Verizon (NYSE: VZ) workers represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and other AFL-CIO unions are gathering at the telco’s annual shareholders’ meeting today in Huntsville, Ala., and other locations to “expose the company’s greed,” the…
Zayo has furthered its presence in the evolving education segment by winning a contract to build a dedicated fiber-based Ethernet network for Meridian Joint School District in Idaho.
Providing 100 Mbps Ethernet service to 49 schools and administration …
Huawei Marine Networks Co., Ltd. says it has signed a construction contract to build the Project Express segment of Hibernia Atlantic’s Global Financial Network (GFN). The system will involve a minimum of a four-fiber-pair repeatered submarine cable …
Huawei Marine Networks Co., Ltd. says it has signed a construction contract to build the Project Express segment of Hibernia Atlantic’s Global Financial Network (GFN). The system will involve a minimum of a four-fiber-pair repeatered submarine cable …
KPN (NYSE: KPN) wants to lure new customers to its fiber-based triple play offerings, and has realigned its suite of offerings with new speeds and low introductory rates.
Under the new triple service structure, which replaces the existing Bronze…
VolkerWessels Telecom, the telecoms division of Dutch construction company VolkerWessels, has choosen the Prysmian Group to supply FTTH cable for 2012 deployments. Draka will execute the contract, which the Prysmian Group says is the first Dutch multi-…
Verizon’s (NYSE: VZ) ongoing saga with its union workers took another turn this week as the telco let go 40 employees for committing what it says were acts of violence or making threats against company representatives during the two week strike this su…
PAETEC (Nasdaq: PAET), through its acquisition of the former Intellifiber/Cavalier, has continued to rack up new government customer wins and its latest agreement to supply Fort Drum, N.Y. with fiber and DWDM services through a contract with Defense In…
The National Broadband Network of Australia (NBN Co) has picked OFS and Optimal Cable Services to supply fiber-optic cables and connectivity products for deployment inside multiple dwelling units (MDUs).
Even as Verizon (NYSE: VZ) scales back its Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) roll out, the recent two week strike by 45,000 of Verizon’s wireline union workers drove the service provider to suspend the installation of new orders of FiOS service because it h…