The following table provides a quick roundup of how the top 11 largest U.S. ILECs (incumbent local exchange carriers) performed in the third quarter 2011 according to access line loss, broadband and video growth. It also lists ongoing activity such as …
Louisiana is losing an $80 million grant intended to expand broadband service in the state. The grant was intended to help in deploying 900 miles of fiber to anchor institutions including universities, schools, libraries, healthcare facilities with…
While much of the action at BT Openreach (NYSE: BT) lately has centered around its fiber-based consumer broadband initiatives, its new Optical Spectrum Access product (OSA) appears to be a new move to offer retail service providers another option to se…
Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) is playing into the incumbent service provider mentality that there’s still plenty of gold left in the copper line, and it has taken off the covers of its VDSL2 Vectoring technology.
Sometimes referred to as Level 3 Dynamic S…
Jeff Gardner, CEO & President, Windstream
Windstream Corp. (Nasdaq: WIN), once nothing more than a voice-centric independent ILEC, continues to transform itself into a provider of business, broadband and fiber services. Unlike its independ…
Connectivity between electronics and fiber distribution network is focus of new Rapid Fiber panel
TDS Telecom (NYSE: TDS) is taking a page out of the playbooks of its larger compatriots to transform itself from being another telephone company that only sells PSTN service to become a broadband company.
LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr., TDS president and CEO, s…
The $36 billion private line service segment might not see much growth in 2011, but the continual growth of new 4G wireless, IP-based wireline business and residential services will drive new demands for private lines, claims a new Insight Research stu…
Users in our DSLExtreme forum asked and apparently DSLExtreme listened — the company has lowered the price of their DSL tiers to match an AT&T DSL price drop we reported on back in August. In fact, DSLExtreme took things a little lower than AT&T, and …