The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), Canada’s telecom regulator, has laid the groundwork of a new open access last mile network environment. Under the CRTC mandate, competitive service providers will soon be able to get their hands on the same fiber-based network speeds that incumbent telcos–Bell Canada (NYSE: BCE), Bell Aliant (Toronto: BA-UN.TO), and [...]
Frontier’s (NYSE: FTR) mandate that union employees in its West Virginia have to work an average 70 hours work week to resolve lingering network and service issues is likely a move by the service provider to avoid the pitfalls that both Fairpoint (Other OTC: FRCMQ.PK) and Hawaiian Telecom faced after they purchased Verizon’s (NYSE:VZ) lines. West [...]
BT (NYSE: BT) is taking charge of the UK government’s smart meter mandate by securing an agreement to provide wireline Internet connectivity for 10,000 smart energy meters for IMServ, an energy management company. BT’s Redcare division, which has a network specially designed for security alarms and closed circuit television (CCTV), will provide necessary connectivity. Smart [...]