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Monnie McGaffigan on leading Sprint’s best-kept secret: wireline

Published on September 13, 2011 By Don

View from the Top: Monnie McGaffigan, vice president of wireline, international and strategic alliances, Sprint

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Monnie McGaffigan, vice president of wireline, international and strategic alliances for Sprint (NYSE: S), belie…

Verizon FiOS FTTH deployments outstrip Corning’s fiber supply

Published on May 18, 2011 By Don

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) may have slowed down how many towns and cities it will take its Fiber to the Home (FTTH)-based FiOS network, but according to Corning (NYSE: GLW) CFO Jim Flaws the telco is ordering more fiber than Corning can provide.
Speaking durin…

Verizon aims for 20M FiOS homes passed, but waits for housing, economic slump to clear

Published on May 16, 2011 By Don

Verizon’s (NYSE: VZ) COO Lowell McAdam would like to rev up the FiOS Fiber to the Home (FTTH) expansion engine, one that the service provider slowed down in the past two years due to the economic and housing slump.
Despite the deployment slowdown, McAd…

BT holds down operating costs in first quarter to realize 33% net profit

Published on July 29, 2010 By Don

Things are tough all over for telecoms as the economic slump continues, but BT (NYSE: BT) saw some bright glimmers of hope in the first quarter of fiscal 2010 that ended June 30. While the company’s revenues decreased 4 percent year over year, a focus on tightening the operating budget and knocking down its net [...]

Cisco ‘hitting on all cylinders’ with strong fiscal Q3 earnings report

Published on May 13, 2010 By Don

Cisco Systems (NasdaqGS: CSCO) reported an “outstanding” third quarter for fiscal 2010 with net sales of $10.4 billion, a 27 percent increase over fiscal Q3 2009, and net income on a GAAP basis of $2.2 billion, an increase of 62 percent year-on-year. The San Jose, Calif.-based company was one of the first tech giants to be [...]