By Sean Buckley & Samantha Bookman
Which providers have taken the leap and begun upgrading their networks to 100G? Last year saw a flurry of activity in this segment of the broadband market, particularly during the second half of 2011, as providers…
France Telecom-Orange (NYSE: FTE) is enhancing its Fiber to the Home (FTTH) network expansion efforts via a new relationship with competitive provider Bouygues Telecom.
Targeting the country’s 148 most densely populated areas, the incumbent telco will …
Frontier Communications (Nasdaq: FTR) has employed the help of Infinera (Nasdaq: INFN) to enhance its metro optical backbone network in its Pennsylvania market.
By deploying Infinera’s ATN, Frontier can support its metro optical network transport found…
As we say goodbye to 2011, a year that was certainly another time of change and transition in the wireline segment of the telecom industry, we wanted to take the time to look back on some of the major story lines of the past year.
During 2011, we beli…
Clint Heiden, the former SVP and president of National Accounts and Fiber Services for Paetec (recently acquired by Windstream), has found a new home at Sidera Networks as the competitive provider’s new president.
Heiden
At Sidera he …
America Movil (NYSE: AMX) and AT&T (NYSE: T) are both keen on finding more ways to serve their respective global multinational corporation customers in both Latin America and other emerging regions, and their latest agreement reflects that desire.
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iiNet, a competitive Australian service provider, made it official that it is going to acquire TransACT for AUD 60 million (USD 60 million) following a number of reports that the pair were finalizing the terms of the deal.
Expected to be completed by t…
Colombia’s Ministry of Information Technology and Communications (MTIC) has awarded Union Temporal Fibra Optica Colombia, a joint venture between TV Azteca and Total Play, a contract to build and operate the its proposed countrywide fiber network.
Expe…
China Unicom has launched an ambitious Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) product that will serve 29 provinces in the country.
To make this network build a reality, the service provider is going to leverage Alcatel-Lucent’s (NYSE: ALU) GPON equipment, includ…
The Deseret News brought up that UTOPIA and iProvo are proving to be campaign issues in the upcoming municipal elections. (h/t: Brian Merrell) The article itself provides a good background on the financial details of the networks (and an added bonus that the Utah Taxpayers Association is little more than a lackey for Comcast and [...]