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CenturyLink’s Prism IPTV service continues to attract new customers

Published on May 21, 2012 By Don

CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) may be the late bloomer in the telco TV front, trailing its two ILEC brothers AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ), but it’s clear that it is making progress with its Prism service as it added 15,000 new subscribers in the …

Exclusive: FiOS Speed Hikes Coming Soon – 25/25 to Become 50/25, 35/35 to Become 75/35

Published on May 18, 2012 By Don

We’ve been nudged by a reliable source with supporting evidence who tells us Verizon will be raising the speed of several of their FiOS broadband tiers very soon. According to the source, Verizon’s symmetrical 25 Mbps tier will soon be changed to 50 Mb…

Telefonica to bring FTTP to Madrid this year

Published on May 16, 2012 By Don

Telefónica and Madrid City Council have announced that the Spanish communications service provider plans to bring 100-Mbps broadband services to 1.3 million households and companies via fiber to the premises (FTTP) before the end of the year.

TDS Telecom Q1 revenue gets lift from broadband bundles, managedIP services

Published on May 6, 2012 By Don

TDS Telecom, the wireline ILEC division of Telephone & Data Systems (NYSE: TDS), has cooked up a recipe of business and broadband services that continues hit the spot, as operating revenues rose 3 percent to $204.1 million in the first quarter of 2…

Cable & Wireless Communications’ LIME brings IPTV to Barbados

Published on April 24, 2012 By Don

LIME, Cable & Wireless Communications’ Caribbean unit, has begun offering a broadband-based IPTV service in Barbados. Subscribers will be able to access up to 130 video channels and on demand content in their living room set top box or connected de…

Bell Aliant ups competitive ante with 250 Mbps FTTP speed tier

Published on April 24, 2012 By Don

Bell Aliant (Toronto: BA-UN.TO) has added a 250 Mbps/30 Mbps Fiber to the Home (FTTH) FibreOP speed tier, giving it another weapon to battle thriving cable MSO competition in Canada’s Atlantic region.
The new speed tier is part of an ongoing evolution …

BSkyB serves up new 40 Mbps broadband service and offers free WiFi

Published on April 12, 2012 By Don

BSkyB, a UK-based competitive broadband service provider, introduced its new “Unlimited Fibre” broadband package, enabling users to get up to 40 Mbps speeds.
Leveraging BT Openreach’s (NYSE: BT) Fiber to the Cabinet (FTTC) network, new and existing cus…

FTTC-enabled BT Infinity downstream speeds doubled

Published on April 12, 2012 By Don

BT Retail, the consumer services branch of BT, has unveiled the second generation of its Infinity broadband service package. Using the carrier’s fiber-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) network, BT Infinity 2 will offer a top speed of 76 Mbps, twice the 38 Mbps o…

Verizon faces lawsuit from customer over advertised DSL speed

Published on April 12, 2012 By Don

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) will have to answer a legal complaint from a California consumer who claims that Verizon did not deliver the speed they promised when she switched to a higher priced plan.
According to a complaint filed in Los Angeles state court by …

Frontier’s next-gen FTTN plan will leverage AT&T’s U-verse technology

Published on April 9, 2012 By Don

Frontier (Nasdaq: FTR) may have found the answer to its next-gen last mile prayers in AT&T’s (NYSE: T) U-verse Fiber to the Node (FTTN) technology.
As reported in Stop The Cap!, which obtained documents about its potential plans, the telco has inti…