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Verizon union groups hold rally at ILEC’s shareholder meeting

Published on May 3, 2012 By Don

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 brings 100 Mbps Ethernet to Idaho’s Meridian Joint School District

Published on January 17, 2012 By Don

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 to build Hibernia Altantic’s Project Express

Published on January 17, 2012 By Don

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 to build Hibernia Altantic’s Project Express

Published on January 17, 2012 By Don

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 realigns fiber-based triple play offerings to lure new users

Published on January 10, 2012 By Don

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…

FTTH cable focus of VolkerWessels Telecom contract with Prysmian Group

Published on December 28, 2011 By Don

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 fires 40 union workers for misconduct

Published on December 7, 2011 By Don

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 equips Fort Drum with fiber services through DISA

Published on November 28, 2011 By Don

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…

Australia’s NBN Co awards MDU contract to Optimal and OFS

Published on November 21, 2011 By Don

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).

Verizon’s recent strike holds up FiOS installations

Published on September 13, 2011 By Don

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…