Both AT&T and Verizon saw continued strong growth in wireless in this week’s earnings reports, but took a bit of a beating in terms of DSL subscriber counts in their un-upgraded markets and overall broadband growth. Verizon lost 103,000 DSL lines durin…
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, …
Some companies (like Time Warner Cable) don’t see significant competitive pressure from FiOS or U-Verse — and with slow DSL as their only competitive threat, have been somewhat glacial in getting faster DOCSIS 3.0 speeds deployed. Comcast, facing FiOS…
Bell Canada (NYSE: BCE) is once again up to its usage-based billing ways by lowering the amount of bandwidth users can consume on their broadband service package.
Although it appeared to take some of the sting out by lowering the monthly cost of its sp…
For more than a year we’ve noted that with the exception of markets that have signed franchise obligations (New York, Washington DC, Philadelphia), Verizon’s fiber to the home FiOS build is essentially over. The company had previously stated that they …
With the AT&T deal shelved, consumer advocates are now turning their attention to Verizon’s recently announced $3.6 billion alliance with the cable industry. The deal gives Verizon a significant spectrum boost in addition to an exclusive partnership t…
As more service providers expanded their respective VDSL and GPON-based networks this year, it drove strong spending in wireline broadband access network equipment.
Strong PON spending by China’s major service providers in addition to DSL growth in Cen…
Earlier this month Susan Crawford penned a comprehensive piece in the New York Times discussing how there is a notable broadband digital divide, created by high broadband prices, which in turn is created by limited competition. Most data — be it from …
Earlier this month Susan Crawford penned a comprehensive piece in the New York Times discussing how there is a notable broadband digital divide, created by high broadband prices, which in turn is created by limited competition. Most data — be it from …
In France, it’s clear that consumers love their broadband connection, with the country’s regulator Arcep reporting that over 340,000 users signed up for service in Q3 2011, reaching a total of 22.4 million.
From a year over year perspective, broadband …