UTOPIA’s 2011 audit report (PDF) has come out, and the Utah Taxpayers Association wasted no time in butchering their “analysis” of it. (If you need a good piece of fiction, go find their January 2012 newsletter; I won’t grace it with a link.) Their overeagerness to once again trash UTOPIA, however, means they ignored basic math [...]
Last January the FCC issued an order (pdf) designed to put an end to cable operators preventing competitors from accessing local sports channels owned by the cable company. The rules went into effect in June, and the FCC’s Media Bureau ruled in Septemb…
Deal sizes: Undisclosed
Why are these deals relevant? TelePacific’s three summertime acquisitions were geared not just to help it grow in the currently trending data center and managed services space, but also to maintain competitiveness against the in…
Joseph Nacchio, former CEO of Qwest
Nacchio
Like many executives who emerged in the Internet dot-com boom of the late 1990s, Joseph Nacchio capitalized on the idea that if you build a very high speed optical network, customers will qui…
“Ever since Telstra was privatized Australians have suffered,” Communications Minister Stephen Conroy declared shortly after Australia’s Senate passed a bill that will split the country’s biggest telco into separate retail and wholesale operations. “Th…
With over 38,700 buildings connected as of the end of June, it’s clear that Fiber to the Home (FTTH)-based connections are making an impact in the French broadband market. According to French telecom regulator Arcep, FTTH connections in France rose 14.5 percent since the first quarter. In total, these buildings include about 910,000 FTTH-eligible residences, a [...]
As we’ve long noted, the FCC has made broadband policy decisions based on flawed and incomplete data for years. Part of the 1996 Telecom Act required that the agency release quarterly reports on the status of broadband deployment. Unfortunately for consumers, that data has always been essentially useless — with the FCC declaring any zip [...]
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 [...]
Bill DeMuth, CTO of SureWest Communications (NasdaqGM: SURW) will retire from the company on June 30 after 34 years with the service provider once known as the Roseville Telephone Company. While Verizon may get all of the credit for pushing out Fiber to the Home (FTTH) via FiOS, when new chapters are added to telecom [...]
Yesterday we noted that Comcast had started sending notifications to some users in their bills informing them that the company would soon be offering 105 Mbps downstream 10 Mbps upstream service. The service will launch for some users starting on June 1, and will cost $200 a month — plus a $250 installation fee. One [...]