It seems like only last April that Verizon was calling 3DTV sports broadcasts “hype” (because it was, and they were). That’s a fairly far cry from their sudden devotion to 3DTV this week, as the company works with Cisco to highlight the work they’re doing to broadcast the first NFL Game in 3D from New [...]
AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) may continue to tout the capabilities and growth their respective U-verse and FiOS deployments, but a DSL Prime report revealed that both service providers actually cut back on wireline broadband spending this year. Thus far, Verizon reduced its wireline capex budget by about $2 billion this year and [...]
If you’re one of those dial-up Internet customers that’s still not convinced that broadband is too expensive, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) hopes its new bare bones voice/DSL bundles could seduce you to the broadband side. Targeted at existing and new Verizon landline customers, the service provider is offering two new lower-priced dual-play bundled deals that include768 [...]
We’ve often pointed to France as an interesting case study, where the country took our discarded idea of open access, ran with it, and now users in several markets wound up seeing some ridiculously competitive deals. How ridiculous? Users can often get unlimited VoIP, TV service, and broadband speeds up to 100 Mbps for around [...]
France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) and Iliad, according to a report in French newspaper La Tribune, decided to drop the lawsuits they filed against one another. The French incumbent said it dropped its slander lawsuit against Xavier Niel, while Iliad withdrew the complaint it submitted to the European Union on how France Telecom sells wholesale DSL [...]
Consumers that subscribe to Fiber to the Home (FTTH) service are, overall, satisfied with their service, a new FTTH Council report revealed. In a survey of over 1,000 FTTH subscribers and 600 other broadband subscribers, which were drawn randomly from an online survey conducted by RVA LLC, 71 percent of FTTH subscribers report that they [...]
According to Qwest’s second quarter earnings, the company added just 7,000 new broadband subscribers on the quarter, down from 40,000 new subscriber additions during the first quarter of this yea, and 33,000 new subscriber additions this time last year. According to Qwest, the company added roughly 52,000 new fiber to the node customers during the [...]
Cincinnati Bell’s (NYSE: CBB) Q2 wireline earnings reflect the growing pains that come with expanding next-gen services with declines in legacy voice and data services. However, Cincinnati Bell’s bet on Fiber to the Home (FTTH) helped the incumbent carrier offset losses in its legacy wireline voice and DSL service segments. Reflecting a common trend among [...]
AT&T (NYSE: T) has realized that even for all the progress it has made with U-Verse, it still saw 340,000 DSL subscribers flee during the second quarter. Although part of the traditional DSL subscriber loss AT&T saw in Q2 can be attributed to U-Verse migrations, a number of users came from non-U-Verse markets that fled [...]
Baca Valley Telephone Company, a Des Moines, N.M.-based independent ILEC, needed an alternative means to reach out of its own network footprint and it found it in Mammoth Networks’ Layer 2 DSL solution. Like many smaller independent ILECs that reside in the West, Baca Valley had little choice but use “fixed-cost” fiber facilities from Qwest [...]