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Google points to Iowa for sowing satellite antenna farm

Published on February 20, 2012 By Don

If approved by the FCC, Google’s satellite dishes could get feeds from broadcast networks and even be bundled with the company’s high-speed fiber service.

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.

Cablevision to Verizon: Get your false ads off the air

Published on December 7, 2011 By Don

Cablevision sues Verizon for bashing the cable company in its Fios commercials, claiming that Verizon was using outdated data.

Alliance Fiber Drops 7% on Trimmed Outlook

Published on November 30, 2011 By Don

Shares of Alliance Fiber Optic Products Inc. dropped 7% Wednesday after the company reduced its fourth-quarter revenue estimate to less than $11 million, compared with its earlier forecast of about $11.8 million.

BT launches FTTP service, promises 300 Mbps next year

Published on October 6, 2011 By Don

UK-based BT Group PLC (LSE: BT.A) has announced the commercial launch of broadband services over its fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network. Initial speeds will be up to 110 Mbps downstream and 30 Mbps upstream, but speeds will be increased to 300 Mbps i…

Comcast launches business Ethernet in 20 markets

Published on May 16, 2011 By Don

Company expects its last-mile fiber infrastructure to differentiate its offering

Google delays decision on local fiber networks

Published on December 15, 2010 By Don

Around 1,100 U.S. towns and cities applied for Google’s high-speed fiber networking project, and the company needs more time to sort things out.

Verizon Trimmed Investment By $2 Billion In 2010 – Making threats to trim investment rather hollow..

Published on August 24, 2010 By Don

Though it doesn’t get talked about much, we’ve explored in the past how AT&T and Verizon have slowed (in Verizon’s case all-but stopped) next-generation broadband deployment. Dave Burstein digs through the numbers to note that Verizon cut wireline capital spending by about two billion so far this year, and has cut back investment by about [...]

Where?s Nuvont?

Published on June 21, 2010 By Don

I used to have a contact at Nuvont, but he went unresponsive about a year ago leading me to think that maybe he’s no longer with the company. I figured the company went through some downsizing after the sale of their customers on iProvo, but this link that popped up in my Google Alerts doesn’t [...]