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Australia’s Internode targets greenfield FTTH opportunities

Published on January 30, 2012 By Don

Internode, a competitive telco that’s in the process of being purchased by iiNet, is targeting 20 new real estate developments in Australia with a series of new Fiber to the Home (FTTH) tariffs.
The service provider said the new FTTH offerings will hav…

BT targets MDUs in its latest FTTP trial

Published on January 30, 2012 By Don

BT (NYSE: BT) Openreach has made MDUs, particularly apartment complexes, the latest focus of its ongoing Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) buildout plan. Targeting areas located in the path of its existing fiber footprint, the service provider has asked 1,0…

Time Warner: 1 Year of Free Phone to 50 Mbps Users – Though Offer Appears Restricted to New York City Market

Published on January 30, 2012 By Don

Time Warner Cable initially took their time deploying faster DOCSIS 3.0 speeds, priced them well beyond what most sane people were willing to pay (often in upscale “Signature Home” packages), then complained that the services weren’t initially seeing q…

Telekom Austria’s A1 squeezes more out of its copper lines with vectoring

Published on January 20, 2012 By Don

Telekom Austria’s (NYSE: TKA) A1 subsidiary has found that vectoring technology is another way to extend the life of its copper network to deliver higher speed on its Giga-Network.
Built in a hybrid copper/fiber configuration, the Giga-Network con…

ViaSat’s 12 Mbps Exede Arrives, Plays Hard to Get – January 16 Launch Actually Means March 1 (or Never) For Many

Published on January 18, 2012 By Don

Last month at CES ViaSat spent a lot of time hyping their new “Exede” 12 Mbps satellite broadband service, which the company plans to sell through WildBlue, Dish, and other rural-focused carriers&#46 Delivered courtesy of their new ViaSat-1 satellite, …

Chattanooga Gets to See What Broadband Competition Looks Like – Lower Prices, Better Services, More Attractive to Businesses

Published on January 17, 2012 By Don

For many years we’ve tracked Chattanooga, Tennessee’s attempt to wire the entire city with fiber to the home using the local public utility, Electric Power Board (EPB). Back in 2007, the city council voted 8-0 to approve the $200 million project. Despi…

Zayo brings 100 Mbps Ethernet to Idaho’s Meridian Joint School District

Published on January 17, 2012 By Don

Zayo has furthered its presence in the evolving education segment by winning a contract to build a dedicated fiber-based Ethernet network for Meridian Joint School District in Idaho.
Providing 100 Mbps Ethernet service to 49 schools and administration …

KPN realigns fiber-based triple play offerings to lure new users

Published on January 10, 2012 By Don

KPN (NYSE: KPN) wants to lure new customers to its fiber-based triple play offerings, and has realigned its suite of offerings with new speeds and low introductory rates.  
Under the new triple service structure, which replaces the existing Bronze…

More Details On ViaSat’s New 12 Mbps ‘Exede’ Service – 7.5, 15 and 25 GB Monthly Usage Caps

Published on January 10, 2012 By Don

As we noted yesterday ViaSat’s showing off a new $50, 12 Mbps downstream, 3 Mbps upstream satellite broadband service that the company will be selling through WildBlue, Dish and National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative ISPs. As we also noted yeste…

CenturyLink to bring IPTV to Qwest markets, expand FTTN network

Published on January 9, 2012 By Don

CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has made it official that it’s going to extend its Prism IPTV service into the former Qwest territory with plans to bring it into one or two markets this year.

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Ewing revealed the ILEC’s plans during the 22…