaq: FTR) first-quarter 2012 earnings were only about 50 percent of what they’d been during the same period in 2011 ($26.8 million versus $54.7 million) led to a 7 percent decline in the value of the company’s sto…

TDS Telecom Q1 revenue gets lift from broadband bundles, managedIP services

Published on May 6, 2012 By Don

TDS Telecom, the wireline ILEC division of Telephone & Data Systems (NYSE: TDS), has cooked up a recipe of business and broadband services that continues hit the spot, as operating revenues rose 3 percent to $204.1 million in the first quarter of 2…

Vodafone makes $1.7B offer for Cable & Wireless Worldwide

Published on April 23, 2012 By Don

Vodafone (LSE:  VOD.L) on Monday made a £1.04 billion ($1.7 billion) bid for Cable & Wireless Worldwide (LSE: CW.L).
By acquiring CWW, Vodafone will not only gain its own wireline-based wireless backhaul network, but also a sizeable busi…

Sonic.net sheds wireless unit to focus on fiber

Published on April 17, 2012 By Don

Sonic.net, a San Francisco Bay Area-based network operator that has been nudging its much larger rivals in its markets by its aggressive fiber-broadband expansion, has announced the sale of its wireless division.
The company said by shedding its wirele…

Kevin O’Toole, Comcast Business Services

Published on April 16, 2012 By Don

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Building the business services wing of fast-growing Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) has been a key mission for Kevin O’Toole, Senior Vice President of Product Management and Strategy for Comcast Business Services, since taking on the ro…

Bill Cheek, CenturyLink

Published on April 16, 2012 By Don

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Bill Cheek, President of Wholesale Markets Group (WMG) at CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL), is squarely facing down the service provider’s wholesale future and past.  
Although CenturyLink recently re-aligned its business services leader…

Wholesale provider leaders to watch in 2012

Published on April 16, 2012 By Don

As we ramp up into this spring’s COMPTEL PLUS–a trade show that will focus on selling wholesale services to competitive providers and increasingly wireless carriers–it’s time for FierceTelecom to pay tribute to the leaders of this space with our…