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If You’re Waiting on FiOS, You Could Be Waiting a While – 30% of Verizon Customers May Wait Years for Upgrades

Published on January 24, 2012 By Don

We’ve noted often how with the exception of a few major existing franchise obligations, Verizon’s FiOS upgrades are essentially over. That means around 40% of Verizon’s broadband customers on slower DSL and in a lot of major cities (Boston, Baltimore, …

What Happens to Customers Waiting For Verizon FiOS? – 30% of Verizon Customers May Wait Years for Upgrades

Published on January 24, 2012 By Don

We’ve noted often how with the exception of a few major existing franchise obligations, Verizon’s FiOS upgrades are essentially over. That means around 40% of Verizon’s broadband customers on slower DSL and in a lot of major cities (Boston, Baltimore, …

Scott Thompson: Yahoo’s Competitive Advantage Is its Data

Published on January 4, 2012 By Don

Is Yahoo a technology company or a media company? Newly appointed CEO Scott Thompson tried to answer that age-old question in his first conference call with Wall Street analysts this morning.

AT&T Angry FCC Pointed Out Just How Bad T-Mobile Deal Is – Jim Cicconi Upset Nobody Will Believe His Made Up Facts This Time

Published on December 1, 2011 By Don

Earlier this week the FCC issued an order that clearly laid out the reasons for the FCC’s opposition to the AT&T T-Mobile deal. The full report (pdf) mirrors what we’ve been noting for months: AT&T’s merger benefit claims are false. The deal does not c…

Longmont, CO chalks up referendum win over Comcast for muni fiber

Published on November 4, 2011 By Don

The 80,000 or so residents of the town of Longmont, Colo. will have the chance to decide how a 17-mile fiber loop will be utilized to provide high-speed broadband service, after winning a referendum vote Tuesday to lift state restrictions on use of the…

Frontier Would Like You to Buy a Second Expensive, Slow DSL Line – New ‘Second Connect’ DSL ‘Deal’ Isn’t Much of One

Published on November 3, 2011 By Don

Earlier this year Frontier Communications began talking about a “Second Connect” option for some DSL users, which doesn’t provide actually bonded DSL — but simply an additional line for the home at a supposedly discounted rate. Telecompetitor directs …

Verizon to fill in FiOS gaps with home LTE wireless service

Published on October 25, 2011 By Don

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has indicated that it will be soon offering a new fixed home-based LTE wireless service targeting areas where it has not rolled out FiOS to challenge satellite broadband providers.
According to a DSLReports article, the service provi…

On the UTOPIA Lawsuits and City Responsibility

Published on May 5, 2011 By Don

I’ve been delaying writing more about this because I’ve been in the process of talking to people and gathering more information about the legal fight between Chris Hogan and UTOPIA. If you’d like to review the source material yourself, check out both UTOPIA’s filing and Hogan’s filing for yourself. Personally, it looks like a lot [...]

Oregon Regulators: Avoid Frontier, Get Comcast – Call Frontier’s New $500 Install Fee ‘Simply Ridiculous’

Published on April 12, 2011 By Don

Frontier Communications has been rather ungracefully trying to offload or otherwise scare away the 100,000 FiOS TV customers it acquired in its deal with Verizon, first with a huge 50% price hike and botched DirecTV offer, and now with a massive $500 i…

Comcast Is Gigantic, Profitable, And Eager To Fix NBC – Earnings: 292k New Broadband, 257k New Digital Voice

Published on February 16, 2011 By Don

Comcast today unveiled their fourth quarter 2010 earnings today, indicating the cable giant earned $1.02 billion during the quarter, compared with $955 million one year earlier. Among the mostly positive financial news that included the 7% jump in sale…